Belkin, Mark Alekseevich

Born on April 14, 1911 in a village of Rudnik, Skopinsky district, Ryazan region, in a peasant family. Since 1932 he lived in the village of Baevo in the Altai Territory , worked as a groom in the brigade No. 4 of the Agricultural Victory of Lenin Artel.

In September 1934 he was drafted into the Red Army . He served in the Far East at the Ryazanov border post, which was located in the Slavyanka bay of the Posyet district of Primorsky Territory , and participated in the detention of seven armed smugglers. In the army, with the help of fellow Muscovites, he learned to read and write. At the beginning of 1936 he was demobilized due to illness.

He returned to Altai. Since January 1936, he worked as a guard of the State Bank, studied at evening school. In November 1939 he was admitted to the membership of the CPSU / CPSU. Since 1938, after graduating from the 5th grade of evening school, he worked as a cashier at the Baevsky branch of the State Bank. In June 1940, by decision of the district committee of the CPSU, he was appointed to the post of deputy chairman of the collective farm "Testament Ilyich" of the Sobolevsky Village Council of the Baevsky District of Altai Territory . In November 1940 he was appointed chairman of the Shevchenko collective farm of the Pavlovsky village council of the same region.

In October 1941, he was again drafted into the Red Army . At the school of junior commanders at the Tatarsk station, he perfectly mastered the machine gun of the Maxim system. After graduating from the training course, he was sent to Moscow .

In December 1941 he was appointed commander of the commandant platoon of the 11th cavalry regiment. He took part in the defense of the city of Tula . In March 1942 he was sent to study at the school of officers, which he did not have time to finish. In July 1942, according to Order No. 227, known as "Not a Step Back.", Detachments began to form from fighters and commanders. Belkin was appointed party organizer in a detachment in which he served until the end of 1942. After the detachment was disbanded, Belkin was sent as commander of the machine gun calculation to the 4th squadron of the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment. As part of this unit went to the end of the war.

On July 22, 1944, in a battle near the city of Helm, the machine gunner of the guard, Red Army Belkin, struck 15 opponents from the machine gun. In pursuit of the retreating enemy, in July 1944, the regiment participated in battles near the city of Siedlec. Belkin’s calculation was composed of four teams of machine guns, which occupied the defense line 2 km from the city. The soldiers located firing points in the forest at intervals of 50 meters, dug in well, and camouflaged machine guns. On July 31, when the enemy launched a counterattack, the machine gunners let the enemy go 60-100 meters and opened fire. A total of 5 attacks were undertaken by the Nazis, but the defense was not broken. Enemy losses amounted to about 100 soldiers and officers killed, the rest left the city. On Belkin’s personal account, dozens of Nazis annihilated.

By an order of August 8, 1944, the Red Army soldier Markin Alekseevich Belkin was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.

On January 26, 1945, in the operations southwest of the city of Bydgoszcz, the guard calculation commander Junior Sergeant Belkin fired about 15 soldiers and officers with machine gun fire, which contributed to the success of the squadron in battle. On February 2, more than 10 fascists were exterminated near the village of Flefrbork.

By an order of March 12, 1945, Junior Sergeant Belkin Mark Alekseevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.

On April 22, 1945, Sergeant Belkin, along with the crew, crossed the Spree River near the town of Fürstenwalde and took up a firing position on the left bank. By firing a machine gun, he helped force the water line to rifle units, inflicting considerable damage to the enemy in manpower: he destroyed over thirty enemy soldiers and officers and crushed two machine gun points.

On April 26, on the outskirts of the city of Berlin, he was wounded. The treatment took place in the hospital in Lovic. Here I met Victory Day. After the war he continued to serve in the army. In December 1946, Guard Sergeant Major Belkin was sacked.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, for exceptional courage, courage and fearlessness shown at the final stage of the Great Patriotic War in battles with enemy invaders, guard Sergeant Belkin Mark Alekseevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree. He became the full holder of the Order of Glory.

He returned to Altai. Soon he was appointed to the position of the head of the municipal department of the Baevsky district executive committee, then in the same year he was appointed to the post of director of the district industrial complex, where he worked until 1955. Later he worked as the manager of the department of the Chuman state farm in the Baevsky district of the Altai Territory . In connection with a progressive disease, the eye moved to the city of Novosibirsk. After the operation, he returned to work.

In 1963-1974 he worked in the electrical repair shop of a metallurgical plant. In 1965 he graduated from the two-year course of the Department of Political Economy of the Regional University of Marxism-Leninism. In 1974, went on a well-deserved rest, a personal pensioner of national importance. He was engaged in public work, was a member of the military-patriotic society at the Novosibirsk House of Officers.

He lived in the city of Novosibirsk. He died on September 6, 1995. He was buried at the Zaeltsovsky cemetery in Novosibirsk.

He was awarded the orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, Glories of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees, medals.

His name is immortalized at the Glory Memorial in Barnaul , as well as in Novosibirsk on the Alley of Heroes at the Glory Monument.

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Mark Alekseevich Belkin (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment September 1, 2014.