Lebedev Alexander Pavlovich Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Lebedev Hero of the Russian Federation

Awards and prizes

Mikhail Vasilievich Lebedev (October 10 ( 19211010 ) - January 2) - participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Biography

He graduated from the Novotoryalsk Pedagogical College in 1939. He worked as an inspector of the RONO, in 1940 he left for Transbaikalia on a Komsomol ticket (the 5th construction train, worked on the territory of Mongolia).

Commander of the control platoon of the 8th Battery of the 158th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 78th Guards Rifle Division, Guard Lieutenant Mikhail Lebedev distinguished himself in the battles for the Dnieper in September 1943. On September 26, as part of an assault group, he crossed the Dnieper in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe village. Domotkan (Verkhnedneprovsky district, Dnipropetrovsk region). In the battle for the bridgehead, he was in the combat formations of the infantry, conducted reconnaissance of targets, skillfully corrected the fire of the battery, which contributed to the retention of the bridgehead and the crossing of the regiment's units. Received several wounds, but did not leave the battlefield.

Awards

• For the courage, valor and heroism shown to M. V. Lebedev by the Decree of the Presidium Supreme Council The USSR on October 26, 1943 was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Order of Lenin, Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, medals.

Memory

• Memorial plaques to the Hero are installed in the city of Yoshkar-Ola, on the buildings of a school in the village of Nemda-Obalysh and a former pedagogical school in the village of Novy Torjal.
• Streets in Yoshkar-Ola and New Torjal are named after Lebedev.
• The native Nemdinskaya school is also named after him; in 1976, the museum of M. V. Lebedev was opened at the school.

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Literature

• Lebedev Mikhail Vasilyevich // Encyclopedia of the Republic of Mari El / Ch. editorial board: M. Z. Vasyutin, L. A. Garanin and others; resp. lit. ed. N. I. Saraeva; MarNIYALI them. V. M. Vasiliev. - M .: RK "Galeria", 2009. - S. 478. - 872 p. - 3505 copies. - ISBN 978-5-94950-049-1.

Links

Igor Serdyukov.. Site "Heroes of the Country". Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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An excerpt characterizing Lebedev, Mikhail Vasilyevich (Hero of the Soviet Union)

