M Yasnikov Mikhail Ivanovich – deputy commander of the tank battalion of the 63rd tank brigade of the Primorsky Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front, senior lieutenant.
Born on November 21, 1922 in the village of Kolpny (now a village in the Oryol region) in a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU since 1945. Graduated from 10th grade of high school.
In the Red Army since 1939. Served on the Western Border. In June 1941, Myasnikov was a cadet in the driver course of the Belarusian Border District, stationed in the Brest Fortress.
On June 22 at 4 o’clock in the morning, Myasnikov was on patrol at the Terespol fortification of the Brest Fortress in the area of the railway bridge over the Bug. The Marines were the first to look war in the face. The border guards greeted the appearance of the enemy with friendly rifle and machine-gun fire. Numerous attempts by the enemy to land troops on June 22 in the area defended by border guards were initially unsuccessful. The soldiers courageously repulsed the enemy's onslaught and repeatedly launched bayonet attacks. Until June 30, 1941, Lieutenant Zhdanov’s group (initially about 80 border guards), which included Myasnikov, was in continuous battle and used up almost all of its available ammunition.
On June 30, only 18 fighters moved to the Citadel (Central Island of the Brest Fortress). Myasnikov fought in the Citadel until July 5, 1941. With a group of fighters, he managed to get out of the fortress. We walked through the Polesie swamps at night. By the evening of July 10, Myasnikov and two comrades reached the Pripyat River southeast of Pinsk, but by this time our troops had already left the city. Only a month after the start of the war, on July 22, 1941, in the area of the city of Mozyr, three border guards crossed the front line, coming under enemy fire, as a result of which Myasnikov was wounded a second time. After first aid was provided, he was immediately sent to the hospital.
After the hospital, Myasnikov was sent to the Oryol Armored School, from which he graduated in August 1942. He was appointed commander of a tank platoon. Defended the city of Maykop and the village of Khadyzhenskaya. In the fall of 1942, he took part in the battles in the Tuapse direction.
In February 1943, Senior Lieutenant Myasnikov, as part of the 563rd separate tank battalion, fought on Malaya Zemlya near Novorossiysk. There he was wounded and again ended up in the hospital. For courage and valor shown in the battles on Malaya Zemlya, Myasnikov was awarded the first Order of the Red Star.
After his recovery in the fall of 1943, as part of the 63rd Tank Brigade, Myasnikov participated in the breakthrough of the Blue Line and the liberation of the Taman Peninsula, for which he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.
After capturing bridgeheads on the coast of the Kerch Peninsula, the tank brigade, in which senior lieutenant Myasnikov fought, crossed over to Crimea and participated in the liberation of the city of Kerch.
In April 1944, a new offensive of Soviet troops began in Crimea. The deputy commander of a tank battalion, Senior Lieutenant Myasnikov, fought along the entire southern coast of Crimea, participating in the liberation of the cities of Sudak, Alushta, and Yalta. By May 1944, troops of the 4th Ukrainian Front approached the Nazis' Sevastopol defensive region.
On May 7, 1944, during the assault on Sapun Mountain, when the battalion commander’s tank caught fire and he himself was seriously wounded, Senior Lieutenant Myasnikov took command of the battalion. Acting harmoniously, boldly and decisively, the tankers broke into Sevastopol. Myasnikov was the first to break through to Kamyshovaya Bay, blocking the Nazis’ path to retreat. He was wounded in a defensive battle, but continued to lead the battalion until the end of the battle. The tank battalion destroyed 64 field guns, 9 assault guns, more than 300 Nazis and captured 2,000 German soldiers and officers. On May 9, 1944, Sevastopol was cleared of the enemy.
U Kaz of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 24, 1945 for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown to the senior lieutenant Mikhail Ivanovich Myasnikov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 3709).
After the hospital, Myasnikov was sent to the Baltic states. Participated in the liberation of Lithuania and Latvia. The war ended on May 12, 1945, when the Nazi group, pinned to the sea, capitulated on the Courland Peninsula.
After the war, M.I. Myasnikov continued to serve in the army. Since 1975, Colonel M.I. Myasnikov has been retired. Lived in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. He was a frequent visitor to the cities of Sevastopol and Brest. He did a lot of military-patriotic work among young people. Died on July 25, 2005. He was buried in Dnepropetrovsk on the Alley of Heroes of the Zaporozhye Cemetery.
