Chepik Afghanistan. Chepik, nikolai petrovich. Courage breeds immortality

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Who is your hero? Sometimes it's obvious whose story you are telling. Let's say your story is about an adopted son who decides to find his own mother. He takes some action, moves towards his goal, meets obstacles and suffers defeat, comes into conflict with someone or with

CHEPIK Nikolay - Hero of the Soviet Union ... Guard senior sergeant. Nikolai Chepik prepared himself for military service in the best possible way. Having come to the sapper company, he was already a discharger in several sports. Therefore, in the early days, I did not feel the difficulties that beginners usually face at first. Nikolay served, as they say, with a soul. Honestly fulfilled his military duty, perfectly mastered the difficult specialty of a sapper, became an excellent student. I helped my comrades a lot, shared my experience with them. And it is no coincidence that the Komsomol member Nikolai Chepik was appointed deputy platoon commander. Time flew by quickly, and the service of the guardsman was already coming to an end. But Nikolai did not have the opportunity to change his army uniform for a civilian suit. The harsh time of trials came suddenly, breaking all plans, destroying many hopes. And Nicholas had to, arms in hand, together with his fellow soldiers, enter into mortal combat with the insidious enemy. In that last battle, the beautiful traits of Nicholas and other guardsmen were revealed even more vividly, in their courage and heroism immense love for their homeland, for their people manifested themselves, loyalty to the sacred military duty. The fight was extremely fierce and lasted for a long time. Passing in the mountains, he demanded great endurance and courage from the guardsmen. Nikolai took part in the defeat of a large group of the enemy. Had to act in a mountainous area. Guard Senior Sergeant Chepik advanced in the line of attackers, with his courage and courage he inspired his subordinates in battle. The assault group, led by Nikolai, destroyed over ten enemies in the village. Then the guardsmen boldly crept right up to the heavily fortified enemy firing points and destroyed them. And everywhere the commander was in front, showed a personal example, led him. Aligning with the sergeant, privates Alexander Rassokhin and Kerim Kerimov, who were part of the guard group, also acted boldly and boldly. The Komsomol members were truly fearless. None of them paid attention to the bullets whistling over their heads, fired at the brave men by enemy snipers. All the thoughts of the guards were subordinated to one thing - the desire to ensure the success of the offensive of the subunit in this direction. Having received the order to destroy the enemies entrenched in one of the caves, Nikolai with three soldiers under the fire of snipers made his way to the rear of the enemy and completed the combat mission. On returning to their own group, they were found and surrounded. In an unequal battle, the guards were seriously wounded, but bleeding to death, they continued to fight the enemy. Bullets hit the stones with a squeal, and the enemy showered the daredevils in a dense, leaden rain. Enemy bullets cut the life of one sapper, the second, the third. Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik was left alone, but continued to fight. With short, well-aimed bursts, he mercilessly smashed enemies. But now they ran out of cartridges. Like a pack of jackals, the enemy soldiers rushed with a bloodthirsty pack on the hero, anticipating the massacre of the unarmed Soviet soldier. When they ran up very close, a violent explosion suddenly burst out. Nikolai Chepik blew up the only remaining mine, died himself and destroyed 32 enemies. This is how a simple Belarusian guy, a faithful son of his great Motherland, a glorious educator of the Lenin Komsomol, a guardsman who fulfilled his military duty to the end, died heroically ... More and more soldiers come to the unit where the senior sergeant once served Nikolay Chepik. And every young warrior wants to be like a hero-brother-soldier. No, he did not die. The courage of the Komsomol member Nikolai Chepik was embodied in immortality. Young guardsmen cherish the memory of the glorious fellow soldier. With her in their hearts, today's soldiers successfully master the difficult military task, learn to defend their beloved Motherland the way Nikolai defended it - selflessly, skillfully. Chepik Nikolai was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) "Hero of the Soviet Union of the guard of senior sergeant Chepik Nikolai Petrovich to enroll forever in the lists of the unit ..." (From the order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR). Biography Born in the village of Mai, near Minsk. He spent his childhood and youth there. Nikolai grew up brave, honest and fair. Everyone who knew him treated him with great respect, loved him for his open character, kind heart, sensitivity to others. The feat of the Hero of the Soviet Union of the Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik is an example of courage, courage and honor. Veteran

Battle leaf. 1981

Deputy com. a platoon of a sapper company, a native of the village. May. Pukhovitsky district, Minsk region member of the Komsomol, in the ranks of the SA since May 1978. Fulfilling his military duty to provide assistance to the Afghan people, Art.st. Chepik N.P. participated in the liquidation of a large band of rebels.