When in the evening Ilagin said goodbye to Nikolai, Nikolai found himself at such a far distance from home that he accepted his uncle's offer to leave the desire to spend the night with him (at his uncle's) in his village of Mikhailovka.
- And if they stopped by to me - a clean business march! - said the uncle, it would be even better; you see, the weather is wet, my uncle said, we would have had a rest, the countess would have been taken in a droshky. - Uncle's proposal was accepted, a hunter was sent to Otradnoye for the droshky; and Nikolai, with Natasha and Petya, went to see their uncle.
Five people, big and small, yard men ran out to the front porch to meet the master. Dozens of women, old, big and small, leaned out from the back porch to look at the approaching hunters. The presence of Natasha, a woman, a lady on horseback, brought the curiosity of the yard uncle to such limits that many, not embarrassed by her presence, approached her, looked into her eyes and made their remarks about her, as if they were showing a miracle that is not a person, and cannot hear and understand what is being said about him.
- Arinka, look, he is sitting on the side! She sits herself, and the hem dangles ... Look at the horn!
- Father of light, then a knife ...
- Look, Tatar!
- How did you not flip over then? - said the most daring, directly addressing Natasha.
Uncle dismounted from his horse at the porch of his wooden house overgrown with a garden, and looking around his household, shouted imperatively that the superfluous depart and that everything necessary for receiving guests and hunting be done.
Everything fled. Uncle took Natasha off the horse and led her by the hand up the rickety board steps of the porch. In the house, not plastered, with log walls, it was not very clean - it was not clear that the goal of the people who lived was that there were no stains, but there was no noticeable neglect.
The hallway smelled of fresh apples, and wolf and fox skins hung. Through the front uncle led his guests into a small hall with a folding table and red chairs, then into a living room with a round birch table and a sofa, then into an office with a tattered sofa, a worn-out carpet and with portraits of Suvorov, the father and mother of the host and himself in a military uniform. . There was a strong smell of tobacco and dogs in the office. In the office, the uncle asked the guests to sit down and make themselves at home, and he left. The scold, with his back uncleaned, entered the office and lay down on the sofa, cleaning himself with his tongue and teeth. From the office there was a corridor in which screens with torn curtains could be seen. Women's laughter and whispers could be heard from behind the screens. Natasha, Nikolai and Petya undressed and sat on the sofa. Petya leaned on his arm and immediately fell asleep; Natasha and Nikolai sat in silence. Their faces were on fire, they were very hungry and very cheerful. They looked at each other (after the hunt, in the room, Nikolai no longer considered it necessary to show his male superiority to his sister); Natasha winked at her brother, and both did not hold back for long and laughed out loud, not having time to think of an excuse for their laughter.
A little later, my uncle came in wearing a Cossack coat, blue trousers and small boots. And Natasha felt that this very suit, in which she saw her uncle in Otradnoye with surprise and mockery, was a real suit, which was no worse than frock coats and tailcoats. Uncle was also cheerful; not only was he not offended by the laughter of his brother and sister (it could not have entered his head that they could laugh at his life), but he himself joined in their causeless laughter.
“That’s how the young countess is - a clean march - I haven’t seen another one like it!” - he said, giving one pipe with a long shank to Rostov, and laying the other short, cut shank between three fingers with a habitual gesture.
- I left for a day, even though the man was on time and as if nothing had happened!
Soon after uncle, the door was opened, obviously a barefoot girl by the sound of her feet, and a fat, ruddy, beautiful woman of about 40 years old, with a double chin, and full, ruddy lips, entered the door with a large tray in her hands. She, with hospitable representativeness and attractiveness in her eyes and every movement, looked round at the guests and bowed respectfully to them with an affectionate smile. Despite the thickness of more than usual, forcing her to put forward her chest and stomach and hold her head back, this woman (uncle's housekeeper) stepped extremely lightly. She walked over to the table, set down the tray, and with her white, chubby hands deftly removed and arranged the bottles, snacks, and treats on the table. Having finished this, she moved away and stood at the door with a smile on her face. “Here she is and me! Do you understand your uncle now?" her appearance told Rostov. How not to understand: not only Rostov, but also Natasha understood the uncle and the meaning of frowned eyebrows, and the happy, self-satisfied smile that wrinkled his lips a little while Anisya Fyodorovna entered. On the tray were a herbalist, liqueurs, mushrooms, black flour cakes on yurag, honeycomb, boiled and effervescent honey, apples, raw and roasted nuts, and nuts in honey. Then Anisya Fyodorovna brought jam with honey and sugar, and ham, and chicken, freshly fried.

R Alexander Pavlovich Lebedev was born on November 18, 1918 in Anzhero-Sudzhensk (according to other sources, in Mariinsk), Kemerovo Region. He graduated from junior high school and worked in the gold mines. In 1939, Alexander Pavlovich and his family moved to the city of Stalinsk (Novokuznetsk), here he graduated from the courses of junior lieutenants.
He began his combat path in May 1942, successfully mastered the sniper business - the lessons of his grandfather, a Siberian hunter, helped. And then he began to teach marksmanship to other fighters, became the initiator and organizer of the sniper movement in his regiment.
He fought on the Bryansk, Western, Central fronts. He became the initiator of the sniper movement in the 1st battalion of the 105th rifle brigade. Junior lieutenant, Komsomol organizer of the 1287th rifle regiment of the 110th rifle division of the 61st army of the Bryansk Front, Alexander Pavlovich Lebedev, in less than a year, from October 1942 to June 1943, destroyed 307 Nazis. Few snipers in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War could boast of so many killed fascist soldiers and officers. For these exploits, on June 10, 1943, he was presented with the country's highest award - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The award sheet for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union about Alexander Lebedev says: “Showing exceptional heroism, military ingenuity, skill and perseverance, he personally exterminated from October 1942 to May 23, 1943 307 fascist soldiers and officers. Being an excellent sniper, he trained 45 people in sniper art, the best of whom had a large number of killed enemies on their account. In total, Lebedev and his students destroyed 1,120 enemy soldiers and officers.