Awarded the Order of Lenin, 2 Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, 2 Orders of the Red Star, and medals. Honorary citizen of the city of Dnepropetrovsk (1995).
A bust of the Hero was installed in the village of Kolpny, Oryol region.
Born on April 23, 1975 in the city of Seltso, Bryansk region. Russian. He graduated from secondary school No. 2 in the city of Seltso. He graduated with honors from the Golitsyn Higher Military Border Military-Political School (now the Golitsyn Border Institute of the FSB of Russia). After graduating from college, he submitted a report on being sent to the North Caucasus. His request was granted. Lieutenant M.A. Myasnikov underwent special training in a mountain camp in one of the high-mountainous places in Europe, repeatedly climbed Elbrus and, when he began his service, already had the qualification of a master of sports in rock climbing. He first served as the head of a border outpost in the Republic of Dagestan, then was transferred to the outpost in the Chechen Republic. After serving for five years, having withstood the most severe competition, he realized his cherished dream - he became an employee of Directorate "B" ("Vympel") of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia. On September 1, 2004, school No. 1 in the city of Beslan (Republic of North Ossetia-Alania) was captured by terrorists; 1,128 people (mainly children, as well as their parents and school staff) were taken hostage. On the same day M.A. Myasnikov arrived in Beslan with the Vympel group. After explosions occurred at the school on the third day, causing a fire and the collapse of part of the walls through which hostages began to scatter, he, as part of an assault group, received an order to storm the building. Through their actions, the group ensured the destruction of all bandits who were on the premises. As a result, most of the hostages were freed during the assault, however, the total loss as a result of the terrorist attack was more than 330 people killed (of which 186 were children, 17 were teachers and school staff, 118 were relatives, guests and friends of students) and over 700 people injured. The number of special forces soldiers who died during the storming of the building is not known for certain and, according to different versions, varies from 10 to 16. According to some estimates, over 20 soldiers died. On the monument to special forces members (who died during the storming of the school), erected at the City of Angels memorial cemetery in Beslan, 10 names are carved. Died on December 6, 2008 in one of the special operations in the North Caucasus. Trying to save his comrades, M.A. Myasnikov, without thinking for a second, stepped forward and covered the grenade with himself. Thanks to his courage and heroism, no one was hurt. He was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelskoye cemetery in Moscow. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation ("closed") of February 3, 2009, for the courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task, an employee of Directorate "B" of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Anatolyevich Myasnikov, was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) . The special distinction of the Hero of the Russian Federation - the Gold Star medal (No. 938) was awarded to his parents - Anatoly Ivanovich and Tatyana Nikolaevna Myasnikov. Lieutenant colonel. Awarded the Order of Courage, medals "For Courage" and Suvorov. A memorial plaque was installed at secondary school No. 2 in the city of Seltso, where he studied.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Myasnikov(-) - Colonel of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union ().
Biography
After the end of the war, Myasnikov continued to serve in the Soviet Army. In 1975, with the rank of colonel, he was transferred to the reserve. Lived in Dnepropetrovsk. He was actively involved in social activities.
Honorary citizen of Dnepropetrovsk. He was also awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, two Orders of the Red Star, and a number of medals.
A bust was erected in Myasnikov's honor in his hometown.
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- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov. - M.: Military Publishing House, 1988. - T. 2 /Lyubov - Yashchuk/. - 863 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2.
- Kazaryan A. A. Heroes of the battles for Crimea. Simferopol, 1972.
- Smirnov S.S. Brest Fortress. Moscow: Raritet, 2000.
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Alpatych seemed to nod his head approvingly at these words and, not wanting to know anything more, went to the opposite door - the master's door of the room in which his purchases remained.“You are a villain, a destroyer,” shouted at that time a thin, pale woman with a child in her arms and a scarf torn from her head, bursting out of the door and running down the stairs to the courtyard. Ferapontov followed her and, seeing Alpatych, straightened his vest and hair, yawned and entered the room behind Alpatych.
- Do you really want to go? - he asked.
Without answering the question and without looking back at the owner, looking through his purchases, Alpatych asked how long the owner was supposed to stay.
