Damansky. An island that will remain only in our memory

Half a century. For stories, in principle, no time limit. One side. On the other ... Forty-nine years ago, our fighters and frontier guards clashed with PLA soldiers in an unequal battle. And they won.

It is difficult to say how in 2019, we will interpret and recall these events. And will they be remembered at all, simply because we no longer have Damansky Island, and China has Precious Island. Yes, and with China seems to be peace, friendship, and so on. We'll see.

But today we want to remember not events, no. Events we will remember next year. More precisely, remember, but not in detail in terms of events.

Once upon a time, in 1888, during a survey work for the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, railway engineer Stanislav Damansky was killed. Drowned in the treacherous Ussuri River. The event is tragic, but ordinary for those places. Taiga and numerous Siberian rivers are dangerous even today.

The comrades found the body of the deceased engineer not far from the nameless island. And, according to the traditions that still exist, the island was named after the deceased - Damansky Island.

The island is small. 0,74 square kilometer area. 1500-1700 meters long and 500-600 meters wide. To live on it is difficult. During the spring flood, it is well warmed. But to conduct business activities on a rotational basis is quite possible.

Legally, the island became part of Russia in the 1860 year, even without being open. According to the Beijing Treaty, the border between China and the Russian Empire began to pass along the Chinese bank of the Amur. In fact, the people from the one and the other used the rivers without restrictions. Moreover, a few Chinese and Russians lived quite close to each other. And the islands that appear and disappear on the rivers were considered like draws.

I specifically started the story from afar. Just because so far in our and Chinese sources there are a lot of discrepancies in this matter. The differences that prevent us from understanding the background of the events described below. Who is right and who is wrong?

Now the mean numbers obtained from the premium department of the archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. For their heroism and courage in the performance of official duties during the 2 and 15 events of March 1969, in the area of ​​Damansky Island, 300 people were awarded, of whom 59 was posthumous. Of the total number of awarded 216, border troops were military personnel, 80 were military personnel of the Soviet army, and 4 civilians.

Four border guards and one soldier of the Soviet Army (three posthumously) were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Three were awarded the Order of Lenin. 18 man - the Order of the Red Banner (6 posthumously). 65 people were awarded the Order of the Red Star (6 posthumously). 29 people were awarded (!) The Order of Glory III degree (4 posthumously). 118 people were awarded the medal "For Courage" (40 posthumously). 62 - Medal for Military Merit.

The events in the Damansky area did not come as a surprise to the top leaders of the USSR and the PRC. Intelligence worked well. Therefore, periodically reports were sent to Moscow about an upcoming provocation in the area of ​​the island. Yes, and the border guards who served in the area, perfectly saw everything. Moreover, periodic fights with fighters of the Chinese agricultural army became the norm. Weapon border guards were forbidden to use.

This period in the history of China is called beautifully - the cultural revolution. In fact, the fact that the young supporters of Mao, the Red Guards (the red guards, the Red Guards), were doing, had nothing to do with culture. It was their authorities used for provocations. By the year 1968-69, attacks on even border patrols became commonplace.

What happened on Damanski on Sunday, March 2? Alas, but this Sunday for the entire DVO was a working day. The troops participated in the exercises to repel an enemy attack from the Primorye region. Including the border guards guarding the border on the Ussuri River. The main forces and military equipment of the border guards were deployed 50 kilometers inland. Three dozen border guards remained at the outposts.

Taking advantage of the weakening of the frontier post, the Chinese decided on a provocation. At night, a PLA company crossed the island and secretly took up a position on the high western coast of the island. In the afternoon, around 10-20, the Ussuri ice reached the 30 Chinese border guards.

The chief of the Novo-Mikhaylovka 2 th post, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Strelnikov, decides to push the Chinese back from Soviet territory. On the BTR-60PB and two cars, he and a group of 31 border guards are being pushed to the scene of the violation.

In place of Strelnikov divided the group into two groups. One, under the command of the chief of the outpost, was to oust the Chinese from the ice in front of the island. The second is to cut off the group to 20 people who disappeared on the island. The border guards did not know about the ambush that the Chinese had prepared ...

At that moment, when the officer demanded to leave the Soviet territory, at the command of a Chinese officer (raised hand), an ambush shot the border guards at point-blank range. The same fate befell the second group under the command of Sergeant Rabovich. From 11, 9 people were killed on the spot. Corporal Akulov was unconscious captured. Only one wounded man survived - Private Serebrov.

Upon hearing the shooting, the junior sergeant Yuri Babansky took over the command of the outpost. The 12 man remained at the outpost. Branch It was they who took the fight. Half an hour later there were five of them.

At this time, the commander of the neighboring 1-th outpost "Kulebyakiny sopki" senior lieutenant Vitaly Bubenin advanced to help the neighbors on the BTR-60PB and two cars. Around 11-30, he joined the Babansky group. 24 border guards with "Kulebyakina Sopka" and five from "Novo-Mikhailovka" took up defense with the support of two armored personnel carriers.

After 30 minutes of battle, the Chinese realized that they could not take the border guards alive. Then the mortars entered the business. Bubenin decides to attack the BTR. However, during the attack, the machine gun was wedged. Senior Lieutenant returned for the second. But now he attacked the Chinese from the rear.

Alas, the BTR was "enough" only to destroy the enemy's company on the ice. From the wrecked car, Bubenin with the fighters leaves in the direction of the Soviet coast. But, going out on an armored troop-carrier Strelnikov, it transplants on him and continues the fight. This time destroyed the command post. But when trying to pick up the wounded, the stopped BTR is shot from RPG-2.

At about 13 hours, the Chinese began to retreat ... At the same time, the head of the border detachment, Colonel Leonov, and reinforcements from neighboring outposts and reserves of the Pacific and Far Eastern border districts arrive in the conflict area. In the depths a motorized rifle division was deployed, equipped, among other things, with the then highly classified BM-21 Grad.

On the opposite side, the 24 Infantry Regiment numbered up to 5 thousand people deployed. The border guards were also reinforced by neighboring outposts.

The losses of the parties in this battle: USSR - 45 people, of whom 31 was killed. People's Republic of China - 39 killed. The number of wounded is unknown. This is according to our specialists. The Chinese classified their losses.

The next escalation of the conflict dates back to March 14. 15-00 received an order to remove border guards from the island. The Chinese immediately pulled up their units on the left positions. Then the border guards came to the island under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Yanshin. 45 man with the support of 4 BTRs.

On March 15, after mutual psychological treatment of the enemy through loudspeakers, after an artillery attack with up to 60 barrels, the Chinese launched an attack in 3 companies. To help Yanshin moved forward by 4 tanks T-62 Colonel Leonov.

In battle, one of the tanks sank, and Leonov's tank was shot down from a grenade launcher. Leonov himself died trying to leave the burning car. But the actions of the tankers made it possible for the Yanshin group to leave the island. It became clear that the available forces would not be enough to defend the island.

Then the responsibility was taken by the Commander of the Far East Military District, Lieutenant General Oleg Losik.

He ordered to strike "Grads." In 17-00 15 March "Grads" were first used in a combat situation. The result stunned the Chinese. Personnel, ammunition depots, headquarters and gearbox were destroyed. In 17-20, the 2 battalion of the 199 motorized rifle regiment attacked. The Chinese fled to their shore.

Soviet units also returned. Individual foci of resistance were shot up to 19 hours. However, they were quickly suppressed by motorized riflemen. The conflict was over.

In conclusion, I want to cite a complete list of awarded soldiers and officers for the Damansky for today. Someone is no longer with us, someone is alive. The fact is that the awarding of combatants was carried out by 6 by decrees of the Supreme Soviet, most of which were then classified.

Two decrees on awarding titles Hero of the Soviet Union Yu. V. Babansky, D. A. Bubenin, D. V. Leonov (posthumously) and I. I. Strelnikov (posthumously) were signed on March 21, 1969.

For the courage and courage shown in defending the state border, award:

Order of Lenin:
1. Junior sergeant Kanygin Vasily Mikhailovich.
2. Lieutenant Colonel Konstantinov Alexey Dmitrievich

Order of the Red Banner:
1. Senior Lieutenant Nikolay Mikhailovich Buynevich (posthumously)
2. Private Denisenko Anatoly Grigorievich (posthumously)
3. Sergeant Yermalyuk Viktor Markiyanovich (posthumously)
4. Private Zakharov Valery Fedorovich
5. Private Kovalev Pavel Ivanovich
6. Private Shamov Arkady Vasilyevich

Order of the Red Star:
1. Private Drozdov Sergey Matveyevich
2. Junior Sergeant Kozus Yuri Andreevich
3. Junior Lieutenant Koleshnya Michael Illarionovich
4. Corporal Viktor Korzhukov Kharitonovich (posthumously)
5. Junior Sergeant Larichkin Ivan Ivanovich
6. Private Legotin Vladimir Mikhailovich
7. Private Litvinov Peter Leonidovich
8. Junior Sergeant Pavlov Alexey Petrovich
9. Private Petrov Nikolay Nikolaevich (posthumously)
10. Private Serebrov Gennady Alexandrovich
11. Strelnikova Lidiya Fedorovna
12. Private Shmokin Evgeny Viktorovich
13. Senior Lieutenant Vladimir Nikolayevich Shorokhov

