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During the period   Battle of stalingradon Bald Mountain with september 1942 to January 1943year troops 64th Army  under the command of a general Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilovfought fierce battles with the Nazi invaders. The altitude changed hands several times, but German troops could not break through to the Volga. Defending Stalingrad, Soviet soldiers showed models of courage and heroism.

In these battles, the soldiers of the 204th, 422nd, 157th Rifle Divisions, 36th Guards Division, 7th Rifle Corps and other units heroically fought.

Bald mountain- one of the highest points Volgograd, its maximum height is 145.5 m., a panorama of the southern part of the city opens from the top. It is open to all winds, devoid of vegetation and covered with sand.

Here, in the southern part of Stalingrad, the fighting began in mid-September 1942, when the Nazis rushed to the Volga. For the first time they managed to break through the defense of the 64th Army and capture the height of 145.5 on September 14, but on the same day they were thrown back by a counterattack. Two days later, with the help of reinforcements, the Germans again managed to capture the western slope and the peak of strategic height and turn it into a powerful defensive site.

At the end of October 1942, the Soviet units attempted a massive assault on a height of 145.5 - when they counterattacked, they tried to prevent the enemy from concentrating forces for a decisive strike on the defense of Stalingrad. For seven days there were fierce battles, during which the enemy was exhausted and was forced to go on the defensive.

Once again, the assault on Nazi positions on Lysaya Gora began in mid-January 1943 during the counteroffensive of Soviet troops. For several days, the soldiers of the 64th Army had to systematically attack every strong point. January 17, 1943 Lysa Gora was completely liberated and the 64th Army pushed the enemy to the center of Stalingrad. Altogether, battles for height lasted 147 days.

A monument was erected to commemorate the feat of arms of soldiers and officers of the 64th Army. This is a 22-meter obelisk, in the form of a machine gun barrel, lined with concrete slabs with granite and mirror chips.

On the sides of the obelisk are bas-reliefs: a soldier with a torch and a warrior girl with a rose. Both figures bow before the exploits of the soldiers - the defenders of Stalingrad and pay tribute to the memory of the dead.

On the front side at the level of the bas-relief image the inscription is made:
A world defended for future generations
Glory to you eternal and thanks
Fatherland. Homeland honors these exploits
The name of which is immortality.

In the upper part of the obelisk are the numbers “1942” and “1943”, reminiscent of the years of the heroic battle of Stalingrad.

A marble plaque with the inscription is installed on the obelisk: “At this height in 1942, the soldiers of the 64th Army fought fierce battles with the Nazi invaders and did not let them go to the Volga.”

Next to the obelisk is a granite stele on which the scheme of operations of the 64th army from January 10 to February 2, 1943 is cut down. Places of fierce melee battles of the battle on Lysaya Gora are marked by small stone pyramids with five-pointed stars marked on them. On the approaches to the monument - reinforced concrete hollows, as if recreating the front edge of the defense. The monument was unveiled on November 4, 1968

The author of the monument is the architect F. Lysov. The author of the bas-relief image and memorial inscription is sculptor V. Bezrukov.

Her defenders are buried on Lysaya Gora - in the mass grave on its eastern slope, near a pine grove, the soldiers of the 64th army who died in battles for Stalingrad rest. In 1973  a typical 4-meter monument of marble chips is installed on the grave. The inscription on the granite tablet says: “Here are buried the soldiers of units of the 64th army who died during the Battle of Stalingrad. Glory to the heroes". On the eve of the 58th anniversary of the Victory near Stalingrad, February 2, 2001at the initiative of the Volgograd Russian National Cathedral, an Orthodox cross was erected on the mass grave.

In 2009, Bald Mountain happened to be a film set for a documentary about the legendary sniper Vasily Zaitsev. Director - Konstantin Shutov. Filming of fights was conducted on Lysaya Gora in the Soviet district of Volgograd, because Bald Mountain looks exactly like Mamaev Kurgan in 1942 - neither a tree nor a bush. The main roles in the production scenes of the film were played by unprofessional artists from the Volgograd military-historical club "Infantryman".

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The captured General Field Marshal Paulus and his adjutant were escorted to the headquarters of the 64th Army. Stalingrad, January 31, 1943

The 64th Army began to form on December 2, 1941 in Moscow as the 24th Army. By order of the NPO No. 170333 Sh / H dated April 26, 1942, the 24th Army was renamed the 1st Reserve Army.

