Blessed memory of the Hero of Russia Sergei Solnechnikov. Major of the Russian Army, commander of the communications battalion, Sergei Solnechnikov, at the cost of his life, saved conscript soldiers, - presentation. At the cost of his life Solnechnikov Sergei Alexandrovich Hero of the Russian Federation

MOSCOW, March 29 - RIA Novosti. An accident at military exercises in the Amur Region, where, saving the lives of conscripts, aroused pride in ordinary Russians for "real officers." The parents of the deceased battalion commander say that their son has always lived for others, and they are waiting for his body to be brought, politicians offer to award him the title of Hero of Russia posthumously, and the military promise not to forget his family.

The commander of the communications battalion, Major Sergei Solnechnikov, died in the Amur region on Wednesday. During the exercise of throwing grenades, an emergency situation occurred: after the throw of a private, a grenade hit the parapet. Solnechnikov jumped to the conscript,. There was an explosion, the officer received numerous injuries and soon died.

Soldier father

Social networks on the Internet are full of records about the deceased battalion commander: "officers in Russia have not yet died out", "acted like a real hero", "there should be more of these", "a feat of a battalion commander."

"They call him a real officer ... my son's friends call, my friends call, express their condolences - and he really was such a kid," Alexander Solnechnikov, the father of the deceased battalion commander, told RIA Novosti.

"I'm ready to help, I would live for myself ... but he lived for others and lay down on this grenade, a fool," - said the father through tears.

“When I took him fishing with me, it seems like an adult guy is dad, and why do we catch so many fish, she’s alive,” said the father.

What kind of guy is hewas

Since childhood, Sergei dreamed of becoming a pilot, said Solnechnikov Sr., who worked in an aviation regiment, where his son liked to come.

“Serozhka often visited the airfield with me from the age of 4 - he sat and looked at the planes taking off and always dreamed of being a pilot,” said his father. Sergey graduated from the Akhtuba flight school and "in the direction of the commander-in-chief, without passing exams, he entered the higher Kachinsky school in 1997." After the closure of this school, the cadets were transferred to Armavir, where Sergei was decommissioned for health reasons. “They wrote off supposedly for health reasons, and he went and entered the Kemerovo branch of the St. Petersburg University of Communications - then it was called that,” Solnechnikov Sr. said.

Upon graduation in 2003, Sergei began to serve in the Amur Region. “I always dreamed of being a military man - I didn’t succeed as a pilot, but he chose this military path anyway,” said his father. He added that his son quickly grew in the service: "the chief of staff of the battalion, then the commander of the battalion." .

Sergei's parents do not know any details about the death of their son and do not even know when the body will be delivered for burial - the investigation reported that the officer's body was sent for a forensic medical examination.

"Mothers called in the morning when he had already died - he died on the operating table. They said that his son had died, then the commander of the unit called, confirmed the same thing - and that's it," said the elder Solnechnikov. "I tried to find out, it's impossible to get through to anyone," he added.

According to him, the girl with whom he was friends will help transport the body of his son to the small Motherland. “She communicates with us and will bring him here, we don’t know when,” said the father. The funeral will be held in the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd region.

at the cost of life

As RIA Novosti was told by a source in one of the military units of Belogorsk, where the incident occurred, when the soldier made a throw, the grenade ricocheted off the parapet. “Maybe the hand broke, it’s difficult to say for what reason the throw didn’t work out. Sergey probably immediately assessed how the explosion would turn out. He only managed to push the conscript to a group of soldiers who were nearby waiting for their turn to throw grenades and covered the shell otherwise, more than one person would have been crippled," the source said.

Prosecutors are investigating the circumstances of the emergency, the main military investigation department of the Investigative Committee is conducting an audit.

"I believe that this commander, of course, should be presented for a state award. And the Public Chamber will come out with such a petition," Kucherena said.

Sergey Solnechnikov was born in 1980 in Volgograd, in the family of Alexander Solnechnikov, a former military man, and his wife Zoya Solnechnikova.

After graduating from school in the city of Akhtubinsk in 1997, Sergei became a cadet at the Kachinsky Military School. It is known that Solnechnikov's dream was to become a pilot, but reality did not allow the dream to come true - the school that Sergey entered was disbanded. He continued his studies at the Kemerovo Higher Military Command School of Communications. Sergey graduated from it in 2003, after which he began service in the Amur Region, in military unit No. 53790 of the Far Eastern Military District.

