Koshkina Maria Biography

Alekseevsky Maria Alekseevna was born in the year in the village of a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Maria Alekseevna - destroyed 84 enemies. Maria Alekseevna began the war with a sanitary designer, then herself, having outlets desire, became a sniper, passing special courses and fought with a sniper in the rifle regiment of the 85th rifle division, later consisting of 78 separate reconnaissance companies of the 85th Rifle Division of the Leningrad Front.

It was her last sniper shot: on the same day she was seriously injured in her right eye. She could no longer shoot in a sniper anymore, but continued to fight: she went into reconnaissance, saved the wounded. On the night of March 5-6, Maria Alekseevna was seriously wounded in her hand. For the war, Maria Alekseevna received three injuries. The war has ended for her.

When in the postwar years, Maria came from Leningrad to her native village being very modest, she never put on orders and medals. In the post -war years, for many years she worked in the outpatient clinic of the Leningrad meat processing plant with a X -ray. Awarded the Order of the Red Star G. From the recollections of the front -line soldier: for the first time at the Leningrad meat processing plant named after S.

Kirov, she came in the year. Worked as a plaster. I lived in a hostel. Together with her friends, she went to walk in the park, loved dances. She lingered for a long time at the mirror - whether the dress is sitting well, whether the hairstyle is smart. Somehow in the club she listened to the story of the war with the White Finns. I was surprised to learn that there were girls at the front - they made dressings to the wounded under the enemy’s fire, carried them out of the battlefield.

Maria immediately asked herself: “And I would have managed? Fertically decided to follow the example of those girls. Classes at the nurse’s courses were held 2 times a week, after work. She liked that they were engaged not only in classrooms, but also on the ground. They were instructed to find the“ wounded ”, and for this it was necessary to overcome the dense shrub, the ditches.

I left volunteered in volunteers. The army was sent to the medical battalion. Only from one battle she took out 15 wounded. Almost no one knew her name during the first year. She, like many other girls - patriots, bandaged and carried the wounded from the battlefield, helped doctors in a regimental medical center. And suddenly Maria forced to talk about herself. It all started like that.

Somehow she asked to go with the scouts. And she was allowed. They left at dawn and soon the scouts, not counting Koshkina, were 6, the fascists - from the very first shots 3 enemy soldiers were fighting. The rest began to shoot back. But their shooting was random, and not one of our scouts was injured. But after some time, the Nazis came to their senses. A stubborn battle ensued.

One of our fighter was killed in a shootout. Koshkina took his rifle and for the first time in her life began to shoot at enemies. The beginning turned out to be successful - one shot one. Perhaps this episode would not affect her future military biography. Maybe it would have happened, if Komsomolskaya Pravda did not appear in her hands, from the first page of which the sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko watched, on the account of which there were already several hundred destroyed enemy soldiers and officers.

Maria Koshkina said: "I will be the same as Pavlichenko." And every day it became clearer for me that I could not be only a doctor. I can’t! And then this German, somehow at the end of July, the Soviet anti -aircraft guns knocked out an enemy aircraft. It was in the Kingisepp area. The wounded German pilot was parachuted and was captured by us. He was treated in our medical battalion.

The German behaved brazenly, demanded that he give out exquisite dishes for lunch and boasted that Leningrad would soon be taken by the Nazis. I shouted to him: “Never!

It never to be, I myself, I will destroy with my own hands like you! I read it and thought again:“ Is it possible to try? She insisted that she was sent to snipers courses. The comrades helped her in this. In a short time, she perfectly mastered the art of marking, becoming one of the first snipers among the girls of the Leningrad Front. Maria loved to go to intelligence.

Once her reconnaissance group secretly got almost to the very front edge of the enemy. From the ambush, a large barn was visible. Near him are the Germans. They, not suspecting the danger, were quietly walking around, they thickening the songs. Then they opened the barn, brought out a group of Soviet women. The Germans, apparently, sought some information from them. But the Soviet patriots were silent.

Then the Nazis beat them and, having driven them back into the barn, set it on fire. Our scouts did not cost anything to kill all enemies. But then they would have betrayed themselves, and this could not be allowed: Soviet soldiers performed a special task. But soon, acting as a sniper, Maria avenged those women who died in fire. Koshkin was pleased with the new profession. She was proud that she was entrusted with a rifle with an optical sight.

On a frosty day on November 18, she first reached a firing position.With her was an experienced sniper Egorov. They lay on the frozen land for almost the whole day. Egorov shot a German, but Maria was not lucky. She was cold, she bitterly thought that she studied in vain, that probably nothing would come out with her sniper. The foreman understood the mood of the girl.

You won’t become a sniper without exposure. It began to get dark when Maria saw: meters in - a German soldier fucked up frighteningly. The girl aimed and shot. The German immediately collapsed. Failure again! Half an hour passed. The German appeared again. This time Maria did not miss. Joyful and excited, she returned to the dugout. From that day on, the girl from dawn until the darkness did not leave the combat line.

She went to the front line almost daily and each time returned with success. The account of the Nazis destroyed by her quickly grew. Its popularity grew. The executive secretary of the editorial office of the division newspaper "For Victory" I. Albats wrote articles about the initiators of the sniper movement in the division - Peter Dyatlov and Maria Koshkina - in the division and front -line press.

She was the former shy and timid. When they called her name and praised the first successes, she lowered her eyes and blushed.