July 10, 1942 on the basis of the directive of the Supreme High Command Headquarters No. 994103 Sh / t dated July 10, 1942, the 1st Reserve Army was renamed the 64th Army. It included the 18th, 29th, 112th, 131st, 214th and 229th rifle divisions, 66th and 154th naval rifle divisions, 137th and 40th tank brigades, regiments cadets of the Zhytomyr, Krasnodar, 1st and 3rd Ordzhonikidze military schools, a number of artillery and other units. July 12 is included in the newly formed Stalingrad Front. With the beginning of the Stalingrad strategic defensive operation, its advanced detachments engaged in stubborn battles with the vanguards of the 6th German army on the Tsimle River. Subsequently, the units of the 64th Army reflected the advance of the enemy’s southern strike force at the border of Surovikino, Rychkovo and further along the left bank of the Don.

In early August, in connection with the threat of a breakthrough of the 4th tank army of the enemy to Stalingrad from the southwest, the army was withdrawn to the external defensive contour of Stalingrad, where they continued to conduct defensive battles. Since August 7, the army was part of the Southeast (from September 28 Stalingrad 2nd formation) front. In late August, it repelled enemy attacks on the middle contour, and in early September it was assigned to the internal defensive contour of Stalingrad and fixed at the line of Staro-Dubovka, Elhi, Ivanovka, where it fought stubborn battles until September 12. Subsequently, its formations and units defended the southwestern outskirts and southern part of Stalingrad. After the enemy broke through the defense of the South-Eastern Front at the junction of the 62nd and 64th armies and the withdrawal of his troops to the Volga in the Kuporosnoye area, the main army forces defended the area south and southwest of Stalingrad, from where they systematically launched counterattacks and counterattacks on the flank of the enemy group, trying to take over the city.

When the Soviet troops went on the counterattack, the army attacked as part of the main strike group of the Stalingrad Front, in the direction of Sovetsky, Kalach. On November 23, she reached the Chervlena River and subsequently fought on the inner front of the enemy’s encirclement. Since January 1, 1943, as part of the Don Front, participated in the liquidation of the encircled group of German troops near Stalingrad. After the Battle of Stalingrad ended, the army from February 6, 1943 was part of a group of troops under the command of Lieutenant General K.P. Trubnikov (from February 27 - the Stalingrad Group of Forces), which was in the reserve of the Supreme Command. On March 1, it was transferred to the Voronezh Front and in its composition conducted defensive battles on the Seversky Donets River in the Belgorod region.

Since July 12, 1942 as part of the Stalingrad Front. From January 1, 1943, as part of the Don Front. After the Battle of Stalingrad, 64A from February 6, 1943 was part of a group of troops under the command of Lieutenant General K.P. Trubnikov (from February 27 the Stalingrad Group of Forces), which was in the reserve of the Supreme Command. Since the beginning of March 1943 as part of the Voronezh Front.

Tens of thousands of 64A soldiers were awarded orders and medals, and 10 of them were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Marshal A. I. Eremenko in the book "St.alingrad "pi-sal:" The 64th Army, under the command of General M. S. Shumilov, played an exceptional role in the Battle of Stalin. Her perseverance and activity in defense, her maneuverability inflicted great damage to the enemy and helped disrupt all the terms of the capture of Stalingrad. Advancing on its site, the 4th Panzer Army of Goth, as they say, broke off its tank "wedges."

On the battle of the illustrious association near Stalingrad, her former retired soldier, half-rugman Alexander Mikhailovich Laptev, tells. After graduating from the Tyumen Infantry School in 1941, he has been at the front since the end of 1942. He fought as chief of intelligence of a division, corps and deputy chief of intelligence of the army. In the postwar period he continued his military service, including in the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. Since 1974 - deputy, and since 1993 - chairman of the Council of Veterans of the 64th (7th Guards) Army.

STRATEGICthe plan for the defeat of the Nazi troops near Stalingrad, as is known, was approved on November 13, 1942. However, preparations for a counteroffensive began in early October. It was conducted in an atmosphere of strict secrecy. Neither the command nor the army headquarters knew about this plan. Only at the very end of October the commander of the front, General Colonel A. I. Eremenko, arrived at the command post of the army and personally outlined the new task of the army only to Commander M. S. Shumilov, who the next morning acquainted with the task chief of staff and chief of the operational department of the army headquarters. In accordance with this task, the 64th Army was to, with a firmly maintained frontier from the Volga to Elha, strike the left flank against the enemy in the Elhi, Ivanovka section, defeat the opposing enemy units and bypass the encircled group together with the 57th Army enemy from the south. To solve this problem, the commander of the 64th Army, General M. S. Shumilov, created an attack force.