Solnechnikov's life ended tragically early. So, on March 28, 2012, during the exercises, one of the soldiers, Private Maxim Zhuravlev, awkwardly threw a live grenade, which, without flying far, rolled back into the trench. At that moment, the entire squad was in the trench together with the commander - about 10 people.

It took Solnechnikov a fraction of a second to make a decision - so, pushing the soldier closest to the projectile, Sergey covered the grenade with his own body. There was an explosion. It is not known how many victims would have been in the trench that day, if not for the feat of the commander.

In the Belogorsk hospital, where Sergei was taken very quickly with multiple wounds, he spent about two hours on the operating table, but the surgeons were powerless - the officer received too deep wounds.

So, Sergei Solnechnikov died during the exercises on March 28, 2012. It is known that the officer did not have his own family, and he devoted all his time to work. By the way, Sergei's military career progressed very successfully - by the age of 30 he had already become a battalion commander.

It is known that after the incident, the soldiers in that ill-fated trench were in a state of severe stress, realizing how close death had passed, and how priceless the feat of their commander, who saved their lives by sacrificing his own.

The command of the unit believes that Solnechnikov's deed is worthy of a state award, as do both relatives and friends of Sergei. It is known that he had parents and a sister named Elena.

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In memory of Major Sergei Solnechnikov ...

"There is such a profession - to defend the Motherland." We all remember these wonderful words from the movie "Officers". Indeed, someone was proud of wealth, someone of the nobility of the family. But Russian officers were proud of the fact that they were defending the Fatherland. In the service of the Fatherland - there was Honor. And Russia was proud of its heroes.

At one time, General Jomini wrote: "Woe to the state where the greedy heroes of the wallet are valued more than the uniform of the brave who sacrifices his life, health, property in defense of the Fatherland."

At the beginning of the 20th century, during the Russo-Japanese War, coming to Moscow or St. Petersburg from Manchuria, combat Russian officers were surprised to meet the open hostility of "progressive society". Russian liberals in those years managed to create in society a hostile attitude towards the Russian Army and, above all, towards the officer corps. "Advanced society", dreaming of a "sky in diamonds", treated with contempt officers - "soldafons", limited "puffer teeth", faithful servants of the "backward autocracy", "tsarist guardsmen". Unfortunately, almost all newspapers and magazines were at that time in the hands of liberals. The writers also tried, - remember Kuprin's "Duel". The betrayal of their own Army by the “progressive public”, the support of revolutionaries, terrorists who unleashed a bloody revolt in a warring country, was largely due to the forced end of the Russo-Japanese War at a time when the Russian army finally built up its forces in Manchuria and was ready to deliver a decisive blow to the exhausted Japanese troops.

The same attitude prevailed in Russian society before the German war. At a time when Russian officers fought in the Great War for three years, shedding blood for the Fatherland, the "advanced society" in the rear dreamed of overthrowing the "tsarist regime." At best, representatives of this community stayed in "zemgusars". After 1917, military officers, who were treated with undisguised contempt by the "progressive public", for the most part in the White Army fought bravely for the honor of Russia, trying to save the country. And representatives of the "progressive public" for the most part whined with fear, dreaming that the Germans or the Entente would save them from the Bolsheviks and the horrors of the "emergency."

In the late 1980s, the Army was again diligently slandered in society, all the “perestroika” media diligently formed a hostile attitude towards the Russian officer. Now an officer Soviet army branded with shame, called a servant of a rotten regime. The time has come when a person in an officer's uniform, even in public transport, felt the unfriendly glances of others around him. And the “Afghans” heard more and more often from officials: “I didn’t send you there.” How it ended for the country, we remember well.

What happened in the "new Russia" you remember with a shudder. Constant arguments that we do not need the Army, no one is going to attack us, it's time to stop feeding the "loafers", etc., etc. The grouping of troops from Eastern Europe was taken out into the bare field. Officers were not paid for months, families were starving. Some wives could not stand it, left their husbands-officers, taking their children, went to their parents. My friend, an experienced officer, who served in a special forces brigade in Afghanistan, was seriously injured, deserved military awards, then the Academy. Frunze, hot spots, worked part-time as a loader at night to feed his family. The pilot of the Strategic Aviation (!) “bombed” in his passenger car at night to feed his family. The brilliant, superbly trained officer of the General Staff also earned a living. Some managed to earn extra money as security guards. But, most importantly, it was officially forbidden to earn extra money. If I talk about how officers survived at that time, then it can only be compared with the life of Russian officers who found themselves in exile, where they had to work as taxi drivers, workers in mines and foundries. But the officers of the betrayed and defeated Soviet army had to serve at the same time. Because they took an oath. Although, of course, not everyone survived. After all, everything was done so that the officer, waving his hand, fled from such army service, wherever his eyes looked.

