Nikolai Baturin Biography

Born on July 27 in the village of Labino, Yurginsky district of the Tyumen region in a peasant family. Member of the CPSU from the year. He graduated from incomplete secondary school.

He served in the Red Army in years. From the year he lived in the city of Essentuki, worked as a collector of the Gosbank office. The combat path of Nikolai Baturin began in August, then he became a tanking technician. Since October, Baturin took part in the battles in the area of ​​the Sarpinsky lakes near Stalingrad in the Tank Corps. In November, the mechanized corps of the former tank was one of the main mobile formations, which, having entered the breakthrough, quickly rushed towards the troops of the South-Western Front, completing the environment of the Stalingrad group of the Nazis.

In December, Baturin participated in fierce battles in the area of ​​the village of Verkhne-Kumsky against the army of the tank divisions of the Don Army Group Manstein, who had risen to the aid of Paulus. Having survived, Soviet soldiers went on the offensive. In January, Baturin participated in the liberation of the villages of the Rostov region: Zimovnikov, Budyonovskaya and Yegorlyk.

After that, Baturin was withdrawn from his part and aimed at studying. He graduated from improving the technical composition of armored troops in the year and Kuos in the year. Baturin returned to his mechanized corps, which became the 4th Guards in the year, only in May, and in the rank of lieutenant’s guard was appointed commander of a tank platoon in the south of the Guards Tank Brigade.

In August, in the area of ​​the cities of Yassy and Chisinau, 22 fascist divisions fell into the "boiler". But one large group of the Nazis managed to break through to the road to the crossing of the River Prut in the area of ​​the village of Minzhir Kotovsky district of the Republic of Moldova. The Nazis considered that they escaped from the environment. Suddenly, a gun and machine -gun fire fell on the Nazis, these are our “thirty -four” were not long in coming.

Metal piles remained from fascist guns and mortars. Cars were burning. The distraught Nazis shouted. That was the result of a sudden blow inflicted by the tanks of the platoon of the Guard of Lieutenant Baturin. But when the Nazis realized that only a tank platoon attacked them, they response of the fire on our tanks. Baturin maneuvered, using the terrain, covered the cars from direct hits, sometimes attacking the Nazis to move again to the crossing.

We went the second day since the platoon of tankers got into an unequal battle and restrained the onslaught of the fascist column. The ammunition ended, fatigue increased. At dawn, the enemy threw self -propelled guns at the crossing. Baturin, assessing the situation, decided to hit self -propelled guns and not remove other tanks from occupied positions. Often changing the speed and direction of movement, the Baturin crew knocked out one of the fascist cars.

A few minutes later, another ... The crew of the third surrendered to the tankers. Then other Nazis began to surrender. During this operation, the crew under the command of the guard of Lieutenant Baturin destroyed the soldier, broke 40 cars, 3 self -propelled guns and captured prisoners. In October, his tank, among other liberators, triumphantly drove along the streets of the capital of Yugoslavia of the city of Belgrade.

In years, Baturin participated in hard bloody battles in Hungary. He ended the war on the territory of Czechoslovakia. Since the year, senior lieutenant N. Baturin in reserve. He lived and worked at a mine in the city of Donetsk. He died on October 13th. He was buried in Donetsk. In the city of Donetsk, one of the streets bears the name of the hero, a memorial plaque is installed at the Trudovskaya mine.