“Where Lebedev appeared, the Germans could not walk to their full height. He made them crawl like reptiles...,” the front-line newspaper said about him. Perhaps these lines are written by a newspaper correspondent
Bryansk Front "To defeat the enemy!". Because the picture you see was taken in 1943 by the photojournalist of this newspaper, Vasily Savransky, the caption to the picture is “Sniper of the 61st Army, junior lieutenant Lebedev at the grave of a comrade.” It is possible that this picture was placed next to that note.

By June 1943, junior lieutenant Alexander Lebedev was the executive secretary of the Komsomol Bureau of the 1287th Infantry Regiment of the 110th Infantry Division of the 61st Army of the Bryansk Front. In June 1943 he prepared another group - 29 snipers.
The presentation for a high rank was still going through the authorities, and Alexander Lebedev managed to distinguish himself in the battle of Kursk. When our troops went on the offensive, he changed his sniper rifle to an automatic rifle and went to hand-to-hand combat in the forward units of the regiment. The Siberian was not only a sniper, but also a scout, more than once made his way behind enemy lines and brought "tongues".

On August 14, 1943, in the battle for the village of Odrino, the company commander was seriously wounded, the soldiers lay down under the dagger fire of two machine guns. The fulfillment of the combat mission could be disrupted. Junior Lieutenant A.P. Lebedev took command. He removed machine gunners from a sniper rifle and, by personal example, raised the soldiers to attack. With a swift throw, the fighters broke into the village and began to clear the houses from the Nazis. At the end of the battle, the brave Komsomol organizer was mortally wounded by a shell fragment.
He was buried in the village of Odrino, Karachaevsky district, Bryansk region.
According to some sources, by the time of his death, A.P. Lebedev had destroyed about 40 more fascists (there are no official documents confirming this).
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. June 4, 1944 for "exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time" junior lieutenant Alexander Lebedev was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin and Golden Star(06/04/1944), Red Star (05/25/1943) and the medal "For Courage" (12/23/1942).

Anatoly Vyacheslavovich Lebed was born on May 10, 1963 in the city of Valga, Estonian USSR. Studied at high school, then in the construction vocational school of the city of Kohtla-Jarve. At the same time, the young man was engaged in parachuting in the local section of DOSAAF.

In 1981, Anatoly was drafted into the army. He served in the Airborne Forces in Lithuania (44th training division), then in Kazakhstan (57th separate airborne assault brigade). Military specialty - commander of an airborne combat vehicle (BMD). In 1983, Lebed entered the Lomonosov Military Aviation Technical School, from which he graduated in 1986 with a degree in Mi-8 helicopter flight engineer.

Immediately after graduating from college, Lieutenant Lebed submits a report on being sent to the Republic of Afghanistan. The report was satisfied and Anatoly was seconded to the 239th separate helicopter squadron of the Air Force, where the young officer was sent as a flight engineer to the crew of the future Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Maidanov.

The main purpose of the Mi-8 during the Afghan war was the landing of mobile landing groups. And the flight technician of the helicopter has many responsibilities: general control of instruments, monitoring of fuel consumption, readings of temperature sensors, speed, pressure in the engine, etc. But the flight engineer Lebed was not limited to this: during the landing of the paratroopers, the lieutenant landed with them and took part in assaults, cleansing, reconnaissance operations, surprising his colleagues with his composure, accuracy and virtuoso possession of all types of weapons. During his service in the Republic of Afghanistan, Lebed, as part of reconnaissance groups, was directly involved in more than 200 clashes, from his comrades, the lieutenant received a nickname that stuck for many years - "Rimbaud".

