Khatuni (Smolensk region)

During the Great Patriotic War, the village was occupied by Nazi troops in July 1941 , liberated in September 1943 . ^[one]

Baburov Ivan Borisovich born in 1914 during the Great Patriotic War - senior sergeant 1016 artillery regiment, driver mechanic. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the medal "For Courage", the medal "For Military Merit"

Baburov Iosif Parfenovich 1902-1941 lived in the village of Khatuni before being called up to the front. Baker. It is reported as missing. According to colleagues, the train to which Iosif Parfenovich was sent was bombed. Later, a spouse, Melanya Petrovna, filed a wanted letter.

Baburov Yakov Titovich year of birth is unknown. Drafted to the front since the beginning of World War II. Foreman. Killed and buried 07/12/1944 in a mass grave in the Oransky district of the Vilev region. Sister Evdokia Titovna. There is no other information.

Boburov Andrei Efimovich 1889-1942 was born and lived in the village of Khatun. later married and moved to Yartsevo. He worked as a shoemaker. Biographical data are scarce. With the beginning of World War II he was called up to the front, there was no information about his whereabouts, only later, in the post-war years, there was information that Andrei Efimovich was captured. Wife Daria Fedorovna. Whether the children were reliably unknown.

Avdeenkova Evdokia Efimovna (Boburova) 1911-1992, was born and lived in the village of Khatuni from 1911-1941 before the occupation. Here she was born, and her parents lived here. Podzdne in the 30s, Evdokia Efimovna was appointed chairman of the collective farm. In the late 30s, repression found many in the village, including her father and brother. She continued to live here until the war. According to her, it is known that after the breakthrough of the defense and the retreat of the Soviet troops in October 1941, two cars and armored personnel carriers with the Nazis arrived in the village. The male population at that time was no longer in the village - everyone went to the front. Women and children were expelled from the huts, they set fire to all the houses in the village and drove on without spending an hour in the village. The daughter of Evdokia Efimovna later told how a burning house was cut in memory and how a mother pulled out a chest with warm clothes from the smoked canopy and how they sat on this chest - a mother and three children, looking at the dying house and falling snow. Subsequent war years they lived in the surrounding forests in the dugout. After the liberation of the Smolensk region, it was not possible to restore the house. The family moved to Yartsevo where Evdokia Efimovna lived and worked until the end of her days. Her daughter Raisa Pavlovna several times returned to Khatun, dreaming of building a house here and moving to live in it. But these plans were not destined to come true. The village gradually became desolate and so far only conditional borders have remained from it.

1) The article uses materials from the memories of residents.

2) The article uses materials from information published by the Ministry of Defense:

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/memorial-chelovek_donesenie55528818/

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/memorial-chelovek_dopolnitelnoe_donesenie7508807/

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/podvig-chelovek_nagrazhdenie35265194/

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/memorial-chelovek_dopolnitelnoe_donesenie8360547/