Nedorubov nikolai konstantinovich. Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov. A Cossack, a full cavalier of St. George and a hero of the Soviet Union. From the memories of a veteran

The Cossack is a legend!

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Nedorubov Konstantin Iosifovich, full Georgievsky cavalier, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Nedorubov Konstantin Iosifovich- Full Knight of St. George, Hero of the Soviet Union. In the history of our country there were only three full Knights of St. George and at the same time Heroes of the Soviet Union: Marshal Budyonny, General Tyulenev and Captain Nedorubov.

The fate of Konstantin Nedorubov bizarrely resembles the fate of the hero of the Quiet Don, Grigory Melekhov. A hereditary Cossack, a native of a farm with the characteristic name Rubezhny (now part of the Lovyagin farm in the Volgograd region), he, along with other villagers, was drafted to the German front. There it quickly became clear that the war, with all its horrors and passions, was the native element of the Don Cossack.

He was awarded the first St. George Cross of the 4th degree for his heroism during one of the hardest battles near the town of Tomashev. In August 1914, in pursuit of the retreating Austrians, despite the hurricane of artillery shelling, a group of Don Cossacks led by the sergeant Nedorubov broke into the location of the enemy battery and captured it along with the servants and ammunition.

Konstantin Iosifovich received the second St. George Cross in February 1915 for a feat during the battles for the city of Przemysl. On December 16, 1914, while on reconnaissance and while examining a settlement, he noticed enemy soldiers in one of the courtyards and decided to take them by surprise. Throwing a grenade over the fence, he gave the command in German: "Hands up, squadron, surround!" The frightened soldiers, along with the officer, threw down their weapons, raised their hands and hurried from the courtyard to the street. Imagine their surprise when they found themselves under the escort of a Cossack on horseback with a sword in hand. Nowhere to go: weapons remained in the yard, and all 52 prisoners were escorted to the headquarters of the Cossack regiment. Scout K.I. Nedorubov, in all uniforms, reported to the commander of his unit that, they say, he was taken prisoner. But he does not believe and asks: “Where are the rest of the scouts? With whom did you take prisoners? " The answer sounds: "One". Then the commander asked the enemy officer: “Who took you prisoner? How many were there? " He pointed to Nedorubov and raised one finger up.

Young Nedorubov received the third St. George Cross for his distinction in battles in June 1916 during the famous Brusilov breakthrough (counteroffensive), where he showed selfless bravery and courage. "His saber did not dry out from the blood" - recalled the farmstead Cossacks, who served in the same regiment with Nedorubov. And fellow countrymen from the farm jokingly suggested that he change his name - from "Nedorubov" to "Pererubova".

For three and a half years of participation in the battles, he was repeatedly wounded. He was undergoing treatment in hospitals in the cities of Kiev, Kharkov and Sebryakovo (now Mikhailovka).

Finally, that war was over. Before the Cossack had time to return to his native farm, the Civil broke out. And again the bloody whirlwind of fateful events caught the Cossack. It was all clear on the German front, but here, in the feather-grass of the Don and Tsaritsyn steppes, their own fought with their own. Who is right and who is wrong - go and figure it out ...

And fate shook in this confusion of thoughts and passions of the Cossack Nedorubov, like Grishka Melekhova, a living pendulum - from reds to whites, from whites to reds ... Unfortunately, this was a fairly typical situation for that confused and bloody time. Ordinary Cossacks, who had not read Marx and Plekhanov and were not familiar with the basics of geopolitics, could not understand in any way who was behind the truth in this nightmarish civil strife. But even being on opposite sides of the barricades, they fought bravely - otherwise they could not.

At one time, Konstantin Iosifovich even commanded the red Taman cavalry regiment and took an active part in the famous defense of Tsaritsyn.

In 1922, when the flames of the war finally subsided and it became clear that Soviet power had come in earnest and for a long time, Nedorubov returned to the village in the hope of taking a break from the two wars he had endured. But he was not really allowed to live peacefully - after eight years the Cossack was still repressed by the commissars in leather jackets, recalling the service in both the white and the tsarist armies. This did not surprise Nedorubov in the least and did not break him down.

"I've been in a lot of trouble!" - decided for himself the Knight of St. George and "gave the country coal" on the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal. As a result, he was released early for shock work, according to the official version. According to the unofficial, the camp authorities helped by carefully studying his personal file. Still, in all ages, men of all tribes and peoples respected courage and courage ...

"Give the right to die!"

When the Great Patriotic War broke out, the Knight of St. George Nedorubov was no longer subject to conscription - by age. By that time he was 53 years old.

But in July 1941, a squadron of Cossack militias began to form in the Don villages.

Together with his old combat friend Sutchev, Konstantin Iosifovich resolutely went to the regional executive committee: "Give the right to apply all combat experience and die for the Motherland!" In the regional executive committee at first they were dumbfounded, then imbued with. And they appointed the Knight of St. George as the commander of the newly formed Cossack squadron (only volunteers were recruited into it).

But here, as the Cossacks say, one problem "got in": his 17-year-old son, who had not reached the draft age by that time, "hung" on his father's shoulders. Relatives rushed to dissuade Nikolai, but he was adamant. “Remember, son, there will be no indulgence for you,” was all Nedorubov Sr. said. - I will ask you more strictly than with experienced Cossacks. The commander's son must be the first in battle! " So the third war was cut into the life of the Cossack Nedorubov ... And also a world war - like the first.