The media created an opinion in society that service in the Army was the lot of losers who were unable to fit into a new, wonderful life. And in this new life - yachts, Mercedes, etc. benefits for those worthy of a better fate. But not for the "suckers" who are unworthy of it. In the new, “democratic” Russia, from the pages of newspapers and glossy magazines, from the television screen, the new “masters of life” imposed their “new values”. Such concepts as duty, love for the Motherland were ridiculed - they had no place in the "market relations". They even scoffed at the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Smerdyakovs reproached the veterans for depriving them of the opportunity to drink Bavarian beer from childhood. The "new" Russia had new heroes - those who could earn a million. It doesn't matter where - in show business, in a financial pyramid, just steal. The purpose of life is millions of greens, yachts and Mercedes.

And at this vile time, in spite of everything, young Sergei Solnechnikov enters a military school. Since childhood, Sergei dreamed of becoming a military pilot. From the age of 4, he came to the airfield where his father served and watched in fascination how combat aircraft rose into the sky. He graduated from the Akhtuba flight school, entered the famous Kachinsky Higher Aviation School. Unfortunately, due to health reasons, I had to give up my dream of becoming a pilot. But without the army, Sergei could not imagine life and entered the Kemerovo Higher Command School of Communications.

And at the same time, when young people are taught that military service is the lot of losers, guys like Sergei, who did not pass the competition for the Ryazan Airborne Forces School, are digging dugouts in the forest. They remain to live near the school, hoping that they will be taken instead of those who cannot stand the difficulties of the first months of study. They dream of becoming airborne officers. Because there is such a profession - to defend the Motherland!

What is this if not a vivid evidence of the indestructibility and inflexibility of the Russian soul. No Western intelligence analysts will ever be able to calculate the Russian people. And no one and nothing can break his spirit.

And then there was the first Chechen war. And the Russian officers of the Russian army, defeated and ruined in peacetime, in which for years there were not even battalion and company exercises, commanding "consolidated" (!) Tank crews of recruits, platoons and companies of untrained boys, in the hardest and stubborn, bloody battles defeated a strong , a trained and cruel enemy. Which was armed and equipped much better than the units of the Russian army. It was customary for us to laugh at the titles of field commanders - “brigadier general”. But what is a “gang formation” of 500-700 well-equipped fighters, among whom are most adults, strong men, many professional mercenaries who have been excellently trained in the methods of special units. How to call a bandit formation of 2,500 bandits led by Khattab and Abu Walid, on the way of which the 6th company of Pskov paratroopers got in the way? We had to fight in the mountains of the Caucasus with a very dangerous and cruel enemy. Whoever did not fight with us in the Caucasus - Arabs, Pakistanis, Turks, citizens of Great Britain.

But that wasn't the worst. Another thing was terrifying - the blows in the back of the "democratic" Russian media, which beat the belligerent Army according to all the laws and rules of the information-psychological war. But the most terrible was the unprecedented betrayal of the Kremlin. It was from the Kremlin that the orders for truces and ceasefires came, which prevented the finishing off of the defeated gangs, allowed them to regroup, replenish their ranks, and again receive weapons and ammunition. Orders came from the Kremlin, after which it was necessary to withdraw troops from the “peaceful” villages taken in battle, and then again they had to take these villages by storm, paying with blood.

And the war ended with the betrayal of Khasavyurt, which was skillfully organized by the current "London inmate".

Russian officers were well aware of who was betraying them and how, who was profiting from this war. But they fought because there was a war imposed on Russia with Russia. And they could not leave this war. They swore an oath to defend the Motherland. Then the song of Sergei Trofimov "Aty-baty" appeared:

My friends are bosses
And I'm out of luck
Which year I wander with a gun.
This is so harsh
Man's craft
Aty-baty, aty-baty.

Afghanistan, Moldova,
And now Chechnya
Left the pain of loss in my heart.
For all those who did not bring
From under heavy fire -
Aty-baty, aty-baty.

My wife is beautiful
left me
She was not to blame for anything.
No home, no shelter
What kind of family is this?
Aty-baty, aty-baty.

