Cossack Konstantin Nedorubov was a full Cavalier of St. George, received a nominal checker from Budyonny, became a Hero Soviet Union even before the 1945 Victory Parade. He wore his Golden Star of the Hero along with the "royal" crosses.

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Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov was born on May 21, 1889. The place of his birth is the village of Rubezhny, the village of Berezovskaya, the Ust-Medveditsky district of the Don army region (today it is the Danilovsky district of the Volgograd region).

The village of Berezovskaya was indicative. 2524 people lived in it, it included 426 households. There was also a magistrate, and a parish school, and medical centers, and two factories: a tannery and a brick one. There was even a telegraph office and a savings bank.

Konstantin Nedorubov received his primary education in a parochial school, learned to read and write, count, listened to the lessons of the Law of God. Otherwise, he received a traditional Cossack education: from childhood he rode and knew how to handle weapons. This science was more useful to him in life than school lessons.

"Full Bow"

Konstantin Nedorubov was called up for service in January 1911, he ended up in the 6th hundred of the 15th cavalry regiment of the 1st Don Cossack division. His regiment was quartered in Tomashov, Lublin province. By the beginning of the First World War, Nedorubov was a junior officer and commanded a half-platoon of regimental scouts.

The 25-year-old Cossack earned his first George a month after the start of the war - Nedorubov, together with his Don scouts, broke into the location of the German battery, got prisoners and six guns.

The second George "touched the chest" of the Cossack in February 1915. Making a solitary reconnaissance near Przemysl, the officer stumbled upon a small farm, where he found sleeping Austrians. Nedorubov decided not to delay, waiting for reinforcements, threw a grenade into the courtyard and began to imitate a desperate battle with his voice and shots. From German language he is nothing but "Hyundai hoh!" did not know, but the Austrians had enough of that. Sleepy, they began to leave the houses with their hands up. So Nedorubov brought them along the winter road to the location of the regiment. There were 52 soldiers and one lieutenant taken prisoner.

Cossack Nedorubov received the third George "for unparalleled courage and courage" during Brusilov breakthrough.

Then Nedorubov was mistakenly handed another George of the 3rd degree, but after that, in the corresponding order for the 3rd Cavalry Corps, his surname and the entry opposite it “St. George Cross of the 3rd degree No. 40288” were crossed out, “No. th degree" and reference: "See. Order for Corps No. 73 1916.

Finally, Konstantin Nedorubov became a full Cavalier of St. George when, together with his Cossack scouts, he captured the headquarters of a German division, obtained important documents and captured a German infantry general, its commander.
In addition to the St. George Crosses, Konstantin Nedorubov during the First World War was also awarded two St. George medals for courage. He ended this war with the rank of coroner.

White-red commander

The Cossack Nedorubov did not have to live long without a war, but in the Civil War he did not join either the Whites or the Reds until the summer of 1918. On June 1, he nevertheless entered, along with other Cossacks of the village, into the 18th Cossack regiment of ataman Peter Krasnov.

However, the war "for the whites" did not last long for Nedorubov. Already on July 12, he was taken prisoner, but was not shot.

On the contrary, he went over to the side of the Bolsheviks and became a squadron commander in the cavalry division of Mikhail Blinov, where other Cossacks who had gone over to the side of the Reds fought side by side with him.

The Blinovskaya cavalry division showed itself in the most difficult sectors of the front. For the famous defense of Tsaritsyn, Budyonny personally handed Nedorubov a nominal checker. For battles with Wrangel, the Cossack was awarded red revolutionary trousers, although he was presented to the Order of the Red Banner, but did not receive it because of his too heroic biography in tsarist army. Received Nedorubov in Civil and wounded, machine-gun, in the Crimea. A Cossack carried a bullet stuck in his lung until the end of his life.

Prisoner of Dmitlag

After the Civil War, Konstantin Nedorubov held positions "on the ground", in April 1932 he became a collective farm foreman in the Bobrov farm.

He did not have a quiet life here either. In the fall of 1933, he was convicted under article 109 "for losing grain in the field." Nedorubov and his assistant Vasily Sutchev fell under the distribution. They were accused “to the heap” not only of stealing grain, but also of damaging agricultural equipment, they were given 10 years in the camps.

In Dmitrovlage, at the construction site of the Moscow-Volga Canal, Nedorubov and Sutchev worked as best they could, but they knew how well, they could not do otherwise. The construction was handed over ahead of schedule - July 15, 1937. Nikolai Yezhov personally accepted the work. The leaders received an amnesty.

After the camp, Konstantin Nedorubov worked as the head of the horse-post station, before the war itself - as the supply manager of the machine-testing station.

"I know how to fight them!"

When the Great Patriotic War began, Nedorubov was 52 years old, he was not subject to conscription due to age. But the Cossack hero could not stay at home.

When the consolidated Don Cossack cavalry division began to form in the Stalingrad region, the NKVD dismissed Nedorubov's candidacy - they remembered both merits in the tsarist army and a criminal record.

Then the Cossack went to the First Secretary of the Berezovsky District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Ivan Shlyapkin, and said: “I’m not asking for a cow, but I want to shed blood for my homeland! Young people die by the thousands because they are inexperienced! I won four St. George's Crosses in the war with the Germans, I know how to fight with them.

Ivan Shlyapkin insisted that Nedorubov be taken into the militia. under personal responsibility. At the time, this was a very bold move.

"Spellbound"

In mid-July, the Cossack regiment, in which Nedorubov's hundred fought, repelled German attempts to force the Kagalnik River in the Peshkovo region for four days. After that, the Cossacks drove the enemy out of the farms of Zadonsky and Aleksandrovka, destroying one and a half hundred Germans.

Nedorubov especially distinguished himself in the famous. His award sheet states: “Having been surrounded under the village of Kushchevskaya, fire from machine guns and hand grenades, together with his son, he destroyed up to 70 fascist soldiers and officers.”

For the battles in the area of ​​​​the village of Kushchevskaya on October 26, 1943, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

In this battle, the son of Konstantin Nedorubov, Nikolai, received 13 wounds during mortar shelling and lay covered with earth for three days. Quite by accident, the inhabitants of the village stumbled upon him, burying the Cossacks in mass graves. Cossack women Matryona Tushkanova and Serafima Sapelnyak carried Nikolai to the hut at night, washed and bandaged his wounds and left. The fact that his son remained alive, Konstantin Nedorubov found out much later, but now he fought with redoubled courage, for his son.

Then, returning to his native village, he learned about the awarding of the Star of the Hero and that his son Nikolai was alive.

Of course, he didn't stay at home. He returned to the front and in May 1943 took command of a squadron of the 41st Guards Regiment of the 11th Guards Cavalry Division of the 5th Guards Donskoy Cossack Corps.

He fought in Ukraine and Moldova, in Romania and Hungary. In December 1944, in the Carpathians, already with the rank of captain of the guard, Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov was again wounded. This time he was commissioned for good.

On his 80th birthday, the authorities gave the old Cossack a house, he was the first in the village to have a TV, but the role of Konstantin Nedorubov, “treated with honors,” was burdensome, he continued to lead a simple lifestyle, chopped wood himself, led the household with his family, continued to exercise until the end of his life with a heavy poker, wielding it like a pike.

The Cossack died in December 1978, half a year before his 90th birthday. He left - besides Nikolai - a son, George, and a daughter, Maria.

Don Cossack,
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passed with glory!