Medal "For Courage":
1. Private Aniper Anatoly Grigorievich
2. Private Burantseva Valentina Alekseevich
3. Private Velichko Peter Alexandrovich
4. Private Vetrich Ivan Romanovich (posthumously)
5. Private Vishnevsky Vasily Andreevich
6. Private Gavrilov Viktor Illarionovich (posthumously)
7. Corporal Davydenko Gennady Mikhailovich (posthumously)
8. Private Danilin Vladimir Nikolaevich (posthumously)
9. Sergeant Dergach Nikolai Timofeevich (posthumously)
10. Private Egupov Viktor Ivanovich (posthumously)
11. Private Eremin Nikolai Andreevich
12. Younger sergeant Vladimir Viktorovich Erukha
13. Private Zabanov Alexey Romanovich
14. Private Aleksey Petrovich Zmeev (posthumously)
15. Private Zolotareva Valentina Grigorievich (posthumously)
16. Private Izotov Vladimir Alekseevich (posthumously)
17. Private Ionin Alexander Filimonovich (posthumously)
18. Private Isakov Vyacheslav Petrovich (posthumously)
19. Private Kalashnikov Kuzma Fedorovich
20. Private Kamenchuk Grigory Aleksandrovich (posthumously)
21. Private Kisilev Gavrila Georgievich (posthumously)
22. Junior Sergeant Kolokin Nikolai Ivanovich (posthumously)
23. Corporal Kolkoduev Vladimir Pavlovich
24. Private Kuznetsov Aleksey Nifantevich (posthumously)
25. Private Lobov Nikolai Sergeevich
26. Junior Sergeant Loboda Mikhail Andreevich (posthumously)
27. Private Malakhov Peter Ivanovich
28. Corporal Mikhailov Evgeny Konstantinovich (posthumously)
29. Private Nasretdinov Islamgali Sultangaleevich (posthumously)
30. Private Nechay Sergey Alekseevich (posthumously)
31. Private Ovchinnikov Gennady Sergeevich (posthumously)
32. Private Pasyut Alexander Ivanovich (posthumously)
33. Private Petrov Alexander Mikhailovich
34. Private Pinzhin Gennady Mikhailovich
35. Private Plekhanov Peter Egorovich
36. Corporal Prosvirin Ilya Andreevich
37. Private Puzyrev Nikolai Fedorovich
38. Corporal Putilov Mikhail Petrovich
39. Sergeant Rabovich Vladimir Nikitievich (posthumously)
40. Sergeant Sikushenko Pavel Ivanovich
41. Private Smirnov Vladimir Alekseevich
42. Private Alexey Nikolayevich Syrtsev (posthumously)
43. Private Alexander Shestakova (posthumously)
44. Private Shusharin Vladimir Mikhailovich (posthumously)

Medal "For Military Merit":
1. Avdeev Anatoly Georgievich - foreman gospromhoza
2. Avdeev Gennady Vasilyevich - fisherman of the state industrial farm
3. Avdeev Dmitry Artemyevich - a beekeeper of a state farm
4. Captain Avilov Anatoly Ivanovich
5. Major Bazhenov Vladimir Sergeevich
6. Lieutenant Voronin Nikolai Nikolaevich
7. Senior Sergeant Gladkov Yuri Gavrilovich
8. Major Medical Service Kvitko Vyacheslav Ivanovich
9. The first person I article Kurchenko Ivan Dmitrievich
10. Captain 2 rank Makeev Vasily Stepanovich
11. Private Milanich Gennady Vladimirovich
12. Colonel Pavlinov Boris Vasilyevich
13. Corporal Rychagov Alexander Mikhailovich
14. Major Sienenko Ivan Stepanovich
15. Junior Sergeant Fadeev Mikhail Egorovich

Decree No. 4136-VII of July 31 1969.

For heroism and bravery shown in defending the state border of the USSR, assign the title of Hero of the Soviet Union to the junior sergeant Viktor Orekhov (posthumously).

Decree No. 4337-VII of July 31 1969.

For courage and heroism shown in defending the USSR state border, award:

Order of the Red Banner:
1. Lieutenant Barkovsky Mikhail Grigorievich
2. Corporal Bogdanovich Alexander Dmitrievich
3. Major Gatin Zinnur Gatievich
4. Private Kuzmin Alexey Alekseevich (posthumously)
5. Sergeant Ryabtsev Viktor Petrovich
6. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Smirnov
7. Senior Lieutenant Shelest Roman Mikhailovich

Order of the Red Star:
1. Lieutenant Aleksandrov Alexander Ivanovich
2. Lieutenant Colonel Almaev Rivgad Nazipovich
3. Senior Lieutenant of Medical Service Afanasyev Vladislav Matveyevich
4. Lieutenant Bajutov Gennady Ivanovich
5. Engineer Major Volochanov Vladimir Mikhailovich
6. Private Yevgeny Alexandrovich Gorokhov
7. Lieutenant Grigorenko Nikolai Yakovlevich
8. Captain Lavrov Yuri Vladimirovich
9. Captain Levitsky Viktor Nikolaevich
10. Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Artemovich Melnik
11. Junior Lieutenant Motor Peter Antonovich
12. Sergeant Nekhorosheva Alexander Nikolaevich
13. Junior Sergeant Nikonov Sergey Garifovich
14. Lieutenant Ostrovsky Sergey Alexandrovich
15. Engineer Captain Razdoburdin Yuri Sergeevich
16. Lieutenant Sizarev Alexander Mikhailovich
17. Sergeant Sokolnikov Valentina Ivanovich
18. Lieutenant Colonel Solodovkina Vasily Makarovich
19. Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Ignatievich Stankevich
20. Senior Lieutenant Medical Service Starev Valery Mikhailovich
21. Private Stepanova Alexander Vladimirovich
22. Lieutenant Nikolai Ivanovich Troyanov
23. Junior Lieutenant Nikolay Nikolayevich Khrapov
24. Lieutenant Colonel Khrulev Gury Petrovich
25. Lieutenant Tsarenko Vladimir Petrovich
26. Major Yevgeny Yevgeny Chernoy
27. Junior Sergeant Shaymanov Alexander Semenovich
28. Senior Lieutenant Shelkunov Leonid Aleksandrovich
29. Sergeant Shlepov Gennady Iosifovich
30. Sergeant Shutov Nikolai Ivanovich
31. Private Shcheglakov Vladimir Andreevich
32. Sergeant Yarulin Rubis Yusupovich
33. Captain Yasnev Igor Valerianovich

Order of Glory III degree:
1. Sergeant Badmazhapova Tsyren Dorzhievich
2. Sergeant Baranov Nikolai Ivanovich
3. Junior Sergeant Vlasov Anatoly Ivanovich (posthumously)
4. Corporal Volojanin Mikhail Vladimirovich
5. Private Gelviha Alexander Khristianovich (posthumously)
6. Sergeant Karmazin Vasily Viktorovich (posthumously)
7. Junior Sergeant Knelts Anatoly Leonidovich
8. Private Korobenkov Boris Nikolayevich
9. Junior Sergeant Korolev Nikolai Ivanovich
10. Private Cuckoo Ivan Andreevich
11. Corporal Lemeshev Viktor Alexandrovich
12. Private Loskutkin Boris Ivanovich
13. Junior Sergeant Matisov Gennady Anatolyevich
14. Junior Sergeant Pastukhov Viktor Mikhailovich
15. Private Perevalov Evgeny Stepanovich
16. Private Vladimir V. Potapov (posthumously)
17. Corporal Reshetnikov Valery Alekseevich
18. Junior Sergeant Sanzharov Viktor Ivanovich
19. Senior Sergeant Shulbaev Veniamin Prokopevich

Medal "For Courage":
1. Private Abdulgazirov Erik Muhamedovich
2. Corporal Augerwald Oscar Leonardovich
3. Private Bedarev Alexander Vasilyevich (posthumously)
4. Private Valeev Valentin Hayrivarovich
5. Private Galimbekov Boris Nuritovich
6. Sergeant Gladkov Vladimir Nikitovich
7. Senior Sergeant Gomanov Valery Ivanovich
8. Sergeant Gorinov Anatoly Grigorievich
9. Private Gubenko Viktor Alekseevich
10. Lieutenant Davletbaev Reinad Tulkubayevich
11. Younger Sergeant Darzhiev Sergey Zanduevicha
12. Sergeant Demintsev Vladimir Eduardovich
13. Corporal Detinkin Alexander Nikolaevich
14. Private Egorov Nikolay Petrovich
15. Private Ignatiev Georgy Grigorievich
16. Private Karev Gennady Alexandrovich
17. Private Karpov Gennady Ivanovich
18. Private Kisilev Vladimir Sergeevich
19. Private Koltakov Sergey Timofeevich (posthumously)
20. Sergeant Korolkov Anatoly Fedorovich
21. Sergeant Kosov Yuri Alexandrovich
22. Private Kochetkov Peter Ivanovich
23. Sergeant Kravchuk Mikhail Ivanovich
24. Junior Sergeant Vladimir Artemovich Krainov
25. Junior Sergeant Viktor Ivanovich Krayushkin
26. Private Kruglik Alexander Sergeevich
27. Private Kryzhanovsky Valentin Vasilyevich
28. Junior Sergeant Crimean Vitaly Vasilievich
29. Private Kuanyshev Vladimir Fedorovich
30. Private Kuzmin Nikolai Alexandrovich
31. Junior Sergeant Kutlin Anatoly Nikolaevich
32. Junior Sergeant Lavrinenko Nikolai Alexandrovich
33. Sergeant Lizunov Alexander Mikhailovich
34. Sergeant Lipovka Gennady Nikolaevich
35. Private Liavin Mikhail Andreevich
36. Private Mamonov Alexander Yakovlevich
37. Private Manzarkhanov Eduard Georgievich
38. Private Vladimir Muratov
39. Private Osipov Viktor Leonidovich
40. Junior Sergeant Panov Vyacheslav Ivanovich
41. Private Peskov Vladimir Sergeevich
42. Private Polegayev Gennady Georgievich
43. Lieutenant Polyaev Vladimir Fedorovich
44. Private Popov Alexander Alekseevich
45. Lieutenant Prokhorov Vladimir Pavlovich
46. Corporal Rachenkov Anatoly Zinovievich
47. Private Sovetnikov Yuri Petrovich
48. Junior Sergeant Spitsyn Nikolay Gavrilovich
49. Private Strigina Gennady Matveyevich
50. Private Sysoyev Viktor Alexandrovich
51. Senior Sergeant Tereshchenko Alexander Nikolaevich
52. Private Skramadu Gennady Vasilyevcha
53. Private Shtoyko Vladimir Timofeevich (posthumously)
54. Corporal Yanovsky Vladimir Ilyich