I served not for rank
And not for orders,
I don't like asterisks for pull.
But the captain's stars
I served in full.
Aty-baty, aty-baty.

Russia does not favor us
Neither glory nor ruble,
But we are her last soldiers.
And that means you have to endure.
Until we die...
Aty-baty, aty-baty.

There were different officers and generals who fought in the first Chechen war. I don't even want to remember the names of some generals. But the soldiers of real military leaders defeated the enemy - Shamanov, Bulgakov, Rokhlin, Troshev, Pulikovsky and other remarkable Russian generals. Low bow to them.

Someday, years will pass, perhaps even decades, and Russia will appreciate the feat of the Russian officer and Russian soldier, who, in the years of unprecedented betrayal and betrayal, the years of the triumph of merchants and thieves, fulfilled their Sacred Duty to the end. Their loyalty to Russia saved the country from disintegration. They really remained the "last soldiers" of Russia. Four centuries ago, it was precisely such “last people of the Russian state”, who remained faithful to God and the Fatherland, saved Russia in the days of turmoil.

During the war in the Caucasus, our soldiers and officers accomplished hundreds of real feats. But only the comrades-in-arms of the heroes and their relatives know about them. The country has not heard about the feat of the twice Hero Nikolai Maidanov, the legendary pilot. When the book of his comrade in Afghanistan, Viktor Nikolaev, “Alive in Help”, was published, Nikolai Maidanov was the commander of a helicopter regiment. In the book, Victor described one of Maidanov's exploits in the mountains of Afghanistan. Maidanov then fought in the first Chechen. He died on the second Chechen, as always, taking on the most difficult and dangerous combat work. Rescuing people under heavy fire, Maidanov received the first injury incompatible with life - a bullet broke the cervical vertebrae, the second bullet, bouncing off the dashboard, hit the heart bag. With two injuries incompatible with life, Nikolai Maidanov nevertheless lifted the car into the air, and only when he brought the “board” to a safe place transferred control to the right pilot, dying in the hands of a flight engineer. This is a real death "for your friends."

Nikolai Maidanov did what was physically impossible for a person to do. It was the victory of the power of the spirit over death. A twenty-minute documentary about Nikolai Maidanov, A Pilot from God, never aired on RTR. Victor Nikolaev and everyone who knew Maidanov say that he was an unusually clean, kind and very modest person. At the parade in honor of the 65th anniversary of the Victory in a helicopter group over Red Square, airborne flag Ruslan Nikolaevich Maidanov. We waited until the last moment for the announcer to announce that one of the helicopters was being piloted by the son of the twice Hero Soviet Union and Russia Nikolai Maidanov. But no one remembered the Hero.

You can talk about the exploits of our soldiers and officers in this war in the Caucasus for a very long time. And we all need to collect the chronicle of the valor and courage of the heroes Caucasian war. Unfortunately, many real feats remain only in the memory of colleagues and friends. Occasionally, the heroes were written about in the newspapers of the Ministry of Defense, such magazines as "Bratishka". There are many real Russian officers like Sergei Solnechnikov in our army. Many battalion commanders fought in the mountains of the Caucasus, who "did not hide their hearts behind the backs of the guys." They selflessly fought in the first and second Chechen companies. Many of them do not even consider their deeds to be feats - ordinary combat work, the usual “male craft”. The Russian officer and soldier has always been modest.

But on modern Russian TV, nobody needs this. "Not a format." Miraculously, two or three films were released (“Stormy Gates”, “I Have the Honor”). One gets the impression that the Chechen war is ordered not to be especially remembered. Grozny was rebuilt and unusually decorated, fountains, beautiful streets, the largest mosque. Peace has come. Why remember the exploits of soldiers and officers, reopen wounds? This is how the government seems to think. But only we will not forget about the fabricated trials of those who fought for this world to come - Yuri Budanov, Eduard Ulman, Sergei Arakcheev and Evgeny Khudyakov, Vladimir Kvachkov. For the sake of "considerations of the highest state expediency" in the matter of pacifying the Caucasus, Russian officers were again betrayed.