Today, December 9, Russia celebrates "Day of Heroes"! Celebration in honor of people who deserve top honors countries - Heroes of Russia and the Soviet Union, holders of the Order of St. George and the Order of Glory. Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov is just such a Hero. He is both a Hero of the Soviet Union and a full St. George Cavalier. And he wore the Golden Star of the Hero, without hesitation, next to the St. George's crosses ...

“There are never too many Cossacks, but it won’t seem enough” - this Cossack saying fully applies to the legendary Russian hero, a participant in three bloody wars, a two-meter-high hero, as if descended from the pages of Russian epics. He was compared with Taras Bulba and Grigory Melekhov. But he entered the history of Russia and the Cossacks under his own name - Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov ...

Born on May 21 (June 2), 1889, on the Rubezhny farm of the Berezovskaya village of the Ust-Medveditsky District of the Don Cossack Region, now part of the Lovyagin farm of the Danilovsky District of the Volgograd Region. From a family of a hereditary Cossack. Russian. In 1900 he graduated from three classes of rural elementary school. He was engaged in farming.

In 1911 he was called up for military service in the Russian imperial army, served in the 15th Cossack Regiment of the 1st Don Cossack Division of the 14th Army Corps

During the First World War, Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov became a full Knight of St. George, that is, the owner of the Order of St. George the Victorious 1, 2, 3 and 4 degrees.
He himself in his autobiography wrote about this period sparingly and dryly: “In 1911 he was drafted into the old army. He served until 1917 as a private. During these years he participated in the war with the Germans and Austrians. For military exploits in battles with the Germans, I was awarded 4 crosses and 2 medals.

But behind these lines - three and a half years of war, in which Nedorubov showed miracles of heroism, similar to a myth or legend.

He received the George Cross of the 1st degree for battles in the Krasnik-Tomaszow region. Documents testify that Konstantin Nedorubov attracted a group of fellow soldiers to pursue the retreating enemy. During the chase, the Don people jumped out to the position of the enemy battery and captured it, along with gun numbers and ammunition.

The Order of the 2nd degree was received for the battles near Przemysl. According to the memoirs of Nedorubov, he, as part of a group of scouts, went to the rear of the Austrians. As a result of the skirmish, Nedorubov's comrades died, and he himself was forced to make his way to his own through the village. I went out to a huge house, heard Austrian speech there. He threw a grenade at the threshold of the house. When the Austrians began to jump out of the building, Nedorubov realized that there were too many of them, and used his ingenuity. “I command loudly: “Right flank - go around!” Enemies huddled together, are frightened. Then I got up from the ditch, waved my hat at them, shouted: “Forward!” Listen, let's go. So I brought them to my unit.” When counting the prisoners, it turned out that one Cossack captured 52 people! The commander who took the prisoners could not believe his eyes and asked one of the Austrian officers to answer - how many people were in the team that captured them. In response, the Austrian raised one finger.

The Order of St. George 3rd degree was awarded to Nedorubov for battles in the Balamutovka and Rzhavetsy areas. “... having passed three rows of wire obstacles, they broke into the trenches and, after a fierce hand-to-hand fight, knocked out the Austrians, while taking eight officers, about 600 lower ranks and three machine guns.”

St. George's Cross, 4th class - again for the battles at Balamutovka: "... repulsed a company of the Austrians and, going on a counterattack, dispersed the company, captured one active machine gun."

St. George medal of the 4th degree: “On April 4, 1916, together with Romanovsky Afanasy, having volunteered to be hunters to reconnoitre the outposts of the Austrians in order to remove one of the field guards at night, they crawled along railway west of the village of Boyan, 150 steps from the Austrian wire fences, they discovered a land mine planted under the railway, they decided to blow it up. When they began to carry out preliminary work, they were discovered by enemy artillery, which fired at them with heavy fire. When the land mine failed, they found the explosive device and delivered it to their boss.”

Three years of war - four orders and a medal. By 1916, Konstantin Nedorubov was a full Knight of St. George.

But the awards are not easy - several wounds, one of which pulls the Cossack out of action for a long time. The hero remembers them laconicly: "Was injured. He was in a hospital in Kyiv, Kharkov, and then in Sebryakov. But this was not enough for a complete restoration, therefore, on the very eve of the October events of 1917, Nedorubov was transported to the Don - to his native farm Rubezhny - to lie down and heal his wounds.

From October 1917 to July 1918, Konstantin Nedorubov was engaged in agriculture. But the war did not want to leave the brave Cossack alone. I didn’t have time to recover after the “German”, the Civil War began.

At the beginning of the summer of 1918, he was mobilized into the White Don Army of General P.N. Krasnov, enrolled in the 18th Cossack regiment. He took part in the battles on the side of the white troops. In July 1918 he was taken prisoner and on August 1, 1918 he was enrolled in the Red Army. Appointed squadron commander of the 23rd Infantry Division, participant in the defense of Tsaritsyn.

At the beginning of 1919, he was again captured, now to the Whites, again enlisted in the White units.

Since June 1919, again in the Red Army, squadron commander of the cavalry division named after M.F. Blinov in the 9th, 1st Cavalry and 2nd Cavalry armies. At one time in 1920 he temporarily served as commander of the 8th Taman Cavalry Regiment. Participant in hostilities on the Don, in the Kuban and in the Crimea. Was badly wounded. In 1921 he was demobilized.

For battles with Wrangel, Konstantin Iosifovich was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and red revolutionary trousers (somewhere a warehouse with red hussar riding breeches was found, which they decided to use "for awards").
In the rich combat biography of Nedorubov, there was also participation in the liquidation of the gang of Old Man Makhno.

He returned to his native farm, worked as an individual peasant. From July 1929 - chairman of the Loginov collective farm in the Stalingrad region. From March 1930 - Deputy Chairman of the Berezovsky District Executive Committee. Since January 1931 - controller in the Serebryakovsky inter-district branch of the Zagotzerno trust in the Stalingrad region. Since April 1932 - the foreman (according to some sources - the chairman) of the collective farm on the Bobrov farm in the Berezovsky district.

In 1933 he "sat down" - being the chairman of the collective farm, he was "convicted under Article 109 of the Criminal Code" for the loss of grain in the field "". (Hunger. For the loss of grain, imaginary and obvious, the authorities punished without hesitation.) dark history. Sentence - 10 years in the camps. I ended up in Volgolag, at the construction site of the Moscow-Volga canal. He worked there for almost three years and was released "at will" ahead of schedule. According to the official wording "for shock work" (although they say that the writer Sholokhov, whom Nedorubov knew personally, helped the Cossack a lot here). However, at the construction site Nedorubov really worked "like a convict". And not because they were forced, but because he could not do anything halfway. After the "imprisonment" in the rights was not affected.

Returning to his homeland, he continued to work as a storekeeper, foreman, head of the horse-post station, supply manager of the machine and tractor station.

To the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Konstantin Iosifovich was not subject to conscription because of his age - whatever one may say, but 52 years old. In October 1941, he volunteered for a cavalry Cossack division that was being formed in the city of Uryupinsk - they did not take it. Not even because of age, but because. former White Guard, and served time. And Nedorubov went to the 1st Secretary of the Berezovsky District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Ivan Vladimirovich Shlyapkin. The old Cossack cried: "I'm not asking for the rear! .." Shlyapkin immediately called the head of the district NKVD: "Under my personal responsibility!" Accepted. As well as the 17-year-old son of Nikolai Nedorubov.

Among those accepted were 63-year-old Paramon Sidorovich Kurkin, Pyotr Stepanovich Biryukov and many other "old men". Only in the village of Berezovskaya, at the call of Nedorubov, 60 old warriors signed up for the militia - “beard to beard”.

