Sub-machine gunners of the 8 marines brigade Dolya I.R. and Alekseev A.I., 9.03.1942

Soviet marines

Shokhin Nikolai Mikhailovich, born in 1913, Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards sergeant-major, commander of the machine-gun department of the 1264 Infantry Regiment, 380 infantry Orel Division


In the period of the liquidation of the Germans' encircled grouping, on July 6, 1944, in the area of ​​the Pyatigodka state farm in the Chervinsky District of the Mogilev Region, Shokhin, leading a forest battle for the road along which the enemy moved, trying to break through the ring of encirclement, showed himself as a hero. Comrade. Shokhin disguised his machine gun near the road, along which a column of up to 500 Germans with submachine gunners and carts was moving, opened a flank fire on a column. In the column panic rose, the Germans decided to break through at any cost and get out of the encirclement, they tried six times to go into counter-attacks, but Comrade. Shokhin repelled one after another all attacks. On the road there were left 150 German soldiers and officers, 13 cars and dozens of motorcycles were set on fire.

Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Shokhin 

Sergeant Lebedev, commander of the gun, and gun-layer Kvitko, 25 rifle division "V. I. Chapaev"