The life of Vladimir Petrovich Lukin was short but extremely eventful. At the same time, the war years were the main ones. He passed it from the very first to the very last day. Everything that was before the war and after it is only a frame for these main years. Accustomed to fighting the enemy hand-to-hand, face to face, he dies in peacetime at the hands of a hidden enemy and remains in battle post for eternity.
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 was tightly connected with the war by many threads. His birthday (July 13 (26), 1916) coincided with the height of the Brusilov breakthrough - Russia's last successful offensive in the First World War. The provincial town of Kursk, far from hostilities, then turned into a military hospital, where wounded soldiers and officers were brought from the Southwestern Front. Even captured Turks have been here forcured in 1916, and the boy, just born, seemed to have absorbed the atmosphere of war and wounds. He will be wounded three times when he becomes a soldier of the Great Patriotic War. In the meantime, he was named 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 at school, and the eleventh school - the oldest in Kursk - today proudly bears his name. The commemorative plaque reads: "Hero of the Soviet Union Lukin Vladimir Petrovich studied here." In those distant thirties, a boy from a working-class family was eager to become independent. Industrialization was going on in the country, and skilled workers were needed, so he goes to the factory school, and two years later - to the factory. Moulder is a highly skilled job that requires knowledge, spatial thinking, he alth, strength and endurance.
The number of factories in Kursk grew rapidly in those years: 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 not for conscription spanning five long years of war.
You need to become an army commander
The draft age in those days began at 21, and the service lasted three years. In 1937, the time came for Vladimir to serve in the Red Army, he ended up in the infantry. This branch of the army was then experiencing an acute shortage of commanders. Soldier Lukin received the task: to becomecommander. In the state of each regiment there were regimental schools for the training of junior commanders. V. P. Lukin had to study a lot in the army, making up for everything that had been lost in childhood. Finally, he became a foreman, having completed his studies at the school of his regiment. Then there were refresher courses for commanders. He passed them in the summer of 1941, so the war met him with the rank of lieutenant.
Two encirclements and one injury
It seemed that Lieutenant Lukin had no chance of surviving in the first year of the war: it was the platoon commanders who died first of all, because they had to, inspiring the soldiers, go on the 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 surrounded twice and escaped with heavy losses.
Stubborn defensive battles in the Donets Basin, for Rostov, offensive operations that stopped Kleist's 1st Panzer Army… How many losses our troops suffered! He also received a non-dangerous wound a year after the outbreak of hostilities. After a month of treatment in the hospital, Lieutenant Lukin returns to the Southern Front.
Sabotage Fighter Squad
The end of the summer of 1942 - the hard 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. returned fromhospital, Lieutenant V. P. Lukin leads a youth (he himself was then 26 years old) sabotage fighter detachment - they were called "hawks". "Hawks" were thrown into the rear of the occupied lands to help partisans, organize sabotage and collect intelligence.
With a huge risk to their lives, the fighters of the detachment destroyed the enemy's manpower, his equipment, derailed trains. Lukin's detachment worked in the Transcaucasus and the North Caucasus, participated in the battles for Novorossiysk and Krasnodar. A severe wound and a 4-month treatment did not prevent him, returning to duty, to again lead the fighter squad.
In the spring of 1943, Vladimir Petrovich Lukin becomes a captain. A battalion subordinate to rifle regiment No. 818 is fighting under his command. After the victory of our troops at Stalingrad, the fronts are being reorganized. Captain Lukin is fighting as part of the Steppe Front.
Star hour - 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 fortified in the occupied area. The Nazis tried seven times to throw the Soviet soldiers off the coast, but to no avail. Lukin's battalion confidently operated behind enemy lines under the command of a commander experienced in sabotage. Fighters with desperate courage went into hand-to-hand combat - and won! With lightning-fast actions they swept awayon its way, the manpower of the enemy and his equipment. 120 Nazis were killed, mortars, machine guns, 4 guns were captured. The village of Aula was liberated, and then the railway station Voskoboinya. The fierce attacks of the Nazis with the support of 11 tanks in order to restore the cut transport highway were not successful: the right bank remained with us. This feat was noted by the front commander and the government. For heroic actions behind enemy lines, Captain Lukin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. The decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on his award was issued on February 22, 1944. And two months after the award, the 28-year-old captain was again seriously injured and was hospitalized for a long time.
We've plowed half of Europe in a plastunski way…
About a million Soviet soldiers died in the battles for the liberation of Europe. Death did not touch V. P. Lukin this time either. As a battalion commander of the 1149th regiment as part of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts, he participated in operations to liberate Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Five capitals welcomed the Russian soldier, who marched all the roads of the war day after day. On May 9, the Victory Salute sounded in Moscow, and its combat unit carried out combat maneuvers in the Prague region, putting the last stop on the European theater of war.
Commanders retire
Returning to the USSR, Captain Vladimir Lukin served for some time inOdessa: conducted combat exercises, organized draft campaigns. In the autumn of 1945, the second wave of demobilization began in the country. Soldiers born in 1906-1915, those who received three or more wounds in military operations, and those who served in the Red Army for more than seven years, left the active army. A severe wound in 1944 turned out to be decisive - V. P. Lukin became one of 2.8 million soldiers and officers transferred to the reserve 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. Professions are too calm for a soldier, and even more so for a former commander of a sabotage detachment. In 1949, Vladimir Petrovich once again changed his place of work, which became fatal for him. “I want to fight the criminal element,” he commented on his decision. Let's not forget that Vladimir had 6 classes of elementary school behind him.
The last service of the hero
It is possible that the captain got into the criminal investigation department due to party mobilization. The criminal situation in the country after the war was alarming. Amnesties on the occasion of the victory led to the release of a mass of criminals, Bendera and other nationalists were engaged in terror. There were not enough policemen, their shortage was made up by former front-line soldiers who had no experience of working in peaceful conditions.
The biography of V. P. Lukin turned out to be suitable for the organs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: a working family, no one was repressed, he was not taken prisoner. The combat commander becomes a trainee and assistant to the detective. There was a lot of work: both local bandit groups and visiting terrorists were disturbed. Shots were heard here and there in the city, people could not calmly walk the streets. The former hawk is used to acting quickly and on his own.
On a May day in 1952, V. P. Lukin went with policeman N. Kravchenko on his last business trip. Together they wanted to detain especially dangerous bandits in Donetsk. This operation was not recorded anywhere in the documents and immediately became a secret, because the policemen from Donetsk did not return, the criminals shot them. Without any newspapers, the inhabitants of Kursk learned about the tragedy and came to see off the young operatives on their last journey: Vladimir Petrovich was only 35 years old in the year of his death. Captain V. P. Lukin was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star.
Vladimir Petrovich Lukin - Hero of the Soviet Union, who is listed forever in the lists of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the city of Kursk. May his memory be blessed…