And the third war began for the Cossack. The war is terrible. The most terrible of all three in which he participated. Since July 1942 in battles. And the most terrible battles under the village of Kushchevskaya and around it. Chopped "to the bone"! Here both ours and the Germans did not even become brutalized, but became rabid. The 15th, 12th and 116th Don Cossack divisions against the 198th infantry, 1st and 4th mountain rifle divisions of the Wehrmacht, reinforced with everything that is possible.

Squadron commander of the 41st Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Regiment of the 11th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Division of the 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps of the North Caucasian Front Guard Lieutenant Nedorubov K.I. showed unparalleled courage and heroism in defensive battles in the Kuban at the initial stage of the battle for the Caucasus. As a result of sudden raids on the enemy on July 28 and 29, 1942 in the area of ​​the Pobeda and Biryuchy farms of the Azov region Rostov region, August 2, 1942 near the village of Kushchevskaya, Kushchevskaya district, Krasnodar Territory, September 5, 1942, near the village of Kurinskaya, Apsheronsky district, Krasnodar Territory, and October 16, 1942, near the village of Maratuki his squadron destroyed up to 800 enemy soldiers and officers. On the personal combat account of the squadron commander there were over 100 destroyed enemy soldiers.

So, in the battle on August 2, 1942 for the village of Kushchevskaya, when the Germans captured the positions of the regiment, together with his son, he rushed to the left flank of the squadron. Both fighters fired at close range from machine guns and using grenades, forced the approaching enemy to lie down, after which Nedorubov raised the squadron to attack. In hand-to-hand combat, the enemy was thrown back.

He performed a similar feat in the battle on October 16, 1942 for the village of Maratuki - after repelling four enemy attacks, he raised a squadron in a counterattack and threw it back in hand-to-hand combat with great damage - up to 200 soldiers. He was wounded twice in battles on September 5 and October 16, and in the last battle he was seriously wounded.

For the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 25, 1943, Guards Lieutenant Nedorubov Konstantin Iosifovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal .

After a serious wound, he was treated in hospitals in Sochi and Tbilisi. Since December 1943, the captain Nedorubov K.I. - in reserve for injury. Lived in the village of Berezovskaya, Danilovsky district, Volgograd region. He worked as the head of the regional department of social security, the head of the regional department of road construction, the secretary of the party bureau of the forestry, was elected a deputy of the regional council of workers' deputies.

Captain of the Guard (1943). Awarded with Soviet awards: two orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner (, medals "For the Defense of the Caucasus" (, other medals, awards Russian empire: St. George's crosses of the 1st (1917), 2nd (1916), 3-1 (11/16/1915) and 4th (10/20/1915) degrees, two St. George medals "For Courage" Honorary citizen of the village of Berezovskaya, Volgograd Region.

The culmination of the recognition of the merits and exploits of Konstantin Iosifovich can be considered the opening of a monument-ensemble on Mamayev Kurgan in the fall of 1967, when he, together with twice Hero of the Soviet Union V.S. Efremov and the defender of the Pavlov House I.F. Glory torch with the flame of Eternal Fire. At that moment, the whole world was watching him.

Konstantin Iosifovich lived a long, albeit very stormy, dangerous life. Before last days he met with children and youth, did a lot of social work. He died on December 13, 1978, at the age of 89. He was buried in the village of Berezovskaya.

The memory of Nedorubov is carefully preserved by his descendants. Konstantin Iosifovich had two sons and two daughters. The successor of the military glory of the Nedorubov family was first the son Nikolai (his feat in the Kushchevskaya attack was highly appreciated - the Order of the Red Banner), and then the great-grandson Andrei, a military intelligence officer during the Chechen war.

And his grandson, Valentin, continues to engage in patriotic education of youth for his grandfather, who speaks a lot to historians, youth and children, talking about the exploits of his grandfather and uncle.

Several songs have been composed about Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov, the Cadet Cossack Corps, which is located in the Krasnoarmeysky district of the city, is named after him. Streets in the village of Berezovskaya, Volgograd Region, and in the city of Khadyzhensk, Krasnodar Territory, are also named after the Hero.

In September 2007, in the hero-city of Volgograd, a monument to the full Knight of St. George and Hero of the Soviet Union K.I. Nedorubov.

This year, on the eve of Victory Day, the monument was moved to Nedorubov's native village, Berezovskaya...

Konstantin Iosifovich is an amazing example of love for the motherland, heroism and patriotism...

Eternal glory to the Heroes!

When I found out about it amazing person, I decided to find information not only about him. After all, he had parents, a wife, children. And also the history of the appearance of St. George's crosses. In the entire history of their existence, there have been only 2,000 full St. George Knights. For comparison, there are 11,739 Heroes of the Soviet Union during the years of the Patriotic War, and 2672 full holders of the Orders of Glory. There is a lot of information. And this is our story. History? which you are proud of.Nedorubov Konstantin Iosifovich - Full Cavalier of St. George, Hero of the Soviet Union. In the history of our country, there were only three complete Knights of St. George and at the same time Heroes of the Soviet Union: Marshal Budyonny, General Tyulenev and Captain Nedorubov.
In 1807, Emperor Alexander I received a proposal to establish some kind of award for soldiers and non-commissioned officers who distinguished themselves in the performance of combat missions. Allegedly, this will help to strengthen the courage of Russian soldiers who, in the hope of receiving the desired reward (which includes monetary rewards and a lifetime pension), will fight without sparing their lives. The emperor considered this offer quite reasonable, especially since news of the battle of Preussisch-Eylau reached him, in which Russian soldiers showed miracles of courage and endurance. In those days, there was one big problem: a Russian soldier who was a serf could not be awarded an order, since the order emphasized the status of its owner, and was, in fact, a knightly insignia. However, the courage of the Russian soldier had to be somehow encouraged, so Russian emperor introduced a special "insignia of the order", which in the future became the same St. George soldier's cross.

Konstantin Nedorubov was born on the Rubezhny farm in May 1889, and he announced his future exploits in the cradle. According to tradition, newborn boys in Cossack families were put a bullet in the cradle, watching the reaction of the baby. Kostya raked the bullet into his fist, after which the men said approvingly: "The good Cossack will grow up!" That's how he grew up. By the age of 18, even adult villagers feared his two-meter height and pood fists.