In July 1942, after the breakthrough of German troops near Kharkov, a "weak link" was formed along the entire length from Voronezh to Rostov-on-Don. 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, which included the Don Cossack Division, was thrown towards the Germans. 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 came together "bone to bone" with 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. This was their element. "Well, where else can we make a show 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 battle ...

At Kushchevskaya, the Donets and Kubans held the defense for two days. In the end, the Germans' nerves burst, and with the support of artillery and aviation, they decided on a psychic attack. This was a strategic mistake. The Cossacks allowed them to reach the distance of a grenade throw and met with heavy fire. The father and son of the Nedorubovs were nearby: the elder was watering the attackers from a machine gun, the younger was sending one grenade after another to the German line.

No wonder they say - a bullet is afraid of a brave - despite the fact that the air was buzzing with bullets, none of them touched the shooters. And the whole space in front of the embankment was strewn with corpses in gray greatcoats. But the Germans were determined to go all the way. In the end, skillfully maneuvering, they were able to bypass the Cossacks from both sides, clamping them in their "trademark" 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 milling under the bullets from the ground. “The underdark together with his son again went to look for his death, well, and we flew after him,” the surviving colleagues recalled about that famous battle near Kushchevskaya. - Because it was a shame to leave him alone ... ".

The militias fought to the death. The sons followed the example of 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 at Kushchevskaya, noted that when the squadron had to repel the superior forces of the enemy on the right flank, he had a machine gun, and son with hand grenades "fought an unequal three-hour battle in the immediate vicinity of the Nazis." Konstantin Nedorubov many times rose to his full height on the railway line and shot the Nazis point-blank. “So out of three wars I never had to shoot the enemy. Himself could hear how my bullets clicked on Hitler's heads. "

In that battle, together with their son, they destroyed more than 72 Germans. The 4th Cavalry Squadron rushed hand-to-hand and killed more than 200 German soldiers and officers.

If we did not cover the flank, it would be difficult for a neighbor, - Konstantin Iosifovich recalled. - And so we gave him the opportunity to retreat without loss ... How my lads stood! And Kolka's son showed himself to be a fine fellow that day. Not drifted. Only after this fight did I think that I would never see him again.

During a furious mortar attack, 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. Women were passing not far from the plantation, and they heard a groan. In the dark, the women carried the seriously wounded young Cossack to the village of Kushchevskaya, and for many weeks they sheltered him.

"Cossack conscientiousness" then cost the Germans dearly - in that battle, the Don people thrashed over 200 German soldiers and officers. The plans to encircle the squadron were mixed with dust. The commander of the group, Field Marshal Wilhelm Liszt, received an encrypted radiogram, signed by the Fuhrer himself: "There will be another Kushchevka, do not learn how to fight, you will walk in a penal company through the Caucasus Mountains."

"We hallucinated as Cossacks ..."

This is exactly what one of the German infantrymen, who survived in the battle near Maratuki, wrote in his letter home, where the donors of Nedorubov got to the coveted hand-to-hand fight and, as a result, like at Kushchevskaya, they massacred 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," joked the Cossacks, "why aren't we Stakhanovists?"

"Nedorubovtsy" took part in raids on the enemy in the vicinity of Pobeda and Biryuchiy farms, fought in the area of ​​the village of Kurinskaya ... According to the Germans who survived the horse attacks, "it was as if a demon possessed these centaurs."

Donets and Kubans used all the numerous tricks that were accumulated by their ancestors in previous wars and were carefully passed down from generation to generation. When the lava fell on the enemy, there was a prolonged wolf howl in the air - this is how the villagers intimidated the enemy from afar. Already within the line of sight, they were engaged in vaulting - spinning in the saddles, often hanging from them, depicting the dead, and a few meters from the enemy suddenly came to life and broke into the enemy's location, chopping right and left and arranging a bloody heap-mala there.

In any battle, Nedorubov himself, contrary to all the canons of military science, was the first to go to the trouble. In one battle, he managed, in official-military terms, "using the folds of the terrain, 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 itself, was taken with minimal losses. By 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 guard lieutenant K.I. Nedorubova. Only in the terrible battles near Kushchevskaya did he receive eight bullet wounds. Then there were two more wounds. After the third, difficult one, at the end of 1942, the conclusion of the medical commission turned out to be inexorable: "I am not fit for service in the army."

During the period of hostilities, Nedorubov was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner and various medals for his feats. On October 26, 1943, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the Knight of St. George, Konstantin Nedorubov, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. “Our Konstantin Iosifovich made the Red Star with the Cross of St. George,” the villagers joked about this.

Despite the fact that even during his lifetime he became a living legend, the Cossack Nedorubov never acquired any special benefits and assets for himself and his family in a peaceful life. But for all the holidays he regularly wore the Golden Star of the Hero along with four St. George's crosses.

The servant of the 1st Don Cossack Division, Nedorubov, with his attitude to awards, proved that the government 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 this form at the Victory Parade in the first row. And at the reception, Comrade Stalin himself shook his hand, thanked 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 of the Battle of Stalingrad on the Mamayev Kurgan of the hero-city of Volgograd. Nedorubov died on December 11, 1978. Buried in the village of Berezovskaya. In September 2007, in the city of Volgograd, in the memorial and historical museum, a monument to the famous hero of the Don, the full St. George cavalier, Hero of the Soviet Union K.I. Nedorubov. On February 2, 2011, in the village of Yuzhny, the hero-city of Volgograd, the opening ceremony of the new state educational institution “Volgograd Cadet (Cossack) Corps named after Hero of the Soviet Union K.I. Nedorubova ".