The entire main content of the operation, as well as the calculations of forces and means, were reflected only on the command darm card. Tasks to divisional commanders and brigades were communicated personally a few days before the start of counter-strangulation.

In early November, representatives arrived at the Stalingrad Front

Rates General of the Army G.K. Zhukov and General-Colonel A.M. Vasilevsky. On November 10, a meeting was held at the headquarters of the 57th Army, at which commanders of the armies and co-commanders of individual corps participating in the operation were heard.

On November 20, at 10.00, after powerful artillery preparation, the 57th Army, a neighbor of the left, went on the offensive. The 64th Army was to launch an offensive after the arrival of the artillery regiments of the RVGK from the 57th Army.

At 13.30 in the strip of the 64th Army, a second artillery preparation began, after which the troops of the shock group of the army passed into us-stupidity. The enemy put up stubborn resistance, especially in the area of \u200b\u200b128.2 and south of Elha. Having suppressed enemy firing points, the 157th and 38th rifle divisions resumed their offensive and, with the right-flank formations of the 57th army, broke through the enemy's tactical defense zone.

Exceptional courage and courage during the breakthrough of defense was shown by sappers. Their main task during the offensive was mine clearance. The difficulty was that the mines were firmly frozen into the ground, and they had to be cut down with axes. In addition, the snow cover greatly complicated the detection of minefields. The sappers coped with their task successfully. In the preparatory period alone, they removed about 1,000 of their mines and defused 2613 enemy mines.

During the second day of the offensive, the enemy launched strong counterattacks against the 157th and 204th rifle divisions. Hard fights ensued. In the battles of these days, the troops of the 64th Army attracted large enemy forces, including more than 100 tanks, and did not allow them to be used against a mobile front group.

By the end of the day on November 23, the troops of the 64th Army, together with the 57th Army, renewed the offensive, overcoming the stubborn resistance of the enemy, reached the line of Elhi, Popov, Karavatka beam. The 204th Infantry Division captured Yagodny. All the escape routes of the Nazis to the south and southwest were closed.

And finally, the good news came. On November 23, at 4 pm, the 4th Panzer Corps of General A. G. Kravchenko and the 4th Mechanized Corps of General V.T. Volsky joined in the Soviet area and closed the encirclement ring, cutting off all enemy communications. Surrounded were 22 divisions of the 6th Field and 4th Panzer German armies.

The elimination of the enemy began immediately after his encirclement. The troops were tasked with daily exterminating the encircled manpower and equipment of the enemy. In the implementation of this task, the main role was played by artillerymen. The issue of ammunition became acute. Their transportation through the Volga was extremely difficult. Gunners found a way out. On the liberated territory there were several depots of ammunition of the enemy and a lot of weapons. The gunners quickly learned whether this weapon and learned to use it. Attacks with these weapons were followed daily until the morning of January 10, 1943. Every day, in addition to their ammunition, more than 1,500 captured shells and mines were spent.

The main task of all the troops surrounding the German group was to prevent it from escaping from the "cauldron".

From the end of November, the divisions of the left flank of the 64th Army resumed their drastic actions. The main events unfolded on December 2. The 64th Army, together with the right-flank connections of the 57th Army, aimed at Alekseyevka, were to meet with the troops of the Don Front.

However, on the site of the 64th Army, uspekh was only in the Kuporosny district. Relying on a developed defense system, the enemy put up fierce resistance. The dissection of the enemy group did not happen.

Whenever there is activity at the front, the work of medical personnel is added. The medical personnel of the 64th Army, which almost did not know pauses in fierce battles, without closing their eyes, also fought for days on end a real battle for the life of soldiers.