The father of the full St. George Cavalier - Joseph - was physically very strong. It used to be that he himself harnessed himself to a cart instead of a horse and dragged it to the opposite side of the ravine that cut the Rubizhny farm in two: “... the horse should rest. She'll plow in the morning." There was no ceiling in the kuren of the old Nedorubov - a coffin was constantly hung from the eaves of the roof - Joseph made them himself, saying that he did not trust this to anyone - they would do it badly, and it would be uncomfortable to lie in it. Joseph himself was buried in the fourth - he gave the first three to the funeral of his friends. Joseph was an avid fisherman and hunter. He sailed in a kayuk made by himself. This kayak became the cause of his death - the old Cossack, having rolled over on it in the ice drift, did not want to lose the boat and pulled it to the shore, clinging to the chain with his teeth. After that, he fell ill, fell ill and died a few weeks later. Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov was the middle son in Joseph's family. His older brother Fedor participated in the First World War as a senior constable. He was awarded two St. George's crosses. On the fronts he was seriously wounded with crushing of the right leg. He walked with a limp, with a crutch. He was shorter than his brother Konstantin, but his physical strength was indefatigable. Fedor had two sons: Konstantin and Alexander. Little is known about Nedorubov's second brother Ivan. He died in the early 50s. last century. In 1911, Konstantin was called up for military service in the Russian Imperial Army, served in the 15th Cossack Regiment of the 1st Don Cossack Division of the 14th Army Corps.
Nedorubov himself always spoke about his exploits with humor. Somehow he called him, a regimental intelligence officer, commander Samsonov and said: "Help, brother, the bone is stuck in my throat!"
The Cossack was confused and began to make excuses: they say, I'm not a doctor, I don't understand anything about it. The staff officers burst out laughing and explained: the German battery is hindering our troops - here it is a bone in the throat, no one can get close to it. We decided to send scouts led by Nedorubov. And the Cossacks did not disappoint - they got close to the gunners, blew up their ammunition, and captured the gun crew. For this feat, Konstantin Nedorubov received his first George Cross. He was awarded the first St. George's Cross of the 4th degree for his heroism during one of the most difficult battles near the city of Tomashev. In August 1914, pursuing the retreating Austrians, despite a hurricane of artillery shelling, a group of Don Cossacks, led by constable Nedorubov, broke into the location of the enemy battery and captured it, along with servants and ammunition.
"Soldier George", as he was called by the people, could only receive the lower ranks of the Russian army, who showed selfless courage on the battlefield. Moreover, this award was not handed out at the request of the command, the soldiers themselves determined which of them was worthy of receiving the St. George Cross. According to the then existing rules, it was necessary to wear the St. George Cross on a special occasion. George Ribbon, which was worn in the buttonhole. The first soldier to become a cavalier St. George Order- non-commissioned officer Mitrokhin, who received it in the battle of Friedland in 1807. Initially, the George Cross did not have any degrees and was issued an unlimited number of times (this is in theory). In practice, the George Cross was issued only once, and the next presentation was purely formal, although at the same time the soldier's salary increased by a third. The undoubted advantage of a soldier awarded this distinction was the complete absence of corporal punishment, which was widely used at that time.
The second St. George Cross Konstantin Iosifovich received in February 1915 for a feat during the battles for the city of Przemysl. On December 16, 1914, according to Nedorubov's memoirs, he, as part of a group of scouts, went to the rear of the Austrians. As a result of the skirmish, Nedorubov's comrades died, and he himself was forced to make his way to his own through the village. I went out to a huge house, heard Austrian speech there. He threw a grenade at the threshold of the house. When the Austrians began to jump out of the building, Nedorubov realized that there were too many of them, and used his ingenuity. “I command loudly: “Right flank - go around!” Enemies huddled together, are frightened. Then I got up from the ditch, waved my hat at them, shouted: “Forward!” Listen, let's go. So I brought them to my unit.” When counting the prisoners, it turned out that one Cossack captured 52 people! The commander who took the prisoners could not believe his eyes and asked one of the Austrian officers to answer - how many people were in the team that captured them. In response, the Austrian raised one finger.
In 1844, a special George Cross was developed for soldiers who profess the Muslim faith. Instead of St. George, who is an Orthodox saint, a double-headed eagle was depicted on the cross. In 1856, the George Cross was divided into 4 degrees, while its degree was indicated on the cross.
How difficult it was to get the St. George Cross of the 1st degree is evidenced by impartial statistics. According to her, there were about 2,000 full holders of the St. George Order in its entire history. In 1913, the award officially became known as the St. George Cross, in addition, the St. George medal for courage appeared, also having 4 degrees. Unlike a soldier's award, the St. George medal could be awarded to civilians and military personnel in peacetime. After 1913, the George Cross began to be issued posthumously. In this case, the award was passed on to the relatives of the deceased and kept as a family heirloom.

The St. George Cross of the 2nd degree was awarded to Nedorubov for battles in the Balamutovka and Rzhavetsy regions. “... having passed three rows of wire obstacles, they broke into the trenches and, after a fierce hand-to-hand fight, knocked out the Austrians, while taking eight officers, about 600 lower ranks and three machine guns.” “His saber did not dry out with blood,” recalled the farm Cossacks who served in the same regiment with Nedorubov. And fellow countrymen from the farm jokingly suggested that he change his last name - from "Nedorubov" to "Pererubov".
The fourth - the golden "George" 1st degree, he received for captivity with a group of Cossacks of the headquarters of the German division, along with the general and operational documents.
During the First World War, about 1,500,000 people received St. George's Crosses. Of particular note is the first Knight of St. George of this war, Kozma Kryuchkov, who received his first cross for the destruction of 11 German cavalrymen in battle. By the way, until the end of the war, this Cossack became a full Knight of St. George.
The famous Durova, or "cavalry girl", who served as the prototype of the heroine from the "Hussar Ballad", was awarded the St. George Cross for saving the life of an officer; The Decembrists Muravyov-Apostol and Yakushkin also had St. George's Crosses, which they received for military merit in the battle of Borodino; General Miloradovich received this award from the hands of Emperor Alexander, who personally saw the courage of Miloradovich in the battle of Leipzig; In the photo Dmitry Ivanovich Mitaki (1892 - 1953) - Full Cavalier of St. George (awarded by Emperor Nicholas II in the church "Peter and Paul" in Bendery (Moldova), military intelligence officer, 19 wounds. The Museum of the History of Moldova (now the Republic of Moldova) has not preserved everything, duplicates of his awards and a few old photographs, the numbers of the medals "For Courage": No. 166722, No. 707194.

