Ivan Georgievich Starchak (1905-1981) - Soviet military (front-line) reconnaissance , paratrooper , during the years of World War II - commander of an intelligence and sabotage detachment. One of the leaders of defense on the Warsaw highway in October 1941, the commander of a number of airborne assault forces 1941-1942.
Ivan Georgievich Starchak | ||||||||||
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Captain Ivan Georgievich Starchak in July 1941 | ||||||||||
Date of Birth | February 16, 1905 | |||||||||
Place of Birth | Aleksandrovka village [1] , Russian Empire | |||||||||
Date of death | August 29, 1981 (aged 76) | |||||||||
Place of death | Udelnaya village, Ramensky district, Moscow region | |||||||||
Affiliation | the USSR | |||||||||
Type of army | intelligence , NKVD troops | |||||||||
Years of service | 1920-1923, 1927-1952 | |||||||||
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Battles / wars | Civil war in Russia The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||
Awards and prizes | ||||||||||
The colonel , Honored Master of Sports of the USSR ( parachuting ), was the first in the USSR airborne troops to make a thousand parachute jumps (total - 1096 jumps). Under his leadership, a series of gatherings were held for the chiefs of the paratrooper service and parachute handlers for the airborne units of the border troops of the KGB of the USSR .
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Biography
The early years
He was born on February 16, 1905 in the village of Aleksandrovka, now in the Kremenchug district of the Poltava region of Ukraine, into a peasant family. Ukrainian [2] . After his father George Starchak was “demoted by imperial majesty”, in 1907 their family was assigned to a settlement in Transbaikalia, in the border town of Troitskosavsk (now the city of Kyakhta, Buryatia ), where Ivan spent his childhood and youth. He lived with his mother in a small house on the poor outskirts of Troitskosavsk, his father died during the First World War . The mother, a widow, raised four children alone. According to the memoirs of I. G. Starchak, “they themselves chopped, sawed and loaded carts. My brother and I shed a lot of tears, we didn’t have enough male strength. ”Over the years, he said with special warmth:“ In our Transbaikalia, ”“ my fellow countrymen, Transbaikalia, ”he who loves his homeland must have the most expensive place on my land is Kyakhta. ” [3]
With great desire, he studied at the Trinity School. When Ivan was in graduation class, a revolution occurred. Ivan could not remain uninvolved in what was happening around him and in 1920 joined the Komsomol . According to his recollections, he “immediately received a rifle in his hands to defend his homeland,” since there was a civil war in Russia [3] .
Komsomolets during the Civil War
In the Red Army since 1920. Komsomolets Ivan Starchak honorably completed his first combat mission - he hoisted a red banner on one of the buildings of the city. At the age of 16, in one of the battles with the White Guard detachment, Baron Ungern received his first wound. In 1920, Ivan Starchak, a member of the city Komsomol asset, a delegate to the first Troitskosavsky Komsomol congress, entered the school of military intelligence, where he was "accepted without any checks." [3] He graduated from the joint school in 1924 [2] .
In the late 1920s, Ivan led a youth political school, created a Komsomol cell in Kudar , led a group of CHONovtsev (Special Purpose Units), and played in performances on the stage of a folk theater [3] .
In 1925, the Komsomol organization sent Starchak to study at the military school of the Third Comintern ( Vladivostok ). After its completion in 1930, he commanded a platoon of horse reconnaissance in the mountains of Khingan, Sikhote-Alin and on the islands in the Sea of Japan [3] .
At the same time, Komsomol member Ivan Starchak became the winner of the first republican holiday of physical culture (1925) and the sports contest of Buryat-Mongolia in 1926. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1928 [2] .
At the origins of the creation of paratroopers
1931 was a turning point in his fate. Deciding to conquer the "fifth ocean", Ivan Starchak entered the Orenburg Military School. K. Voroshilova in the heavy bombardment class. He graduated in 1933. Then Ivan studied at the Yeisk military school of naval pilots and observer pilots of the Air Force of the Red Army named after Stalin at the courses of paratroopers (he graduated in 1934). In one of the compounds in Western Siberia, he seriously engaged in parachuting. He tested new types of parachutes, for the first time in the world he made a jump from an airplane entering a tailspin, as well as long jumps from low altitudes [3] .
