Gregory Gridasov was drafted into the army after high school in 1940.
‘ I told my mom, sister Grigory Makarovich, – says Elena. – When he was studying in the tenth class of school № 5 of Minsk, came to them officers from the military office, spoke with high school students, convinced to go to serve in the army voluntarily, instead of waiting for the summon (it started with devetnadeseti years). The boys of the whole class said “Yes”. Grandmother, mother of Gregory, did not mean that he was in the military. But he could not say: “my house is not allowed”. And went into the army.
Gregory was in Transbaikalia, where he graduated from excellent school of Junior commanders. Got to the front in November 1942. Fought at Kursk. He participated in the battles for bridgeheads on the rivers again, Sozh, Desna, Dnepr. About the war, how many soldiers, desperate dashing to the front, spoke rarely. But a couple of times niece was lucky.
– it was a hard moment due to exhaustion it was to weigh only 38 kilos. He was sent to the frontline house of rest for two weeks. He said: “We ate and slept.” Withstood a week – a little come to himself, escaped to his native 258th Khabarovsk infantry regiment. Not fully recovered, and put it “on the economic part.” “I did not go on foot – my horse was. And I was there last,” said uncle Gregory. For three months he stayed in this position, but this time killed several scouts. And he said, “go Back”. Remembering this story, he was smiling, but his eyes didn’t laugh. Said with such a stretch: “Not like… Afraid that he would kill… But it was necessary.”
another time he dropped that among his soldiers there were many ex-prisoners.
Commander they called “chief.” Uncle recalled that scouts from the ex-prisoners often acted according to the mood. For example, during a RAID behind enemy lines, they find out the situation, might say: “Chief, the Germans were… full! Do not go.” “And what did you do?”, – I asked. “Simulated detection of the group opened fire, the Germans answered”. But if there is an urgent need, if the intelligence is desperately needed, his soldiers in all conditions has resulted in “language” and always, if it got serious clashes, carried their wounded or killed. Later, however, asked: “Boss, let me go for three days.” Let go. Covered. Despite the threat of Tribunal. But the soldiers never failed, returned just in time. Uncle said, “I always wondered how they found the regiment, especially at the end of the war, on foreign soil.”
– There is another story associated with Grigory Makarovich. It’s about love, her mother said. In the army my uncle was a close friend of Andrei Trofimovich Zhigulev of Talmenka (they are after the war they were friends). Once the regiment arrived translator from Moscow, a girl from a professorial family. Friends immediately fell in love with her. When od��n was in exploration, and the other remained in the part were both thinking about how to be with love, if one of them does not return from the mission. What the lady says to the one who survived? But it happened anyway: the girl was badly wounded, the operation in Moscow is not saved. This history has received continuation.
Mother in 1943 he graduated from the medical Institute in Novosibirsk together with a diploma, as all, received a military ID and uniform. Part of their issue (and mom in particular) were sent on courses in Moscow. One day she comes to the Dorm, telling her: “Marina Gridasova, you have a visitor”. Should the well-dressed woman of about thirty. It turned out to be the elder sister of the deceased translator. Her family wanted to know what was in that Siberian guy that they are smart, beautiful, the professors ‘ daughter fell in love with him? “And what were you talking about?” “She asked about his parents – who they are, about family… nothing special.” Really, what was so special about these young Siberians that have enabled them so much to sustain, to move, to do?
18 April 1945, Lieutenant Gridasov took its last battle in the great Patriotic war. That day, his regiment participated in the Moravian-Ostrava offensive, crossed the river Opava. The scouts were tasked to penetrate the enemy position and find out how protected the crossing. The front line moved in the night, crawling up a ravine. When they reached the river, he saw that pass unnoticed to the bridge impossible. Gridasov decided to seize the crossing before dawn. The scouts have done it without losses – helped the element of surprise. Took up a perimeter defense, beat off twelve attacks, the last time you came to blows. Lieutenant Gridasov was seriously wounded and shell-shocked.
He was long treated in hospitals. For the rest of life right hand was left crippled, but Gridasov learned to write. Swam, went skiing. He returned home in the spring of 1946. The house was almost empty. His father worked in Barnaul, mobilized to the labor army. Brother Ivan, having won in the forty-fifth with the Japanese, was promoted in the far East. Sister Marina, a military doctor, too, was still in the army. A 55-year-old mom plowed on the cow in the surrounding fields – horses to 1943 in the Altai is almost gone. In the postwar the rear was a little easier than on the front.
the star of the Hero Grigory Kravchuk received only a year after the war – the paperwork is done delayed.
In the mid-sixties Barnaul surgeon Alexei Sokolov was removed from the cheek of the soldier a handful of splinters.
– Uncle came to us and showed the palm of your hand with dozens of shrapnel – they were green, scared, twisted with a very sharp edge. In the “Russian truth” of Yaroslav the Wise the word “griden”. Griden is a princely combatant. It turns out, Grigory Makarovich has lived up to its name, protecting the country and its ��ezopasnost life.
Dossier “RG”
Gregory Gridasov was born 19 June 1922 in the village of zhulanka (now included in Kochkovskaya district of the Novosibirsk region). Soon the family moved to Kamen-na-Obi, where the childhood of Gregory.
At the front he was promoted from private to commander of the reconnaissance platoon. During the war he was awarded the order of the red Star, Alexander Nevsky and the great Patriotic war I and II degree, Czechoslovakia the order of nine medals, including “For courage”. He died and was buried in 1995 in Simferopol, where he lived since 1976.
Gregory Gridasova grow four great-grandchildren, and two of them are named after great-grandfather.