Medal "For Military Merit":
1. Private Avdankin Viktor Nikolaevich
2. Private Akimov Vladimir Grigorievich
3. Private Burnyshev Ivan Stepanovich
4. Corporal Gneushev Dmitry Prokofievich
5. Private Dubovichtsky Viktor Ivanovich
6. Corporal Egorov Alexey Ivanovich
7. Efreitor Emelianenko Alexander G.
8. Private Emelyanov Gennady Alexandrovich
9. Lieutenant Kordubailo Dmitry Semenovich
10. Private Alexander Maksimovich Pavlovich
11. Private Nabokov Vladimir Ivanovich
12. Private Nikonov Ivan Ivanovich
13. Private Ozheredov Sergey Semenovich
14. Sergeant Ponomarev Alexander Petrovich
15. Private Ponomarev Nikolai Aleksandrovich
16. Private Poplevin Mikhail Polikarpovich
17. Senior Sergeant Popov George Nikolayevich
18. Junior Sergeant Sinichkin Anatoly Ivanovich
19. Private Solomanina Vladimir Mikhailovich
20. Private Terekhov Nikolay Stepanovich
21. Junior Sergeant Uryvkov Vladimir Nikolaevich
22. Private Utyatnikov Mikhail Alexandrovich
23. Major Fitisov Aleksey Grigorievich
24. Private Shikunov Yuri Pavlovich
25. Private Shokot Nikolai Antonovich
26. Private Yasyrev Mikhail Alexandrovich

Decree No. 4338-VII of July 31 1969.

For courage and bravery shown in defending the USSR state border, award:

Order of Lenin:
Lt. Col. Yanshin Evgeny Ivanovich

Order of the Red Banner:
1. Efretor Akulov Pavel Andreevich (posthumously)
2. Major Kosinov Peter Ivanovich
3. Senior Lieutenant Mankovsky Lev Konstantinovich (posthumously)
4. Senior Lieutenant Nazarenko Nikolai Ivanovich
5. Senior Lieutenant Solovyov Viktor Mikhailovich

Order of the Red Star:
1. Senior Sergeant Alekseev Yuri Ivanovich
2. Private Bashukov Anatoly Nikolaevich
3. Junior Sergeant Gayunov Vladimir Konstantinovich (posthumously)
4. Junior Sergeant Golovin Boris Alexandrovich (posthumously)
5. Private Golovin Viktor Fedorovich
6. Lieutenant Valery Aleksandrovich Gubarev
7. Captain Deripaskin Geatsent Stepanovich
8. Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Vasilyevich Zubkov
9. Lieutenant Klygu Anatoly Petrovich
10. Junior Sergeant Kobts Ilya Georgievich
11. Major Kornienko Ivan Grigorievich
12. Sergeant Krasikov Nikolai Andreevich (posthumously)
13. Private Nakonechny Vladimir Ivanovich
14. Captain Petrikin Evgeny Vasilyevich
15. Private Petukhov Anatoly Viktorovich
16. Captain Poletavkin Vitaly Alekseevich
17. Private Prosviryakov Leonid Arkadyevich
18. Private Salkov Alexey Nikolaevich
19. Private Shamsudinov Vitaly Gilionovich (posthumously)

Order of Glory III degree:
1. Private Borovskiy Vladimir Dmitrievich
2. Private Gribachev Gennady Mikhailovich
3. Corporal Ivanov Gennadly Vasilyevich
4. Private Kalinin Victor Trofimovich
5. Private Kamzalakov Alexander Alekseevich
6. Private Kozlov Yuri Filippovich
7. Junior Sergeant Rudakov Serschei Alekseevich
8. Private Simchuk Ilya Moiseevich
9. Sergeant Fomin Valentin Mikhailovich
10. Private Shulgin Alexander Mihflovich

Medal "For Courage":
1. Private Abbasov Tofik Rza oglu (posthumously)
2. Private Akhmetshin Yuri Y. (posthumously)
3. Private Bildushkinov Vladimir Tarasovich (posthumously)
4. Private Gladyshev Sergey Viktorovich (posthumously)
5. Private Yelistratov Nikolay Stepanovich
6. Senior Sergeant Zainetdinov Anvar Ahkiyamovich (posthumously)
7. Junior Sergeant Ivanov Mikhail Petrovich
8. Sergeant Ignatieff Alexey Ivanovich
9. Private Kovalev Anatoly Mikhailovich (posthumously)
10. Captain Kurlykov Vladimir Tymoevich
11. Junior Sergeant Lutsenko Nikolai Andreevich
12. Junior Sergeant Malykhin Vlidimir Yurievich (posthumously)
13. Captain Matrosov Vladimir Stepanovich
14. Sergeant Mashinets Vyacheslav Ivanovich
15. Private Solyanik Viktor Petrovich (posthumously)
16. Private Tkachenkov Dmitry Vladimirovich (posthumously)
17. Private Chechenin Alexei Ivanovich (posthumously)
18. Private Yurin Stanislav Fedorovich (posthumously)
19. Private Yakimov Ivan Makarovich
20. Private Yakovlev Anatoly I. (posthumously)

Medal "For Military Merit":
1. Senior Lieutenant Burdin Mikhail Alekseevich
2. Lieutenant Vishnevsky Nikolai Kupriyanovich
3. Private Golubev Mikhail Alekseevich
4. Junior Sergeant Kozin Anatoly Sergeyevich
5. Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Andreevich
6. Captain Lebedev Arkady Pavlovich
7. Sergeant Malyshenko Boris Grigorievich
8. Private Martynov Boris Grigorievich
9. Private Mironov Vladimir Vasilyevich
10. Engineer-captain Vladimir Ignatievich Palkin
11. Private Perederey Peter Grigorievich
12. Private Plotnikov Viktor Alexandrovich
13. Junior Sergeant Rogov Anatoly Filippovich
14. Major Skladanuk Grigory Andreevich
15. Private Smelov Nikolai Vasilyevich
16. Private Soroku Anatoly Grigorievich
17. Private Ustyugov Mikhail Sergeyevich
18. Lieutenant Boris Yakovlevich Fatovenko
19. Private Vladimir Fedorov
20. Senior Lieutenant Khrippel Yuri Timofeevich
21. Private Shalupu Peter Dmitrievich

And four citizens not from among military men.

Order of the Red Star for the provision of first aid was awarded Strelnikova Lydia Fedorovna (the widow of the chief of 2-th outpost, I.I. Strelnikova).

Medals "For Military Merit" Avdeevs, Anatoly Gerasimovich, Gennady Vasilyevich and Dmitry Artemyevich were awarded, who brought x-sled carts to 2 in March 1969, on which ammunition was transferred to the battlefield.

The list is big. But here, on our pages, it is absolutely appropriate and logical. The memory of those who took the fight 49 years ago is our, one might say, combat mission.

All we have left is the memory of those who fought and who died in March 1969.

Damansky Island, and now Precious, is the military-administrative zone of the People's Republic of China, and the Russians, and other foreigners, cannot get there. But the Chinese military do not just let their tourists go there. Carry specifically, "so that the Chinese people did not forget their history and remembered the feat on the island of Precious."

There is a museum on the island, which presents a Chinese perspective on events. Memorial events and commemorations of the departed are held, the number of which is still under a great secret.

We only have such a memory. However, we will remember all the heroes of our time listed above and we will remember their contribution to the understanding by the world that ours is ours.

Despite the fact that politicians actually spat on the blood shed by our soldiers, we are obliged to keep the memory of the events on the Damansky, no matter how the relations between Russia and China may be. For whoever remembers the old, that eye out, and whoever forgets the old, that two.

Comments

[Spartanez300]

Grads then cool their heads not bad.
Eternal memory to the fallen defenders of the Motherland and a low bow to the living.

[Reptiloid]

After all the previous help and support of the USSR ----- the Chinese have committed such a villainy.
This, apparently, is their national trait.

[Yak28]

The Soviet Union shared technology and military equipment with many countries, helped and built infrastructure, too, as a result, everyone answered with black ingratitude. So this is not a Chinese national trait, but a short-sighted policy of the USSR, which is one of the backward in the development of China in both economic and militarily, made almost a superpower.

[Olgovich]

Quote: Yak28

So this is not a Chinese national trait, but short-sighted policy THE USSR,

Exactly! The same thing happened with the countries of Eastern Europe — they forgave them the atrocities of the Great Patriotic War, reparations, fed themselves damage and received powerful enemies.
With Germany, even worse: fiercely fought for ..... preservation unified Germany. We have the strongest enemy, again ....

1969 Mr. I perfectly remember that time - they were afraid that there would be a big war. Thanks to our soldiers who broke so that the Chinese did not want more .....

