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Photo № 4 - "Combat".
Assistant Political Officer A. Eremenko
Max Alpert
Combat 1942

"Combat" - the famous picture of World War II, made by Soviet photographer Max Alpert. The photograph shows the officer, raising a soldier in the attack, a few seconds before death. "Combat" - one of the most impressive and colorful photos of the Great Patriotic War. For a long time, despite the fact that the picture was famous and popular, were known only to the history of its creation and the name given to him by a photographer. The person pictured on her man remained unknown.

Author's story image

The photograph was taken July 12, 1942, in Luhansk (at that time - Voroshilovgradskaya region), in the area of hostilities, in which participated 220 th Infantry Regiment of 4 th Infantry Division, which in those days the Red Army fought persistent bloody defensive battles against the superior enemy forces. The photograph was taken on the field near the village of Good (now the village of Good Slavyanoserbsk district of Lugansk region) between the rivers and Lugan Lozovaja.

Photographs taken a position in a foxhole just ahead of the defense line. At this moment the attack began fascists passed AirStrike and started shelling. Alpert saw an officer who rose and immediately took a picture of him. At the same time a fragment of broken camera lens. The correspondent found that the film was lost and the frame is lost forever. Fiddling with a broken machine in his foxhole, he had some time watching the situation, but he heard the chain passed: "The battalion commander was killed." Name and title of officer remained unknown author, but heard later gave rise to name a picture that way [1]

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An attempt to establish the identity

The author has received many letters from various people, seeing the officer his relative [1].

In early 1970 the journalists of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and members of the Lugansk regional youth organization "Молодогвардієць" (Russian "Molodogvardeets") sought to identify imprinted on the famous image of man. He allegedly was a native of Art. Millet Vasilkovskaja region Dnipropetrovsk region Alexei Eremenko Gordeevich, junior commissar of one of the mouths of 220 Infantry Regiment, 4 th infantry division.

This is what about those events a former soldier sanvzvoda 220 th Regiment, later Major-political worker Alexander Makarov Matveyevich [2]: Fascists frenzied rush into the attack after attack. The dead and wounded were many. We beat a depleted regiment had one-tenth or eleventh attack. The Germans climbed ahead to Vorochilovgrad, to which was about thirty miles. By the end of the day was wounded company commander Lt. Petrenko. After a fierce bombardment, backed by tanks and artillery, the Germans went into another attack. And then, to his full height, with the words: "Follow me! For the Motherland! Forward! "Eremenko dragged a company to meet chains Nazis. The attack was repulsed, but the political instructor was killed.


Veteran of the 285 th Division, Lt. Col. Vasily stock Sevastyanovich Berezubchak describes these events as follows [1]: Eight months, our division was on the defensive, covering Voroshilovgrad direction. Then, on the orders of General Grechko moved to a new line, took up defensive positions near the village of Good. Here and in a hot battle, during which killed commissar Eremenko. I find it hard to believe that the picture was taken in another place, while another battle. Because the man was killed Eremenko during a counterattack. However, in that battle there was not a reporter ...

And it was this morning on July 12. We have hit a barrage artogon. We repulsed the first attack. But during the second shook right flank. The soldiers began to retreat. We have gone deaf, blind, many blood flowed from his ears - burst eardrums! I was ordered to restore the division commander, to stop the soldiers, because the situation was created critical. Hurried toward the retreating. And then he saw Eremenko. He, too, ran across the path of men. "Stop! Hold on! "- He cried. We lay down. Gathered around him people. Few have been, a handful. But Eremenko decided counterattack to restore the situation. This can not be forgotten. He stood up, shouted, jumped into the attack. We rushed into the trench, melee ensued. Fought with rifle butts, bayonets. The Germans wavered, and fled. Soon, one of the trenches, I saw Eremenko. He slowly fell. I ran to him and realized that in helping junior political instructor no longer needs ...


On the other hand, according to TSAMO, political instructor AG Eremenko missing in January 1942 [3], ie, the documents he had been killed early in the year and not fully clarified. However, it is alleged that the widow, after 32 years, ie about the same time, the time of the said search for Komsomolskaya Pravda, has received a new notification to the amendment of the heroic death of her husband on July 12 [1].

Near route Lugansk Artemivsk (so-called Bakhmutskaya road or Bakhmutka) before turning on Slavyanoserbsk a monument to the battalion commander (political officer), who repeats the story, shown in the photo. Although the battle took place south - in a valley near the village of Good.
Image political instructor, based on this picture is the emblem of the Donetsk Higher Military-Political School.
The image was used on a postage stamp of the Republic of the Congo in 1985. [6]

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Комбат_ (picture )