- We'll count! Well, did the governor have one? – Ferapontov asked. – What was the solution?
Alpatych replied that the governor did not tell him anything decisive.
- Are we going to leave on our business? - said Ferapontov. - Give me seven rubles per cart to Dorogobuzh. And I say: there is no cross on them! - he said.
“Selivanov, he got in on Thursday and sold flour to the army for nine rubles a sack.” Well, will you drink tea? - he added. While the horses were being pawned, Alpatych and Ferapontov drank tea and talked about the price of grain, the harvest and favorable weather for harvesting.
“However, it began to calm down,” said Ferapontov, drinking three cups of tea and getting up, “ours must have taken over.” They said they won't let me in. This means strength... And after all, they said, Matvey Ivanovich Platov drove them into the Marina River, drowned eighteen thousand, or something, in one day.
Alpatych collected his purchases, handed them over to the coachman who came in, and settled accounts with the owner. At the gate there was the sound of wheels, hooves and bells of a car leaving.
It was already well after noon; half the street was in the shade, the other was brightly lit by the sun. Alpatych looked out the window and went to the door. Suddenly a strange sound of a distant whistle and blow was heard, and after that there was a merging roar of cannon fire, which made the windows tremble.
Alpatych went out into the street; two people ran down the street towards the bridge. From different sides we heard whistles, impacts of cannonballs and the bursting of grenades falling in the city. But these sounds were almost inaudible and did not attract the attention of residents in comparison with the sounds of gunfire heard outside the city. It was a bombardment, which at five o'clock Napoleon ordered to open on the city, from one hundred and thirty guns. At first the people did not understand the significance of this bombing.
The sounds of falling grenades and cannonballs aroused at first only curiosity. Ferapontov’s wife, who had never stopped howling under the barn, fell silent and, with the child in her arms, went out to the gate, silently looking at the people and listening to the sounds.
The cook and the shopkeeper came out to the gate. Everyone with cheerful curiosity tried to see the shells flying over their heads. Several people came out from around the corner, talking animatedly.
- That’s power! - said one. “Both the lid and the ceiling were smashed into splinters.”
“It tore up the earth like a pig,” said another. - That’s so important, that’s how I encouraged you! – he said laughing. “Thank you, I jumped back, otherwise she would have smeared you.”
The people turned to these people. They paused and told how they got into the house near their core. Meanwhile, other shells, now with a quick, gloomy whistle - cannonballs, now with a pleasant whistling - grenades, did not stop flying over the heads of the people; but not a single shell fell close, everything was carried over. Alpatych sat down in the tent. The owner stood at the gate.
- What haven’t you seen! - he shouted at the cook, who, with her sleeves rolled up, in a red skirt, swaying with her bare elbows, came to the corner to listen to what was being said.
Special forces soldier Mikhail Myasnikov was 33 years old when he died. He is survived by his wife and three-year-old daughter. Four months later, in 2009, the lieutenant colonel was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Russia. School No. 2 in the city of Seltso, where he studied, bears the name of Mikhail Myasnikov. In the apartment of his parents Tatyana Nikolaevna and Anatoly Ivanovich, everything reminds of their son: things, paintings, photographs...
"Soldiers, forward!"
Since childhood, he was very stubborn, in the good sense of the word, says Tatyana Nikolaevna. “If you decide to do something, you can never dissuade it.” I remember he was three or four years old, he and his older brother Kolya were learning poetry. Kolya is about a bull, and Misha is about “Soldiers, forward!” And he played all the time, either with a machine gun or with tin soldiers.
As a child, Misha, his parents say, was interested in everything: he was fond of swimming and wrestling, collected butterflies and minerals, loved to go into the forest to pick berries and mushrooms...
He was seven years old when he wanted to know with what flame matches with green heads would burn,” Tatyana Nikolaevna smiles. - Well, setting fire to a napkin on the nightstand. The fire was normal, but the napkin burned, and along with it the curtain...
And already as a teenager, Mishka made wads and gunpowder from the “Young Chemist” set. I decided to test it at home. I was aiming for the wall and hit the carpet...
We started cleaning it, we looked, but it was covered in holes,” recalls Tatyana Nikolaevna. - I said to Mishka: “Your job?”