Moving forward in the chain of attackers, Chepik acted courageously, in a sense, dragging his comrades along with him. During the battle in the village, it was destroyed before the separation of the enemy. Leading the assault group, Nikolai bravely approaching the embrasures, blew them up. Having received the order to blow up the fortified cave with the rebels inhabiting it, under the fire of snipers, at the head of 3 sappers, he made his way to the rear of the enemy and completed the combat mission. On their return, the group was found and surrounded. In the first battle, they were seriously wounded, but continued to fight back.

When the comrades died and the cartridges ran out, senior officer Chepik N.P. let the bandits approach him and with a mine Mon-100 blew them up along with him, destroying 32 bandits.

Leaflet.
Printing house "Guards Valor". 1980

"Hero of the Soviet Union of the Guard Senior Sergeant Chepik Nikolai Petrovich to enroll forever in the lists of the unit ..."
(From the order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR).

COURAGE BIRTHS IMMORTALITY

GUARD Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik was born in the village of Mai near Minsk. He spent his childhood and youth there. Nikolai grew up brave, honest and fair. Everyone who knew him treated him with great respect, loved him for his open character, kind heart, sensitivity to others.

Nikolai Chepik prepared himself for military service in the best possible way. Having come to the sapper company, he was already a discharger in several sports. Therefore, in the early days, I did not feel the difficulties that beginners usually face at first. Nikolay served, as they say, with a soul. Honestly fulfilled his military duty, perfectly mastered the difficult specialty of a sapper, became an excellent student. I helped my comrades a lot, shared my experience with them. And it is no coincidence that the Komsomol member Nikolai Chepik was appointed deputy platoon commander. Time flew by quickly, and the service of the guardsman was already coming to an end. But Nikolai did not have the opportunity to change his army uniform for a civilian suit. The harsh time of trials came suddenly, breaking all plans, destroying many hopes. And Nicholas had to, arms in hand, together with his fellow soldiers, enter into mortal combat with an insidious enemy.

In that last battle, the wonderful character traits of Nicholas and other guardsmen were revealed even more vividly, their immense love for their homeland, for their people, loyalty to the sacred military duty were manifested in their courage and heroism.

The fight was extremely fierce and lasted for a long time. Passing in the mountains, he demanded great endurance and courage from the guards.

Nikolai took part in the defeat of a large group of the enemy. Had to act in a mountainous area. Guard Senior Sergeant Chepik advanced in the line of attackers, with his courage and courage he inspired his subordinates in battle. The assault group, led by Nikolai, destroyed over ten enemies in the village. Then the guardsmen boldly crept right up to the heavily fortified enemy firing points and destroyed them. And everywhere the commander was in front, set a personal example, led him.

Aligning with the sergeant, privates Alexander Rassokhin and Kerim Kerimov, who were part of the guard group, also acted boldly and boldly. The Komsomol members were truly fearless. None of them paid attention to the bullets whistling over their heads, fired at the brave men by enemy snipers. All the thoughts of the guards were subordinated to one thing - the desire to ensure the success of the offensive of the unit in this direction.

Having received the order to destroy the enemies entrenched in one of the caves, Nikolai with three soldiers under the fire of snipers made his way to the rear of the enemy and completed the combat mission. On returning to their own group, they were found and surrounded. In an unequal battle, the guards were seriously wounded, but bleeding to death, they continued to fight the enemy. Bullets squealed against the stones.

The enemy showered the daredevils with a dense leaden rain. Enemy bullets cut the life of one sapper, the second, the third. Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik was left alone, but continued to fight. With short, well-aimed bursts, he mercilessly smashed enemies. But now they ran out of cartridges. Like a pack of jackals, the enemy soldiers rushed with a bloodthirsty pack on the hero, anticipating the massacre of the unarmed Soviet soldier. When they ran up very close, a violent explosion suddenly burst out. Nikolai Chepik blew up the only remaining mine, died himself and destroyed 32 enemies. This is how a simple Belarusian guy, a faithful son of his great Motherland, a glorious educator of the Lenin Komsomol, a guardsman who completed his military duty to the end, died heroically.