After the end of the Afghan war, Lebed received the rank of captain and was sent to the Western Group of Forces in Germany. However, the service there was short-lived - the USSR soon collapsed, and Russia, under an agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany, withdrew its troops from the Western Military District. In 1993, Lebed was transferred to the 337th Helicopter Regiment (Berdsk, Siberian Military District). A new time has come - the 90s, the army slowly but surely fell into decline. What kind of combat training can we talk about when there was no fuel for helicopters for months, the runway was overgrown with grass to the waist. Reluctantly, Lebed retired from armed forces and together with his wife and son moved to the suburbs.

The new time beckoned with new opportunities - a former officer with combat experience would certainly have found a place for himself in the numerous "brigades" or "security services" of that time. But Anatoly Vyacheslavovich categorically rejected such proposals, being content with a modest position in the Committee of Veterans of Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, the political situation was changing radically: in the 1990s, a conflict broke out in the Balkans: Serbia, friendly to Russia, suddenly found itself in the ring of hostile Muslim enclaves, incited from outside, and blood was shed. At the same time, a stream of thousands of Russian volunteers, mostly former military, literally poured into Serbia. Among them was "Rimbaud" - Swan. Anatoly Vyacheslavovich never told the details of that war, to the question “why did you go to someone else’s war?” answered briefly and clearly: "The Serbs are not strangers to us, I fought for Russia."

By the end of the 90s, the war in Yugoslavia gradually came to naught, but it became hot in Russia itself. In 1999, militant groups from non-federal controlled Chechnya made an attempt to establish their power in Dagestan. A. V. Lebed, who was retired at that time, bought a uniform and the necessary equipment with his own money and volunteered to go to war. At first, Lebed served with the militia in the combined police detachment, and three months later he signed a contract with the army. In less than four years of service, Lebed personally destroyed more than a hundred militants, revealed the position of many warehouses and caches. It was in Chechnya that the experience gained in Afghanistan in fighting in the highlands came in handy.

June 25, 2003, near the village of Ust-Kert, during the execution combat mission, Anatoly Vyacheslavovich was blown up by an anti-personnel mine. The foot of the right leg was torn off, the left leg was severely cut by shrapnel. The treatment lasted more than two months, then another three months - prosthetics and rehabilitation. And six months later, Lebed arrived in Khankala: "the prosthesis is alive, I'm ready to continue my service," the captain said to the slightly taken aback authorities. Despite being seriously wounded, Anatoly Vyacheslavovich returned to duty, and not somewhere in the warehouse, but in the reconnaissance company of the Airborne Forces. On April 6, 2005, for the courage and heroism shown during the hostilities in the Caucasus, Anatoly Vyacheslavovich Lebed was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

Peace gradually returned to the Caucasus, but a new challenge to Russia was not long in coming: on August 8, 2008, without declaring war, Georgia attacked South Ossetia, and the very next day, on August 9, Anatoly Lebed was in the conflict zone. Active fighting lasted only a week, but even during this time the officer, at that time a lieutenant colonel, managed to prove himself. An example of brilliant military operation was the attack planned and carried out by Lebed on the Georgian port of Poti. On August 14, 2008, a small detachment of paratroopers under the command of Lebed captured the port with a lightning strike. 8 enemy ships were blown up in the roadstead, their outposts fled in a panic. The paratroopers captured 15 speedboats, 4,000 small arms and 5 armored Humvees equipped with special satellite communications. The jeeps were handed over to counterintelligence officers, and as General Staff spokesman Anatoly Nogovitsyn said on August 28, they contained “a lot of interesting things”: evidence confirming the fulfillment by the Georgian military leadership of the direct instructions of the NATO command. For the operation in Poti, Lebed was awarded the Order of St. George IV degree, the lieutenant colonel became the first active officer, and not a staff general, to receive this award.

The author calls Lebedev "Mr. know-it-all." This means that a man is always aware of all secular news and gossip. This awareness makes the official in some way useful to the elite, but nothing more.

Among other things, Lebedev is very fond of drinking. In many scenes of the novel, he appears in a drunken state.