Komsomolets Ivan Starchak is a winner in 400 m running and long jump at the I republican festival of physical education in decathlon competitions in Verkhneudinsk in 1932 [3] .
In 1940 he graduated from the correspondence command faculty of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy [2] .
During the Great Patriotic War
The Great Patriotic War found captain I.G. Starchak, the head of the Parachute Airborne Service (PDS) of the Western Air Force Directorate, in the Minsk garrison hospital (now the Main Military Clinical Hospital of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus ), where he ended up after his June 21 thousandth parachute jump. Making a jump, he sprained his leg and got a sprain [2] .
Leaving the hospital on June 25 in serious condition, with a group of fighters on the way to Pukhovichi, he discovered and destroyed a German landing force of 17-20 people. And soon, returning to the headquarters of the Air Forces of the Western Front, he energetically took up the organization and preparation of landings for the deployment to the rear of the enemy. According to the chief of staff of the Air Force of the Western Front, Colonel S. A. Khudyakov , “he is brave, energetic, demanding in his work. It has great willpower. " [4] He had to forget about a sore leg and fly on a par with others: only from July to September 1941 Ivan Georgievich made 30 landings behind enemy lines [2] .
In August 1941, the planes of the 1st Bomber Regiment were dispersed around the city of Yukhnov on 4 landing sites. Here, not far from the highway, near the Maltsevsky airfield , on the banks of the Remezh river, paratroopers under the command of I. G. Starchak [2] (airborne battalion of the 53rd air brigade of the 23rd air division) camped their camp. At the training center for paratroopers, cadets learned to parachute, shoot, fight hand-to-hand and lay mines for reconnaissance and sabotage operations behind enemy lines.
5 days Starchak's squad near Yukhnov
According to the Typhoon plan, the German command created an advantage in three directions of strikes and launched an offensive against the defending forces of the Red Army of the Western, Reserve and Bryansk fronts. On the Roslavl-Yukhnovsky direction, the strike group consisted of 10 infantry, 5 tank and 2 motorized divisions, which attacked on a 60-kilometer section of the front, along the Warsaw highway and to the south along parts of the 53rd Infantry Division of the 43rd Army and 217th Infantry divisions of the 50th army . In two-day battles, Soviet defense on the Desna River was broken [2] .
The blow was unexpected. October 4, 1941 German motorcycles appeared on the southern outskirts of Yukhnov . They were found by fighters of the 269th airdrome maintenance battalion of the 1st heavy bomber regiment 23rd garden. Combined teams of fighters and regiment commanders managed to destroy the German advanced reconnaissance squad. Airplanes, rising into the air, managed to escape to the rear [2] .
The captain I.G. Starchak, the head of the Western Front parachute assault service, on his own initiative, formed a detachment of 430 commandos, saboteurs, who were preparing for operations behind enemy lines. On his own initiative, without an order from the command, Starchak decided to detain the enemy on the Warsaw highway , blocking his path with the detachment at the bridge over the Ugra . On the night of October 5, the "Starchak" mined the approaches to the bridge, laid a landmine , disguised their positions and met the head columns of the 10th Panzer Division of the 57th Wehrmacht Motorized Corps at dawn on October 5 [2] [5] .
The bridge over Ugra was captured by German forward units after it was blown up by a detachment under the command of Captain I. G. Starchak and Senior Lieutenant N. I. Sulimov. On October 6, he was supported by a detachment of cadets of Podolsk military schools under the command of senior lieutenant L. A. Mamchich and captain Y. S. Rossikov (an infantry school consisting of the 6th company and a platoon of machine guns with two guns, as well as the 517th combined division artillery school [6] ). On the morning of October 6, the detachment launched an offensive from the village of Voronki and reached the Ugra River by 8:00. Then the attack was continued, and by 4:00 p.m. the strongly thinned detachment was already at the Kuvshinovo - Krasny Pillar line . However, with the onset of darkness, cadets and paratroopers, having no reserves and support from artillery, were forced to retreat back beyond the Izver River.