[Peter Ivanov]

They were not going to a big war!

[Reptiloid]

In terms of helping China. The weak was Japan's prey. And we needed it, at the borders of the Japs ?. As for the violations of the contract by the Chinese somehow.

[lesnik1978]

It’s just that China skillfully wore the mask of a “Soviet friend”, where it helped (North Korea). Therefore, they could not foresee treachery. If we consider the biblical subjects, then the Lord God did not provide for the betrayal of Satan (he also exalted him before this).
About China as the emperor of France Napoleon Banaparte spoke. (China is sleeping and God forbid it to wake up).

[Warrior with machine gun]

So it turns out that the men then died for their homeland, and literally after tomorrow, by historical standards, the Bear Bears and the company gave away the island for nothing (this infuriates the distribution of territories to those who by and large do not belong)

[hohol95]

Read the article on VO - Who gave the Amur Islands to China? March 10, 2017.
Here are excerpts from this article -

The black day was 16 May 1991. On this day, Soviet Judas, concurrently the first and last President of the USSR, M. S. Gorbachev, signed a document stating that the border with China must pass along the fairway of the Amur River.
So for the first time in hundreds of years, China had a legal opportunity to officially challenge the islands of Great Ussuriisky and Tarabarov from Russia.
I emphasize that for several hundred years before this point the question of affiliation has never been fixed. Gorbachev just automatically wrote down all the disputed territories.
While the Chinese quietly went nuts and did not believe their eyes, Gorbachev successfully ruined the Union and went to the dustbin of history. But the documents they were kept under, remained, and moreover, Russia, as the successor of the USSR, received this joy by inheritance.

But the worst began later. When Boris Neepykhayuschiy the first president of Russia entered into the business. Here is a specialist ...
December 1992 of the year. Russian-Chinese summit. B.N. signs a memorandum of understanding between the governments of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China on the mutual reduction of armed forces and confidence building in the military field in the border area.
Excerpt from the 12 article.
"The parties will continue negotiations on the not yet agreed sections of the border between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China on the basis of agreements on the current Russian-Chinese border in accordance with generally accepted norms of international law, in the spirit of equal consultation, mutual understanding and mutual compliance in order to resolve border issues fairly and rationally" .
Cross-border issues were resolved with true Yeltsin scope and generosity. Yeltsin gave about 600 (SIXTHOT) islands on the Amur and Ussuri rivers, both small and more than average. Plus about 11 square kilometers of land. Luxuriously.

[Monarchist]

Crest, you correctly recalled the article and there we expressed our opinion.
Regarding the border: I met publications by famous lawyers that the borders are drawn in the middle of the river, and in this case, the border was drawn not in the center of the river.

[Sergej1972]

The article is an inaccuracy. Bolshoi Ussuriysky and Tarabarov came under the control of the USSR only in 1929, after the Sino-Soviet conflict.

[Peter Ivanov]

Gorbachev with Putin!

[hohol95]

Forgot Boris Neposykhayuschih ...

[Reptiloid]

Quote: Yak28

........... So this is not a Chinese national trait, but a short-sighted policy of the USSR, which has made almost superpower from a backward China in economic and military terms.

There can be no question of the short-sighted policy of the Soviet Union !!! Stalin created a geopolitical alliance with China! Through China, the USSR influenced all of Asia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Khrushchev destroyed everything.

[Peter Ivanov]

Too close and wrong.

[Sergej1972]

You forget that since the late 50s in the PRC, after a fierce internal party struggle, the adventurous policy of the "Great Leap Forward" has been pursued. And then the Cultural Revolution. How did we react to it. If we take the Soviet dogma, then the "Cultural Revolution" is a kind of Trotskyism, with Chinese characteristics.
The Chinese in the 50-60s were continuous shy. They either stigmatized the USSR for "conspiring with the imperialists," or they themselves began to drastically improve relations with the West. Mao himself, apparently, did not completely control the situation in the party and the country.
And do not exaggerate the Stalin factor. To him in the PRC was a difficult relationship in the 50-60s. He was also posthumously criticized. But not for what they criticized him in the USSR.))

[Fox]

China has fallen for us with the filing of Khrushchev ... as indeed the whole fall of the USSR.

[antiexpert]

China got into a fight with us from the filing of Khrushchev

can you explain how it happened that it was precisely with the submission of Khrushchev that nuclear, aviation and space technologies were transferred to China?

[Peter Ivanov]

Nuclear weapons were NOT transferred! This PRC is strongly hooked.

[Senior manager]

Quote: Fox

China has fallen for us with the filing of Khrushchev ...

I read the version of the quarrel between Mao and Stalin, I will not argue. First-person shame, not China. You just did not hear what the Chinese broadcast on our country on the radio. "When completing a mission on a fighter (Chinese), the navigation equipment failed, but the pilot was not at a loss, took out the quotation box of the Great Helmsman and, guided by the ideas of the Great Mao, led the fighter to landing on his airfield" - almost literally.
You don't have to go far for an example - 404.
Huge respect for the guys -Soviet Warriors. The footage of that chronicle was impressive. Unparalleled courage.

[Sergej1972]

Nevertheless, the maximum criticism of Maoism was at the time of Brezhnev. One of the most irreconcilable towards Maoism since Khrushchev's time was Andropov.
To be honest, when reading the speeches of Khrushchev and Brezhnev on the Chinese question, willy-nilly you come to the conclusion: and after all, they were largely correct in criticizing the then Chinese leadership. The trouble is that inter-party differences have grown into interstate confrontation. It was not possible to do, as with Yugoslavia since the mid-50s: the differences between the ideological parties remained, which did not prevent the development of political, trade and economic relations between the two countries. Although the Chinese should not be removed from their share of responsibility.

[Boris55]

Quote: Reptiloid

After all the previous help and support of the USSR ----- the Chinese have committed such a villainy.

Say thanks to the moron Khrushchev for destroying the entire communist movement in the world.

[Reptiloid]

They didn’t drink to the Brudershaft to poke. The filthy deeds of the maize are imprinted on our map. There is no escape. Well, in the results of the congress, of course. There was an article about de-Stalinization yesterday.
Territorial disputes existed between the two countries since imperial times, the border is long, poorly mapped ... There have always been disputed territories. Apparently, not only the policy of corn, but also the fact that the PLA became the largest army in the world ----- played a role. Something seemed to hit my head.

[apro]

Quote: Reptiloid

and the fact that the PLA became the largest army in the world ----- played a role. Something seemed to hit my head.

The number of personnel is not the main thing. With a weak industry. China is building an army according to its capabilities. Not greatly inflating the states. Not building aircraft tanks 10 thousand.
Not something struck them. A completely cold calculation. With the submission of Khrushchev's hopes for the modernization of Chinese industry, they began to be questioned. And something needed to be done and it was possible to establish relations with the amers by escalating tensions with the USSR, because Taiwan was considered China and not China. Political maneuver more.

[Reptiloid]

And then apparently thought better of it! They remembered how, in 1945, captured the USSR Manchuria, and could have repeated it! The Kwantung army could not interfere! Also, the Chinese in this case could not. Since the RED ARMY has strengthened and outpaced the PLA incomparably in the post-war years.

[apro]

They didn’t change their minds. Mao turned out to be smarter than L.Brezhnev. The war was not planned for the joy of Amers. But huge funds of the USSR were thrown into the wind by the threat of war. It’s not clear why. China managed to maneuver Western support for its economy. To distance itself from Moscow and conduct a more independent policy the interests of the PRC as well as pursuing its line in third countries. The USSR has harnessed itself to the arms race by spraying forces between the Amers and the Chinese. Political methods did not solve this problem; the rehabilitation of IV Stalin was not included in the plans of the Politburo.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: apro

........ The USSR harnessed to the arms race by spraying forces between the Amers and the Chinese. Political methods did not solve this problem; the rehabilitation of the IVS Stalin was not included in the plans of the Politburo.

If so, then ---- sadness !!!!! And the whole point is that about the 20th century in the history of our country it is difficult to trace what, and to ask the right question, you need to know half the answer!
Until the evening!

[Sergej1972]

But read the materials of the 20th congress. Malenkov, Mikoyan, Kaganovich, Voroshilov, Bulganin at this congress, in subsequent speeches in 1956-1957, also very actively criticized the decisions taken in the last years of Stalin's life. The only thing that applies to Molotov to the least extent. And Khrushchev, his associates (who were later declared the "anti-party group in July 1957) were about to withdraw precisely because he began to move away from the principles of collective leadership, and he began to tend to return to the practice of making individual decisions without preliminary discussion at the Presidium of the Central Committee. That is, they criticized Khrushchev for the fact that, in their opinion, he departed from the decisions of the 20th Congress.))

[Peter Ivanov]

%% at 98 - true!

[domokl]

Good song and beautiful video from the scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_K1eiHOgQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyapQgbK9Tw

[rJIiOK]

Well, what did you get into propaganda?
Mao regarded Stalin as a teacher, and the USSR as his elder brother. Because of Khrushchev, who spat on Stalin, China turned away from the USSR, so the blood of Damansky’s defenders was in Khrushchev’s hands ..

[Reptiloid]

The Chinese are practical people. Although, according to their national rules, respect for the elder is necessary, they did not defend Stalin, but themselves. It is just that with the death of the leader the policy of the USSR changed, Khrushchev made secret contacts with the amers, turning away from China. As a result, the strongest alliance between China and the USSR, conceived by Stalin, broke up, and China began to prove that it was cooler.

[Peter Ivanov]

And it was not close.