to his left: with 4 crosses and 2 medals P. I. Krizhenovsky Kozma Kryuchkov, who was a full cavalier of the St. George Order, became a Russian hero during his lifetime. By the way, a Cossack died in 1919 at the hands of the Red Guards, defending the tsarist regime until the end of his life; Vasily Chapaev, who went over to the side of the Reds, had 3 crosses and the St. George medal; Maria Bochkareva, who created the women's "battalion of death", also had this award. The memory of the St. George Cross was revived in 1943, when the Order of Glory was established. Everyone is now familiar George Ribbon, which adorn themselves with people celebrating Victory Day. At the same time, not everyone knows that although the ribbon symbolizes the Order of Glory, its roots go much deeper.
St. George medal of the 4th degree: “On April 4, 1916, together with Romanovsky Afanasy, having volunteered to be hunters to reconnoitre the outposts of the Austrians in order to remove one of the field guards at night, they crawled along the railway to the west of the village of Boyan, 150 steps from the Austrian wire fences, found a land mine planted under the railroad, decided to blow it up. When they began to carry out preliminary work, they were discovered by enemy artillery, which fired at them with heavy fire. When the land mine failed, they found the explosive device and delivered it to their boss.”
Three years of war - four St. George's crosses and two St. George's medals. By 1916, Konstantin Nedorubov was a full Knight of St. George.
Nowadays.
The Russian military order of St. George and the sign "St. George's Cross" were restored in Russian Federation in 1992 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation of March 2, 1992 No. 2424-I "On State Awards of the Russian Federation". 11 people were awarded.
During the three and a half years of participation in the battles, he was repeatedly wounded. He was treated in hospitals in the cities of Kyiv, Kharkov and Sebryakovo (now the city of Mikhailovka).
From October 1917 to July 1918, Konstantin Nedorubov was engaged in agriculture. But the war did not want to leave the brave Cossack alone. I didn’t have time to recover after the “German”, the Civil War began.
At the beginning of the summer of 1918, he was mobilized into the White Don Army of General P.N. Krasnov, enrolled in the 18th Cossack regiment. He took part in the battles on the side of the white troops. In July 1918 he was taken prisoner and on August 1, 1918 he was enrolled in the Red Army. Appointed squadron commander of the 23rd Infantry Division, participant in the defense of Tsaritsyn. Once he was caught by a patrol - he was considered a counter-revolutionary. But when they looked at the inscription on the seized saber, they were stunned. On it was written "To the squadron commander Konstantin Nedorubov for unparalleled heroism and courage in the defense of Tsaritsyn." And the signature - Budyonny. The hero was immediately released with an apology. At the beginning of 1919, he was again captured, now to the Whites, again enlisted in the White units.
Since June 1919, again in the Red Army, squadron commander of the cavalry division named after M.F. Blinov in the 9th, 1st Cavalry and 2nd Cavalry armies. At one time in 1920 he temporarily served as commander of the 8th Taman Cavalry Regiment. Participant in hostilities on the Don, in the Kuban and in the Crimea. Was badly wounded. In 1921 he was demobilized.
For battles with Wrangel, Konstantin Iosifovich was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and red revolutionary trousers (somewhere a warehouse with red hussar riding breeches was found, which they decided to use "for awards").
In the rich combat biography of Nedorubov, there was also participation in the liquidation of the gang of Old Man Makhno. He returned to his native farm, worked as an individual peasant. From July 1929 - chairman of the Loginov collective farm in the Stalingrad region. From March 1930 - Deputy Chairman of the Berezovsky District Executive Committee. Since January 1931 - controller in the Serebryakovsky inter-district branch of the Zagotzerno trust in the Stalingrad region. Since April 1932 - the foreman (according to some sources - the chairman) of the collective farm on the Bobrov farm in the Berezovsky district.
In 1933 he "sat down" - being the chairman of the collective farm, he was "convicted under Article 109 of the Criminal Code" for the loss of grain in the field "". (Hunger. For the loss of grain, imaginary and obvious, the authorities punished without hesitation.) A dark story. Sentence - 10 years in the camps. I ended up in Volgolag, at the construction site of the Moscow-Volga canal. He worked there for almost three years and was released "at will" ahead of schedule. According to the official wording "for shock work" (although they say that the writer Sholokhov, whom Nedorubov knew personally, helped the Cossack a lot here). However, at the construction site Nedorubov really worked "like a convict". And not because they were forced, but because he could not do anything halfway. After the "imprisonment" in the rights was not affected.
Returning to his homeland, he continued to work as a storekeeper, foreman, head of the horse-post station, supply manager of the machine and tractor station.
By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Konstantin Iosifovich was not subject to conscription due to age - whatever one may say, but 52 years old. In October 1941, he volunteered for a cavalry Cossack division that was being formed in the city of Uryupinsk - they did not take it. Not even because of age, but because. former White Guard, and served time. And Nedorubov went to the 1st Secretary of the Berezovsky District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Ivan Vladimirovich Shlyapkin. The old Cossack cried: "I'm not asking for the rear! .." Shlyapkin immediately called the head of the district NKVD: "Under my personal responsibility!" Accepted. As well as the 17-year-old son of Nikolai Nedorubov.

In July 1942, after the breakthrough German troops near Kharkov, along the entire length from Voronezh to Rostov-on-Don, a "weak link" was formed. It was clear that it was necessary at all costs to restrain the advance of the German armies to the Caucasus, to the coveted Baku oil. It was decided to stop the enemy at the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar Territory.




The Kuban cavalry corps was thrown towards the Germans, which included the Don Cossack division. There were no other regular units on this sector of the front at that time. The unfired militias were opposed by selected German units, intoxicated by the successes of the first months of the war. There, near Kushchevskaya, the Cossacks "bone to bone" met the Germans, at every opportunity imposing hand-to-hand combat on them. The Germans, however, did not like melee, but the Cossacks, on the contrary, loved. It was their nature. “Well, where else can we have Christ with the Hans, except in close combat?” they joked. From time to time (unfortunately, not very often) fate gave them such an opportunity, and then hundreds of corpses in gray overcoats covered the place of the fight...
Near Kushchevskaya, the Don and Kuban held the line for two days. In the end, the Germans' nerves burst, and with the support of artillery and aviation, they decided on a psychic attack. It was a strategic mistake. The Cossacks let them within a grenade throw and met them with heavy fire. The father and son of the Nedorubovs were nearby: the elder watered the attackers from a machine gun, the younger sent one grenade after another into the German line.





No wonder they say - the bullet is afraid of the brave - despite the fact that the air was buzzing from bullets, not one of them touched the shooters. And the whole space in front of the embankment was strewn with corpses in gray overcoats. But the Germans were determined to go all the way. In the end, skillfully maneuvering, they were able to bypass the Cossacks from two sides, squeezing them into their "branded" pincers. Assessing the situation, Nedorubov once again stepped towards death. "Cossacks, forward for the Motherland, for Stalin, for the free Don!" - the battle cry of the lieutenant tore off the villagers who were lying under the bullets from the ground. “Nedorub, together with his son, again went to seek his death, well, we flew after him,” the surviving colleagues recalled that famous battle near Kushchevskaya. “Because it was shameful to leave him alone…”.




The militia fought to the death. Sons took an example from their fathers, who looked up to the commander. They believed him, respected his combat experience, endurance. Years later, in his letter to the head of the “Battle of Stalingrad” department of the State Museum of Defense I. M. Loginov, Nedorubov, describing the battle near Kushchevskaya, noted that when he had to repulse the superior enemy forces on the right flank of the squadron, he was with a machine gun, and son with hand grenades "waged an unequal three-hour battle in close proximity to the Nazis." Konstantin Nedorubov many times rose to his full height on the railway line and shot the Nazis point-blank. “Thus, out of three wars, I never had to shoot an enemy. I myself could hear my bullets clicking on Hitler's heads.
In that battle, together with their son, they destroyed more than 72 Germans. The fourth cavalry squadron rushed hand to hand and destroyed more than 200 German soldiers and officers.
“If we didn’t cover the flank, it would be difficult for the neighbor,” Konstantin Iosifovich recalled. - And so we gave him the opportunity to retreat without loss ... How my lads stood! And the son of Kolka that day showed himself well done. Didn't screw up. It was only after this fight that I thought I would never see him again. During the furious mortar shelling, Nikolai Nedorubov was seriously wounded in both legs, arms and other parts of the body. He lay in the forest belt for about three days. Not far from the forest plantation, women were passing by, and they heard a groan. Women in dark time days they transferred a seriously wounded young Cossack to the village of Kushchevskaya, and for many weeks they hid him at home.
"Cossack conscientiousness" then cost the Germans dearly - in that battle, the Don people ground over 200 German soldiers and officers. Plans to encircle the squadron were mixed with dust. The commander of the group, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List, received an encrypted radiogram signed by the Fuhrer himself: “Another Kushchevka will be repeated Caucasian mountains point".
“We hallucinated as Cossacks…”
This is exactly what one of the German infantrymen, who survived the battle near Maratuk, wrote in his letter home, where Nedorubov’s Dons got to the coveted hand-to-hand combat and, as a result, as well as near Kushchevskaya, slaughtered over two hundred German soldiers and officers in close combat. For the squadron, this figure has become a trademark. “You can’t lower the bar lower,” the Cossacks joked, “why aren’t we Stakhanovites?”
"Nedorubovtsy" participated in raids on the enemy in the area of ​​​​the farms Pobeda and Biryuchy, fought in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe village of Kurinskaya ... According to the Germans who survived after the horse attacks, "these centaurs seemed to be possessed by a demon."
Donets and Kuban used all the numerous tricks that were accumulated by their ancestors in previous wars and carefully passed down from generation to generation. When the lava piled on the enemy, there was a drawn-out wolf howl in the air - so the villagers intimidated the enemy from afar. Already within the line of sight, they were engaged in vaulting - they spun in their saddles, often hanging from them, depicting the dead, and a few meters from the enemy they suddenly came to life and broke into the enemy’s location, chopping right and left and arranging a bloody heap there.
In any fight, Nedorubov himself, contrary to all the canons of military science, was the first to go on the rampage. In one battle, he managed, speaking in official military language, "using the folds of the terrain, to secretly get close to three machine-gun and two mortar nests of the enemy and extinguish them with hand grenades." During this, the Cossack was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield. As a result, the height, studded with enemy firing points, sowing fire and death around them, was taken with minimal losses. According to the most conservative estimates, Nedorubov himself personally destroyed more than 70 soldiers and officers during these battles.
The battles in the south of Russia did not pass without a trace for the guards of Lieutenant K.I. Nedorubova. Only in the terrible battles near Kushchevskaya he received eight bullet wounds. Then there were two more wounds. After the third, difficult, at the end of 1942, the conclusion of the medical commission turned out to be inexorable: "I am not fit for military service."
During the period of hostilities for the accomplished feats, Nedorubov was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner and various medals. On October 26, 1943, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council, Knight of St. George Konstantin Nedorubov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. “Our Konstantin Iosifovich made the Red Star related to the St. George Cross,” the villagers joked about this. Despite the fact that even during his lifetime he became a living legend, the Cossack Nedorubov did not acquire any special benefits and assets for himself and his family in peaceful life. But for all the holidays he regularly put on the Golden Star of the Hero along with four St. George's crosses.
The cadet of the 1st Don Cossack division, Nedorubov, with his attitude to awards, proved that power and the Motherland are completely different things. He did not understand why it was impossible to wear royal awards received for victories over a foreign enemy. About the “crosses” he said: “I walked in the front row at the Victory Parade in this form. And at the reception, Comrade Stalin himself shook his hand, thanked him for participating in two wars.

