Ignatov family biography

Here studied Genya Ignatov photos of V. Novikov Ignatov Gennnady Genius Petrovich. USSR, Krasnodar Territory, Genya Ignatov was born in Armavir Krasnodar Territory in a large and friendly family. Father, Pyotr Karpovich, was a participant in the civil war. Mom, Elena Ivanovna, worked as a nurse. There were three sons in the family: Eugene, Valentine and Genius. Despite a large difference in the age of 10 and 7, respectively, the older brothers loved the younger Gena and took care of him.

Pyotr Karpovich began to teach at the Krasnodar Chemical and Technology Institute now KubSTU, which he later headed. In the spring of the year, the boy graduated from 9 classes. By this time, the teenager also joined the Komsomol. The feat of the late autumn of the year, the Nazis threatened to capture the Kuban. Genya and his mother were supposed to go into evacuation, but the Soviet troops drove the enemies from Rostov-on-Don, and postponed the evacuation.

So Genya remained in Krasnodar. In the summer of the year, the Nazis occupied the Kuban and occupied its capital - Krasnodar. Before that, a partisan detachment was created from employees of the Chemical and Technology Institute and the Krasnodar Intelligentsia. He was headed by Peter Karpovich with a light hand of his eldest son, he was given a “dad”. Elena Ivanovna became a doctor in the detachment, Eugene headed a group of scouts and miners.

Genya helped his older brother in everything. Since childhood, a teenager studied mechanics and a driver’s business. To be as useful as possible in the detachment, he studied German. The middle brother, Valentine, fought in the ranks of the Red Army. In August, the detachment went to the Krasnodar -Novorossiysk railway area. Genya Ignatov went to intelligence, participated in battles, captured prisoners.

In one of the partisan sorties, Genya was wounded in his hand. Once in intelligence, Eugene and Genya defeated the enemy bunker. When reinforcements arrived at the enemies, the brothers captured the wedge, burst into the village of Smolenskaya on it, destroyed the Nazis with machine gun fire. At the exit from the village, the wedge was knocked out, and the transport had to be left.

Another time, Genya, under the guise of a rural teenager, along with his peer Pavel Martoko in the village of Smolenskaya, grenades defeated the Nazi headquarters, destroying several officers. I had a chance to win from the enemy and collective farm animals. When the Nazis captured a herd of cows to send cattle to Germany, Genya and Pavel drove several cows from the main herd. The young men specifically caused a chase, thereby allowing the partisans to take away other animals.

Only at the last moment the scouts disappeared in the forest. The death of the Ignatov brothers, the artist M. Domashchenko in October, Eugene fell ill and could not participate in battles. As an engineer, he developed a mine for sabotage on the railway. The projectile had to explode from the pressure of the train onto the rail. On the night of October 10, Eugene was about to install a mine by the railway track.

He volunteered to help Gene. Mina had several fuses, the last of them had to be removed after the partisans departed from the railway. But shortly after installing the mines on the highway, Nazi armored cars appeared, and an enemy echelon went along the paths. The brothers realized that they would not have time to do anything, and with anti -tank grenades rushed to the canvas.

Patriots blew up a mine. The explosion was terrible. The train collapsed downhill, the wagons fell onto the armored cars. More fascists were destroyed. However, the brothers themselves died on their father’s birthday. Their parents were awarded the awards of their sons - the golden stars of the heroes and the Order of Lenin. In the year, the name of Geni Ignatov was named among the winners of the social-state project “Search and Educational Expedition“ Kuban Name ”” in the nomination “Combat Names of the Kuban” from G.

Memory of the Ignatov brothers, along with the older brother of Gene Ignatov, was first buried on the site of his death. After the liberation of Krasnodar from the Nazis in January, the remains of the patriots were buried in the Sverdlov Park now Yekaterininsky in Krasnodar and only in April of the year were transferred to the All -System cemetery of the city of Krasnodar. In the village of Baki of the Seversky district, an obelisk has now been installed at the site of the death of the brothers.

Various institutions are named after the Ignatov brothers: the regional children's library in Krasnodar is named Geni Ignatov, and the apartment in which the Ignatov family lived in Krasnodar now became a museum. Materials about the Ignatov brothers, including Gene Ignatov, are stored in the Krasnodar Museum of History and Local Lore. The stand of the memory of Geni Ignatov on the Alley of Heroes in Armavir photos from the personal archive of Yu.

Koroleva in honor of the heroes named Streets in Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, memorable boards are installed there. So he was called in the year participants in the expedition of the North-Western aeroheudesical enterprise. Armavir on the alley of the Armenian heroes sets a stand in memory of the native of the city of Gene Ignatov. In the summer of the year, a bust of Geni Ignatov was installed in the same city on the Hero Alley.

The name of the Ignatov brothers is named the freight motor ship. The names of Eugene and the Geni Ignatovs are immortalized in many documentary and artistic works.The “Poem of the Hero Brothers” by V. Dombrovsky, the “Ballad of the Ignatov brothers” O. Miloslavsky, the poem by S. Danilova “Memory of the Ignatov brothers” are known. Ragulina and V. Tuinov wrote “Song of the Feat” dedicated to the feat of the Ignatov brothers.

A documentary was shot about the feat of Eugene and Genei.