Lebedev has a rather large family. His daughter Vera Lukyanova deserves special attention. It's cute and good girl takes care of the child of his sister, Lyuba, who recently died in childbirth. Seeing the interest in Vera on the part of the wife of General Yepanchin, Lebedev seeks to put his daughter on public display, although before that he had diligently chased her off the porch, stamping his feet.

Lebedev is on good terms with Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin. The official is very flattered by the fact that the prince agreed to live at his dacha in Pavlovsk.

The fate of Lebedev, like some other characters in the novel, is very ordinary. While passions are raging in the circle of the main characters, the official and others like him continue to live as they lived, and the author even has "almost nothing to convey about them."

He wanted to embrace the world Yes, the choice has been made. Step forward -
And here it is, the bunker - the source of death.
He knew - now he will follow
The whole battalion. And he is with him. Now he could only do one thing - Rushed, as if in flight.
With all my chest, with all my soul and body -
And the bunker choked with blood. Nothing in the world could
Stop that battalion.
And he lay, hugging the bunker, He, like everyone else, wanted to live! He, like everyone else, wanted to live!
How to love everyone, how to dream everyone.
... Spreading his arms, he lies,
As if the world wanted to hug.
Alexander Sinitsyn

Hero of the Soviet Union Aleksey Fedorovich Lebedev is our countryman. He was born in the village of Bunyakovka, our Odessa region. It so happened that we knew very little about the life of Alexei Fedorovich's Podvig. Yes, he was like that, he did something, a street in the regional center is named after him. And perhaps all. A standard set of knowledge about a person who has long been gone.

So it was, before Sanaev Marat, the commander of a search detachment from the city of Strizhevaya, Tomsk region, arrived in our area to transfer awards to the relatives of Gerasimenko Vladimir Tikhonovich found on the battlefields in the Pskov region.

And as soon as he entered the district museum, he exclaimed: - “And what is our Hero Lebedev Alexei doing here?” Immediately at the entrance to the museum there is a stand dedicated to the Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Fedorovich Lebedev. "How is he yours, he is our Hero." A dispute arose, we figured it out, it turned out that he was born in our area, and he was called up for war from the village. Aleksandrovskoye, Novosibirsk Region (now Tomsk Region, that area was ceded to Tomsk Region). And to our shame, we were able to tell a little about our famous countryman.

We decided to learn more with the guys, and the 65th anniversary of the achievement of the Feat was approaching. We studied the materials that were in the museum from the Internet. Made a presentation. They began to talk about the feat of the Hero. The local newspaper joined. The newspaper published an essay "Our Alyosha". Contacted the museum of the village of Alexandrovskoye, Tomsk region. They sent the materials that we had, they sent us what they had.

The more we studied materials that tell about the life and exploits of Alexei, the more questions arose. Where is Alexei buried?, in various publications, documents, three places are mentioned.

How the feat was noted in the Tomsk region.
Why in the village where he was born and lived half his life, his feat is not marked in any way, there is no memorial plaque, there is no street named after him, it turned out that his name is not on the slabs of the monument to the fallen fellow villagers.
We continue this work. About Hero Lebedev Alexei, about his life, his Feat. About what we managed to find out, what we have to find out, to do - our story is below.

Lebedev Alexey Fyodorovich.

Lebedev Alexey Fedorovich - platoon commander of the 677th rifle regiment of the 409th rifle Kirovograd division of the 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, junior lieutenant.

“I was born in 1924 in the village of Bunyakovka, Odessa District, Omsk Region, into a peasant family. Russian. In 1931, he moved with his family to the village of Aleksandrovskoye, Aleksandrovsky district, Tomsk region.

On May 25, 1943, he was drafted into the Red Army by the Aleksandrovsky District Military Commissariat. At the front since August 26, 1943. He fought on the Steppe Front, participated in the crossing of the Dnieper. In October of the same year he was wounded, after the hospital he returned to the front.