On October 8, after stubborn battles, having suffered heavy losses, the Starchak-Mamchich detachment was forced to retreat along the Warsaw highway to the left bank of the Izver River in the region of the villages of Voronki - Yudino . German troops, in turn, were forced to suspend their movement. Having received reinforcements [7] , on October 8, the combined detachment left Chernyshovka, and under mortar fire launched a counteroffensive and again by noon again returned to previously abandoned positions along the Kuvshinovo - Red Pillars line [8] .
In order to support the Soviet defense, air defense pilots in Moscow and the 40th high-speed bomber regiment constantly bombed German crossings across the Ugra. From the report of the commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District, Colonel N. A. Sbytov: “in eight days in the Yukhnovsky direction: 508 sorties were made ... 2500 soldiers and officers, 120 tanks, 600 vehicles destroyed ...” In one of the sorties, on October 8, on a plane the squadron commander A. G. Rogov ( Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously) got an anti-aircraft shell, and the crew decided to follow the example of Nikolai Gastello , sending a burning plane to one of the enemy crossings over Ugra [2] .
On October 9, another attempt was made to push the enemy back to the western shore of the Ugra, but already under the command of Major N. Ya. Klypin [9] , the commander of the 17th Tank Brigade who approached the area [10] . The cadets managed to reach only the outskirts of the village of Dernovo , in the area of which bloody battles were fought all day. Unable to withstand the pressure of enemy tanks with the support of aviation, the combined detachment was forced to leave Myatlevo at 20:00.
A group of paratroopers led by Captain I.G. Starchak also made sorties to the rear of the enemy. The enemy called his unit "white death." "Starchak" in the rear of the enemy blew up bridges, burned trucks, tanks, cars, seized and destroyed a lot of enemy weapons and ammunition [3] .
For five days, attempts by German troops to force the Ugra River and break into Medyn were reflected by the actions of these units [2] . A small unit of paratroopers and Podolsk cadets, in fact, were the only barrier in the section Yukhnov - Podolsk . According to I. G. Starchak, “Moscow is behind us. We will die as one, but we will delay the Germans ” [3] .
Official documents state that as a result of fierce battles out of 430 "Starchak" only 29 people survived [3] . However, I. G. Starchak himself in his memoirs clarifies [5] :
After the war, I managed to get acquainted with an archive document, in which there were lines about our detachment. Here they are:
“In October 1941, near Yukhnov, 430 men, selected from the battalion for training paratroopers, under the command of Major Starchak, for four days restrained the advance of German troops rushing towards Moscow. 401 people died from the squad. But the detachment did not retreat and made it possible to tighten reserves and stop the advance of the enemy in the Yukhnovsky direction. ”
It was further stated that twenty-nine survivors were presented to the Order of the Red Banner.
Here I have to make some clarifications. Yes, on the day the political report was drawn up, there really were only twenty-nine of us. However, later, about thirty more fighters from the number of those whom we considered dead or missing went into the detachment. And we delayed the advance of the enemy not by four, but by five days.
On October 7, 1941, in the Vyazma area, German troops slammed the encirclement of Soviet troops on the Western and Reserve Fronts. However, with their heroic self-sacrifice, the "Starchak" disrupted the plan for the quick capture of Maloyaroslavets , and thereby helped the Soviet troops gain the necessary time to organize defense on the outskirts of Moscow [3] .
Learning about the heroism of the paratroopers, front commander S. M. Budyonny was surprised that the subordinates of the major restrained the onslaught of German armored vehicles without guns and anti-tank guns, calling Starchak a “desperate commander” [3] . For restraining the breakthrough of German troops near Yukhnov, I. G. Starchak was awarded the Order of Lenin (January 27, 1942) [11] .
Troopers at Teryaeva Sloboda
In total, during the hostilities from June to December 1941, I. G. Starchak made 8 night sorties to the rear of the enemy, where he successfully deployed several landing groups in the area of Vilno , Minsk , Borisov , Samokhvalovichi and others [11] .
