Short but extremely eventful was the life of Vladimir Petrovich Lukin. At the same time, the main years were the years of war. He went through it from the very first to the very last day. Everything that was before the war and after it is only a frame of these main years. Accustomed to fight the enemy hand to hand, face to face, he dies in peacetime at the hands of a hidden enemy and remains in eternity at a military post.
Who is Lukin Vladimir Petrovich? You will learn about this by reading the article.
It is named after Prince Vladimir
The fate of V.P. Lukin with many threads was tightly connected with the war. His birthday (July 13 (26), 1916) coincided with the height of the Brusilovsky breakthrough - Russia's last successful offensive in the First World War. The provincial and distant from military operations, the town of Kursk then turned into a military hospital, where wounded soldiers and officers from the South-Western Front were brought. Even the captured Turks came here for treatment in 1916, and the boy, who was just born, seemed to absorb the atmosphere of war and wounds. He will be wounded three times when he becomes a soldier of World War II. In the meantime, he was called Vladimir - in honor of Prince Vladimir the Holy, whose memorial day falls on July 15 (28).
Vladimir Lukin: biography. FZU - the start of a working career
Volodya Lukin spent only six years behind the school bench, and the eleventh school - the oldest in Kursk - today proudly bears his name. The memorial tablet reads: “Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lukin studied here.” In those distant thirties, a guy from a working-class family was eager to become independent. Industrialization was taking place in the country, and skilled workers were required, so he goes to a factory school, and two years later to a factory. Moulder is a highly skilled job requiring knowledge, spatial thinking, health, strength and stamina.
The number of factories in Kursk in those years grew rapidly: a synthetic rubber plant, "Accumulator", a tannery, furniture and shoe factories … There is no doubt that Vladimir could have made an excellent career in industry if it had not been for the army lasting five long years of war.
You have to become an army commander
The draft age in those days began at 21, and the service lasted three years. In 1937, for Vladimir it was time for military service in the Red Army, he was in the infantry. This type of troops then experienced an acute shortage of commanding personnel. The soldier Lukin received the task: to become a commander. Each regiment had regimental schools for the preparation of a junior command link. V.P. Lukin had to study a lot in the army, making up for everything that was lost in childhood. Finally, he became a foreman, having finished classes at the school of his regiment. Then there were training courses for commanders. He passed them in the summer of 1941, so the war met him with the rank of lieutenant.
Two environments and one wound
It seemed that Lieutenant Lukin had no chance to survive in the first year of the war: it was the platoon commanders who died in the first place, because they had to inspire the soldiers to attack and lead in hopeless and difficult situations.
Lukin Vladimir Petrovich, whose biography is presented to your attention, commanded a battalion, which was part of the glorious 9th army, which was at the disposal of the Southern Front. In the most difficult first year of the war, this army was twice surrounded and escaped from it with great losses.
Persistent defensive battles in the Donetsk basin, for Rostov, offensive operations that stopped 1 tank army of Kleist … How many losses our troops suffered! He received a non-dangerous wound a year after the outbreak of hostilities. After a month of treatment at the hospital, Lieutenant Lukin returns to the Southern Front.
Sabotage fighter squad
The end of the summer of 1942 - the difficult days of the defense of Stalingrad. At the same time, the Germans are trying to get to the oil of the Caucasus. Vast territories are occupied by invaders. Lieutenant V.P. Lukin, who returned from the hospital, leads a youth (he himself was 26 years old) sabotage fighter squad - they were called "hawks." "Hawks" were thrown to the rear of the occupied lands to help partisans, organize sabotage and intelligence gathering.
With enormous risk to life, the soldiers of the detachment destroyed the enemy’s manpower, its equipment, derailed the trains. Lukin’s detachment worked in the Transcaucasus and the North Caucasus, participated in the battles for Novorossiysk and Krasnodar. A serious wound and a 4-month treatment did not prevent him, having returned to duty, again to lead a fighter squad.
In the spring of 1943, Vladimir Petrovich Lukin became captain. Under his command, a battalion subordinate to rifle regiment No. 818 fights. After the victory of our troops at Stalingrad, the fronts are reorganized. Captain Lukin is fighting in the Steppe Front.
Highlights - February 22, 1944
There are moments in a person’s life in which all the experience of past years is compressed, and he acts at the limit of his capabilities. Such a moment came in the life of captain Lukin in the early autumn of 1943. This happened during the Battle of the Dnieper. The battalion of captain Lukin crossed to the right bank of the Dnieper and strengthened in the captured area. The Nazis tried seven times to throw Soviet fighters off the coast, but to no avail. Lukin's battalion confidently acted behind enemy lines under the command of an experienced commander in sabotage. Fighters with desperate courage went into hand-to-hand combat - and won! With swift actions, they swept away the enemy’s living force and its equipment in its path. 120 fascists were killed, mortars, machine guns, 4 guns were captured. The village of Aula was liberated, and then the Voskoboynya railway station. Violent attacks by the Nazis with the support of 11 tanks in order to restore the cut transport line were unsuccessful: the right bank remained with us. This feat was marked by the commander of the front and the government. For heroic actions behind enemy lines, Captain Lukin was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. The decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR on his awarding was issued on February 22, 1944. And two months after the award, the 28-year-old captain was seriously injured again and was hospitalized for a long time.
"We are half-Europe in the plastunsky plowed …"
In the battles for the liberation of Europe, about a million Soviet soldiers died. Death did not touch V.P. Lukin this time. As the commander of the battalion of 1149 regiment in the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts, he participated in the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Five capitals welcomed the Russian soldier, day after day, stepping back all the roads of war. Victory Salute was played in Moscow on May 9, and its combat unit carried out combat maneuvers in the Prague area, putting the last point on the European theater of war.
Commanders go to reserve
Returning to the USSR, Captain Vladimir Lukin served in Odessa for some time: conducted military exercises, organized draft campaigns. In the fall of 1945, a second wave of demobilization began in the country. Serviceman born in 1906-1915, those who received three or more injuries in military operations, and those who served in the Red Army for more than seven years left the army. A serious wound in 1944 was decisive - V.P. Lukin became one of the 2.8 million soldiers and officers who were laid off in the second wave of demobilization.
Captain Vladimir Petrovich Lukin did not immediately find his place in civilian life. He led the agricultural artel named after the 18th Party Congress, worked as an inspector of the district financial department. The professions are too calm for the soldier, and even more so for the former commander of the sabotage detachment. In 1949, Vladimir Petrovich once again changed his job, which became fatal for him. “I wish to fight the criminal element, ” he commented on his decision. Let's not forget that Vladimir had 6 classes of a basic school.