On October 15, 1967, a participant in three wars, the Don Cossack Nedorubov, joined the torch-bearing group of three veterans and lit the fire of Eternal Glory at the monument-ensemble to the heroes Battle of Stalingrad on the Mamaev Kurgan of the Hero City of Volgograd. Nedorubov died on December 11, 1978. He was buried in the village of Berezovskaya. In September 2007, in the city of Volgograd, in the memorial and historical museum, a monument was opened to the famous hero of the Don, the full Knight of St. George, Hero of the Soviet Union K.I. Nedorubov. February 2, 2011 in the village of Yuzhny, the hero city of Volgograd, a ceremony was held for the grand opening of a new state educational institution“Volgograd Cadet (Cossack) Corps named after the Hero of the Soviet Union K.I. Nedorubov.
The wife of Konstantin Iosifovich - Varvara Fedorovna (nee Nosaeva) - was the daughter of a front-line friend of Joseph Nedorubov. They served in the same squadron in the south of Russia, which the Turks have always coveted. In one of the battles, Fedor Nosaev was wounded, a horse was killed under him, and about a dozen Turks surrounded him and were about to capture him. Joseph broke through to Fedor, chopped up the Turks, picked up his comrade on the horse's croup and galloped off to his own.
After that, Joseph and Fedor became blood brothers, and to consolidate this union, Fedor offered to marry the children. At first, Joseph refused, because he was poor (the Nosaevs were among the wealthiest in the district). But Fedor insisted on his own - he took all the expenses for the wedding on himself, gave his daughter a rich dowry and even allocated part of his land allotment for the young. The wedding was played before Konstantin left for active service.
Varvara Feodorovna was a brave and determined woman. In 1917, she traveled across Russia with many transfers to visit her husband at the front. They lived together happily ever after.
Children and grandchildren. Konstantin Iosifovich and Varvara Fedorovna Nedorubov had four children:
Nina. She died of scarlet fever at the age of 22. She was married, lived in the Khokhly farm. She left behind her son George, who died in a car accident in adulthood.
George. Born in 1918. He was disabled since childhood, so he did not serve in the army. After graduating from seven classes of school in 1938, he was sent to study in Stalingrad, where he graduated from the school of the FZO of communications. After graduation, he worked as a long-distance station overseer at the Berezovskaya communications office, and later - as a station overseer at the Beryozovsky radio broadcasting hub. In July 1948, he went to work in the Berezovsky district forestry as a forester. But in this position he did not work long and already in July 1949 he returned to his former place of work. He was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
Was married. Had three children - Nina (candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, senior lecturer at the Volgograd Pedagogical Institute), Valentina (worked as a doctor at the Svetloyarsk district hospital, now works at the Sergievskaya district hospital of the Danilovsky district, does a great job of preserving the memory of his grandfather, often meets with journalists and young people ) and Tatyana (she worked in Volgograd and in the village of Berezovskaya, currently retired).
Died July 13, 2004. He was buried in the village of Berezovskaya.
Maria. Born in 1920. At the end of eighth grade high school in 1939 she entered the FZO school at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (STZ) with a degree in electrician.
She worked in the foundry of the plant as an electric console operator until November 1941. On November 28, 1941, she was convicted by the Traktorozavodsky court for absenteeism for four months in prison. The conclusion took place in the camps of the plant "Red October" - from November 1941 to June 1942. From June 1942 to September 1943 she was mobilized to the Bolshevik collective farm for agricultural work.
In September 1943, Maria Nedorubova entered the position of a clerk in the Berezovsky district police department (registry office department), where she worked until April 1944. Later she worked in the correctional labor department at the Berezovsky regional police department.
She died in November 1992. After her, there were children - Lidia Alekseevna Bakulina (she worked as a pharmacist in a pharmacy, currently retired) and Alexei Alekseevich Bakulin (lives in Volgograd, works as an auto mechanic).
Nikolay. Born in 1924. Favorite of Konstantin Iosifovich. He graduated from nine grades of high school - from the tenth grade he volunteered for the front under the command of his father. In August 1942, he was seriously wounded in the battles for the village of Kushchevskaya (Krasnodar Territory). In July 1943 he was demobilized due to a wound and in August he returned to the village of Berezovskaya.
He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For the Victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". Another award found the hero after the war - in 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, I degree.
From February 1944 to October 1945 he worked as a military instructor at the Berezovskaya secondary school.
From October 1945 to July 1950 he studied at the Saratov state institute agricultural mechanization. Upon graduation, he was awarded the qualification of a mechanical engineer.
He worked first in the Gornobalykleysky district of the Stalingrad region (Lipovskaya forest protection station), then in the Berezovskaya forest protection zone (Berezovsky district of the Stalingrad region).
From 1954 to 1958, Nikolai Iosifovich Nedorubov was the director of the Malodelskaya LZS of the Frolovsky district, from 1958 to 1961 - the director of the Malodelsky repair and technical station, from 1961 to 1964 - the director of the Malodelsky state farm, in 1964 he was appointed deputy head of the Frolovsky production of the Kolkhoz-Sovkhoz Department of Agriculture of the Volgograd Region, in 1965 he was appointed head of the Production Department of Agriculture of the Surovikinsky District of the Volgograd Region, in 1970 he became the chief state inspector for the purchase of agricultural products in the Surovikinsky District (he held this post until his death - until the winter of 1987).
In 1962 he was awarded the Small Silver Medal of VDNH and a valuable prize, in 1968, 1973 and 1976 - the Order of the Badge of Honor (he had three in total!).
Was married. Didn't have children.
Great-grandchildren. Valentin Georgievich and Svetlana Grigorievna Nedorubov have four children: Dmitry, Oleg, Alexei and Andrey.
Andrei served in the hot spots of Russia during the second Chechen company- as part of a reconnaissance group. He was awarded the Zhukov medal and a nominal watch.