During the Klinsko-Solnechnogorsk offensive operation, the German units retreated from the Klin region to Teryaeva Sloboda. In turn, the command of the Western Front sought to urgently eliminate the enemy in Klin and defeat him as quickly as possible west of Klin, in order to prevent him from gaining a foothold somewhere on the lines in the vicinity of Teryaev Sloboda or Volokolamsk. Commander Lelyushenko assigned the commander of the 30th Army Kuznetsov the task of intercepting the road to Teryaeva Sloboda and preventing the enemy from moving along it. One of the measures included the landing of an airborne assault.
On December 14-23, a parachute group under the command of Starchak was thrown to the west of the city of Klin north of Volokolamsk ( Moscow region ). According to some reports, a group of 415 [12] people of the 214th separate airborne brigade inflicted significant damage on the enemy’s manpower (about 400 soldiers and officers), intercepting his communications and demoralizing the retreating German units, who hoped to gain a foothold in advance prepared for defense line on the rivers Lama and Ruza . In total, the group destroyed 29 bridges, creating traffic jams on the withdrawal routes of German troops. Moreover, in extremely difficult conditions of a harsh winter, 50 cars, 2 tanks, 2 guns and mortar crews and a large number of German telephone and telegraph poles were also destroyed [11] . Acting as small sabotage groups for enemy communications, the paratroopers forced the enemy to abandon heavy weapons.
According to other sources, due to organizational turmoil, instead of the planned two flights, 14 TB-3 aircraft of the 23rd air division made only one flight, dropping 147 people, headed by captain I.G. Starchak. At the same time, 40 paratroopers landed in a village occupied by the Germans, and died in an unequal battle. Due to the small number of Starchak’s detachment, he was unable to occupy and maintain the route passing through Teryaeva Sloboda, and was mainly engaged in sabotage activities [13] [14] .
For the successful management of the operation, Captain I. G. Starchak was awarded the rank of Major [15] .
Myatlev Landing
On the night of January 4, 1942, Major Starchak’s detachment was again landed. It was planned that paratroopers consisting of 416 people would capture an airfield near the village of Bolshoy Fatyanovo (5 km east of Myatlyovo , on the west bank of the Shani River, Kaluga Region ), where the 250th airborne regiment (1300 people) would then be delivered by plane from Transbaikalia 82nd Infantry Division . In addition, the second detachment of paratroopers under the command of Captain I. A. Surzhik (348 people from the 1st battalion of the 201st airborne brigade ) was thrown out the day before in the villages of Gusevo , Burdukovo and Gusakovo 12-15 km north -Western Medyn near the highway Medyn-Gzhatsk . Together, they had to cut the Yukhnov - Medyn highway to stop the enemy from moving from the Kaluga region to Vyazma , as well as to prevent the German 57th Army Corps from moving away from Maloyaroslavets and Aleshkovo through Medyn to Yukhnov, as well as to capture Myatlyovo and completely paralyze the German rear in the offensive zone of the 43rd and 49th armies of the Western Front [16] .
According to the memoirs of I. G. Starchak, the advance group under his command arrived on the first four aircraft and received a radiogram - do not wait for the rest of the aircraft. And without waiting for the complete gathering of paratroopers, Starchak led his fighters on the attack, capturing the airfield. According to Soviet official data, the capture group could not establish control of the airfield until the evening of January 4, suppressing the fierce resistance of the enemy. And then in the morning of January 5, the weather worsened sharply, and a rising snowstorm brought the entire airfield with snowdrifts [16] [15] .
According to the memoirs of I. G. Starchak, they managed to capture the airfield quickly, even before the dawn of January 4, having interrupted and dispersed a few guards: the German command considered the airfield as a reserve, and therefore it was not used. Because of this, all the strips were covered with snow, which it took all day to clear. In total, after landing, 85% of paratroopers (about 300 people) were gathered, which is considered a good result for landing operations [16] . However, neither on the night of the 5th, nor on the night of the 6th aircraft with a landing did not arrive [16] .