There is a street named after Zinaida Mareseva in the Kirovsky district of Volgograd. The street is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Senior Sergeant of the Medical Service, who distinguished herself in battles near Stalingrad and on the Kursk Bulge. A former employee of the Volsky Bolshevik plant Zinaida Mareseva, after completing nursing courses, voluntarily went to the front and in November 1942 was appointed a medical instructor in the rifle regiment of the 38th division, commanded by captain V. I. Davidenko. I arrived at the hottest time - there was a counterattack near Stalin-grad. In an area of \u200b\u200b128.2 heights, Zina received a baptism of fire. Being under fire all the time, she calmly assisted the wounded, and evacuated the seriously ill-wounded in medical battalion. In just 2 days, she took out 64 wounded from the battlefield. In one of the hot battles, replacing the killed commander, Zina raised the soldiers to attack.

She failed to meet the victory. When crossing the Seversky Donets on August 3, 1943, she, covering her wounded body, was mortally wounded. She was 20 years old. The Guardsmen of the 214th Voroponov Rifle Regiment fired a volley over the grave and vowed to avenge the heroic nurse. Later they learned to the regiment that Zina-ide Mareseva was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. In the name of it, a street in the homeland, in the village of Cherkassky, was named. In the city of Volsk, on the house number 110 on Tolstoy street, where the hero lived, a memorial plaque was installed.

On the eve of the new 1943, the Headquarters of the High Command decided to liquidate the Stalingrad Front and form the Southern Front on its basis. The 64th, 62nd and 57th armies were transferred to the Don Front. He was tasked with completing the rout of the encircled enemy forces.

The plan of the operation provided for a major strike from west to east with the aim of dissecting the enemy group into parts.

The 64th Army and the right-flank formations of the 57th Army began to carry out an offensive at night, so as not to give the enemy peace, to exhaust his forces. Nightly activities were quite effective. The 204th and 36th Guards Day divisions penetrated the enemy defenses, and the 422nd and 38th rifle divisions defeated the enemy in the Basargino area, broke through their defenses and captured Voroponovo and an airfield with 18 operational aircraft. On the night of January 13, a regiment under the command of Captain V.I. Davidenko (38th Infantry Division) defeated the German artillery unit, captured 26 serviceable guns and an ammunition depot.

The troops of the left flank of the 64th army, having knocked out the Nazis from the Elhi farm, went to the area of \u200b\u200bPeschanka. Nocturnal ata-koi The gerbil was taken.

On the approaches to Peschanka, a sample of genuine heroism and courage was shown by the deputy commander of a company of machine-gunners, Lieutenant V. Mikheev from the 128th regiment of the 29th Infantry Division. His company, storming the enemy fortifications, captured 18 dugouts with machine-gun points, 4 heavy guns, destroyed and captured 400 Nazis. Vladimir Mikheev personally destroyed 60 and captured 85 enemy soldiers and officers. Decisive company actions ensured the advancement of the entire regiment. For this feat, Lieutenant Vladimir Mikheev - the first in the 29th division - was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

In the final battles, the 36th Guards Division successfully operated. Especially distinguished senior lieutenant Babich. In the vicinity of Sadovaya station, with a sudden raid, his group captured about 300 prisoners. Babich himself destroyed 6 officers and up to 20 enemy soldiers. His group was the first to reach the Volga coast. Vasily Babich was awarded the Order of Lenin.

Gradually, the troops of the 64th Army cleared the quarters of the Soviet district. The epicenter of the fighting was approaching the area of \u200b\u200bthe Fallen Fighters. On the night of January 30, the 38th and 36th Guards Rifle Divisions reached the station area, the 29th and 204th Rifle Divisions fought on the streets of Lenin and Sovetskaya.

In the camp of the enemy began mass surrender. On the night of January 30, she laid down a weapon and surrendered to the Romanian division, led by commander General Dmitriyevka. From January 29, other prisoners became aware of the whereabouts of the headquarters of the 6th German Army.

To increase the impact force of the 64th Army in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Square of the Fallen Fighters, the 38th Motorized Rifle Brigade with the 329th Engineer Battalion, who were met, was brought into battle between the 38th and 36th Guards Rifle Divisions stubborn resistance. The captured prisoners showed that they covered the approaches to the large building - the former department store, in the basement of which was the headquarters and commander of the 6th German army. On January 31, at 6:00, the building of the department store was blocked by units of the 38th Motorized Rifle Brigade. A German officer came out of the basement of the former department store and raised a white flag ... After the negotiations ended, the southern group of troops ceased fire, and mass surrender began. The Northern Group of Forces resisted for two more days, until February 2, 1943.

Prepared by Anatoly DOKUCHAEV,
   "Patriot of the Fatherland" No. 1-2009