Onilova Nina Andreevna - the legendary machine gunner

Once she said: "I can not speak, but with the fascists I can talk with the language of my machine gun" - and confirmed her words in practice, destroying hundreds of German invaders. Onilova Nina Andreevna became famous because she became an outstanding shooter from a machine gun. Sevastopol and Odessa - these two cities became landmarks in its destiny. Defending the Motherland, she died, but her exploits are still not forgotten by descendants ...

Difficult childhood

Onilova Nina Andreevna was born on April 10, 1921year in a small village Novonikolaevka (Ukraine). Already at the age of eleven she lost her parents. The girl was brought up an orphanage. After growing up a little, Nina asked to work at a knitting factory and at the same time began attending classes in the evening school. After a while she joined the ranks of the Komsomol organization.

The girl began to show interest in the militarycase, enrolling in a circle where they taught the art of shooting from a machine gun. She wanted to be like her idol - the legendary Anka-machine gunner, after watching a film about Chapaev once. The girl showed diligence in her studies and soon learned not only to shoot accurately with weapons, but also masterfully assemble and disassemble it.

Years of War

Soon the fascist stepped on Soviet territory, andOnilova Nina Andreevna, whose biography contains many noteworthy and interesting, wants to go to defend the Motherland. However, the military registration and enlistment office did not accept her statement. Only a few months after the persistent requests the commanders allowed her to join the ranks of the Soviet Army. Paradoxically, the unit where Nina Andreevna Onilova was appointed to command a machine gun calculation, soon merged with that legendary Chapaev's division, where Anka the machine-gunner herself fought in the Civil War.

Defense of native Odessa

Chapayev division was ordered to fight in the south and subsequently take the defense of Odessa, where the Romanian army broke through.

The enemy's forces exceeded the division, whichonce commanded by Vasily Ivanovich, several times. Fierce fighting began, but Odessa was defended. He commanded the 25th Infantry I. Petrov. He ordered the machine-gunner to fight at night. Heard enemy mortars, which then reached the center of the Soviet troops ...

"Why do not you shoot?""- heard the question of Onilov Nina Andreevna, who asked her one of the fighters. But the girl did not react at all, waiting for a convenient moment. A loud machine-gun fire does not stop. Suddenly, silhouettes of fascists appearing in the dark appear on the way to the offensive. Now it's time! Onilova Nina Andreevna took aim and opened fire. Immediately, it was heard, as if the bodies of fascists were falling to the ground as if they had been knocked down. The units manage to retreat and escape from the battlefield. Soldiers calculating do not keep up with the girl. After a while, voices and shots died down. Only the machine gun Onilova scribbled and scribbled, and then he also freezes.

In the morning the losses of the Germans were calculated: the bodies of more than forty soldiers were resting in the hollow. The commander noted the impeccable work of the girl.

About her feat began to be enthusiastically told in the battalion, saying that she was no worse than the legendary Anka.

Wound

But one day in the course of fierce battles, Nina Andreevna Onilova was wounded by splinters of a mine exploding.

One hit the head, and the other hurt the ear. The machine gunner was taken to the hospital, and only in the fall of 1941 she managed to rejoin the ranks of the soldiers. Now she was to defend the stronghold of the Black Sea Fleet - the city of Sevastopol. By the way, for the defense of Odessa the girl has already received a high award - the Order of the Red Banner of Battle. Many fighters then wanted to do something similar, which made Onilova Nina Andreevna. The photo of the machine-gunner became a real decoration of the newspapers of the times of the Great Patriotic War. And now she had to fight for Sevastopol.

Heroic death

Fascists pulled large troops to the port city. The enemy's tank was already close to the trench in which the machine-gunner was sitting.

She did not have a pomegranate. She threw Molotov cocktails into an armored car and was able to destroy her. The veil of smoke suddenly rose around. When she disappeared, the girl saw the walking Germans, who were sure that they had killed her. Then the machine-gunner opened fire. And suddenly a grenade exploded in front of the shield: Nina was shocked, but with inhuman efforts she continued to shoot. The girl killed in this battle a huge number of Germans.

In February 1942, Nina Andreevna managed toto eliminate two machine-gun points of the fascists who were not far from the Mackenzie farm, and in the early spring she alone fought against the Germans and died in an unequal battle. She died on the night of March 8, 1942.

Onilova Nina Andreevna, Hero of the Soviet Union (she was awarded the title posthumously in the mid-1960s), was buried in Sevastopol, in the cemetery of Kommunar.