Nedorubov Konstantin Iosifovich - full Knight of St. George, Hero of the Soviet Union. In the history of our country there were only three full Knights of St. George and at the same time Heroes of the Soviet Union: Marshal Budyonny, General Tyulenev and Captain Nedorubov.

The fate of Konstantin Nedorubov bizarrely resembles the fate of the hero of the Quiet Don, Grigory Melekhov. A hereditary Cossack, a native of a farm with the characteristic name Rubezhny (now part of the Lovyagin farm in the Volgograd region), he, along with other villagers, was drafted to the German front. There it quickly became clear that the war, with all its horrors and passions, was the native element of the Don Cossack.

He was awarded the first St. George Cross of the 4th degree for his heroism during one of the hardest battles near the town of Tomashev. In August 1914, in pursuit of the retreating Austrians, despite the hurricane of artillery shelling, a group of Don Cossacks led by the sergeant Nedorubov broke into the location of the enemy battery and captured it along with the servants and ammunition.

Konstantin Iosifovich received the second St. George Cross in February 1915 for a feat during the battles for the city of Przemysl. On December 16, 1914, while on reconnaissance and while examining a settlement, he noticed enemy soldiers in one of the courtyards and decided to take them by surprise. Throwing a grenade over the fence, he gave the command in German: "Hands up, squadron, surround!" The frightened soldiers, along with the officer, threw down their weapons, raised their hands and hurried from the courtyard to the street. Imagine their surprise when they found themselves under the escort of a Cossack on horseback with a sword in hand. Nowhere to go: weapons remained in the yard, and all 52 prisoners were escorted to the headquarters of the Cossack regiment. Scout K.I. Nedorubov, in all uniforms, reported to the commander of his unit that, they say, he was taken prisoner. But he does not believe and asks: “Where are the rest of the scouts? With whom did you take prisoners? " The answer sounds: "One". Then the commander asked the enemy officer: “Who took you prisoner? How many were there? " He pointed to Nedorubov and raised one finger up.

Young Nedorubov received the third St. George Cross for his distinction in battles in June 1916 during the famous Brusilov breakthrough (counteroffensive), where he showed selfless bravery and courage. "His saber did not dry out from the blood" - recalled the farmstead Cossacks, who served in the same regiment with Nedorubov. And fellow countrymen from the farm jokingly suggested that he change his name - from "Nedorubov" to "Pererubova".

For three and a half years of participation in the battles, he was repeatedly wounded. He was undergoing treatment in hospitals in the cities of Kiev, Kharkov and Sebryakovo (now Mikhailovka).

Finally, that war was over. Before the Cossack had time to return to his native farm, the Civil broke out. And again the bloody whirlwind of fateful events caught the Cossack. It was all clear on the German front, but here, in the feather-grass of the Don and Tsaritsyn steppes, their own fought with their own. Who is right and who is wrong - go and figure it out ...

And fate shook in this confusion of thoughts and passions of the Cossack Nedorubov, like Grishka Melekhova, a living pendulum - from reds to whites, from whites to reds ... Unfortunately, this was a fairly typical situation for that confused and bloody time. Ordinary Cossacks, who had not read Marx and Plekhanov and were not familiar with the basics of geopolitics, could not understand in any way who was behind the truth in this nightmarish civil strife. But even being on opposite sides of the barricades, they fought bravely - otherwise they could not.

At one time, Konstantin Iosifovich even commanded the red Taman cavalry regiment and took an active part in the famous defense of Tsaritsyn.

In 1922, when the flames of the war finally subsided and it became clear that Soviet power had come in earnest and for a long time, Nedorubov returned to the village in the hope of taking a break from the two wars he had endured. But he was not really allowed to live peacefully - after eight years the Cossack was still repressed by the commissars in leather jackets, recalling the service in both the white and the tsarist armies. This did not surprise Nedorubov in the least and did not break him down.

"I've been in a lot of trouble!" - decided for himself the Knight of St. George and "gave the country coal" on the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal. As a result, he was released early for shock work, according to the official version. According to the unofficial, the camp authorities helped by carefully studying his personal file. Still, in all ages, men of all tribes and peoples respected courage and courage ...

"Give the right to die!"

When the Great Patriotic War broke out, the Knight of St. George Nedorubov was no longer subject to conscription - by age. By that time he was 53 years old.

But in July 1941, a squadron of Cossack militias began to form in the Don villages.

Together with his old combat friend Sutchev, Konstantin Iosifovich resolutely went to the regional executive committee: "Give the right to apply all combat experience and die for the Motherland!" In the regional executive committee at first they were dumbfounded, then imbued with. And they appointed the Knight of St. George as the commander of the newly formed Cossack squadron (only volunteers were recruited into it).

But here, as the Cossacks say, one problem "got in": his 17-year-old son, who had not reached the draft age by that time, "hung" on his father's shoulders. Relatives rushed to dissuade Nikolai, but he was adamant. “Remember, son, there will be no indulgence for you,” was all Nedorubov Sr. said. - I will ask you more strictly than with experienced Cossacks. The commander's son must be the first in battle! " So the third war was cut into the life of the Cossack Nedorubov ... And also a world war - like the first.

In July 1942, after the breakthrough of German troops near Kharkov, a "weak link" was formed along the entire length from Voronezh to Rostov-on-Don. 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, which included the Don Cossack Division, was thrown towards the Germans. 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 came together "bone to bone" with 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. This was their element. "Well, where else can we make a show 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 battle ...

