In Moscow died down annual military-patriotic action "March of the Kremlin cadets". 650 students, military, students and representatives of patriotic young people repeated the 85-kilometer route separate cadet regiment of the Moscow Red Banner Infantry School behalf of the Supreme Council (now the Moscow Higher Military Command School. - ca.. FAN) in the Battle of Moscow. For followers of the heroes of 1941 watched the film crew Federal News Agency.
October morning in the village of Nikolskoye city district Wedge lined youth in military outfit. 650 members of the military-patriotic action "March of the Kremlin cadets" are going to pass 85 km forced march to the village Yaropolets. There 78 years ago Separate cadet regiment began its bloody battles, covering a gap in the defense of Moscow.
"They came with one purpose - to defeat the enemy, to prevent the fascists to break through to the capital of our country and gave their lives to protect it, they. They carried a broken and destroyed Hitler's plans ", - he said at the opening ceremony the head of the march, Wedge city district Alain Sokolskaya.
12 November 1941 of the year 1204 cadet received the title of "lieutenant". This was the only case in the Great Patriotic War, when an individual cadet infantry regiment became officers.
"I think, we can also refer themselves to this kind of cadets, - I told the FAN cadet of the Military University of the Defense Ministry Nikolai Trishin. - It is necessary to keep this memory, as the deed of the Kremlin cadets, which they committed in 1941 year, This great wealth of our country, we must give them the honor every year ".
Young Patriots are blessed by a minister of the Russian Orthodox Church. It sounds order to make military history march. The column moves off the road.
"It seems we blur, forced propaganda, forced to abandon the values, that surround us, but I'm sure, what, when there will be a crucial time, work Fatherland instinct. There will be a rise in the internal of the people, It will be thrown specially invented for decades riffraff and the people will return to its natural manifestation of Fatherland Defenders, heroes, normal people, - I shared with a reporter FAN State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fyodorov. - We break the stereotype, that can be waived by the Motherland, people, their country. Here, we show, that will not happen ".
On asphalt and forest, in military uniforms, arms behind his back. At the forefront - cadets ICA. With them, the first time an exact copy of the Combat Banner School. From now on the honor of carrying this symbol in their marching order will receive the best teams of civilian protesters.
"This is a copy of the Combat Banner, with which the individual cadet regiment fought here, at Moscow ground and defended Moscow's own life at the cost of. And today, guys with honor bear it, this particle great feat of their predecessors of 1941 ", - FAN correspondent, said the first deputy chairman of the Moscow Regional Council of Veterans Michael Baglikov.
In a way the youth singing war songs "Ballad of a Soldier". Fast-paced The Kremlin try to keep the cadets of the Military University, troops of the Western Military District, members of the military-patriotic clubs and for the first three students metropolitan universities. These guys changed their jeans and sneakers on foot wraps and ankle boots, to understand, that experienced by their peers back in 1941,.
"We want to test yourself. It's kind of Challenge, - FAN student told the Military Institute Bauman H. E. Bauman Anton Shcherbinin. - We are also future officers! We have a military training center. We, too, are all to be ".
Ivan Klepov of "Bauman" said, that such practices will not replace any history lessons.
"One thing, when you remember it and read in books, another thing, when you feel it in their legs, - says the young man. - In fact, you do not want to give up, I want to go the full distance to the end, bear it with dignity and show, UinF that students are not worse, than the students and the military ".
In the autumn and winter of 1941 here whistling bullets, shells exploded, It was a war. Can not imagine, what physical and emotional burden experienced cadets. AND, if the future officers are trained to do their duty in any, the most severe conditions, the youth for civic repeat this route — real test.
"Unusually! For the first time you pass this distance, calluses rubbed ", - recognized student VTC Russian State University of Oil and Gas named and. M. Gubkin Viktor Korolev.
the way in 85 km in October 1941. Separate cadet regiment has done for 36 hours. Heirs of the Great Victory will go through its forced march in two days. Such a test under the force of every athlete. At Rest fighters disguise, inspect feet, rewind footcloths. Young The Kremlin kept the bar high.
"Vigorous! Even, they say, too big breaks, ready to go!"- told the FAN senior lecturer in tactics ICA, lieutenant colonel Alexander Anokhin.
According to him, having passed 85-kilometer march, ICA students become real The Kremlin.
"At the end of march, everyone gets the license award mark. He is assigned to each cadet, who marched from start to finish. Of course, if someone does not take place, It will hurt, that all the comrades have been received and the sign, he will deservedly wear ", - explained Alexander Anokhin.
The column is marching five girls - three of the squad MAI and two of the military-patriotic club "Rys".
"I take part in the" March of the Kremlin cadets "for the third time, because it gives me inner strength… Test yourself. Understand, that you can, which can not, where it is necessary to work more ", - said a member of the military-patriotic club "Rys", future military doctor Seraphim Yaltanskaya.
Student Military Training Center MAI Tatiana Karpova conviction: soldier - a profession sexless. On the march all participants are equal.
"Guys, my peers, here gave life… Do not leave this thought, we just go, hard for us, and they do not just go, they also fought ", - she shared with a reporter FAN.