Meanwhile, Sergei Solnechnikov was released from the school, received lieutenant shoulder straps. He did not have to fight in the Caucasus, as far as I know. But he was a professional and conscientious officer, once by the age of thirty Major Solnechnikov was the battalion commander. But the main thing - Sergey Solnechnikov was, according to colleagues, very bright and kind person. It is no coincidence that he was called the battalion commander Sun. Everyone remembers Sergei Solnechnikov as such a bright, kind and deeply decent person - from school friends and teachers to comrades at a military school and soldiers of his battalion. School teachers recall that Sergei loved to read books about the Great Patriotic War, about the exploits of heroes. Sergei grew up and was brought up in Stalingrad, on sacred ground. School N 27, where Solnechnikov studied, finished two more heroes. In 1984, one of the graduates of the school, Pyotr Tokarev, died heroically in Afghanistan. In January 2003, Major Vadim Gordeev died in Chechnya while saving a local girl from a grenade. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

Sergei Solnechnikov was adequately raised by his parents, Alexander Vasilyevich and Zoya Alexandrovna. Holding back their grief, they say that their son could not do otherwise. I always tried to live for others and really appreciated someone else's life. Alexander Vasilievich immediately told reporters not to dare to reproach the fighter who unsuccessfully threw a grenade - anything can happen. You can’t spoil a guy’s life - for the sake of him to live, and Sergei died.

Victor Nikolaev, who witnessed many heroic deeds of our soldiers in Afghanistan, says that a feat is always prepared for a person's whole life. It is the result of how a person was brought up, how he relates to life. When you think about Sergei Solnechnikov, you understand that this is true. For one or two seconds to think what to do is impossible. He decides to close the grenade not with his mind, but with his soul and heart.

Sacrifice himself, saving others, only a person with a pure soul and a pure heart. Sergei Solnechnikov was just such a person.

In 2008, Major Denis Vetchinov accomplished his feat. During the war in South Ossetia, a mortally wounded major fought to the end with a firefight with Georgian special forces, saving the lives of unarmed journalists. I spoke about the feat of Major Denis Vetchinov in August 2008 in the program “Who Saved South Ossetia”. Denis Vetchinov and Sergei Solnechnikov have a lot in common. Both officers are handsome Russian guys with kind and good faces. Everyone remembers both Denis and Sergey as wonderful, bright people. Such a strong spirit, courageous and pure people were the battalion commander of the guard lieutenant colonel Mark Evtyukhin and the guard major Alexander Dostovalov, who with a group of fighters made his way to height 776, to help his dying 6th company, in order to heroically lay down his head with the guys. And Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Vasiliev, who voluntarily went to his death in Nord-Ost, telling the killers: “I am a Russian officer. I am ready to exchange myself for children.

I can name many more Russian officers known to me who selflessly and heroically fought in the war in the Caucasus. And those who remained alive, keeping in their hearts forever "the pain of loss for those whom they did not bring out from under heavy fire", and those who died, giving their lives "for their friends." These are people who knew from childhood that "there is such a profession - to defend the Motherland." And they served and serve really "not for titles and not for orders." And although the Motherland still doesn’t particularly indulge its defenders “neither glory nor ruble”, they know that they are “its last soldiers”. By the way, Denis Vetchinov named his daughter Masha in honor of Yegor's bride from the movie "Officers", as Yegor wanted to name his son.

No matter how hard the Minister of "Market Defense" Serdyukov tries to introduce the spirit of "market relations" into the Russian army, the guys will go to military schools, because there is such a profession - to defend the Motherland.

And there will always be such officers as Denis Vetchinov and Sergei Solnechnikov in the Russian army. I would like to repeat again the words said in the transmission of the memory of Denis Vetchinov: “It is time for our authorities to understand that the main wealth of Russia is not oil and gas - the main wealth of Russia, at all times, is the Russian people. Such as Denis Vetchinov and Sergey Solnechnikov. Beautiful, strong-willed, courageous and kind Russian people, on whom Russia has stood for centuries. The best sons of Russia, the most precious thing she has.

At a time when the elite of Russia was made up of people of Duty and Honor, and this is exactly what Russian officers have been throughout history, the Russian state was strong and prosperous. Today they are talking about the need to replace the bankrupt and stealing democratic “elite”, which has been tormenting Russia for the third decade. liberal project. She should be replaced by real "sovereign people" who have devoted themselves to serving the Fatherland, those who have proved by life that they can pronounce the words: "I have the honor!"

Sergei Solnechnikov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia. Streets in three cities of the Amur region will be named after him. He did not have time to get married, he was only going to, having received a vacation, go with his bride to his parents, and soon get married. We hope that the soldiers whose life was saved by Sergei Solnechnikov will name their future sons Sergei.