At Kushchevskaya, the Donets and Kubans held the defense for two days. In the end, the Germans' nerves burst, and with the support of artillery and aviation, they decided on a psychic attack. This was a strategic mistake. The Cossacks allowed them to reach the distance of a grenade throw and met with heavy fire. The father and son of the Nedorubovs were nearby: the elder was watering the attackers from a machine gun, the younger was sending one grenade after another to the German line.

No wonder they say - a bullet is afraid of a brave - despite the fact that the air was buzzing with bullets, none of them touched the shooters. And the whole space in front of the embankment was strewn with corpses in gray greatcoats. But the Germans were determined to go all the way. In the end, skillfully maneuvering, they were able to bypass the Cossacks from both sides, clamping them in their "trademark" 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 milling under the bullets from the ground. “The underdark together with his son again went to look for his death, well, and we flew after him,” the surviving colleagues recalled about that famous battle near Kushchevskaya. - Because it was a shame to leave him alone ... ".

The militias fought to the death. The sons followed the example of 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 at Kushchevskaya, noted that when the squadron had to repel the superior forces of the enemy on the right flank, he had a machine gun, and son with hand grenades "fought an unequal three-hour battle in the immediate vicinity of the Nazis." Konstantin Nedorubov many times rose to his full height on the railway line and shot the Nazis point-blank. “So out of three wars I never had to shoot the enemy. Himself could hear how my bullets clicked on Hitler's heads. "

In that battle, together with their son, they destroyed more than 72 Germans. The 4th Cavalry Squadron rushed hand-to-hand and killed more than 200 German soldiers and officers.

If we did not cover the flank, it would be difficult for a neighbor, - Konstantin Iosifovich recalled. - And so we gave him the opportunity to retreat without loss ... How my lads stood! And Kolka's son showed himself to be a fine fellow that day. Not drifted. Only after this fight did I think that I would never see him again.

During a furious mortar attack, 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. Women were passing not far from the plantation, and they heard a groan. In the dark, the women carried the seriously wounded young Cossack to the village of Kushchevskaya, and for many weeks they sheltered him.

"Cossack conscientiousness" then cost the Germans dearly - in that battle, the Don people thrashed over 200 German soldiers and officers. The plans to encircle the squadron were mixed with dust. The commander of the group, Field Marshal Wilhelm Liszt, received an encrypted radiogram, signed by the Fuhrer himself: "There will be another Kushchevka, do not learn how to fight, you will walk in a penal company through the Caucasus Mountains."

"We hallucinated as Cossacks ..."

This is exactly what one of the German infantrymen, who survived in the battle near Maratuki, wrote in his letter home, where the donors of Nedorubov got to the coveted hand-to-hand fight and, as a result, like at Kushchevskaya, they massacred 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," joked the Cossacks, "why aren't we Stakhanovists?"

"Nedorubovtsy" took part in raids on the enemy in the vicinity of Pobeda and Biryuchiy farms, fought in the area of ​​the village of Kurinskaya ... According to the Germans who survived the horse attacks, "it was as if a demon possessed these centaurs."

Donets and Kubans used all the numerous tricks that were accumulated by their ancestors in previous wars and were carefully passed down from generation to generation. When the lava fell on the enemy, there was a prolonged wolf howl in the air - this is how the villagers intimidated the enemy from afar. Already within the line of sight, they were engaged in vaulting - spinning in the saddles, often hanging from them, depicting the dead, and a few meters from the enemy suddenly came to life and broke into the enemy's location, chopping right and left and arranging a bloody heap-mala there.

In any battle, Nedorubov himself, contrary to all the canons of military science, was the first to go to the trouble. In one battle, he managed, in official-military terms, "using the folds of the terrain, 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 itself, was taken with minimal losses. By 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 guard lieutenant K.I. Nedorubova. Only in the terrible battles near Kushchevskaya did he receive eight bullet wounds. Then there were two more wounds. After the third, difficult one, at the end of 1942, the conclusion of the medical commission turned out to be inexorable: "I am not fit for service in the army."

During the period of hostilities, Nedorubov was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner and various medals for his feats. On October 26, 1943, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the Knight of St. George, Konstantin Nedorubov, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. “Our Konstantin Iosifovich made the Red Star with the Cross of St. George,” the villagers joked about this.

Despite the fact that even during his lifetime he became a living legend, the Cossack Nedorubov never acquired any special benefits and assets for himself and his family in a peaceful life. But for all the holidays he regularly wore the Golden Star of the Hero along with four St. George's crosses.

The servant of the 1st Don Cossack Division, Nedorubov, with his attitude to awards, proved that the government 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 this form at the Victory Parade in the first row. And at the reception, Comrade Stalin himself shook his hand, thanked 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 of the Battle of Stalingrad on the Mamayev Kurgan of the hero-city of Volgograd. Nedorubov died on December 11, 1978. Buried in the village of Berezovskaya. In September 2007, in the city of Volgograd, in the memorial and historical museum, a monument to the famous hero of the Don, the full St. George cavalier, Hero of the Soviet Union K.I. Nedorubov. On February 2, 2011, in the village of Yuzhny, the hero-city of Volgograd, the opening ceremony of the new state educational institution “Volgograd Cadet (Cossack) Corps named after Hero of the Soviet Union K.I. Nedorubova ".

Based on materials from "Triune Rus"

Victor Starchikov

, Volgograd region, RSFSR, USSR

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Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov(May 21 - December 13) - Hero of the Soviet Union, full Georgievsky cavalier, squadron commander, guard captain, Cossack.