As a result, the landing of the 250th airborne regiment at the Bolshoy Fatyanovo airfield was canceled, and Starchak's battalion switched to independent sabotage operations. On the evening of January 5, a railway bridge was blown up at the Kostino platform. On the night of January 8, with a sudden attack, the paratroopers captured Myatlevo railway station, where 2 echelons with 28 tanks and other military equipment were destroyed. Then another 10 days the battalion fought on the roads south of Medyn . According to Starchak’s recollections, signs appeared on the roads: “There is no traffic, danger zone” or “Attention, Russian paratroopers!” [17] On January 20, 1942, the remains of the Starchak’s battalion (87 people in total) joined forces with the 34th Separate Infantry brigades of the 43rd army. By their actions, the battalion of Major Starchak partially disorganized the work of the German military rear, which contributed to the success of the offensive of the Soviet units [16] .
Further Service
With frostbite on both legs, I. G. Starchak was treated for several months at the Main Military Hospital in Moscow, where he was taken unconscious on a medical plane from under Yukhnov. Due to emergency evacuation and confusion, he was considered dead for some time. Initially, he was diagnosed with gangrene, and surgeons suggested cutting off both legs. However, Starchak refused, as this would mean the end of the jumps. However, the doctors called his wife, Natalya Petrovna, to the hospital, who helped put Starchak on the operating table. On February 16, he underwent surgery, having amputated frostbitten fingers and calcaneus bones on both legs [18] .
Dear Vanya! (Will you allow me to call you that?) I really enjoyed your performance, and so did my friends. I wish you get better soon ...
Far to you, Vanya, otherwise I would come - I really want to see you ...
The day before the operation, the speech of Major I. G. Starchak was recorded on the radio, which aired on the eve of the 24th anniversary of the Red Army , February 23, 1942. While in the hospital, his comrades also often visited him: the commander of the squadron of the 1st heavy bomber aviation regiment, Captain Konstantin Ilyinsky , paratroopers foreman Ivan Bedrin , sergeant Boris Petrov , captain Andrei Kabachevsky . Starchak was awarded a personal weapon - a pistol, and then received the English delegation [18] .
In the fall of 1942, Starchak was discharged from the hospital on crutches. However, he made sure that he was allowed to fly, and again headed the parachute-landing service of the Western Air Force headquarters. In addition, despite the ban, he continued jumping [18] . Since October 30, 1943, Lieutenant Colonel I. G. Starchak is the head of the airborne parachute service of the frontier troops [2] .
In total, during the war years, I. G. Starchak made 122 sorties and 12 raids behind enemy lines [3] , suffered two serious wounds [4] .
Post-war years
Having extensive experience in the use of parachute landings in combat conditions, I. G. Starchak successfully used it in border operations in the fight against banditry in the Caucasus, Turkmenistan and the western regions of Ukraine, as well as when dropping cargo in the Transbaikalia and in the mountains of the Eastern Pamirs [2] .
I. G. Starchak was the first to make a thousand parachute jumps. On his badge, suspended from the mark of the master of parachuting, the number 1096 is engraved (so many jumps on his account). Under his leadership, a series of training camps was held for the heads of the paratrooper service and parachute handlers for the airborne units of the border troops [2] . In August 1945, during the construction of the government “HF” line of communication on the Irkutsk - Voroshilov section, he organized the training of flight crews to parachute loads and materials in hard-to-reach mountainous and forested areas (in total, under his leadership, 1012 tons of cargo were dropped without incident). For this, he personally made 67 sorties, repeatedly risking his life in difficult weather conditions, and dumped 113 tons of cargo to the passes and gorges of the Selemdzhinsky ridge. The construction was completed ahead of schedule for 1.5 months [4] .
In 1949, Ivan Georgievich was awarded the title " Honored Master of Sports of the USSR " [3] . For the successful fulfillment of the tasks of the command in the protection of the state border, I. G. Starchak repeatedly received gratitude and prizes. In 1950, he was awarded the rank of colonel [2] .
However, the car accident exacerbated the front-line wound and put an end to his further military career, and in 1952 the paratrooper officer had to resign. However, he did not quit parachuting, trained young paratroopers and continued to jump himself [3] . The author of memoirs and documentary short stories “Time has chosen us” and “From the sky - into battle”.