And we will pray for the parents of Sergei Solnechnikov - Alexander Vasilyevich and Zoya Vasilievna, sister Elena, his bride Olga. Let us pray that the Lord and the Queen of Heaven will console their grief, strengthen them in the confidence in Eternal Life, which their son and brother undoubtedly acquired, who fulfilled the testament of Christ: “there is no greater love than one who lays down his life for his friends.”

The Great Days of Passion Week are coming. It will end with the Bright Resurrection of Christ. And Sergei Solnechnikov, Denis Vetchinov, Konstantin Vasiliev, Mark Evtyukhin, Alexander Dostovalov, Vadim Gordeev, Evgeny Rodionov and thousands of Russian soldiers who gave their lives "for their friends", for you and me, for our children, for Russia, we firmly believe entered after the end of his short earthly life into the joy of the Risen Christ.

Kingdom of Heaven and Everlasting memory to the newly deceased warrior Sergius, to all our soldiers who died defending Russia. Eternal memory and Eternal glory. Holy Mother of God save us!

Sergei Aleksandrovich Solnechnikov(August 19, 1980, Potsdam - March 28, 2012, Amur Region) - Russian officer, major of the communications troops, who at the cost of his life saved his subordinate soldiers during the explosion of a combat grenade. Hero of the Russian Federation (2012).

Biography

Sergey Solnechnikov was born on August 19, 1980 in the city of Potsdam (German Democratic Republic), where his father, Alexander Vasilyevich Solnechnikov, served as a military man. After returning to the USSR, the family lived in Volgograd, where Sergei studied at secondary school No. 81 (from September to October 1986) and No. 27 (from October 1986 to June 1995). After the 8th grade, he continued his studies at the Akhtuba General Education Cadet Boarding School named after. P. O. Sukhoi (Astrakhan region). In 1997, without exams, he was admitted to the Kachin Military School. However, he did not manage to finish it, since in 1998 the school was disbanded. Then S. A. Solnechnikov entered the Kemerovo Higher Military Command School of Communications, which he graduated in 2003. In 2004, he was assigned to military unit 53790 in the Far Eastern Military District (the city of Belogorsk, Amur Region).

Feat

On March 28, 2012, during the exercises, one of the conscripted soldiers (19-year-old private Maxim Zhuravlev) unsuccessfully threw an RGD-5 grenade from a standing position. The ammunition hit the edge of the front parapet that protected the firing position, ricocheted and flew off into the zone of destruction of colleagues. The major instantly realized what had happened, pushed the confused soldier away and covered the grenade with himself. An hour and a half later, the major died on the operating table from injuries incompatible with life - rupture of the spleen and liver, shrapnel wounds to the heart and lungs.

The day after the death of Sergei Solnechnikov, a criminal case was opened on this fact. The military investigation department for the Belogorsk garrison began a preliminary investigation into all the circumstances of the incident.

On April 2, 2012, S.A. Solnechnikov was buried with military honors at the city cemetery No. 2 in the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd Region, where his parents and sister live.

On April 3, 2012, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Major S. A. Solnechnikov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for heroism, courage and dedication shown in the performance of military duty.

Memory

• On April 2, 2012, the Duma of Blagoveshchensk, after an appeal from the Governor of the Amur Region Oleg Kozhemyako, decided to name one of the streets of the new quarter of the city after Sergei Solnechnikov.
• On April 24, 2012, a memorial stele to Major Sergei Solnechnikov was unveiled in Belogorsk.
• May 7, 2012 in Belogorsk on the Walk of Fame, a plate with a star was installed in memory of the Hero of Russia, Major Sergei Solnechnikov.
• In the city of Volzhsky in June 2012, the cadet school was named after S. A. Solnechnikov. In November 2012, an unnamed street No. 11 in the Akhtuba Pearl microdistrict was also named after him.
• In July 2012, the name of Solnechnikov was given to a street in the Rodnikovaya Dolina district of the Sovietsky district of Volgograd.
• In 2013, the Orsk Transport College was named after S. A. Solnechnikov.
• The poet Dmitry Bykov dedicated a poem to the deceased officer in the “Hero of the Week” section of the “Sobesednik” magazine, in which he noted with regret that in modern Russia, in his opinion, the hero is more often considered the one who covered himself with others, and did not save them at the cost of his life.
• In 2015, the Russian Post issued a stamp from the Hero of the Russian Federation series with the image of S. A. Solnechnikov.