Biography

Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov was born into a Don Cossack family on the Rubezhny farm (now part of the Lovyagin farm in the Danilovsky district of the Volgograd region). Graduated from elementary school.

In 1911 he entered military service as a Cossack in the 15th Don Cossack Regiment of the 14th Army Corps of General Brusilov, the city of Tomashev, the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, the Russian Empire. Member of the First World War, served on the Southwestern and Romanian fronts. During the war he became a full Knight of St. George.

• He was awarded the first St. George Cross of the 4th degree for his heroism during one of the hardest battles near the city of Tomashev. In August 1914, in pursuit of the retreating Austrians, despite the hurricane of artillery shelling, a group of Don Cossacks led by the sergeant Nedorubov broke into the location of the enemy battery and captured it along with the servants and ammunition.
• Konstantin Iosifovich received the second St.George Cross in February 1915 for a feat during the battles for the city of Przemysl. On December 16, 1914, he was awarded for the resourcefulness and heroism shown by him during reconnaissance, for the fact that he single-handedly took 52 Austrians prisoner.
• Nedorubov received the third St. George Cross for distinction in battles in June 1916 during the famous Brusilov breakthrough, where he showed courage and courage.
• The fourth - gold "George" 1st degree, he received for capture with a group of Cossacks of the headquarters of the German division, along with the general and operational documents.
• In addition to four crosses, Konstantin Nedorubov was also awarded two St. George medals for military courage. He graduated from the war with the rank of lieutenant.

Subsequently, Konstantin Nedorubov, as part of the 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps, liberated Ukraine. After being seriously wounded in December 1943, he was demobilized with the rank of captain.

After the war, he lived and worked in the village of Berezovskaya, Danilovsky District, Volgograd Region.

Awards

Soviet state awards:

• Medal "Gold Star" No. 1302 Hero of the Soviet Union (October 26, 1943)
• two Orders of Lenin (October 26, 1943, ???)
• Order of the Red Banner (September 6, 1942)
• medals, including:
  • medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945."

State awards of the Russian Empire:

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• Bondarenko A.S., Borodin A.M. (group leader), Loginov I.M., Merinova L.N., Naumenko T.N., Novikov L.N., Smirnov P.N. The Cossack went to war // Heroes of Volgograd / Literary adaptation by V. I. Efimov, V. I. Psurtsev, V.R.Slobozhanina, V.S.Smagorinsky; introduction by A. S. Chuyanov. - Volgograd: Nizhne-Volzhskoe book publishing house, 1967. - pp. 248--251. - 471 p. - 25,000 copies.

Documentary film

• Film company "Rodina". Russia. 2011.

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Heroes of the Country website.

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Excerpt characterizing Nedorubov, Konstantin Iosifovich

Bilibin gathered the skin above his eyebrows and pondered with a smile on his lips.
“Vous ne me prenez pas en is bad, vous savez,” he said. - Comme veritable ami j "ai pense et repense a votre affaire. Voyez vous. Si vous epousez le prince (it was a young man), - he bent his finger, - vous perdez pour toujours la chance d" epouser l "autre, et puis vous mecontentez la Cour. (Comme vous savez, il ya une espece de parente.) Mais si vous epousez le vieux comte, vous faites le bonheur de ses derniers jours, et puis comme veuve du grand ... le prince ne fait plus de mesalliance en vous epousant, [You will not take me by surprise, you know. As a true friend, I thought about your case for a long time. You see: if you marry a prince, then you are forever deprived of the opportunity to be the wife of another, and in addition the court will be dissatisfied. (You know, after all, kinship is involved.) And if you marry the old count, then you will make up the happiness of his last days, and then ... it will no longer be humiliating for the prince to marry the widow of a nobleman.] - and Bilibin loosened his skin.
- Voila un veritable ami! - said Helen, beaming, once again touching Bilibip's sleeve with her hand. - Mais c "est que j" aime l "un et l" autre, je ne voudrais pas leur faire de chagrin. Je donnerais ma vie pour leur bonheur a tous deux, [Behold a true friend! But I love both, and I would not want to upset anyone. For the happiness of both, I would be ready to sacrifice my life.] - she said.
Bilibin shrugged his shoulders, expressing that even he could no longer help such grief.
“Une maitresse femme! Voila ce qui s "appelle poser carrement la question. Elle voudrait epouser tous les trois a la fois." - thought Bilibin.
- But tell me, how will your husband look at this matter? - he said, due to the firmness of his reputation, not afraid to drop himself with such a naive question. - Will he agree?
- Ah! Il m "aime tant!" Said Helene, who for some reason thought that Pierre loved her too. "Il fera tout pour moi. [Ah! He loves me so much! He is ready for anything for me.]
Bilibin picked up the skin to mark the upcoming mot.
- Meme le divorce, [Even for divorce.] - he said.
Helen laughed.
Among the people who allowed themselves to doubt the legality of the marriage being undertaken was Helen's mother, Princess Kuragin. She was constantly tormented by envy of her daughter, and now, when the subject of envy was the closest to the princess's heart, she could not reconcile with this thought. She consulted with a Russian priest about the extent to which divorce and marriage with a living husband was possible, and the priest told her that this was impossible, and, to her delight, pointed out to her the Gospel text, in which (the priest seemed) outright rejected the possibility of marriage from a living husband.
Armed with these arguments, which seemed irrefutable to her, the princess early in the morning, in order to find her alone, went to her daughter's.
After listening to her mother's objections, Helen smiled meekly and derisively.
- Why, it is directly said: who marries a divorced wife ... - said the old princess.
- Ah, maman, ne dites pas de betises. Vous ne comprenez rien. Dans ma position j "ai des devoirs, [Ah, mamma, don't be silly. You don't understand anything. There are responsibilities in my position.] - Helene spoke up, translating the conversation into French from Russian, in which she always seemed to have some kind of ambiguity in her case.
- But, my friend ...
- Ah, maman, comment est ce que vous ne comprenez pas que le Saint Pere, qui a le droit de donner des dispenses ...
At this time, a lady companion who lived with Helene, came to her to report that His Highness was in the hall and wanted to see her.
- Non, dites lui que je ne veux pas le voir, que je suis furieuse contre lui, parce qu "il m" a manque parole. [No, tell him that I don’t want to see him, that I’m furious against him because he didn’t keep my word.]
- Comtesse a tout peche misericorde, [Countess, mercy to all sin.] - said, entering, a young blond man with a long face and nose.
The old princess got up respectfully and sat down. The young man who entered did not pay attention to her. The princess nodded her daughter's head and swam to the door.
“No, she is right,” thought the old princess, all of whose convictions had collapsed before the appearance of His Highness. - She is right; but how did we not know this in our irrevocable youth? And it was so simple, ”the old princess thought as she got into the carriage.