In October 1944 he graduated from junior lieutenant courses. As a platoon commander, Lebedev participated in the liberation of the right-bank Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Hungary. In January 1945, his regiment fought against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia, north of the Danube River. On the night of January 6, 1945, junior lieutenant Lebedev participated in the battle for the village of Bela (36 km southeast of the Czechoslovak city of Nove Zamky, now in Slovakia). At the critical moment of the battle, the brave officer covered with his body the embrasure of the machine-gun bunker of the Nazis, which prevented the advance of the unit with fire. At the cost of life, he contributed to the fulfillment of a combat mission.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 28, 1945, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, junior lieutenant Alexei Fedorovich Lebedev was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Awarded the Order of Lenin.
He was buried at the battle site, near the village of Bela.

--biography of A.F. Lebedev, from the materials of the Odessa Regional Museum. village of Odessa, Omsk region.

The most complete description of Alexei is in a letter from his niece Galina Dmitrievna Pavlyuk to the museum of the Alexander School.

“In the Soviet period, it was not customary to say that the Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Lebedev came from a kulak family, and in general this side of his biography was not reflected anywhere. Looking through books about the exploits of the Heroes of the Tomsk region in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, unexpectedly discovered that in the biographical data of Alexei Lebedev and several other soldiers there is no data on the place of birth. It is possible that this information was not indicated far from being due to its absence, but for quite understandable reasons.
Much has changed over the past two decades in our country, but no direct participants in the period of dispossession have survived. Somehow it was necessary to make an adjustment to the biographical data of Alexei. I was asked about this by the director of the museum of the Alexander Middle secondary school, history teacher Eteri Sergeevna Osokina. Everything that I wrote below, I know from the stories of my mother Gvozdeva (Lebedeva) Lidia Fedorovna, Alexei's sister, as well as his cousins ​​Polina and Antonina Volchek, who live in the Omsk region, I had to face something myself.
Alexey Lebedev was born into a large, usual for those times, family living in a small village with the strange name Bunyakovka in the south of the Odessa district of the Omsk region. This village was founded by settlers from Ukraine at the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Stolypin agrarian reform. My great-grandfather Lebed Ilya with his children moved from the Poltava region to Siberia, where the peasants were allocated land plots for personal ownership.

