Ruiz Ibarruri, Ruben

Ruben Ruiz-Ibarruri was born on January 9, 1920 in Spain in the family of the future leader of the Communist Party of Spain, Dolores Ibarruri, and a socialist miner, one of the founders of the KPI, Julian Ruiz. Basque in origin. In 1935, after the arrest of his mother, he left with the other children in the USSR . He enrolled as a student in PU No. 1 (currently College No. 31) at the ZIL Moscow Automobile Plant. In the USSR he lived and was brought up in the family of the old Bolsheviks, O.B. and P.N. Lepeshinsky , laying the foundation for a long family tradition of taking children without parents to bring up. With the outbreak of the Civil War in Spain, Ruben went to fight as part of the Spanish international brigades . At the end of the war he returned to the USSR.

In World War II

On the fronts of World War II, Ruben Ibarruri was from the first days. The first battle, Lieutenant Ibarruri took near the city of Borisov . Covering the withdrawal of the regiment, Ruben Ibarruri and his soldiers held the bridge over the Berezina River for six hours. When the last machine gun of the unit was destroyed, Ruben Ibarruri with a group of surviving machine gunners, armed with grenades, launched an attack on German tanks. In that battle, he was wounded. For this battle, Ruben Ibarruri was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

In the summer of 1942 , commanding a machine-gun company, he showed exceptional courage. On August 23, a German tank group broke through in the vicinity of the Vlasovka hamlet, south of the Kotluban station ( Ilovlya - Gumrak section of the Stalingrad Railway ) and threatened to cut off Stalingrad from the main group of Soviet troops. The 35th Guards Division was advanced towards the enemy. Since the main parts of the division were still on the march, an infantry battalion and a machine-gun company were advanced to the station area. About a day the detachment restrained the advance of the enemy. At dawn on August 24, German troops launched an attack. During the battle, the battalion commander died, and Ruben Ibarruri took command. First, the Germans were stopped by heavy fire from the machine-gun company and the battalion, and then Ruben Ibarruri raised the soldier in a counterattack and threw the enemy back. The Germans left about 100 corpses of their soldiers and officers, guns, mortars and other weapons on the battlefield. In this battle, Ruben Ibarruri was seriously injured. He was evacuated beyond the Volga , but died on September 3, 1942 in the hospital.

According to the memoirs of A. S. Chuyanov , during the Battle of Stalingrad, Vasily Koroteev arrived from Srednyaya Akhtuba and said that Ruben Ibarruri commanded a machine gun company of a cadet training battalion and was mortally wounded on August 24 , then was evacuated through the Volga, where possible medical assistance was provided, but Ruben died on September 3 . The initial burial place was in the district center of Srednyaya Akhtuba ^[1] .

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to him by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on August 22, 1956 .

• Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union (08/23/1956);
• Order of Lenin (08.23.1956);
• two orders of the Red Banner (07.22.1941; 10.22.1942).

• Monument on the grave of R. Ibarruri, H. F. Fattyakhutdinov and V. G. Kamenshchikov on the Square of the Fallen Fighters in Volgograd (architect Efim Levitan ).
• The monument to R. Ibarruri in the city of Mikhailovka in the Volgograd region is located in the courtyard of school number 7.
• Monument (bust) at the Artek International Children's Center (installed in 2015 on the Alley of Heroes).
• Ruben Ibarruri street in the city of Borisov, Minsk region.
• Ruben Ibarruri street in the city of Donetsk .
• Ruben Ibarruri street in the city of Lipetsk .
• Minor Planet Ibarruri ( 2423 Ibarruri ).
• Feature film " Stalingrad ", directed by Yuri Ozerov . The role of Ruben Ibarruri was played by Fernando Allende - an American actor, a native of Mexico .
• The novel "The Tale of Ruben" by Peter Severov.
• In the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the exposition relating to the Battle of Stalingrad, the cap of the Hero of the Soviet Union Ruben Ibarruri is kept.

• Ruiz Ibarruri, Ruben (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Page from the diary of Army General Rodimtsev .