In early August, Helen's case was completely determined, and she wrote to her husband (who loved her very much, as she thought) a letter in which she informed him of her intention to marry NN and that she had entered the one true religion and that she asks him to fulfill all those formalities necessary for divorce, which the person who submitted this letter will give him.
“Sur ce je prie Dieu, mon ami, de vous avoir sous sa sainte et puissante garde. Votre amie Helene ".
[“Then I pray to God that you, my friend, be under his holy strong cover. Your friend Elena "]
This letter was brought to Pierre's house while he was at the Borodino field.

The second time, already at the end of the Battle of Borodino, having escaped from the Raevsky battery, Pierre with crowds of soldiers went along the ravine to Knyazkov, reached the dressing station and, seeing blood and hearing cries and groans, hurriedly walked on, mixing in the crowd of soldiers.
One thing that Pierre now wanted with all the strength of his soul was to get out as soon as possible from those terrible impressions in which he lived that day, to return to normal living conditions and sleep peacefully in his room on his bed. Only under ordinary conditions of life did he feel that he would be able to understand himself and all that he saw and experienced. But these ordinary living conditions were nowhere to be found.
Although the cannonballs and bullets did not whistle here along the road along which he walked, but from all sides it was the same as it was there on the battlefield. The same suffering, exhausted and sometimes strangely indifferent faces, the same blood, the same soldier's greatcoats, the same sounds of shooting, albeit distant, but still terrifying; besides, there was stuffiness and dust.
After walking three versts along the great Mozhaisk road, Pierre sat down on the edge of it.
Dusk descended on the ground, and the rumble of the guns died away. Pierre, leaning on his arm, lay down and lay for so long, looking at the shadows moving past him in the darkness. Incessantly it seemed to him that a cannonball was flying at him with a terrible whistle; he shuddered and got up. He did not remember how long he had been here. In the middle of the night, three soldiers, bringing in twigs, placed themselves beside him and began to make a fire.
The soldiers, looking sideways at Pierre, lit a fire, put a kettle on it, crumbled crackers into it and put bacon. The pleasant smell of edible and fatty food merged with the smell of smoke. Pierre got up and sighed. The soldiers (there were three of them) ate, not paying attention to Pierre, and talked among themselves.
- What will you be from? - one of the soldiers suddenly turned to Pierre, obviously by this question meaning what Pierre thought, namely: if you want to eat, we will give, just tell me, are you an honest person?
- I? I? .. - said Pierre, feeling the need to belittle his social position as much as possible in order to be closer and more understandable for the soldiers. - I am a real militia officer, only my squad is not here; I came to battle and lost my own.
- You see! - said one of the soldiers.
The other soldier shook his head.
- Well, eat, if you want, mess! - said the first and gave Pierre, licking it, a wooden spoon.
Pierre sat down by the fire and began to eat kawardachok, that food that was in the pot and which seemed to him the most delicious of all the foods he had ever eaten. While he eagerly, bending over the pot, taking the large spoons, chewed one after the other and his face was visible in the light of the fire, the soldiers silently looked at him.
- Where do you want that? Tell me! One of them asked again.
- I'm in Mozhaisk.
- You become, master?
- Yes.
- What is the name?
- Peter Kirillovich.
- Well, Pyotr Kirillovich, let's go, we'll take you. In complete darkness, the soldiers, together with Pierre, went to Mozhaisk.
The roosters were already singing when they reached Mozhaisk and began to climb the steep city mountain. Pierre walked along with the soldiers, completely forgetting that his inn was below the mountain and that he had already passed it. He would not have remembered this (in such a state of loss he was), if he had not been bumped into half of the mountain by his bereader, who went to look for him around the city and returned back to his inn. The rider recognized Pierre by his white hat in the dark.
“Your Excellency,” he said, “and we are already desperate. Why are you walking? Where are you, please!

The most famous Knight of St. George of the Great Patriotic War. Having a "full bow", he became a Hero of the Soviet Union - Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov.