Time is irreversible ... More and more new soldiers come to the unit where senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik once served as a guard. And every young warrior wants to be like a hero-brother-soldier. No, he did not die. The courage of the Komsomol member Nikolai Chepik was embodied in immortality. Young guardsmen cherish the memory of the glorious fellow soldier. With her in their hearts, today's soldiers successfully master the difficult military task, learn to defend their beloved Motherland the way Nikolai defended it - selflessly, skillfully.

Warriors! The feat of a fellow soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union, Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik is an example of courage, courage and honor. In military everyday life, strive to act in a front-line way, equal to the military glory of the heroes-fellow soldiers!

set of postcards, 1987
"We are internationalists"

On February 29, 1980, enemy groups tried to penetrate the location of the Soviet troops. The unit in which Nikolai Chepik served was ordered to blow up an enemy ammunition depot in the cave. Returning after successfully completing the mission, the Soviet soldiers were ambushed. Dushmans significantly outnumbered them. During the skirmish, Chepik was wounded in the leg ... Having tied a directional fragmentation mine to a tree, a courageous paratrooper soldier directed it at the enemy and blew it up, hitting about 30 enemies.

At the cost of his life, the 19-year-old guardsman predetermined the outcome of the battle, fulfilling his military and international duty to the end ...

The spooks attacked the unit just before dawn. Vile, insidious and sudden. The snow-covered stone ridge was the last front line of Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik.

He saw how a large group of dushmans approached them, the living ring shrinking more and more tightly. And now one, and then the second bullet pierced his legs. Bullets whistled over the heads of his friends - soldiers, compatriots, and behind the soldiers, further, there were residents of a tiny village, forgotten by the Muslim god, in which the Dukans were smoldering. And Nikolai made a decision: to cover his comrades with his own life, everyone who was behind him.

A deafening explosion swept over the ground. Thirty spooks fell down dead, the rest fled.

And bread and song

Recently, the country learned about the feat of a Belarusian guy, guard senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik. He performed his international duty in Afghanistan. The attacking spooks surrounded Chepik, a threat to his life hung. And then Nikolai, wounded, pulled up the remaining grenades. There was an explosion. More than thirty dushmans were killed next to the paratrooper, who at the cost of his life saved his comrades in arms.

Hero's return

A native of Pukhovichi, Nikolai Chepik - Hero of the Soviet Union, was one of the first to receive this title for fulfilling his international duty in Afghanistan - posthumously. During a fight with dushmans, Nikolai was wounded in the leg. The soldiers saw how he tied a directional frag mine to a tree, directed it at the enemies. He could not go far on his own - the wounded leg did not allow. The choice had to be made quickly, and the paratrooper detonated a mine. By sacrificing himself, he predetermined the outcome of the battle. The explosion struck about fifty spooks. And the reinforcements that arrived in time for the paratroopers destroyed the remnants of the gang. It was in February 1980 ...

newspaper "Narodnaya Gazeta"
(Republic of Belarus), 09.07.2003

His feat is not forgotten

The 357th Regiment of the 103rd Airborne Division, in which Nikolai served, was assigned special tasks. Working behind enemy lines, eliminating bandit formations, protecting the local population are operations that require not a massive attack with large forces, but the delivery of accurate and effective strikes at key points in enemy territory.

On that day, February 29, 1980, a group of four people under the command of deputy platoon commander Nikolai Chepik was returning from a successfully completed mission - they were instructed to blow up the cave in which the spooks settled. Suddenly, the paratroopers stumbled upon a Dushman detachment. An unequal battle ensued. The enemy tried to take the guys into the ring, but Nikolai's small detachment desperately resisted. When comrades died one after another and Nikolai ran out of cartridges, letting the dushmans come closer, he blew up the remaining mine. Together with the Soviet soldier-internationalist, 32 bandits were killed. Nikolai Chepik was only 20 years old.

newspaper "Mirror"
(Republic of Belarus), 01.02.2004

We need peace, not war

Nikolai Chepik served in the paratrooper sappers unit. On February 29, 1980, Nikolai's unit, returning to the place of deployment after clearing the roads, was ambushed. Some of the soldiers died. Sergeant Chepik took command. He was wounded in the thigh, ordered everyone to withdraw, and he himself remained to cover his comrades. I could not move independently. After some time, I used up all the ammunition. The spooks came close, surrounded the soldier from all sides. Surely they were counting on easy prey, but they did not have time to come to their senses, as the paratrooper activated a directional mine ...

newspaper "Railway worker of Belarus", February 14, 2007

They were just starting to live

Home wrote that the paratrooper loses the battle when he is already dead. The spooks who surrounded our three soldiers on the last day of February 1980 did not know this. Both comrades died under their heavy fire, only Chepik remained, clutching a grenade in his hand. Surrender? .. Not so he was brought up ... An explosion thundered ... He died, but took the lives of several dozen more dushmans with him.