That carpet is still on the floor...
At the age of 15, Misha already knew for sure that he would be a military man. I even decided to learn how to jump with a parachute and went to train at the airfield in Bordovichi. Once a disaster almost happened - the main canopy did not open during the jump. The reserve parachute jumped out when there was nothing left to reach the ground.
It was April 12, I remember Mishka came home and said: “Well, parents, today I was born for the second time,” says Tatyana Nikolaevna. “He told us that the parachute did not open on its own. Only after Misha’s death did his friends tell him that he deliberately did not pull the ring for a long time, testing himself. He loved risk, but it was justified, he was worried about my father and me, he took care...
Edelweiss for the captain
Immediately after school, in 1992, Mikhail went to enter the Golitsyn Higher Border Guard School in the Moscow region. He forbade his parents to go with him. After the exams he sent a telegram: “I got in, come for the oath.”
The beginning of the 90s was a difficult time,” says Anatoly Ivanovich. – At the chemical plant where we worked then, salaries were often delayed. So Misha, to please us, brought a whole box of chocolates from his scholarship.
Mikhail graduated from college with honors in 1996, and at the same time also took psychology courses at Moscow State University.
They thought he would serve somewhere nearby, but he chose the highest mountain border outpost - Kurush in Dagestan, - Tatyana Nikolaevna shrugs. - At a mountain camp he underwent mountaineering training, received a master of sports in rock climbing, then the rank of captain. The soldiers loved and respected him. Once, for his birthday, they planted a whole flowerbed of edelweiss for him.
After Kurush, Mikhail served in Chechnya, commanding a special task force. Then he was seriously concussed.
Misha was saved by his backpack - the shell pierced him right through from top to bottom, says Anatoly Ivanovich.
“I can’t live any other way...”
Mikhail served at the border for five years. Then there was special forces, the Vympel special group.
The selection there was very strict - 250 people per place,” says Tatyana Nikolaevna. “Misha trained a lot: running, push-ups, pull-ups. I used a stopwatch to record the time it took him to complete the exercises. And they took him.
After serving on the border, the son worked for some time as a security chief. So, he told us: “Parents, I’m leaving a dust-free and lucrative job for a job with a lower salary, difficult, but it’s mine! I can’t live any other way.”
Mikhail met his future wife Lena in Moscow and conquered the girl with his charm. In August 2004 they got married. A year later, their daughter Sashenka was born.
Mikhail and Elena were on their honeymoon when the Beslan tragedy happened on September 1, 2004. Mikhail received a call, he quickly packed his things and left.
He never told us about his business trips, we only guessed,” says Mikhail’s mother and father. - We saw what happened in Beslan on TV. My heart sank... When it was all over, a bell rang in the apartment. Our eldest son Kolya answered the phone, and Misha was there: “Tell my parents, I’m alive, I’m fine!” Then we learned from his colleagues that Misha miraculously survived. His machine gun jammed, and his friend Dima covered it with himself - and died... 
Last Stand
The last time Mikhail visited his parents was in August 2008, three months before his death. He took a lot of photographs back then. As if he had a presentiment that this would be their last meeting.
On December 6, 2008, Mikhail passed away. During a special operation in Dagestan, while saving guys from his squad, he threw himself on a grenade with his chest.
We suspected that Mishka was there,” Tatyana Nikolaevna says, and there are tears in her eyes. – We saw that fight on TV in a hotel in Makhachkala. And when they said: “A special forces officer has died,” everything inside broke down... My father and I didn’t sleep all night. Later, Lena told us: she also felt that something was wrong. She said that when she was watching the news on TV, she suddenly felt a pain in her chest. She told her daughter Sashenka: “Our folder is there”...
Then Mikhail’s colleagues will tell his parents about their son’s last battle. Narrow hotel corridor. Seven militants barricaded themselves in the rooms. At first they shot back, then they started throwing grenades. Several people were injured. They had to be taken out and left on their own. Therefore, the guys blocked the passage with armored shields. One of the grenades fell behind the shields, and our soldiers were still there. And then the squad leader, without hesitation, rushed at her. There was an explosion...
The next day, Mikhail’s colleagues came to the Myasnikovs.
I looked at them from the threshold and understood everything... - Tatyana Nikolaevna says quietly.