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

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 village of Berezovskaya in the Ust-Medveditsky District of the Don Cossack Region, now part of the Lovyagin farm in the Danilovsky District of the Volgograd Region. From the family of a hereditary Cossack. Russian. In 1900 he graduated from three classes of a rural primary school. He was engaged in peasant farming.In 1911 he was drafted into 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 quartered in the city of Tomashev in the Petrokiv 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 the head of the intelligence team. He distinguished himself many times in daring sorties behind enemy lines, during the capture of prisoners, in defensive and offensive battles. In one of the night sorties, he captured and delivered to his positions 52 captured Austrian soldiers with an officer, in another, he captured the enemy headquarters at the head of the group. He was awarded four St. George's Crosses (full St. George's Knight) and two St. George's medals. The last military rank is a lieutenant. In 1917 he was seriously wounded, was treated in hospitals in Kiev, Kharkov, at the Sebryakovo station near Tsaritsyn.

At the beginning of 1918 he returned to his native farm. But they did not have a chance to take up 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. Krasnova, enlisted in the 18th Cossack regiment. He took part in battles on the side of the white troops. In July 1918 he was captured and on August 1, 1918 he was enlisted 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 taken prisoner, now with the whites (according to some reports, he deserted), again enlisted in the white units. Since June 1919, again in the Red Army, the 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 of hostilities in the Don, in the Kuban and in the Crimea. He was seriously wounded. In 1921 he was demobilized. He returned to his native farm, worked as an individual peasant. Since July 1929 - chairman of the Loginov collective farm in the Stalingrad region. Since March 1930 - Deputy Chairman of the Berezovsky District Executive Committee. From January 1931 - inspector in the interdistrict Serebryakovsky 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 forced 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 early for shock work. Returning to his homeland, he continued to work as a storekeeper, foreman, head of a horse-post station, manager of a machine-tractor station.

Cossacks are volunteers.

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was not subject to conscription due to his age (52 years old). Nevertheless, in October 1941, he achieved enrollment as a volunteer in the cavalry division of the people's militia from volunteer Cossacks that was being formed in the city of Uryupinsk. Cossack militias chose him as the squadron commander of the Berezovsky district. A month later K.I. Nedorubov and his squadron joined the Mikhailovsky Consolidated 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 Stalingrad to the Salsk region and became part of the North Caucasian Front. From July 1942 she took part 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 the 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 vicinity of the Pobeda and Biryuchiy farms of the Azov region of the Rostov region, on August 2, 1942, near the village of Kushchevskaya, Kushchevsky district, Krasnodar region, on September 5, 1942, in the area of ​​the Kurinskaya village, Apsheronsky region, Krasnodar region, 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 killed 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 with point-blank fire 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 the squadron to counterattack and in hand-to-hand combat threw it back with great damage - up to 200 soldiers.

Cossacks in battle.

He was twice wounded in battles on September 5 and October 16, and in the last battle - seriously. For exemplary fulfillment of combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle 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 25, 1943, Guards Lieutenant Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ... After being seriously wounded, he was treated in hospitals in Sochi and Tbilisi. Since December 1943, Guard Captain K.I. Nedorubov. - in stock for injury. He lived in the village of Berezovskaya, Danilovsky District, Volgograd Region. He worked as head of the district department of social security, head of the district department of road construction, secretary of the party bureau of the forestry enterprise, was elected deputy of the district council of workers' deputies. Died on December 13, 1978. Buried in the village of Berezovskaya.

Cossacks before the attack

The monument to the Hero was erected in Volgograd opposite the Volgograd I railway station, in the courtyard of the Volgograd Memorial and Historical Museum, the former Museum of the Defense of Tsaritsyn-Stalingrad.

21.05.1889 - 13.12.1978
Hero of the Soviet Union

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 village of Berezovskaya in the Ust-Medveditsky District of the Don Cossack Region, now part of the Lovyagin farm in the Danilovsky District of the Volgograd Region. From the family of a hereditary Cossack. Russian. In 1900 he graduated from three classes of a rural primary school. He was engaged in peasant 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 in the Petrokovsk province of the Kingdom of Poland. Since August 1914 - a participant in the First World War, throughout the war he fought as part of his regiment on the Southwestern and Romanian fronts. Became the head of the intelligence team. He distinguished himself many times in daring sorties behind enemy lines, during the capture of prisoners, in defensive and offensive battles. In one of the night sorties, he captured and delivered to his positions 52 captured Austrian soldiers with an officer, in another, he captured the enemy headquarters at the head of the group. He was awarded four St. George's Crosses (full St. George's Knight) and two St. George's medals. The last military rank is a lieutenant.

In 1917 he was seriously wounded, was treated in hospitals in Kiev, Kharkov, at the Sebryakovo station near Tsaritsyn. At the beginning of 1918 he returned to his native farm. But it was not possible to take up 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. Krasnova, enlisted in the 18th Cossack regiment. He took part in battles on the side of the white troops. In July 1918 he was captured and on August 1, 1918 he was enlisted 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 taken prisoner, now with the whites (according to some reports, he deserted), again enlisted in the white units. Since June 1919, again in the Red Army, the 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 of hostilities in the Don, in the Kuban and in the Crimea. He was seriously wounded. In 1921 he was demobilized.

He returned to his native farm, worked as an individual peasant. Since July 1929 - chairman of the Loginov collective farm in the Stalingrad region. Since March 1930 - Deputy Chairman of the Berezovsky District Executive Committee. From January 1931 - inspector in the interdistrict Serebryakovsky 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 forced 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 early for shock work.