The village of Bunyakovka was built in the Ukrainian style: wide streets, houses resembling huts, with large plots of land where you could grow vegetables, set up a garden, sow grain and mow hay for cattle. In a word, there was enough land for everyone. The grown-up children of Ilya arranged a personal life, separating themselves from their father's household to their land plots. Alexey was born to one of the sons, Fedor, and his wife Lukerya on March 14, 1924. He was the fourth child and the first boy in a family in which three girls were first born: Agafya, Maria, Lydia, and the younger brothers Ivan and Nikolai.
Perhaps the revolutionary events in Russia did not bring any special changes to the way of life in the rural outback, but the thirties of the last century entered the families of peasants as a period of collectivization and dispossession. A cruel time that destroyed families and destinies of people, claimed the lives of many. The forced collectivization carried out since 1931 caused peasant uprisings in the Omsk region, as well as throughout the country. The uprisings were suppressed, and thousands of families were sent to the Vasyugan swamps.
This process did not bypass the village of Bunyakovka either. Since, due to the illness of his wife, Fyodor Ilyich Lebed hired workers in his household during a difficult time, his family fell into the number of kulaks and was expelled. They loaded the "kulaks" onto carts and took them first to Omsk, then along railway delivered to Novosibirsk, here they were sent on barges down the Ob River. A lot has already been said about how half-dressed and hungry people with young children were transported on barges along the Ob.
Thus, the family of Fyodor Ilyich Lebed ended up in the village. Aleksandrovsky, which later became a native village for his children. Perhaps now you can pay attention to a small discrepancy in the surname. The Ukrainian surname Lebed is not very consonant with the Russian language, so at that illiterate time the family quickly turned into the Lebedevs. But the younger brothers Ivan and Nikolai remained according to the documents under the name Lebed. Although Ivan Fedorovich himself made a correction in one of the documents in his youth (I know about it from his lips), but Nikolai lived under his last name without changes.
The life of the Lebedevs in Aleksandrovsky was not easy. A terrible blow was that the sick wife of Fyodor Ilyich could not endure the hardships of the move, the disease became more complicated, and she was sent to a hospital in Tomsk, from where she never returned. Six children were left without a mother, the eldest Agafya was a little over sixteen years old, and the care of her younger sisters and brothers fell on her shoulders. Perhaps that is why she spoke with resentment and hostility about her village, in which she was born and blamed her fellow villagers who pulled them out of their home, which subsequently deprived them of their mother. She was the eldest among the children, she remembered a lot, but she did not like to talk about this topic.
There is a one year age difference between my mother Lydia and Alexey. Apparently, they were friendly, because she spoke of Alexei with some special warmth. They lived along Partizanskaya Street (currently the estate at number 72), close to Saima, and the river at that time was clean (there was no fish factory on the opposite side) and not as deep as the Ob. The children loved to play war on its shore. Divided into red and white. Alexey always tried to be a commander. He loved horses and helped his father, who worked at the stables.
In the spring of 1942, Fedor Ilyich transported horses on nets (huge wooden boats) to summer pastures on the right bank of the Ob. A bad weather broke out, a strong shaft rose, the horses, frightened by the weather, began to rush about. The net turned over, and since the horses were tethered, and it was impossible to untie everyone, many horses drowned. Fyodor Ilyich was convicted and sent to the Tomsk prison, where he died.
I consciously realized that I had something to do with Alexei Lebedev at a gathering of the best students held at the RDK, when a first-grader girl of a high school student brought me to a mirror in the foyer and, adjusting my apron, they said that this was Lebedev's niece. Probably, it would not be worth mentioning this, but after many years I realized that for these girls the name Lebedev sounded completely different from what it did for me. Because in the early sixties, the Komsomol members of the district held subbotniks and earned money to open a monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Lebedev.
Alexei and Lydia had a rather close resemblance, blond and blue-eyed, like their father. Therefore, it was decided that it was she who would need to pose in the manufacture of the bust. In the summer of 1963, my mother and I flew by plane to Tomsk. The workshop was located in an old two-story house with a residential basement on Lenin Street, near the registry office (now there is a park in that place and there is a monument to A.S. Pushkin). Often fellow villagers complain that Alexei Lebedev on the monument does not resemble the photograph that everyone is used to seeing. But the fact is that, according to the plan of the author of the monument and the customers, Alexei was depicted at the moment of accomplishing the feat. And this is a kind of situation when a moment changes a person, when young people turn into old people. And how much the sculptor managed to convey the real resemblance, I judge when they say that the relatives of Alexei of the next generation have a resemblance to the monument.
In the sixties, special attention was generally paid to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Pioneer detachments and squads fought for the right to be called by the name of Heroes. We received many letters from schoolchildren from Tomsk and Novosibirsk. It happened that in the summer the guys came by boat to Aleksandrovskoe. I remember once they brought Aleksey Lebedev's notebooks, which were filled in by the students of the class one by one. How responsibly the children approached the tasks, the accuracy of keeping notebooks and careful attitude to them spoke for themselves. Now I regret that with moving these notebooks were lost.
In the seventies, the Czech Pavlik Zdenik came to us, who found the grave of Alexei Fedorovich. Correspondence ensued, In his letters he told about what kind of work he was doing to search for relatives, Soviet soldiers who died on the territory of Czechoslovakia, sent photographs. For quite a long time they corresponded with fellow soldiers of Alexei: Perepelitsyn and Shmoylov.

Sometimes I think about the fact that Alexei Fedorovich was the same guy who grew up in our village and was no different from those front-line soldiers who knew him, and I had a chance to communicate with some of them. Ordinary people. And it seemed that anyone in that situation would have done the same. Although ... There are different situations, and there are different people.
Recently, in one of the TV shows, the question was raised: “Did Matrosov’s feat make sense if the enemy point in a few minutes could again open fire on a moving chain?” I don’t know about anyone, but this question seemed blasphemous to me. After all, even this time was enough to get out of the shelling, change position, which means that many soldiers would stay alive, return home, give birth to children - in a word, continue themselves.
Somewhere I happened to hear the phrase that a person remains on Earth as long as the living remember him. A deep bow to all the fellow countrymen who took part in subbotniks to earn money for the opening of the monument to Alexei Fedorovich Lebedev, who organized the manufacture and delivery of the monument to his homeland, thanks to everyone who honors his memory today and the memory of all the soldiers who defended our Motherland in the Great Patriotic War war.

