Nikolai Petrovich Chepik ( Belorussian Mikalay Pyatrovich Chepik ; April 16, 1960 , May, Pukhovichi district , Minsk region , BSSR - February 29, 1980 , Afghanistan ) - Hero of the Soviet Union , deputy commander of an engineer-sapper platoon of the 317th Guards airborne parachute regiment in the 40th Army of the Red Banner Turkestan Military District, Guard Senior Sergeant.
| Chepik Nikolay Petrovich | ||||
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| Date of Birth | April 16, 1960 | |||
| Place of Birth | village May, Pukhovichi district , Minsk region , Belorussian SSR | |||
| Date of death | February 29, 1980 (19 years old) | |||
| Place of death | Kunar Province ( Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ) | |||
| Type of army | Airborne troops | |||
| Rank | Guard Senior Sergeant  | |||
| Part | Engineering sapper platoon of the 317th Guards Parachute Regiment as part of the 40th Army of the Red Banner Turkestan Military District | |||
| Battles / wars | Afghan war (1979-1989) | |||
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Biography
Born in the village of Buluzh, Minsk region, in the family of a collective farmer. By origin - Belarusian . He graduated from the 10th grade of Buzhskaya secondary school. In peacetime, before the start of the Afghan war , he worked as a fitter in the Minsk distance of the Belarusian Railways .
In 1978, he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army , sent to the Airborne Troops . He became a sapper , deputy commander of an engineer-sapper platoon.
Since December 1979 , he was sent to a limited contingent of Soviet troops , took part in hostilities in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in one of the eastern provinces.
Feat
According to the official version, on February 29, 1980 , enemy groups tried to penetrate the location of Soviet troops. The unit of senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik, deputy commander of a sapper platoon , during the Kunar operation received an order to undermine the enemy’s ammunition depot located in the cave. Returning after the successful completion of the assignment, a group of sappers, consisting of N. Chepik and Private Guard Alexander Rassokhin and Kerim Karimov, were ambushed .
The enemy was significantly superior in numbers. During the shootout, Nikolai was injured in the leg. After the death of his comrades, so as not to fall into the hands of the enemy alive, Nikolai tied a fragmentation mine of directed action MON-100 to a tree and detonated it, aimed it at the enemy, hitting about 30 souls .
A slightly different version was presented in 2012 by Pavel Agafonov, commander of the engineer-sapper platoon 317 RAP, in which Nikolai Chepik served:
| ... Only one platoon and three of my sappers headed by Nikolai Chepik advanced to the intended line of attack. So they took an unequal battle. And there was no one to help them ... ... My three sappers were found together, Chepik had a broken leg, and he was killed in the head. They were on the edge, on the right flank. It was evident that they fought to the last. They were supposed to go on the road and install two MON-100 mines there. But they did not reach the road. And when I began to write the prize for Hero, naturally, it was necessary to write something unusual. That's when I wrote that he blew himself up with a mine. This later became the official version ... But no one saw how they [Chepik and A. G. Mironenko ] actually died. I still tell everyone, talking about Chepik, that it’s impossible to reproach this little deception. Not every day representations on heroes are written. [one] |
Rewards
- The title of Hero of the Soviet Union to senior sergeant N.P. Chepik was posthumously awarded by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 28, 1980 .
- He was awarded the Order of Lenin .
- By decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of December 24, 2003 , No. 575, he was posthumously awarded the medal "In memory of the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan . "
Memory
A monument was erected on the grave of Nikolai Chepik in the village of Bluzh in the Pukhovichi district and in Vitebsk ; the electric train ER9 T-700 of registration ТЧ-9, a street in the village of Druzhny, Pukhovichi district, Minsk region, a sports club were named after him.
A memorial museum of Nikolai Chepik was created in the Bluzhskaya secondary school (Pukhovichi district, Minsk region, Republic of Belarus) [2] . The Memorial Museum created a painting by the artist Sergei Krishtapovich with a total area of 250 square meters. m. The painting was awarded the medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.
The monument to Nikolai Chepik with eternal flame was erected in the early 1980s on the territory of the 387th separate training parachute regiment (permanent deployment point - Uzbek SSR , the city of Fergana ). Also in the museum of the regiment was a stand dedicated to the exploit of Nikolai Chepik [3] .
In Kiev , in the museum of the Great Patriotic War , in the memorial on Poklonnaya Hill, from the beginning of the 1980s, the stand “Sergeant Chepik’s Home Letter” was installed, where one of Nikolai Chepik’s letters to parents is located, in which he modestly and without pathos describes his service [ 4] .
Every year since 1994 the tournament in Army hand-to-hand combat / army hand-to-hand combat]] in memory of Nikolai Chepik has been held in Omsk . [five]
Notes
- ↑ Unofficial site of the 6th company 350 RAP 103rd Airborne Division 1981-1984 (October 24, 2012).
- ↑ Memorial Museum of Nikolai Chepik .
- ↑ Desantura.ru Military unit 52788 .
- ↑ Desantura.ru 317 pdp, who was at the site of the death of Chepik or Mironenko .
- ↑ Omsk Province: The largest All-Russian tournament in army hand-to-hand combat starts in Omsk . omskportal.ru. Date of appeal October 26, 2018.
Literature
- Bocharov G.N.The feat of Nikolai Chepik. - M.: Young Guard, 1986. - photos from the book: p. 18-19 , p. 30-31 , p. 32-33 .
- Bocharov G. N. Field of life: [On the Hero of Owls. Union N. P. Chepike]. - M .: Mol. Guard , 1985 .-- 111 p.
- Nikolay Chepik. - Minsk: “Belarus”, 1986.