In the 1970s, the “Starchakites” appealed to the leadership of the USSR with a request to confer upon their commander the title of Hero of the Soviet Union , which was refused. Ivan Georgievich himself was a very modest person and did not ask for anything. He lived in the village of Udelnaya, Ramensky district, Moscow region [19] .
He died on August 29, 1981. He was buried at the Ostrovets cemetery in the village of Ostrovtsy, Ramensky district. First wife Goltsova Tamara Vasilievna. Son Starchak Valentin Ivanovich (1939). Grandson Starchak Igor Valentinovich (1962). Second wife Starchak Natalya Petrovna.
Awards and titles
- Order of Lenin (January 27, 1942 [11] )
- Order of the Red Banner (November 1, 1941 [20] )
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree
- Order of the Red Star (September 9, 1945 [4] )
- medals, including:
- Medal of Honor"
- Medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" [4]
- medal "For the defense of Moscow" [4]
- medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" [4]
Honorary citizen of the cities of Kyakhta and Yukhnov .
Family
Father - Cossack George Starchak, lived with his wife in the Poltava region. In 1905, a son was born in their family, who was named Ivan. In total, the family had four children. After George was "demoted by imperial majesty", in 1907 their family was assigned to a settlement in Transbaikalia, in the border town of Troitskosavsk (now the city of Kyakhta, Buryatia ), where Ivan spent his childhood and youth. In August 1915 he was drafted into the Russian imperial army , died on the front of the First World War . The widow of a Cossack Georgy Starchak lived in a small house on the poor outskirts of Troitskosavsk and raised four children alone [3] .
Wife - Natalia Petrovna [18] .
Memory
- On the western outskirts of Yukhnov, on the site of the battles of paratroopers and cadets of the Podolsk military schools, the Mound of Glory was erected. One of the streets of the city of Yukhnov was named Landing, and I. G. Starchak was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Yukhnov [21] . On the shore of the Ugra, at the site of the battles, an obelisk with the words stamped on it was installed: “1941. Here in October a detachment heroically fought under the command of Major Starchak I. G. ” [3]
- In the 1980s, one of the streets of Kyakhta began to bear his name [3] .
- The Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the country has a stand dedicated to the feat of the "Starchak" [3] .
- In 2018, it is planned to start shooting the movie "Ilyinsky Line" dedicated to the feat of Podolsk cadets of artillery and infantry schools in October 1941 near Moscow. In this film, the role of Ivan Starchak will be played by actor Sergei Bezrukov [22] .
- "Save Moscow. Feat of a desperate commander." Documentary film MTRK "MIR". 2016 year.
Monument to the paratroopers I. G. Starchak (center), the pilot A. G. Rogov (left) and the drivers of the Great Patriotic War (right)
Memorial sign to the paratroopers I. G. Starchak
The bridge over the Ugra river (now the A-130 highway), blown up by a detachment of I. G. Starchak
Memoirs
- Starchak I. G. From the sky - into battle / Literary record by I. M. Lemberik. - M .: Military Publishing, 1965 .-- 184 p. - (War memoirs). - 75,000 copies.
- Starchak I. G. Time chose us: a documentary short story // Baikal: literary and artistic journal, No. 4. - Ulan-Ude, 1987. - P. 3-40. - (War memoirs).
Ratings and Opinions
I. G. Starchak on defense in the Yukhnov area in October 1941 [5] :
Perhaps, from the point of view of common sense, the attempt to restrain the advance of enemy columns by a small detachment seemed impudent and senseless, but I considered and believe that excessive caution and prudence do not always bring success in military affairs ...
- What would happen if Starchak’s battalion didn’t detain the Germans on October 5th on the Ugra ?
- Then the cadets would take up defense on the outskirts of Podolsk .
- From an interview with Obninsk local historian V. A. Ivanov [23] .
Notes
- ↑ now Kremenchug district , Poltava region , Ukraine
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A terrible autumn . Yukhnov. The ancient city .. Date of treatment January 3, 2014. Archived July 12, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Bayashkhalan, 2012 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ”.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Starchak, 1965 , Chapter Two. Five October days .