Mikhail was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Tatyana Nikolaevna admits: for a long time they did not dare to tell Sashenka that her dad was no longer there...
The granddaughter is very similar to Misha. The girl has his eyes and his stubborn, strong character. Previously, she often said that she dreams about her dad: he smiles and strokes her head, as if protecting her. He protected us all, but did not protect himself...
Insurance medicine: what are the advantages? Guest - Dr. Alexander Myasnikov.
The hosts of Vesti FM are Vladimir Solovyov and Anna Shafran.
SOLOVYOV: For me, Thursday was an absolutely amazing day! Because when there was the second part of the message, when they showed everything that we can, it means that there is a whole, if you like, country about which we know nothing. Where scientists work, where engineers work, where there are people at the machine, at the drawing board, even if it’s electronic, who do this!..
MYASNIKOV: I had exactly the same impression. So you said it, and I thought: Wow, you’re repeating my words. I was also just surprised. We are used to saying: it’s bad there, it’s bad here, it’s not like that, it’s not like that here, there’s something wrong in everyday life. And then our favorite pastime is to shift our personal failures, our own problems onto the country, onto the government. Who is guilty? It's not your fault. The government is to blame, the boss is to blame, someone else is to blame.
We are not saying that there are no problems. They exist, they are huge. Of course, there are more problems than we would like, and, of course, they need to be solved. And, of course, this will all be long and painful. It just doesn't happen. But that’s when I say that at least it’s clear where we’re going. Because before, a certain number of years ago, there weren’t even such tasks. And now the tasks have been set, now there are people who are working on this direction, on this, on this. There is already ongoing training for doctors. It is already clear that the teaching system needs to be changed.
SOLOVYOV: But can we reach 80+?
MYASNIKOV: Of course we can. And look, if all the countries came out, I mean, developed ones - like us, we are also a developed country.
SOLOVYOV: And I’ll tell you: no, we won’t go out.
MYASNIKOV: That means we will go out too. Where are we going?
SOLOVYOV: We won’t go out.
MYASNIKOV: Why don’t we come out?
SOLOVYOV: And I’ll tell you why we won’t go out. Because we are still living in the illusions of the 90s.
Here look. Putin said: why did they close a hospital there, a hospital here, this shouldn’t have been done. And who should support them - schools and hospitals? Municipal budgets?
MYASNIKOV: No, well, we’re going back to that...
SOLOVYOV: Ah-ah-ah! Therefore, until we make the main decision...
MYASNIKOV: And I think this won’t last long. I think several laws need to be changed here. Just change it, because without it it simply won’t go anywhere. First, we must understand that the Ministry of Health alone cannot do anything. It really can't. What can he do? He can't do anything. Therefore, we must first change this system of payment and financing. To create medicine like the Russian army, when anywhere in Russia there will now be a certain salary, a certain supply, certain rules of conduct and games, and a certain level of responsibility - the same for everyone. Please, there may be local surcharges for this, whatever you like.
Second. Of course, insurance medicine is the basis of healthcare in many countries, but it is still not clear which is better. By the way, I am personally in favor of insurance medicine, but because of my own selfish interests, I have a large hospital...
SOLOVYOV: There is no insurance medicine! Well, don't play these games!
MYASNIKOV: Okay.
SOLOVYOV: This is the main problem. I'll explain what I mean.
MYASNIKOV: I understand what you mean, no worse.
SOLOVYOV: Did Avicenna even write a word about insurance medicine?
MYASNIKOV: No, no, I understand.
SOLOVYOV: So we began to constantly confuse basic things: should we checkers or go? We are told about funding, not treatment. Doctors shouldn’t think about it at all, where and how the money comes from – whether it’s through an insurance scheme or whether the state pays. Leave it to the financiers to do the tricky calculations as they please. Their task is to find the money necessary for healthcare in order to fulfill the main task - to ensure the quality and length of life. Well, agree!
MYASNIKOV: I understand. But there is one advantage in insurance medicine.
SOLOVYOV: Which one?
MYASNIKOV: And there the money goes to the patient, and therefore...
SOLOVYOV: You shouldn’t think about the money that goes with the patient! Are you a doctor! You have to think about the patient who comes to you!
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