[Sergej1972]

So the Chinese themselves after some time, first secretly, and then clearly began to establish relations with the United States.

[Peter Ivanov]

NO! Everything was more complicated! Indeed, Mao was offended by I.V. Stalin, who made him wait six hours in the waiting room! Such a reference to the place of the PRC, for the USSR was the main thing in the world communist movement. And Stalin personally appointed both in the Comintern and later in the foreign department of the Central Committee of the party, all foreign First Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Parties of the planet ... But Khrushchev, not only did I.V. Stalin, at the 20th Congress of the CPSU, abuse the Great, and he lost battle with MAo! He invited him to the PRC and “lowered” Oro there! Well, after that he used the 20th Congress, as he scolded about "the friend of China - I. Stalin" and about the revisionist USSR! This is a brief one.

[Peter Ivanov]

No! This is the result of the betrayal of N. Khrushchev by Stalin at the 20th Congress of the CPSU!
Plus, in such an acute way, the PRC declared itself to be an uncontrolled more power of the USSR and an independent player in the international arena.

[Korsar4]

Thank. The use of Grad then became almost legendary.

[Peter Ivanov]

Nothing legendary! Paphos is not appropriate where people die, and especially in battle!
Eternal glory to the heroes of the border of the USSR!

[bionik]

Organizers of the 1st outpost.The last shot.

Head of the 2nd outpost "Novo-Mikhailovka" senior lieutenant Ivan Strelnikov

[domokl]

In the last photograph of the deceased photographer they captured the very moment when the commander of the Chinese squad gave the command to destroy the group ... Only three pictures were taken by the soldiers then ... until death

[Peter Ivanov]

There, on the Sino-Soviet border, after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, changes have taken place! Instead of exceeding the border - Friendship, the Chinese began to conduct various provocations ... In photographs with armored personnel carriers, clubs are visible! With which the border guards traveled with the PLA fighters, who began to beat the Soviet border guards with the butt of AK and SKS, passing through the GG to Soviet territory.

[Sergej1972]

Not after the 20th Congress, but rather after the 22nd Congress of 1961. In the years 1956-1960. we still officially had friendship.

[apro]

Without pleading the heroism of the border guards, but the initiator of all this fuss with the PRC is nevertheless the country's leadership, headed by Khrushchev, a mindless decision to fight the personality cult. Agreement with the Amers. Departure from the Stalinist course of confrontation with the imperialists.

[Reptiloid]

From words and economic sanctions ----- to armed attacks ----- a very long distance. Our example is today. , conflicts have occurred before. Probably, these were provocations. For something, the Chinese needed it.

[Reptiloid]

In 1964, Mao announced his claims to Soviet territory in an interview with the Japanese delegation. In a book by A. Okorokov, I read today about the provocations against our diplomats by the Chinese in 1966. And conflicts along the entire border have arisen since 1960. Provocations
Yuri Galinovich mentions an agitation that he saw in 1966 among medical students in Beijing. There were such words:
Enough! Enough! Enough! All old and new hatred is bubbling in our hearts! Mch we will not forget about her either in a hundred, or in a thousand, or in ten thousand years. We will take revenge. Now we are not taking revenge just because the time for revenge has not come. When this time comes, we will rip off your skin, draw out your veins, burn your corpses and scatter the dust in the wind! Signatures.

[Peter Ivanov]

This is only the outer shadow of the wattle fence ... Mao!

[Peter Ivanov]

The fish from the head goes out, comrade!

[kvs207]

Quote: apro

Not begging the heroism of the border guards. But the initiator of this whole bodyagi from China is still the country's leadership, headed by Khrushchev.

In 1969?
Did you definitely teach history at school?

[apro]

Quote: kvs207

Did you definitely teach history at school?

They don’t learn at school, they study. They study what they consider necessary. The truth is much later.

[Weyland]

Quote: apro

They don’t study at school.

and mostly by!

[captain]

Quote: kvs207

Quote: apro

Not begging the heroism of the border guards. But the initiator of this whole bodyagi from China is still the country's leadership, headed by Khrushchev.

In 1969?
Did you definitely teach history at school?

Dear, well, that you pester the citizen of a foreign country. Red-flag history takes place along the Short History Course of the CPSU (B.). And there they did not write who was the Secretary General in 1969.

[Looking for]

The “Short Course ...” at least covers REAL events of the history of the USSR. These are not your desktop “truthful” memoirs of unfinished White Guards published in France, Germany, Romania, the USA, etc.

[Monarchist]

Rotmister, what did you send to the person? He just WANTS to be Khrushchev

[Looking for]

It was in 1969. For the events of 1969 are nothing more than a consequence of Khrushchev’s mediocre policy in all areas.

[Sergej1972]

Brezhnev repeatedly criticized Maoism and the policies of the Chinese leadership.

[rJIiOK]

He meant the consequences of breaking Khrushchev

[parusnik]

Remember, we do not forget .. Eternal glory to those who are alive, and to those who died and who died ...

[Reptiloid]

Quote: parusnik

Remember, we do not forget .. Eternal glory to those who are alive, and to those who died and who died ...

I join these words. You need to know and remember what happened.

[captain]

“The border conflict between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China over Daman Island broke out in March 1969, when, after numerous provocative actions, Chinese military units invaded the island and attempted its armed capture. The Chinese were knocked out by forces of border guards and troops of the Far Eastern Military District At the same time, the Chinese side did not stop its attempts to occupy the island, and as a result of the Soviet-Chinese negotiations that began in the autumn of 1969, the cease hostile actions and that troops of the parties will remain in their positions, which at that time meant the actual transfer of the island to China in May 19 1991, the parties came to an agreement -. the island finally came under the jurisdiction of the PRC, "Thank you, Comrade.. Gorbachev.

[Nehist]

Gg, and who ratified this treaty so that it comes into force?

[Peter Ivanov]

The conflict began not in the year 1969, but from the beginning of the 1960s! And only in March 1969 everything turned into a military clash ... After ... until the year 87 !!!! we with the Chinese in both sections (and the Eastern Border District) and the whole Far East direction were swaying ...

[Nehist]

And there were Dulaty and Zhalanashkol ...

[Reptiloid]

Events at Lake Zhalanashkol began on August 12, 1969. The height of the lake is 372,5 meters above sea level. It is located in the narrow part of the mountain approach "Dzungarian Gate" on the very border with China. The battle ended on the morning of August 13. Soviet border guards lost 2 people killed, over 15 wounded. On May 7, 1970, a secret award order was signed. Terebenko and Puchkov became knights of the Order of Lenin. The dead were posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner. 6 people were awarded the Order of the Red Star. Two --- Order of Glory 3 degrees. 10 people --- with the medal "For Courage".

[Peter Ivanov]

And not only! But it didn’t reach the fire!

[Peter Ivanov]

Yeah. So be it!

[Seraphimamur]

These are the Chinese friends: in the 50s they helped them build a country; they shared technologies; they taught specialists; they gave atomic weapons and, in gratitude, they received Damansky. I wonder if Putin knows about Damansky?

[Korsar4]

He knows. And the decision on the border along the fairway was made. And when making such decisions, you understand that "You are a Monomakh Hat."

Here - already judge the story.

[Sergej1972]

The decision on the border along the fairway was made absolutely correct. This is an international practice.

[Peter Ivanov]

It is not wise to say so! The fact is that in practice, when demarcating the state border, "... USUALLY on reservoirs such as a river, lake ... it is customary to draw a boundary line along the navigable channel of rivers / reservoirs or along the thalweg, OR (!) Where the parties have decided or AGREED. What and it was fixed in the Nanjing Border Treaty, and the border passed along the Chinese / Manchurian coast of Ussuri and other rivers !!! Do not rush about "international practice"! Study international law!

[Operator]

The USSR refused to transfer nuclear technology to China.
The United States did this for him, which in the late 1950s allowed a group of American scientists who were participants in the Manhattan project and ethnic Chinese to leave for China.

[Palagecha]

Of course, Putin doesn’t know. He doesn’t know anything at all ... It’s just that bad officials do not say anything to him and deceive him ... If he knew everything, he would quickly restore order.

[Peter Ivanov]

The Tsar is kept in ignorance! Tzar is misinformed! The suite rules the king!

[Sergej1972]

They had a fierce internal party struggle in the PRC. In 1958, supporters of the "big leap" won. And then, in the mid-60s. the "cultural revolution" began.

[hohol95]

Tank T-62 No. 545 of Colonel Leonov at the PLA Museum in Beijing

In the midst of the ensuing battle, the commander of the Uman border detachment Colonel Democrat Leonov led three T-62 tanks that arrived to support the border guards at Damansky. Unfortunately, he did not set any combat mission for the crews of vehicles. Tankers did not even uncovered the guns. Near the southern tip of the island, a Chinese grenade launcher shot down a tank caterpillar in which Leonov himself was.
Through the landing hatch, the colonel tried to leave the tank, but he was in a thick white fur coat and was stuck in the hatch. Then he was cut off by a machine gun burst. Other tanks, having no connection with the headquarters and clearly defined tasks, returned to the outpost.
As soon as Moscow learned that a secret tank was abandoned a hundred meters from the Chinese coast, the Minister of Defense, Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko, ordered the evacuation of equipment at any cost. Unlike the old T-54, on which there was a 100 mm gun, the new one was equipped with smooth-bore guns with a caliber of 115 mm, and besides, the world's newest night-vision sight. Alas, already at night the Chinese with might and main removed their secret equipment ....