- ↑ Valery Artyomov. Ilyinsky lines - Podolsk cadets / Germans in the Kaluga region . Non-profit partnership "Ark". Date of treatment January 3, 2014. with reference to: D. Pankov. War Bulletin No. 5, 1985.
- ↑ Reinforcements were made by fighters of the 108th reserve regiment with an artillery division, the 222nd anti-tank artillery regiment (of six guns), the 31st anti-tank artillery division, and the battery of the 34th artillery regiment. A total of about 50 artillery and anti-tank guns, including 4 Katyush guns. They were joined by the 2nd company of the PUF.
- ↑ Valery Artyomov. Ilyinsky lines - Podolsk cadets / Germans in the Kaluga region . Non-profit partnership "Ark". Date of treatment January 3, 2014.
- ↑ V. A. Chernov, G. Ya. Green. 17th tank brigade under the command of "Colonel I. I. Troitsky" . Old Borovsk. Date of treatment January 5, 2014.
- ↑ Valery Artyomov. Ilyinsky lines - Podolsk cadets / Germans in the Kaluga region . Non-profit partnership "Ark". Date of treatment January 3, 2014. with reference to: L. Lopukhovsky . Vyazemsky disaster of the 41st year. - S. 521.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ”.
- ↑ 214th Airborne Brigade . Club "Memory" of Voronezh State University. Date of treatment January 3, 2014.
- ↑ Shaposhnikov B. M. Appendix I Comments // The Battle of Moscow. Moscow Operation of the Western Front November 16, 1941 - January 31, 1942 - M .: AST, 2006. - ISBN 5-9713-1551-x . Archived January 6, 2014 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Isaev A.V. Klinsko-Solnechnogorsk offensive operation // Offensive of Marshal Shaposhnikov. The history of the Second World War, which we did not know . - M .: Yauza, Eksmo, 2005 .-- 384 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-699-14384-9 .
- ↑ 1 2 Miller D. Part 8. “The Special Way” of the USSR (1931-1991) // Commando. Formation, training, outstanding operations of special forces. - Minsk: Harvest, 1999.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Goncharov, 2008 .
- ↑ Starchak, 1965 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lemberik, 1960 , Spring .
- ↑ We keep in our breasts ... - RamInfo (Russian) , RamInfo (June 7, 2013). Date of appeal September 14, 2018.
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ”.
- ↑ Maslov, 1995 , In the Yukhnovsky direction .
- ↑ Sergey Bezrukov will play the hero of the Great Patriotic War from Kyakhta
- ↑ To be remembered . New Wednesday + (10.10.2011). Date of treatment January 4, 2014.
Literature
- Starchak Ivan Georgievich // Military intelligence agents 1918 - 1945 Biographical reference / Compiled by Yu. M. Yarukhin. - Kiev: Dovіra, 2010 .-- S. 141-142. - ISBN 978-966-507-264-5 .
- B. Vasina. Starchak Ivan Georgievich // Test by heaven. M .: 2010 .-- 464 p.
- Starchak Ivan Georgievich // Intelligence and counterintelligence in persons. Encyclopedic dictionary of Russian special services. The author is A. Dienko. - M .: Russian World, 2002 .-- S. 466-467.
- I.M. Lemberik . Captain Starchak. The year of life of a paratrooper reconnaissance . - M .: Military Publishing House, 1960.
- Maslov V.E. On the Yukhnovsky direction // Yukhnov . - supplemented and revised. - Kaluga: Stozhary, 1995.
- Goncharov V. The landing of units of the 201st airborne brigade and Major Starchak’s detachment near Myatlevo on January 3–4, 1942 // Landing forces of the Great Patriotic War / ed. V. Goncharov .. - M .: Yauza, Eksmo, 2008 .-- 509 p. - (Military historical collection). - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-26702-6 .
- Dabain Bayashkhalan. Starchak. Known and unknown // No. 18 (633). - Newspaper Sport-Tamir, 2012.
Links
- Barrier on the Ugra . Nizhny Novgorod Land No. 44 (October 30, 2009). Date of treatment January 4, 2014.
- Barrier on the Ugra. Photos from archives . Nizhny Novgorod Land No. 45 (November 6, 2009). Date of treatment January 4, 2014.
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