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

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was not subject to conscription due to his age (52 years old). Nevertheless, in October 1941, he achieved enrollment as a volunteer in the cavalry division of the people's militia from volunteer Cossacks that was being formed in the city of Uryupinsk. Cossack militias chose him as the squadron commander of the Berezovsky district. A month later K.I. Nedorubov and his squadron joined the Mikhailovsky Consolidated 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, after completing its formation, the division was redeployed from Stalingrad to the Salsk region and became part of the North Caucasian Front. From July 1942 she took part 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 the defensive battles in the Kuban at the initial stage of the battle for the Caucasus. As a result of surprise raids on the enemy on July 28 and 29, 1942 in the area of ​​Pobeda and Biryuchiy farms in the Azov region of the Rostov region, on August 2, 1942, near the village of Kushchevskaya, Kushchevsky district, Krasnodar region, on September 5, 1942, in the area of ​​the Kurinskaya village, Apsheronsky region, Krasnodar region, 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 killed 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 with point-blank fire 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 battle on October 16, 1942 for the village of Maratuki - after repelling four enemy attacks, he raised the squadron to counterattack and in hand-to-hand combat threw it back with great damage - up to 200 soldiers. He was twice wounded in battles on September 5 and October 16, and in the last battle - seriously.

For the exemplary performance of 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 Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

After being seriously wounded, he was treated in hospitals in Sochi and Tbilisi. Since December 1943, Guard Captain K.I. Nedorubov. - in stock for injury. He lived in the village of Berezovskaya, Danilovsky District, Volgograd Region. He worked as head of the district department of social security, head of the district department of road construction, secretary of the party bureau of the forestry enterprise, was elected deputy of the district council of workers' deputies. Died on December 13, 1978. Buried in the village of Berezovskaya.

Guard Captain (1943). He was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin (including 10/25/1943), the Order of the Red Banner (09/06/1942), the 1st (1917), 2nd (1916), 3rd (11/16/1915) and 4 -th (10/20/1915) degree, medals, including 2 St. George medals "For Bravery" (including 1916).

Honorary Citizen of the village of Berezovskaya, Volgograd Region.

In September 2007, in the hero-city of Volgograd, in the memorial-historical museum, a monument to the full St. George Knight and Hero of the Soviet Union K.I. Nedorubov. The name of the Hero was given to the Volgograd Cadet (Cossack) Corps. 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:

At Kushchevka, the Kuban people, overwhelmed by the encirclement, rushed into the breakthrough - at the German tanks of General Kleist. With the fury of the "doomed", as the allied observer Gol'd wrote about them in his first sensation, the Cossacks, bending over in their saddles, smashed the tanks with grenades, burned them with bottles with a fiery mixture, and themselves, struck down, at a gallop, fell now under the caterpillars, now under the hooves neighing horses with pain and horror ... In that battle, Dudak's fellow countryman - Georgivian knight of all four degrees Konstantin Iosifovich Nedorubov with his son Nikolai cut off seventy Germans hated by him from the machine-gun carriage "Maxim".

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

No way, Osipych, did you make his Georgievs related to the Star ?! - Ostap Ivanovich asked with involuntary envy, respectfully and in surprise, jabbing his finger under the bifurcated beard of his fellow countryman, into his steep chest with gold and silver crosses gleaming under the Golden Star of the Hero.

He's a couple, Ostap! Why ... Though our Race is now under the Star, and we shouldn't forget about George the Victorious either, while the same enemy tramples on her, mother, ”Nedorubov struck and, screwing up his bulging eye at Dudak’s shepherd’s chest, asked in turn:“ And where are your Georgies? ..

Ostap Ivanovich grunted, looked around at his Romka:

From, son of encores, he has done something wrong! "Take off, he says, Dad, your old-pronged crosses, until we, the Komsomol members, condemn you!" I heard from me, bisov sons ... - he explained sadly.

Since then, the Kopytins have moved from one Cossack corps to another more than once, and wherever the Dudaki rattled with their machine-gun cart, Ostap Ivanovich recalled Nedorubov ...

Tokarev K.A. "Buda thirsts." War correspondent's notes. - M .: "Moscow worker", 1971, p. 36-37

From the memories of a veteran

“Our 42nd Cavalry Regiment was the first to enter the area of ​​hostilities,” KI Nedorubov wrote in his autobiography. - On July 29, at dawn, we found ourselves in the area of ​​the Samarsky farm, but we could not forestall the enemy. Meanwhile, the enemy, having knocked down the outposts of the 30th Infantry Division, crossed the Kagalnik River and occupied three large settlements on its bank. Assessing the current situation, Divisional Commander S.I. Gorshkov decided to restore the lost positions. 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 soldiers of the 1st squadron broke into the Zadonsky farm, the 2nd - into Aleksandrovka, the 3rd. to the village of Pobeda. Fierce street fighting ensued.

The skirmishes with the enemy continued all day. And although the 42nd regiment did not manage to push the enemy to the other side of the river, its squadrons achieved significant successes. By evening, the Nazis brought fresh forces into battle and again pushed back the regiment's units to the southern outskirts of the settlements captured by the Cossacks.

After a series of powerful enemy attacks, the Don Cossack Division was withdrawn for reorganization. By the end of July 31, its units were ordered to go to the area of ​​the village of Kushchevskaya. Divisional Commander S.I. Gorshkov decided to knock out the enemy with a night raid.

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

Together with units of the 12th Cavalry Division, the horsemen of Colonel Gorshkov occupied the village of Kushchevskaya. The battle for the village lasted all day. The enemy's 42nd Mountain Infantry Division 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 developed in the sector of the 42nd Cavalry Regiment, in which K.I.Nedorubov fought with the squadron.

The soldiers of the regiment staunchly repulsed the continuous attacks of the enemy until the enemy managed to reach the left flank. The threat of encirclement was created.

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

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