Biography
On the third November Day of 2019, a wooden sculpture of the Hero of the Soviet Union Manshuk Mametova was dismantled from the Victory Square in the Kazakhstan city city of Semey. Local authorities went to meet the outstanding residents who found little in common among the sculptures created by Julia and Ivan Kurtunov, and the famous machine gunner, but noticed the similarity with a Baba-Yaga. By the way, the authors did not agree with the criticism of their creativity, but called those who left negative reviews, people with a lot of free time.Childhood and youth
At the end of October 1922, the 23rd, in the small village of Zeskus, located in the Ural region of the Ural region of the current Kazakhstan, the Supils of Zhiwigali (felling) and Toylshi Mametsky was born daughter of Mansia. On how much the child she was in the family, the opinions of the sources were separated. Some argued that the fifth, other - that elders, after all, two sons appeared to the world.
Unfortunately, the parents gone early from life - the Father was repressed, the mother, without making losses, died suddenly. Caring for the upbringing of the niece fell on the shoulders of the cousin of the head of the family of Ahmet (Ahmeda) and his wife, the teachers of Amina, the souls who were not honored in the baby. They affectionately turned to her a mix or MәNShүk, which translated into Russian sounds like a "pearl" or "bead". Subsequently, this is the girl and began to call.
As for secondary education, Mashuk managed to study in schools of Semey, Uralsk and Almaty. Then she graduated from Rabafak and entered the Medical Institute, parallel to the personal secretary of the Deputy Chairman of the Council. Despite the possibility of years, the biography of the legendary Soviet gunners and is now complemented by new facts.
For example, at the end of the summer of 2019, a resident of the Pallasian district of the Volgograd region of Russia, Asia Imanaliyeva, said to journalists that she, together with Manshuk, lived in the neighborhood. The girl attended an educational institution in the village of Uda, often rolled asia on a bike and played with her. Girls did not use the ladies from Mametovaya, but from the trousers "practically did not get out."
"I remember how Manshuk asked me from educators: I lived in a school boarding school, and she in a nearby uncle. And he studied the class older in the Urdinian school. She was calm in character, never climbed on the Rod. But if someone came up, always gave fire, could and fight, "the woman explained.On November 29 of the same year, some printed editions, accompanying the article by archival photos, touched in detail and uncle Mametova's personality. The man was engaged in educational activities, wrote and published poems and was one of the first Kazakh doctors.
Personal life
The personal life of the girl-Red Armyman fits in the laconic and capacious name of the song Boris Grebenshchikov "Love during the war". It was rumored that Manshuk mastered the machine gun created by High Stevens Maxim, thanks to her colleague to Nurken, carefully listening to his instructions and patiently wearing a multi-kilogram ammunition.Only closest people knew between them more than friendship, only closest people knew. According to some data, they were waiting for the sad fate of Romeo and Juliet - young people died in one day.
War
In mid-August 1942, a second-grandmother was recorded by a volunteer in the 100th Kazakh Separate Rifle Brigade, in a year converted to the 1st Rifle Division. Some experts argue that the student's decision was influenced by the opportunity to save his beloved Uncle.
Uncle Manshuk on denunciation was arrested in 1937, and she sent three letters to Joseph Stalin as a request for release, knew that if relatives were repressed to war on the war, then the convict could be released. But, unfortunately, Mametov then did not have information that Ahmet was shot back in 1938.
At first, the young Cossack was determined by the writer in the headquarters, then, retraining to a medical sister, sent to the field hospital. The time-free time was dedicated to the study of the construction of a machine gun Maxim, graduated from special courses and eventually achieved transfer to the system part.
From the middle of the autumn of the 1943th troops of the Kalinin front, where the Manshuk was listed and was carried out by the Nevelsky offensive operation, the main intent of which was in the soon breakthrough of German defense, rapidly mastering the city and occupiting advantageous positions for further struggle.
In the course of fierce hostilities for the seizure of the height, located above the terrain, which could radically solve the outcome of the battle, the girl was repeatedly able to disrupt the opponent's plans - she occupied a convenient location. As a result, the fascists subjected to Soviet soldiers by mortar fire, as a result of the attack from the machine-gun composition alive only Mametov remained.
She picked up the guns of the dead colleagues and began to fill the enemy around the perimeter. Despite the heavy injury, continued to cover its division and destroyed more than 70 Nazis.
Death
During the shelling of German invaders, the senior sergeant, having received a difficult wound in the head, lost consciousness. After some time, Mametova managed to come to his senses and see that the fascists, having counted the enemy killed, without fear approached her position. And she made a real feat - found the strength to open fire on the enemy and adequately met death.
If you believe the sources, the gunner forbade the retreating colleagues to pull it out, which expired blood, with the battlefield, saying:
"If you stop shooting, you will not leave alive."On March 1, 1944, the first of the women of the Kazakh nationality received the highest degree of distinguishing of the USSR, becoming the hero of the Soviet Union. In June, such a title was awarded her countrywoman to the legendary Snayper Aliya Nurmukhambetovna Moldagulova. In October 1997, a single monument was opened specifically to the day of their birth in Almaty in front of Astana.
However, this is not the only perpetuation of the memory of the Grasnoarmeys. Their names are called schools, streets, museums, and about their fearlessness, documentary and art films were removed.