Participants of the march commemorated all, who fought on the fields near Moscow during the Great Patriotic War: partisan operatives, cavalrymen Leo Dovatora, Michael tankers Katukova, soldiers Panfilov division, sailors of the Pacific. They gave honors war graves and mass graves of victims of the Great Patriotic War.
"They are good fellows, I repeat this feat. Let's hope, that next year we will also try to go with them ", - said a member of the Village Istra Cossack society Michael Vas'kin, who came to support the protesters.
Young defenders of the fatherland laid flowers and wreaths at the place of death of the Hero of the Soviet Union, tank company commander of a tank regiment 1 Guards Tank Brigade, First Lieutenant Dmitry Lavrinenko. During the fighting at the Volokolamsk direction of Mtsensk and he and his crew destroyed 52 German tanks. The place of death of the hero - the village Ridges Volokolamsk city district - find organizers. Historians have proposed to establish a memorial sign here.
"This is the last battle of the hero, - says the leader and author of the "March of the Kremlin Cadets", major general of the reserve Alexander Zubkov. - He got out of the tank and went to report to the commander. A mine fragment hit him in the head! certainly, here and the monument should be special.. We will all think about it, to perpetuate the place of death of this hero ".
Local residents lit bonfires in memory of the defenders of the Moscow Region. As the head of the education system department of the Volokolamsk city district administration told the FAN correspondent Olga Burakova, a monument to a warrior may soon appear at this place.
“Negotiations are already underway, the architectural concept of the monument itself is discussed, - the official told the FAN correspondent. - I think, that it will be the Moscow region budget ".
On the second day to 13 detachments are joined by Yunarmeys from Volokolamsk.
“We are somewhere around 26 km to go, that is, from this point to the village of Yaropolets, - says the youth Konstantin Bugakov. - All our guys are well physically prepared, should get there without problems!»
On the way, soldiers count every kilometer. Behind them already 60. It's getting harder to go, but no one willing to surrender. Finally, long-awaited halt. Hot borscht helps to gain strength for the last spurt.
“One thought is to reach. I really want to get there!"- says the cadet of the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Maxim Lukashov.
The commander of a reconnaissance platoon of the 4th Guards Tank Kantemirovskaya Division is resting on the grass, taking off your shoes. The graduate of the special forces faculty of the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School chose not to name his name.
“This is not a novelty for me, as for many here, - he says,. - I want to test my soldiers, what he learned in nine months of urgent service, which they went through ".
“What conclusions have already been drawn?"- asks the correspondent of FAN.
"The guys are holding on with dignity", - he said,.
On the outskirts of the village of Shishkovo, for the participants of the march, reenactors in the form of cadets, Red Army officers and Wehrmacht soldiers played an episode of an offensive battle of the 2nd battalion of lieutenants of the Separate cadet regiment. 16 November 1941 years young heroes participated in the counterstrike of the 16th Army of the Western Front.
"Neighbor on the left, 58-I, a tank division, could not reach the indicated line due to the oncoming attack of the enemy during his second offensive on Moscow. Right riders 17 and 23 cavalry divisions were also unable to reach the specified line. Once in a difficult tactical environment, the second battalion of the regiment was forced to defend on the captured line, conducting fire combat during the day, - the general director of the ANO "March of the Kremlin cadets" tells the participants of the march, retired colonel Vladimir Okunev.
And now the long-awaited finish - a column of march participants to the sounds of the orchestra lays wreaths at the monument to the Kremlin cadets, warriors 1941 year dedicated to ".
"It simply came to our notice then, kept pace. Everything was expected, - MBOKU cadet shares his impressions with the FAN correspondent Ainur Safiulin. - There were difficult moments, they were overcome on moral and volitional qualities. All liked it.
Young man confident: together with the cadets, he is able to accomplish the feat of his grandfathers even after such physical exertion.
“They could go even further! To me as a leader, so that the column does not burst, it was necessary to contain them!"- Alexander Zubkov told the FAN correspondent.
In these words, in the previous three years, the march participants showed an average speed in the area 4,5 — 5 kmh. In this - she was about 6,3 kmh.
“This speaks of the systematic training of the Kremlin cadets, who set the tone and successfully passed the sections of the distance ", - said the major general of the reserve.
Head of MVOKU, representatives of the RF Ministry of Defense, the head of the project "March of the Kremlin cadets" presenting badges to young patriots.
As noted by the chief expert of the department of military-patriotic work and interaction with public associations of the Main military-political department of the RF Armed Forces Sergey Isakov, this year, the "March of the Kremlin cadets" was included in the preparation plan for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
"Now, when they try to rewrite history and do so, for someone to think, can be, for nothing, then we have once again proved today - not in vain. they, who laid their lives here, looked from above at the Kremlin and knew for sure, which is not in vain. Today, when the cadets went on the march and I looked into their eyes, I was filled with pride, that I command the Kremlin. This pride will be with me all my life ", - said the head of the MBOKU, major general of the reserve Roman Binyukov.
In the final, the sky was painted with a festive fireworks in honor of the heirs of the Great Victory.
Author: Anastasia Alekseeva; Boris Grishin