April 2009
Galina Dmitrievna Pavlyuk (Gvozdeva)"

FEAT

AWARD SHEET

1. Last name, first name, patronymic - Lebedev Alexey Fedorovich
2. Military rank-Ensign
3. Position, unit - commander of a rifle platoon of the 4th rifle company of the 677th rifle regiment of the 409th rifle Kirovograd order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky division.
Submitted to - assignment of the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" (posthumously)
4. Year of birth - 1924.
5. Nationality - Russian
6. Party membership - member of the Komsomol since 1943.
7. Participation in civil war, subsequent military operations to protect the USSR and the Patriotic War (where, when) - from 08/26/43 to 10/20/43, the Steppe Front, from 10/20/43, the 2nd Ukrainian Front.
8. Does the 2nd Ukrainian Front have wounds and contusions in the Patriotic War - wounded on 10/1/43, killed on 01/06/45.
9. Since when in the Red Army - since 1942.
10. The earlier he was awarded (for what distinctions) he has no awards.
11. What kind of RVC is called - Alexandrovsky RVC of the Novosibirsk region.
12. Permanent home address of the person being presented for the award and the address of the family -

A brief, concrete account of a personal military feat or merit.

On the night of January 5-6, 1945, the 2nd Rifle Battalion received a combat mission at 03:00 to break through the enemy defenses and occupy the village of Bela (Czechoslovakia) without artillery preparation, with the expectation of surprise.

Under the cover of darkness, the battalion approached the front line of the enemy's defense, and when the signal to attack was given, Comrade Lebedev's platoon was one of the first to attack, dragging the rest of the company's fighters with it. The enemy, seeing the advancing chains, opened a strong mortar fire, suddenly an enemy heavy machine gun opened fire nearby, under the influence of which the fighters lay down because of which a strong threat of disruption of the attack was created. Comrade Lebedev seized two hand grenades imperceptibly crawled up to the enemy machine gun at a distance of 8-10 meters, he threw the machine gun after the other and fell silent. When the fighters went on the attack, the enemy machine gun came to life again. Having no more grenades Comrade. Lebedev, having risen to his full height, fell on the body of the machine gun and blocked the barrel of the machine gun with his body.
When the fighters approached the enemy’s machine-gun point, they saw the lifeless body of the hero lying at the barrel of an enemy machine gun, next to which lay three killed Germans and one wounded, who opened fire after throwing two grenades by junior lieutenant Lebedev.

After the destruction of the enemy's machine-gun point, the battalion successfully completed the assigned combat mission.
For the heroism shown in the battles against the German invaders, junior lieutenant comrade. Lebedev Alexey Fedorovich is worthy of the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" (Posthumously)

Commander of the 677th division of the regiment Major Borodin (Signed)
January 11, 1945
Conclusion of superiors.
Worthy of the title - Hero of the Soviet Union "posthumously"
Commander of the 409th Infantry Kirovograd Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Guard Division Major General / Grechany / signature

January 14, 1945.
WORTH OF ASSIGNMENT OF THE HIGH RANK OF "HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION" /posthumously/
COMMANDER OF THE 25th GV SK GUARDS GENERAL LIEUTENANT
HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION /SAFIULIN/ Signature
January 21, 1945

CONCLUSION OF THE MILITARY COUNCIL 7 GV. ARMY
Worthy of the title Hero of the Soviet Union /Posthumously/

COMMANDER OF THE GUARDS, COLONEL-GENERAL HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION (SHUMILOV) Signature
MEMBER OF THE MILITARY COUNCIL, MAJOR GENERAL (MUHIN)Signature
January 26, 1945.
Awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal
Decree of 28.4-45