[domokl]

Two inaccuracies ... Colonel Leonov led the 4 tank. Tank Leonov was hit from an RPG-2 and burned. The colonel himself was killed by a sniper.
And the tank that stands in the Peking military museum was not hit. He simply drowned. The Chinese picked it up and transported it first to Harbin and then to Beijing. This picture is a modern one from the Peking Museum ... According to the recollections of Babansky ...

[hohol95]

Where is it written that Leonov had 4 tanks? Everywhere figure appears - 3.
Or in the USSR tank platoon consisted of 4 vehicles?
Mikhail Baryatinsky T-62. The killer of the Centurions and Olyphant

While the Far Eastern Command requested permission from Moscow to open fire on the Chinese coast, the border detachment Colonel D. Leonov decided to strike at the rear of the enemy with the forces of the assigned platoon of T-62 tanks (according to other sources, reconnaissance). Three T-62 tanks entered the Ussuri ice and turned around the Damansky Island, substituting the sides to the enemy. Using this, the Chinese knocked out the lead tank from an RPG-7 hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher. The crew, including Colonel Leonov, died. Two other tanks and border guards withdrew. Only in the evening an order was received from Moscow, which allowed firing on the Chinese coast. On the morning of March 17, a regiment of 122 mm howitzers and a division of Grad units launched a powerful blow to the island and Chinese territory to a depth of 7 km. After that, the 2nd battalion of the 199th Verkhneudinsky motorized rifle regiment was supported, with the support of a company of T-62 tanks. After a fierce battle, the island was cleared of the enemy. However, the wrecked tank remained on the ice of Ussuri between Damansky Island and the Chinese coast. Despite repeated attempts, it was not possible to evacuate him. In order to prevent the Chinese from evacuating the tank, constant artillery shelling was carried out from our side. As a result, a meter-thick ice burst and the tank sank. Formal privacy measures have been taken. True, the Soviet command did not know that the Chinese scouts entered the wrecked tank the very first night and removed the TSh2B-41 scope and carried out several shells, including armor-piercing-subcaliber. In May, after the ice came down, the Chinese managed to pull the tank to their shore. Subsequently, he was exhibited at the observation deck of the Military Revolutionary Museum in Beijing, where he is still located.

[hohol95]

If you have the staffing of the motorized rifle division in force in 1969, share it! Perhaps in the motorized rifle units, the platoon consisted of 4 tanks.
Moreover, in the tank he consisted of 3 vehicles!

[Peter Ivanov]

D. Leonov died from fragments of the tank’s armor when shots from the recoilless rocket and several RPG-2 grenade launchers hit it! Tales write to you in the official media !!! What are the snipers in the snow on Ussuri? There was a sea of ​​fire, didn’t you fight in the DRA or Chechnya? Do you know what happens inside an armored object when a cumulative grenade hits it?

[voyaka uh]

Interesting. In 1969, the T-62 tank was still considered secret.
And in 1973 (after 4 years!) Hundreds of them were already in Syria, with night vision devices,
115th OBPSami and all the bells and whistles. There, several dozen of them got into trophies at once.

[hohol95]

Mikhail Baryatinsky T-62. The killer of the Centurions and Olyphant

Deliveries of T-62 abroad began in the early 1970s. The main address was the Middle East. In 1971-1972, Egypt received about 400 T-62 (according to other sources - only 200). At the same time, there were some oddities. Sending tanks was carried out from the presence of the Ministry of Defense. An order of the Council of Ministers on this issue was drawn up in extreme haste, without the participation of the Military-Industrial Commission. When employees of the State Committee on Foreign Economic Relations (GKES) showed the draft document to the tankers, they gasped: a tank with a fundamentally new type of weapons and with a top secret armor-piercing-projectile went abroad. However, the question of the tank was not subject to discussion, since an agreement was reached at the highest level - between L. I. Brezhnev and G. Nasser. Then the military demanded to exclude from the ammunition shots with armor-piercing-ammunition shells. GKES, without discussing, took into account the requirements of the military and executed all the documents. In the Black Sea ports, the tanks were loaded onto ships and sent to Egypt. When the Egyptian tankers, most of whom were trained in the USSR, began to get acquainted with the T-62 arrivals, they first noticed that the scales for three types of shells were cut in the sight, and there were only two of them in ammunition. Reported to Nasser, who sent the corresponding cipher telegram to Brezhnev. There was a scandal. The Soviet side presented the case as a mistake made during dispatch, and sent out shots with armor-piercing-ammunition shells.
In 1972, decisions were made at the highest level to supply T-62 tanks to Libya, Syria and Iraq.

That's how the 155 mm BPS got into the Middle East.

[Peter Ivanov]

It's a lie! The tanks gave him, or rather, he took them away and ... Without crews !!! Only mehans were at the controls! And there had to be a reinforced regiment covering the state border !!! SHOULD!!! FEB Army Leadership Betrayed Border Troops ... From this the Democrat Leonov died !!! Eternal glory to him!

[Peter Ivanov]

I’m not ready to say that this is the same tank, because I saw the burned and understaffed skeleton of Leonov’s tank on the banks of the Ussuri ... longooooo!

[hohol95]

One of the attempts to evacuate a damaged T-62.

[Mikado]

Alexey, from which site is the information? Usually in literature, the point is made that self-propelled guns were used from the Chinese side. Say, "someone saw something, but the truth or not - no one knows." Again, Ryabushkin wrote about three tanks in the monumental work “Daman Myths”, and that it was the “Democrat tank” that was later drowned with a 240-mm mortar.
I would add a little article: on March 2 in the morning our patrol passed through the island, but I did not notice the Chinese lying down - they settled there in a snowstorm. They were not noticed until they opened fire. The body of the captured Pavel Akulov was then returned to ours ... with signs of torture ....
On the Chinese side, a bunch of people received the title of their own, Chinese, "heroes" - two degrees. In the agitation, the Chinese were writing outright nonsense, they assigned a “hero” to some grenade launcher because he blew up an armored car with Yanshin (who actually survived).

[hohol95]

On the Internet there is this photo with and without text! Apparently a scan of photos from the magazine!
But in the article Secret Tank War on Damansky Island
The following information is provided:

During the conflict, we lost 11 armored personnel carriers and then the top-secret T-62 tank. The Chinese car was blown up directly on the ice.
In the midst of the ensuing battle, the commander of the Uman border detachment Colonel Democrat Leonov led three T-62 tanks that arrived to support the border guards at Damansky. Unfortunately, he did not set any combat mission for the crews of vehicles. Tankers did not even uncovered the guns. Near the southern tip of the island, a Chinese grenade launcher shot down a tank caterpillar in which Leonov himself was.
Through the landing hatch, the colonel tried to leave the tank, but he was in a thick white fur coat and was stuck in the hatch. Then he was cut off by a machine gun burst. Other tanks, having no connection with the headquarters and clearly defined tasks, returned to the outpost.
As soon as Moscow learned that a secret tank was abandoned a hundred meters from the Chinese coast, the Minister of Defense, Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko, ordered the evacuation of equipment at any cost. Unlike the old T-54, on which there was a 100 mm gun, the new one had smooth-bore guns with a caliber of 115 mm, and also the world's newest night vision sight. Alas, already at night the Chinese with might and main removed their secret equipment.
Attempts by sappers to blow up the tank ended in nothing. The enemy did not allow the detachment to approach the car. Moreover, the Chinese hooked the tank with cables and began to pull it to their shore. Then an battery of 240-mm mortars designed to destroy concrete pillboxes and underground fortifications was urgently transferred to the battlefield.
Salvo fire managed to break the tow cables, but failed to blow up the tank. Moscow continued to bomb the military with telegrams. Order - at all costs to prevent the tank from entering the enemy. I had to again send sappers to the blown up car. The sorties were preceded by a massive massive shelling of Chinese positions from rocket launchers. Only after shelling did the minerals manage to get to the tank and blow up the ice.
However, even after this, the ill-fated car only plunged into the water a little ... The tank remained standing sunk until the very end of April. All this time the Chinese tried to pull it to their side, and we tried to destroy the car.
Only when the ice drift began and the T-62 completely went under water the motorized rifle division was returned to the barracks.
Well, the Chinese still pulled that tank from Ussuri and today it stands in one of their military museums.

[Peter Ivanov]

It was! Glory to the Soviet soldiers!
Shame on the traitors of the Far Eastern Headquarters Headquarters, betraying the border guards!

[Cheburator]

What are friends from chinese
A vivid example

[Mustachioed Georgian]

It was necessary to ward off the memorial Motherland Motherland 2 and then already pass it to the Chinese, God forbid, demolish,

[Peter Ivanov]

This is all Russian Wishlist, unreal in life! Less pathos!

[Firework]

I used combat lasers in the Daman USSR, this information is still not recognized by the government

[iouris]

Well, you are a joker.

[Firework]

I'm not joking, but many will not believe anyway

[Yura Yakovlev]

My neighbor worked as a helicopter pilot in Siberia, transporting geological lots. So he said that our lossless work well with the laser, for several hours turned off the Siberian power plants, but it was not at Damansky and a little later. Therefore, if the Chinese do not climb, it means they have learned the lessons well.

[Firework]

there was some kind of weapon, but what exactly is not known

[Peter Ivanov]

Kindergarten, the youngest group ... fairy tales at "quiet hour"!
Not funny! Our men fell there! And in Moscow and the Far East, traitors were all sitting ...

[Curious]

Yes, for sure, lasers. And the Government, which was in 1969, is not recognized. But one Chinese man took off his cell phone. There he is.

[Curious]

In fact, those who have seen the aftermath of the BM-21 understand that no laser is needed. There will not be anything living there. The Apocalypse in reality.