21.05.1889 - 13.12.1978
The hero of the USSR

Nedorubov Konstantin Iosifovich - squadron commander of the 41st Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Regiment of the 11th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Division of the 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps of the North Caucasian Front, guard lieutenant.

Born on May 21 (June 2), 1889, on the Rubezhny farm of the Berezovskaya village of the Ust-Medveditsky District of the Don Cossack Region, now part of the Lovyagin farm of the Danilovsky District of the Volgograd Region. From a family of a hereditary Cossack. Russian. In 1900 he graduated from three classes of a rural elementary school. He was engaged in farming.

In 1911, he was called up for military service in the Russian Imperial Army, served in the 15th Cossack Regiment of the 1st Don Cossack Division of the 14th Army Corps (Warsaw Military District), the regiment was stationed in the city of Tomashev, Petrokovsky province of the Kingdom of Poland. Since August 1914 - a participant in the First World War, fought throughout the war as part of his regiment on the Southwestern and Romanian fronts. Became head of the intelligence team. He distinguished himself many times in daring sorties behind enemy lines, in capturing prisoners, in defensive and offensive battles. In one of the night sorties, he captured and delivered 52 captured Austrian soldiers with an officer to their positions, in another, at the head of the group, he captured the enemy headquarters. He was awarded four St. George's crosses (full St. George's Cavalier) and two St. George's medals. The last military rank is a cadet.

In 1917 he was seriously wounded, was treated in hospitals in Kyiv, Kharkov, at the Sebryakovo station near Tsaritsyn. In early 1918 he returned to his native farm. But he did not have a chance to engage in arable farming - the Civil War was already raging on the Don. At the beginning of the summer of 1918, he was mobilized into the White Don Army of General P.N. Krasnov, enrolled in the 18th Cossack regiment. He took part in the battles on the side of the white troops. In July 1918 he was taken prisoner and on August 1, 1918 he was enrolled in the Red Army.

Appointed squadron commander of the 23rd Infantry Division, participant in the defense of Tsaritsyn. At the beginning of 1919, he was again captured, now to the Whites (according to some reports, he deserted), again enlisted in the White units. Since June 1919, again in the Red Army, squadron commander of the cavalry division named after M.F. Blinov in the 9th, 1st Cavalry and 2nd Cavalry armies. At one time in 1920 he temporarily served as commander of the 8th Taman Cavalry Regiment. Participant in hostilities on the Don, in the Kuban and in the Crimea. Was badly wounded. In 1921 he was demobilized.

He returned to his native farm, worked as an individual peasant. From July 1929 - chairman of the Loginov collective farm in the Stalingrad region. From March 1930 - Deputy Chairman of the Berezovsky District Executive Committee. Since January 1931 - controller in the Serebryakovsky inter-district branch of the Zagotzerno trust in the Stalingrad region. Since April 1932 - the foreman (according to some sources - the chairman) of the collective farm on the Bobrov farm in the Berezovsky district.

In 1933, he was arrested and on July 7, 1933 sentenced to 10 years in labor camps under Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (abuse of power or official position) - he allowed collective farmers to use several kilograms of grain left after sowing for food. For three years he worked on the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal in Dmitrovlag. In 1936, he was released ahead of schedule for shock work.

Returning to his homeland, he continued to work as a storekeeper, foreman, head of the horse-post station, supply manager of the machine and tractor station.

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was not subject to conscription due to age (52 years). However, in October 1941 he achieved enrollment as a volunteer in the cavalry division that was being formed in the city of Uryupinsk militia from Cossack volunteers. The Cossacks-militias chose him as the commander of the squadron of the Berezovsky district. A month later, K.I. Nedorubov with his squadron joined the Mikhailovsky combined regiment of the Don Cossack cavalry division, in January 1942 the division was renamed the 15th Don Cossack cavalry division, and the 3rd regiment, which included K.I. Nedorubov - in the 42nd Don Cossack Cavalry Regiment. In the spring of 1942, having completed its formation, the division was redeployed from near Stalingrad to the Salsk region and became part of the North Caucasian Front. Since July 1942, she participated in the hostilities, in August 1942 she was transformed into the 11th Guards Cavalry Division. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1942.

Squadron commander of the 41st Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Regiment of the 11th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Division of the 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps of the North Caucasian Front Guard Lieutenant Nedorubov K.I. showed unparalleled courage and heroism in defensive battles in the Kuban at the initial stage of the battle for the Caucasus. As a result of sudden raids on the enemy on July 28 and 29, 1942 in the area of ​​the Pobeda and Biryuchy farms of the Azov region of the Rostov region, on August 2, 1942 near the village of Kushchevskaya in the Kushchev region of the Krasnodar Territory, on September 5, 1942 in the area of ​​the village of Kurinskaya in the Apsheron region of the Krasnodar Territory and on October 16 1942 - near the village of Maratuki, his squadron destroyed up to 800 enemy soldiers and officers. On the personal combat account of the squadron commander there were over 100 destroyed enemy soldiers.

So, in the battle on August 2, 1942 for the village of Kushchevskaya, when the Germans captured the positions of the regiment, together with his son, he rushed to the left flank of the squadron. Both fighters fired at close range from machine guns and using grenades, forced the approaching enemy to lie down, after which Nedorubov raised the squadron to attack. In hand-to-hand combat, the enemy was thrown back.

He performed a similar feat in the battle on October 16, 1942 for the village of Maratuki - after repelling four enemy attacks, he raised a squadron in a counterattack and threw it back in hand-to-hand combat with great damage - up to 200 soldiers. He was wounded twice in battles on September 5 and October 16, and in the last battle he was seriously wounded.

For the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 26, 1943 to the guard lieutenant Nedorubov Konstantin Iosifovich He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

After a serious wound, he was treated in hospitals in Sochi and Tbilisi. Since December 1943, the captain Nedorubov K.I. - in reserve for injury. Lived in the village of Berezovskaya, Danilovsky district, Volgograd region. He worked as the head of the regional department of social security, the head of the regional department of road construction, the secretary of the party bureau of the forestry, was elected a deputy of the regional council of workers' deputies. Died December 13, 1978. He was buried in the village of Berezovskaya.

Captain of the Guard (1943). He was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin (including 10/25/1943), the Order of the Red Banner (09/6/1942), the St. George Cross 1st (1917), 2nd (1916), 3rd (11/16/1915) and 4 -th (10/20/1915) degree, medals, including 2 St. George medals "For Courage" (including 1916).

Honorary citizen of the village of Berezovskaya, Volgograd region.

In September 2007, in the hero-city of Volgograd, a monument to the full Knight of St. George and Hero of the Soviet Union K.I. Nedorubov. The name of the Hero was given to the Volgograd Cadet (Cossack) Corps. The streets in the village of Berezovskaya in the Volgograd Region and in the city of Khadyzhensk in the Krasnodar Territory are also named after the Hero.

The biography was supplemented by Anton Bocharov (Koltsovo village, Novosibirsk region).