Awards

• Hero of the Russian Federation (2012).
• Medal "For military valor" II degree (Ministry of Defense).
• Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" III degree (Ministry of Defense)

Family

• Father - Alexander Vasilyevich Solnechnikov
• Mother - Zoya Aleksandrovna Solnechnikova
• Sister - Elena Aleksandrovna Solnechnikova
• Was not married

31-year-old major Sergei Solnechnikov, who died heroically at a training ground in the Amur region, covering a grenade ready to explode, saved more than one soldier, as originally reported. He owes the lives of at least a dozen conscripts. Colleagues told the details of his feat. The commander of the communications battalion did not just cover the soldier with himself. Seeing that the danger threatened the fighters, he pushed the guy who was standing next to him, and he lay down right on the grenade and took the whole explosion on himself.

On Wednesday, the commander of the communications battalion, Sergei Solnechnikov, personally checked the execution of exercises by his subordinates during planned firing at a training ground near Belogorsk, Amur Region. "In the morning, he went to the exercises with the battalion. There, the soldiers threw grenades, including live grenades. And then one somehow unsuccessfully either ricocheted, or fell off the soldier’s hand and fell next to the soldiers. Everything happened very quickly" , - Sergey Frolov, a colleague of Solnechnikov, told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

“He didn’t have time to think. Here a grenade falls in the wrong place, at that very second the major rushes at it. An explosion. If he hadn’t done this, it’s even scary to think how many guys could have died ... The whole company was around, more than a hundred people," Frolov said.

“When the soldier made the throw, the grenade ricocheted off the parapet. Maybe the hand fell off, it’s difficult to say for what reason the throw didn’t work,” a source told RIA Novosti. “Sergei probably immediately estimated what the explosion would turn out to be. , to push the conscript to a group of soldiers who were nearby waiting for their turn to throw grenades, and covered the projectile with himself. Otherwise, more than one person would have been crippled."

"Solnechnikov had a matter of seconds to make a decision, about ten conscripts could be within the radius of destruction," Life News was told at the headquarters of the 35th Army.

The wounded officer was promptly taken to a military hospital in Belogorsk. For more than an hour and a half, military doctors fought for the life of the major, but the wounds were too serious, and they could not save him.

In Solnechnikov's battalion, many soldiers cannot recover from the shock. “There is deathly silence on the floor in the barracks,” conscript soldier Ivan told KP. “Some of the toilets don’t come out - they still feel sick. It was a terrible sight. saved lives. Such officers in our army can be counted on the fingers of one hand."

The case of the death of Major Solnechnikov is being conducted by the military investigation department for the Belogorsk garrison. A criminal case has been initiated under Part 2 of Article 349 (“Violation of the rules for handling weapons, resulting in the death of a person through negligence”), Interfax reports. If the soldier who threw the grenade is found guilty, he could face up to five years in prison.

"Any Lieutenant's Nightmare"

In theory, every officer should be ready for the feat that Solnechnikov accomplished. “This is a nightmare for any lieutenant,” Moskovsky Komsomolets quotes an unnamed retired military man. “Before leaving for the training ground, each commander scrolls such a situation in his head. It is believed that everyone should do as Solnechnikov did. A sort of “duty feat.” Another question that not everyone is ready for this. His deed, of course, deserves an order. "

The mothers of the soldiers rescued by Major Solnechnikov also think so. They have already applied to the army headquarters with a request to award the officer posthumously. "We consider his act a feat, - commented at the headquarters. - But the decision on the award will be made and announced only after a full check of the incident."

By the name of the sun

Major Solnechnikov was one of the most promising officers not only of the unit, but of the district as a whole, they said after his death in the press service of the Eastern Military District. Decent, competent, modest, responsible - this is how Solnechnikov's colleagues characterize him, emphasizing that rarely does anyone become a battalion commander at the age of 30.

The correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda, who happened to serve in the army under the command of Solnechnikov, also remembered him from the best side: "He was also my battalion commander. One of the few officers in the unit who unconditionally deserved respect." Among themselves, the fighters called him the Sun.

The officer who saved the soldier was born in Volgograd. His relatives live there, and he will probably be buried there. Initially, Solnechnikov was preparing to become a military pilot, but later changed his preferences and graduated from the Kemerovo Higher Military Command School of Communications. He served as a battalion commander for a little over a year - since the end of 2010. Sergei Solnechnikov did not have time to start a family.