[Looking for]

What Where? When?

[Curious]

But why?

[Firework]

here you are a joker! but I do not, I do not care that you do not believe it

[alatanas]

Well, the Chinese. back in 1969, and he took it to the cell phone. Scream !!

[Weyland]

Quote: Salute

In the Daman USSR he used combat lasers,

Combat lasers even now pass under the article "cool, but impractical." And then, just 9 years after the invention of the laser - even more so! Complexes "Terra" and "Omega" only field tests began to take place in the early 1970s!

[Firework]

that’s why you don’t believe it! you need technical justification, I talked with a direct participant in those events, I have no doubt that he was telling the truth

[xomaNN]

It’s hard to imagine how, at present, such a conflict would be LIGHTED by all the world media and the Internet And then a few mean lines in Soviet newspapers and the Air Force’s hunch

[Humpty]

A relative of 2 years fought with the Chinese in the Pamirs, "which was not in the war," in the 60s. About 5 years as I stopped fighting in a dream.

[midshipman]

I remember this time. Was in Vladimirovka in the military unit 15650, there were State tests. Officers only talked about this conflict.
A bright memory to our fighters and a low bow.

[Yura Yakovlev]

A very good article for those who are building illusions about friendly China

[antiexpert]

If a person is not able to see the control in the global historical process, he does not understand how the control of the living is observed. All events in Damansky occurred at the request of the United States, which at that time offered China its investment, and for this, China had to show in practice that the friendship with the USSR was over. Business and nothing personal.



in the picture - Mikhail Volojanin, the hero of the battle for Damansky, is awarded from the hands of Marshal Budenny an honorary weapon.
PS in the background Boris Pugo, who "killed himself" when Grisha Yavlinsky and his capture group arrived at his apartment

[Looking for]

I advise you to make a request in Google on the topic "Sino-US relations" and read at least ELEMENTARY !!! information on this issue. And only then to write any heresy !!!.

[Peter Ivanov]

On the site of "Nizhny Mikhaylovka" no the battle DID NOT HAVE! There was a battle. Combined arms battle.
And Boris Karlovich Pugo and his wife are real heroes!

[bandabas]

Everlasting memory!!!!!

[Looking for]

It is insulting to pain !!!!!. But the events on Damansky Island are one of the many post-war defeats of the USSR. People are HEROES, but commanders are GAMNO. !!!

[Peter Ivanov]

Nonsense! Neither the Border Troops nor the Soviet Army were defeated in the battle at the Nizhnyaya Mikhailovka PZ section from the PLA of the PRC did not bear!

[gorenina91]

- I don’t want to give such an assessment ... - our border guards died heroically ... - Eternal and glorious memory to them ...
-But .., after all, the unpreparedness of our soldiers was really demonstrated ... -In the very beginning, all our officers were immediately killed ... -And a very small group of our heroic border guards .., not very well armed and with a small number of the munition of ammunition turned out to be one on one with armed, outnumbering beasts ... -And the Chinese were very well prepared ... -lightly knocked out our tanks and were able to even drag our whole secret tank to their side ...
-And if it weren’t for the Grad installation .., it’s still not clear .. how it would end ... -For some reason, ours didn’t use aviation .., at least helicopters ...- or there were none at all ...
-Today, the Chinese army is equipped with the most modern weapons ... and in terms of numbers ... -Yes ... - "raised"., Armed and equipped Russia with China technology on its head ...

[Peter Ivanov]

What kind of "news", from what source did you get this stupidity, about the "unpreparedness of our soldiers" ??? So, an official investigation by the KGB commission of the USSR showed that the military personnel of the Dalnerechensky detachment, as well as the entire Pacific Border Guards, in the clash with the PLA of the PRC acted professionally and courageously and steadfastly! The same applies to existing sub-divisions and SA servicemen who are directly involved in the battle!

[gorenina91]

-Yes .., acted courageously and steadfastly ... -who argues ...
-But ..., a whole battalion of Chinese was slammed under their noses .. who quietly crossed to Damansky Island and hid there ...
-In the very first minutes of the battle, all our officers died and the outpost was left without commanders ... -only the commanders (sergeants) of the squads remained ... and ours had a very small number of ammunition (only what they had with them). .. -It is said that then they used Chinese cartridges ..., ..- but this is doubtful ... -Their cartridges might not come up to the Soviet machine guns or jammed when firing ... -all different production ...
- That scanty amount of equipment (armored personnel carriers) that the outpost had in place was not used very professionally ... -the Chinese destroyed it all ...
-Because ours used tanks ... -And it was completely unprofessional ... -Fully failed ...

[Peter Ivanov]

All this is with you, correspondence said in books and interviews! In order to assert something and for sure, you need to be in the system! You are not from there, and you should not smack nonsense!
By March 1969, already several years !!! On the borders with China (and there were 2!) It was very restless - very mildly speaking! The topic is completely not covered in the society of both the USSR and the Russian Federation! And I guess it won’t! Now, the Russian Federation and China again? = Friendship forever?
I’ll say that even after Nizhny Mikhaylovka and Zhalanashkol, the borders with China did not get any warmer! If you are aware, then since then, together with the cap countries, NATO ... and the PRC has become a GP! Do you know the abbreviation?

[Operator]

The protocol to the treaty between the Russian Empire and the Chinese Empire of 1860 regarding passage of the border along the Chinese bank of the Ussuri River was not signed by the Chinese side. Therefore, after 100 years, the Chinese wanted to settle border relations on the basis of an international tradition - to draw a demarcation line along the fairway of the river.

The Ussuri channel runs between the Russian coast and the coast of Damansky Island, so the Russian Federation recognized the sovereignty of the latter over the island in the 2000s, as part of a settlement with the PRC, and signed the corresponding border agreement on bilateral.

PS The authors of the article were embarrassed to say that the “Grad” attack was not on the island, but on the coastal Chinese territory (located through the channel), which the Chinese did not expect at all, as a result, their entire regiment of 4000 foot soldiers died there because of crowded combat orders and the absence of field protective structures (the Chinese were located in snow trenches).

[Monarchist]

Operator, you + for the exact remark: the authors did a bit of good work, and if you take them literally, then OFigeesh: how did the whole regiment sit on a tiny island?

[Operator]

On the Chinese coast there was a bloody mess of snow and several thousand Chinese foot soldiers.

[LeonidL]

I happened to serve with some of that Grad’s division in the same ZabVo garrison - they told me that the Chinese were taken out almost by dump trucks, loaded with escorts. The lesson went for the future. And then it became calmer on our site, and then for a month we sat on the increased combat, sleeping with pistols.

[Romulus]

Quote: LeonidL

I happened to serve with some of that Grad’s division in the same ZabVo garrison - they told me that the Chinese were taken out almost by dump trucks, loaded with escorts.

laziness does not need to lie so frankly - not all the same, fortunately on the site with ege lived a life. Unlike you, I know Babansky relatives so that you would walk in the forest of trololo
PS I understand that I communicate with the bot but nevertheless, forgive the old modera

[LeonidL]

I’m not a goat kid with you, I pass on what I heard. I forgot my surname, but it happened in the garrison of St. Unlimited. The company’s zampotech of the separate BM-21 division told the 11th guards ms division that the orders were forgotten.

[Romulus]

Quote: LeonidL

I'm with you baby goats did not pass

Checked out, but unfortunately not for me .. Grus, pichal yes ..

Quote: LeonidL

Surnames forgot

no doubt)

Quote: LeonidL

He told the company Zampotech of the separate division BM-21 of the 11th guards ms division

OBS ...

Quote: LeonidL

here the orders are forgotten.

grinned ...
Pleased - you are not a bot .. how many plan to put up posts?

[LeonidL]

You stupid baby. Do not indulge in ambition in essence, but in a naive such "I KNOW KNOWLEDGE." I’m not refuting you, my child, rejoice at your "involvement" in your health. I don’t need your ambition. And do not judge posts and bots by yourself. I don’t need it, I thank God was printed from "At the military post" to "Red Star" and NVO NG. It’s a shame, however, for you to give yourself so cheaply. It’s indecent.

[Romulus]

Quote: LeonidL

You stupid baby.

Quote: LeonidL

Going into ambition is not in essence, but in a naive such "I KNOW KNOWLEDGE"

Prikina laziness I'm still alive)

Quote: LeonidL

I don’t need your baby

No words (but comments)

Quote: LeonidL

And do not judge posts and bots by yourself.

I am a troll and bot including

Quote: LeonidL

I don’t need it, I thank God was printed from "At the military post" to "Red Star" and NVO NG.

Quote: LeonidL

It’s a shame, however, for you to give yourself so cheaply.

How much is the Motherland? (it's like you sold it in the 90s, and we are reviving it together with GDP.

[Peter Ivanov]

Tales of the NeVen Forest ....

[LeonidL]

Exactly - on the Chinese side! there the counters were still very worried, they nearly ripped off the shoulder straps from the division commander, but they managed. Yes, they say that it was not a regiment, but an infantry division, and according to the results of the provocation, if they had given slack, they had a desire to continue on a large scale. Not fused. After that, we strengthened the IS-3 SDs removed from the "cocoons" at our site.

[Operator]

Quite right - an infantry division, but on the very Chinese coast opposite Damansky was its advanced regiment with a divisional / regimental KP and reinforced mortar crews, sappers, etc. (about 4000 people).

The commander of the Far East Losik (such as apologizing to the Chinese) was removed for the super-efficiency of the Grad’s strike, but the enemy realized that the tactics of attacks in closed battle formations (worked out by the Chinese in the Korean War) would not work.