From the notes of a war correspondent:

Under Kushchevka, the Kuban, overwhelmed by the encirclement, rushed into the breakthrough - into the German tanks of General Kleist. With the fury of the “doomed”, as the allied columnist Gold wrote about them in his first sensation, the Cossacks, bending in their saddles, smashed the tanks with grenades, burned them with bottles of a fiery mixture, and themselves, slain, at a gallop, fell either under the caterpillars or under the hooves horses neighing in pain and horror ... In that battle, fellow countryman Dudak - the St. George Knight of all four degrees Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov with his son Nikolai cut off seventy hated Germans from a machine-gun cart "Maxim".

Countrymen met at a rally of veterans of the corps, where they arrived with their sons. “It was not the “doomed”, but the winners who met, although the final victory is still far away,” Dorogov wrote about them. Nedorubov and Dudak, both tall and still strong as half a century-old oak trees, embraced and, weaving a forked beard with drooping mustaches, kissed three times. And while their sons, Romka and Nikolai, according to tradition, as befits the lads, measured their strength, the fathers, looking at each other, talked about the war.

No way, Osipych, related his Georgiev to the Star ?! - Respectfully and in surprise, pointing his finger under the forked beard of his countryman, at his steep chest with gold and silver crosses gleaming under the Golden Star of the Hero, Ostap Ivanovich asked with involuntary envy.

Parent, Ostap! How ... Although our Race is now under the Star, but we also can’t forget about George the Victorious, while the same enemy tramples her, mother, - Nedorubov boomed and, screwing up his bulging eye on Dudak’s shepherd’s chest, asked in turn: - And where are your Georges?..

Ostap Ivanovich grunted, looked around at his Romka:

From, bisov son, sho done! “Take off, says, dad, your old-fashioned crosses, before we, Komsomol members, condemn you!” From I also obeyed, bisovyh sons... - he explained sadly.

Since then, the Kopytins more than once passed from one Cossack corps to another, and wherever the Dudaki rumbled with their machine-gun cart, Ostap Ivanovich remembered Nedorubov ...

Tokarev K.A. "Buda is thirsty." Notes of a war correspondent. - M.: "Moscow worker", 1971, p. 36-37

From the memories of a veteran

“Our 42nd Cavalry Regiment was the first to enter the combat area,” wrote K. I. Nedorubov in his autobiography. - July 29, at dawn, we were in the area of ​​the Samara farm, but could not preempt the enemy. Meanwhile, the enemy, having shot down the outposts of the 30th Infantry Division, crossed the Kagalnik River and occupied three large settlements on its banks. Assessing the current situation, divisional commander S.I. Gorshkov decided to restore the lost positions. The implementation of this difficult task was entrusted to the 42nd cavalry regiment, against which about 2 infantry regiments acted ... "

Acting on foot, the cavalrymen of the 42nd regiment and Nedorubov's squadron pushed the Nazis to the Kagalnik River. The fighters of the 1st squadron broke into the Zadonsky farm, the 2nd - into Aleksandrovka, the 3rd. in the village of Pobeda. Fierce street fighting ensued.

Fights with the enemy lasted all day. And although the 42nd regiment failed to push the enemy to the other side of the river, its squadrons achieved significant success. By evening, the Nazis brought fresh forces into battle and again pushed back parts of the regiment to the southern outskirts of those captured by the Cossacks. settlements.

After a series of powerful enemy attacks, the Don Cossack Division was withdrawn for reorganization. By the end of July 31, parts of it received an order to go to the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe village of Kushchevskaya. Commander S.I. Gorshkov decided to knock out the enemy with a night raid.

“The battles for Kushchevskaya were so fierce that the attacks often ended in hand-to-hand combat,” Konstantin Iosifovich wrote in his autobiography. “By the end of August 1, our 42nd cavalry regiment captured the southeastern outskirts of the village, and the other two regiments captured the southern and western outskirts and the station, but they could not completely take the village ... "

Together with units of the 12th Cavalry Division, Colonel Gorshkov's horsemen occupied the village of Kushchevskaya. The battle for the village lasted all day. The 42nd mountain infantry division of the enemy lost 500 soldiers and officers. However, yielding to the enemy in manpower and equipment, the 15th Cavalry Division was forced to go on the defensive. A critical situation also developed in the sector of the 42nd cavalry regiment, in which K. I. Nedorubov fought with the squadron.

The soldiers of the regiment steadfastly repulsed the continuous attacks of the enemy until the enemy managed to reach the left flank. There was a threat of encirclement.

Noticing this, Lieutenant Nedorubov arrived at the breakthrough site along with his son. Armed with machine guns, with a large supply of grenades, they shot the Nazis almost point-blank, throwing grenades at them. The enemy is down. And then K.I.'s command was heard over the battlefield. Nedorubova: "Cossacks, forward for the Motherland, for Stalin, for the free Don." Having led the squadron, K. I. Nedorubov led him to counterattack.

A fierce hand-to-hand fight ensued. Cossack militias destroyed 200 German soldiers and officers. The enemy attack was thwarted. Risking their lives, Konstantin Iosifovich and his son Nikolai saved the day.

Born May 21, 1889 in x. Frontier village of Berezovskaya, Ust-Medveditsky district of the Don Cossacks. Died December 13, 1978. Full St. George Cavalier, Hero of the Soviet Union.

In 1911 he was called to military service. During the First World War in the army, in the troops of the Southwestern and Romanian fronts. The first St. George Cross was awarded to the clerk of the 15th regiment of the 1st Don Cossack division K. Nedorubov for the resourcefulness and heroism shown by him on December 16, 1914 during reconnaissance, when he alone captured 52 Austrians. Member of the Brusilovsky breakthrough. Podhorunzhy.

In 1918 - 1920. on the fronts civil war Squadron commander, acting commander of the cavalry regiment. As part of the troops of the 9th Army, and then the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Armies of the Southern Front, he participated in hostilities on the territory of the Ust-Medveditsky District, in the Salsky steppes, in Northern Tavria, in the Crimea.

Returning from the front, he worked as chairman of the village council x. Frontier. In 1930, he headed one of the first collective farms in the Berezovsky district.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, a militia corps was formed in the Stalingrad region. K. I. Nedorubov took an active part in the creation of the consolidated Don cavalry division of the Cossack hundreds. In the spring of 1942, the division went to the front as the 15th Don Cossack Cavalry Division (later the 11th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Division). K.I. Nedorubov participated in the battles near Azov, Rostov, Bataysk. Squadron commander. In fierce battles for the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, from July 30 to August 2, 1942, the squadron under the command of Nedorubov destroyed over 200 enemy soldiers and officers, about 70 personally by K. I. Nedorubov.

September 5, 1942 in the battle near the village. Kurinsky of the Krasnodar Territory K.I. Nedorubov threw hand grenades at 3 machine-gun and 2 mortar positions of the enemy. He was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield. Height has been taken.
On October 16, 1942, near the village of Maratuki, Krasnodar Territory, a squadron under the command of K. I. Nedorubov repelled four attacks by the Nazis, destroying up to 200 enemy soldiers and officers.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 26, 1943, the commander of the cavalry squadron of the 41st Guards Cavalry Regiment, K. I. Nedorubov, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

IN last years lived and worked in St. Berezovskaya. On October 15, 1967, he was part of the honorary escort that delivered the torch lit from the Eternal Flame on the Alley of Heroes to Mamaev Kurgan.

Honorary citizen of the village of Berezovskaya, Danilovsky district, Volgograd region. Streets in the village of Berezovskaya, Volgograd Region and in the city of Khadyzhensk, Krasnodar Territory, are named after K. I. Nedorubov. He was buried in the village of Berezovskaya.

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