H Bishop Nikolai Petrovich - Deputy Commander of the Engineer Platoon of the 317th Guards Order of Alexander Nevsky Parachute Regiment of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division (limited contingent of Soviet troops in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan), Guard Senior Sergeant.

Born on April 16, 1960 in the village of Bluja, Pukhovichi District, Minsk Region, Byelorussian SSR, in the family of a collective farmer. Belarusian. He graduated from 10 classes of the Bluzhskaya secondary school. He worked as a fitter at the Minsk track distance.

In the Soviet Army since 1978, sent to the Airborne Forces. He became a sapper, deputy commander of an engineer-sapper platoon.

Since December 1979, senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik, as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops, has provided international assistance to the people of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in one of the eastern provinces.

On February 29, 1980, enemy groups tried to penetrate the location of the Soviet troops. The unit in which Nikolai Chepik served was ordered to blow up an enemy ammunition depot in the cave. Returning after successfully completing the mission, the Soviet soldiers were ambushed. Dushmans significantly outnumbered them. During the skirmish, Chepik was wounded in the leg ... Having tied a directional fragmentation mine to a tree, a courageous paratrooper soldier directed it at the enemy and blew it up, hitting about 30 enemies.

At the cost of his life, the 19-year-old guardsman predetermined the outcome of the battle, fulfilling his military and international duty to the end.

He was buried in the village of Bluzha, Pukhovichi district, Minsk region, Belarus, where his bust was installed.

Have by the kaz of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 28, 1980 for courage and heroism shown in the provision of international assistance to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, guard senior sergeant Chepik Nikolai Petrovich posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin (28.04.1980, posthumously), the medal "In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan" (24.12.2003, Republic of Belarus).

By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR of August 12, 1980, he was forever enlisted in the personnel lists of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division. Was entered in the Book of Honor of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.

The name of the Hero is borne by a street in the village of Druzhny, Pukhovichi District, Minsk Region, Belarus, and the school in which he studied. At the end of December 2004, a monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union N.P. Chepiku was opened in the regional center of the Vitebsk region of Belarus - the city of Vitebsk.

LIFE FIELD

We could meet him in Kabul - we were there at the same time. I didn't have to. And here is the bust. What was he like - senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik? How did you live? What is left of a life of only twenty years? Many, if not all, material traces disappear without a trace. The memory of exploits is never.

Today we know who Chepik became in his twenty years. And who could have become at forty or fifty? One can only guess about this. He was not expected to have a bright future. He was an honest, hardworking, decent guy. Normal! But it is here, in a stable, good-quality normality, that energy, nobility and selflessness arise, ripen, which, under a certain set of circumstances, lead to heroism.

The moment comes, and an ordinary representative of his generation - in this case, Nikolai Chepik, and there could be someone else - shows what he is capable of. In doing duty, he accomplishes a feat.

Chepik saved the lives of those whom he protected at the cost of his own life. This is the pinnacle of the possible.

The unit in which Nikolai served as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan was located in one of the country's eastern provinces. Here, attacks by dushmans on civilians, arson of schools, mosques, and brutal murders have become more frequent. Gangs of mercenaries, abandoned from abroad, in their cruelty, probably surpassed even the atrocities of the German fascists.

February nights in the Afghan mountains are not just dark. They are slate black. The snow is black, the sky is black, the wind is black - time for black deeds.

The spooks attacked the unit just before dawn. Vile, insidious and sudden. The snow-covered stone ridge was the last front line of Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik.

He saw how a large group of dushmans approached them, the living ring shrinking more and more tightly. And now one, and then the second bullet pierced his legs. Bullets whistled over the heads of his friends - soldiers, compatriots, and behind the soldiers, further, there were residents of a tiny village, forgotten by the Muslim god, in which the Dukans were smoldering. And Nikolai made a decision: to cover his comrades with his own life, everyone who was behind him.

A deafening explosion swept over the ground. Thirty spooks fell down dead, the rest fled.

The last thing he could still see were the peaks of the Hindu Kush, and above them a huge - to the very Motherland - a brightening sky.