[Monarchist]

Quote: Reptiloid

They didn’t drink to the Brudershaft to poke. The filthy deeds of the maize are imprinted on our map. There is no escape. Well, in the results of the congress, of course. There was an article about de-Stalinization yesterday.
Territorial disputes existed between the two countries since imperial times, the border is long, poorly mapped ... There have always been disputed territories. Apparently, not only the policy of corn, but also the fact that the PLA became the largest army in the world ----- played a role. Something seemed to hit my head.

Dima, you're right. We will hiccup for a long time from "eccentricities" the moderator will not allow the soul to speak, N. C. You are right in the fact that territorial disputes have always been. I do not exclude that territorial disputes come from the creation of the world.

[Okolotochny]

About 20 years ago I talked with one officer from the licensing system. He told me that being in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnodar Territory I met a peasant who wanted to go through cabinets for permission to SCS. I talked with him, turned out to be Bubenin, very modest by the way. So, the capital leaders rule Russia, even such people were forced to bow.

[Sewer krainiy]

About 8-9 years ago, before leaving for a second retirement, he worked with his son Bubenin. Great guy. Reserve lieutenant colonel, served in Alpha. Father is a general. He wrote a book about Damansky. Once, over a glass of tea, he asked me to get a copy from my father for me. He promised, but it didn’t work out, I retired, never met again ...

[Okolotochny]

Did Bubenin himself live in the Krasnodar Territory?

[Sewer krainiy]

Father where he lived - I don’t remember, the conversation was, of course. And the son is in Belarus, in the Grodno region. He worked in the bank's security department.

[Okolotochny]

Wiki by the way gives information that since 1997. lives in Sochi. So, my friend probably didn’t lie.

[LeonidL]

It’s a pity, it’s a pity that in those days when they gave the Russian land to Putin, it was not in power. He would not give up, I hope.

[Romulus]

Quote: LeonidL

It’s a pity, it’s a pity that in those days when they gave Russian land Puina was not in power. He would not give up, I hope.

The mileage is not counted .. as we say - Russians, it’s better to lose with a smart than with a fool to find ..

[LeonidL]

By the way, it’s you who quote me, dear. It's nice that my expression has become popular - I give, I’m not sorry.

[Romulus]

Quote: LeonidL

By the way, it’s you who quote me, dear.

I'm sorry .. I just didn’t position you correctly .. Here, leafed through - Have you been on the world site for a long time? friendship ? (gomovy smalik but no other) I understand, we are with you for the homeland and for Putin
Moderators delete my comments on Leonid ...

[LeonidL]

All the way - peace and friendship.

[LeonidL]

Yes, by the way, I thought about the divergence of the regiment division. In the 70s, if of course you remember, the mass of divisions was cropped or not fully deployed, that is, these 4 tons were numbered. Maybe that's why our interlocutor considered the Chinese as a division. By the way, I often watched them in those days, I had to climb with PSRD and TZK (for poverty) it was a very funny sight - they marched with red quotes, scolded us, seduced us with rice ... chased sparrows with sticks. And laughter and sin. Merry time was, God forbid, it will happen again.

[alatanas]

Eternal memory to the heroes! I did not know that the island is now Chinese (ashamed of you). I heard about these events, but everything was in the form of rumors, at the end of the 80's already (in our country in Bulgaria) it became clear that the Grad installations were used.
Thanks for the details about the events of those times. Truth sooner or later creeps out, no matter how they hide it.
Well, who is it, and when did you give this island to the Chinese?

[alatanas]

Sorry, I have not read the comments. So Gorby has merged the island with us (members of the ATS and CMEA) somewhere, as needed.

[Peter Ivanov]

In July 1987, when visiting Vladivostok ...
Chinese resident Pu Te Ng completed the act of betrayal in the 2000s! Now he is preparing to surrender at least 2 of the 4 islands of the Kuril chain of Japan! Let me remind you that Medvedev, when he was President, for this, gave the kingdom of Norway the most fishy and vast parts, more than 87 thousand square meters. km of the continental shelf of the Barents Sea !!!!

[Peter Ivanov]

They decided for us and for you. Daman, and the Warsaw Pact, and Socialism, and the Soviet Union!

[Peter Ivanov]

Glory to all the soldiers who gave their lives and health, as well as the survivors FOR Our Soviet Motherland !!!
Then March 14/15 The Soviet Army betrayed Border troops! All colonels, Far Eastern border guards, Sinists who served at that time, unanimously declared and repeatedly, IN THE NARROW CIRCLE! CSKA - in the courses !!!
The fact is that between the KGB of the USSR and the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR in the 60s-91st years there was a special Agreement announced by SA and PV (for leaders and officers.) According to which, in the case of the KGB Border Guards searching for single violators of the state border, the SA allocated a special reinforced combined-arms battalion, and in the case of an attack on the GP military groups and / or gangs, a reinforced combined-arms regiment, because the border guards could not do without on their own! So, on March 14/15, the battles for the island went with an increase in the density of troops, mainly from the PLA, because the frontier detachment headquarters and the district did not have military combat reserves !!! These days, the motor-group of Lieutenant Colonel Yashin fought on the island (45 people l / s border guards at 4! BTR-60PB). And his strength expired due to loss of personnel and problems with ammunition! At the same time, the PLA increased its attacks by introducing new units into the battle to three infantry companies ... The head of the Imansky (later Dalnerechensky) Border Detachment of military unit 2488, Colonel D.V. Leonov, requested help from the leadership (for cooperation in accordance with the Agreement) Far Eastern Military District SA in the form of a mandatory reinforced combined arms support regiment. He was denied WITHOUT ARGUMENTATION! Then he arrived at the headquarters of the regiment of the SA Far Eastern Military District and demanded that he be raised by alarm and brought to the defense of the state border, where the border moto group was killed, again a refusal! The only thing the army team gave was a tank platoon (4 T-62 tanks), BUT (!) ONLY WITH MECHANISTS AND WITHOUT CREWS !!! The colonel himself led a tank platoon to the clash site, but not knowing how to control the tank units he led the tanks to the shore of Ussuri, where his lead tank was instantly hit by recoilless guns and RPG-2 grenade launchers, and fragments inside the tank, Colonel Democrat Leonov was killed! A few days, his body could not be removed from the tank !!! And there was a real threat of his capture, by the Chinese !!!
So we are border guards, we will forever remember the comrade Lieutenant General of the tank forces, the hero of the Great Patriotic War - O. Losik and his headquarters of the Far Eastern Military District, THIS IS A TRIETION !!!
Eternal Glory to the border guards and soldiers of the Soviet Army - the defenders of Our Homeland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!

[beeper]

Either in the late 70s, or in the early 80s, in the War Book store, I bought a small booklet about Chinese militarist revisionists. I bought it precisely because of several pages dedicated to the border conflict on Damansky Island.
It also told about the unsightly side of those battles, about the mutilated corpses of our border guards. Such a Maoist beast, in every possible way mocked the corpses and brutally tortured, killed the wounded!
I look at the pictures in the Chinese pantheon of fame on the current Chinese island, and the relentless thought is that among these "heroes" are those who gave orders to torture and finish off our wounded border guards, and those who sadistically executed them ... and I don’t have to these Chinese "heroes" no reverence, although so many years have passed.
I remember when I lived with my grandmother in the village, they were anxiously listening to the radio (they hadn’t bought a TV yet) and were waiting for the Izvestia daily newspaper to find out about the events on Damansky — nobody wanted a war with China, still bitter memories of The Great Patriotic War (and the boys and I were playing the war with old rusty rifles found on the field or in the sprawled trenches ...), everyone understood that if the war happened, it would not seem to anyone, although 100% confidence was in our victory .. .
My classmate said that after entering the Sevastopol Higher Naval Engineering School they were shown a secret newsreel about those events, he said that the land on the Chinese coast was like a moon landscape, everything was melted after shelling by “Grads”, because they fired shells with termite warhead ...
In the 70s, among Soviet youth, on informal gatherings with a guitar, a sad song about a guy, a soldier who died in Damansky was popular: "I'm leaving, the boy said, through sadness, but not for long, you just wait and I'll be back ..... the name will melt in the snow. " Although the name Damansky never sounded in the song, but then everyone knew who they were singing about.
At home for a long, long time, until leaving for school, the magazine “Spark” was kept about those events, with a portrait of Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Babansky on the cover and a story about him and his comrades. And I remember well the picture, for the entire magazine spread, a panorama of Damansky and against a snowy background, the silhouettes of our border guards a moment before their vile execution — this is one of the last shots in the camera of the deceased Defender of our border.
Although a lot has happened since then, but I never forgot about them ...
Eternal Memory of the Fallen and Good Health to the Living Defenders of our Fatherland!

[aksleks]

Land they rest in peace. Everlasting memory.

[wolfschanze]

Now the mean numbers obtained from the premium department of the archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. For their heroism and courage in the performance of official duties during the 2 and 15 events of March 1969, in the area of ​​Damansky Island, 300 people were awarded, of whom 59 was posthumous. Of the total number of awarded 216, border troops were military personnel, 80 were military personnel of the Soviet army, and 4 civilians.

--And the award department of the Central Administration of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is called the LJ blog "Notes of a Border Guard"))) https://wolfschanze.livejournal.com/1827835.html

Moreover, the guys managed to pull from there, without even driving through the corrector, read the rank of Corporal Akulov, my typo)))

And yes, why is it in the award department of the Central Asian Ministry of Defense, I don’t know if there is one, are awards for border guards kept?)))

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