Heroes from the same yard: Kosiev and Klykov
In the city of Elista, in residential building No. 4, lived two friends Yura Klykov and Volodya Kosiev. They grew up in the same yard and studied in the same class at secondary school No. 2. According to the laws of a small town, they could not help but be friends, despite the fact that Yura was the son of a state security officer, and Volodya was the repressed deputy commissar of education.
In 1941, the guys took part in the construction of defensive lines in the Rostov region. During the occupation of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the fates of the friends diverged for a short time, but already in 1942, Yura and Volodya met again - both tenth-graders were enrolled as cadets in the Special Sabotage and Reconnaissance School No. 005 of the Southern Group of the Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement (TSSHPD) in the city of Astrakhan.
The head of the special school was Alexey Mikhailovich Dobroserdov, former secretary of the Elista city committee of the CPSU(b). Training at the special school was carried out according to a unified TsShPD program: cadets studied the tactics of sabotage operations, mining, reconnaissance, learned to use Soviet and captured weapons. weapons. Particular attention was paid to working without supplies in desert conditions. The partisan training course was designed to last one month, but by November 1942 it was reduced to two weeks.
To work in the Kalmyk and Salsk steppes, small partisan detachments of about 20 people were formed, half of them consisting of cadets of indigenous nationality. Given the size of the groups, they were instructed to avoid direct clashes with the enemy, concentrating on reconnaissance and sabotage.
Volodya
Before special school, Volodya, a prize-winner of Osoaviakhim shooting competitions, managed to take part in battles with the Germans - from July to September 1942, he was a machine gunner in the Elista fighter squad, formed from communists, Komsomol members and volunteers. In a special school, Volodya was enlisted as a sniper in partisan detachment No. 57 “Pavel” (commander Pavel Nikanorovich Yakovlev, commissar Badma-Garya Ubushaevich Ubushaev). The number of the detachment is 19 fighters.
On October 12, 1942, the “Pavel” detachment left the location of the special school and crossed the front line to conduct sabotage work in the Troitsky ulus of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
From the information about the partisan detachment “Pavel” (RGASPI. F. 69. Op. 1. D. 392):
Tasks:
a) destroy enemy vehicles and convoys with weapons, equipment, ammunition, food and fuel on the roads: Troitskoye - Svat, Chiligir - Sarah, by mining these roads, setting up ambushes, attacking the parking lots of vehicles and convoys;
b) systematically destroy enemy communications: tear and take away telephone and telegraph wires running from Elista in the northern and northeastern direction, cut down and burn poles, destroy communication centers, individual walkie-talkies, motorcyclists, horsemen and foot messengers, trying in every way cases, seize enemy documents and send them to headquarters;
c) conduct thorough reconnaissance of enemy units located in populated areas of the region, their numbers, numbering, weapons, direction of movement;
d) exterminate the manpower of small enemy detachments, both along roads and in populated areas;
e) mercilessly exterminate traitors to the Motherland, elders and police officers who went over to serve the Germans.
The "Pavel" detachment actively operated behind German lines, mining roads and destroying village elders and policemen. The partisans targeted individual groups of soldiers of the 16th Motorized Division. In the village of Kegulta, a detachment destroyed the Romanian garrison of 18 soldiers and officers.
The location of the detachment was given out by a traitor - the headman of one of the villages. The partisans, surrounded by superior forces, took their last battle in the Yalmat Tract.
Volodya, wounded in the arm, was captured. The seventeen-year-old boy was tortured for a long time to obtain information about the mission and the composition of the partisan detachment, and his second arm was broken. The unbroken hero was thrown into a cell, where by that time his comrade Yura Klykov was already located.
Volodya was shot by the Nazis on November 13, 1942.
Yura
September 1942, Yura and his father Konstantin Maksimovich Klykov were greeted by fighters of the partisan detachment, which soon joined the personnel units of the Red Army. After enrolling in a special school, Yura ended up in detachment No. 59 “Thunder” (commander Ilya Grigorievich Germashev, commissar Badma Khabanovich Aduchiev). The number of the detachment is 22 fighters.
The “Grom” detachment left the special school at the same time as the “Pavel” detachment with the task of paralyzing the enemy’s movement along the Elista-Yashkul road. The detachment carried out raids on German garrisons in Elista and Baga-Burul, and carried out attacks on German convoys. At the end of October 1942, partisans killed 25 Germans in the Petrenko farm.
On November 5, 1942, the Grom detachment was discovered and surrounded by German units. The Gromovites held the defense for two days. In this battle, Yura personally killed 8 Nazis and was able to escape from the encirclement. During the arrest that soon followed, he shot a policeman with a pistol hidden in the sleeve of his padded jacket.
The Germans brought the surviving fighters to Elista, where they subjected them to prolonged torture: commander Germashev’s ear was cut off and a cross was cut out on his body, Commissar Aduchiev was beaten with whips and nails driven into his hand, partisan Pyotr Rybalov’s eyes were gouged out. One day, the prisoners were taken out to construction work, and Yura was able to throw a bucket of clay on the head of Colonel Wolf, who was passing by, who led the fight against saboteurs in the occupation administration. After Wolf was wounded, prisoners were not taken to work.
On November 12, 1942, the night before the execution, the Gestapo took the prisoners into the corridor and ordered them to undress. Yura did not obey, attacked the nearest officer and began to choke him. Having escaped from the hands of the Germans, who rushed to save their commander, Yura ran along the prison corridor and smashed his head against the corner of the wall. He died on the spot. In three days he would have turned 17 years old.
Memory
Both heroes were buried by the Germans in a common grave with other partisans and underground fighters four kilometers from Elista. After the liberation of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, they were reburied in a mass grave in Elista city park.
The story of the Volgograd writer Yu. I. Shvetskov “Eaglet” and the poem by A. I. Suseev “At Seventeen Boyish Years” are dedicated to the feat of Yura, and the poem “In the Name of Volodya Kosiev” by V. K. Shugraeva is dedicated to the feat of Volodya Kosiev. The death of Yura and Volodya is described in detail in the story by S. M. Zalessky and P. N. Sukhorukov “The Stained Feather Grass.”
History The Astrakhan sabotage and reconnaissance school is described in the book of memoirs by V. I. Pyatnitsky “Intelligence School No. 005.”
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