Samara Region. Mikhail Pavlovich Agibalov During the interwar years

Very soon we will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Kalinin from fascist invaders. Many of our soldiers gave their lives for this. Among them was Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Agibalov. He died on October 17, 1941. He was only 30 years old at that time.

The armor is strong and our tanks are fast!

At the entrance to Tver from St. Petersburg there is a T-34 tank. On its pedestal there were once words minted that belonged to one of the best Tver journalists, Dmitry Zvantsev:

Press your palm: it’s still hot

The earth is covered in blood. Bend your knee -

An immortal feat. Their memory is imperishable.

She lives, knocking on people's hearts...

During the reconstruction of the monument, the slab with these words disappeared, which is a pity! The feat of the tankers in those distant autumn days of 1941 is worthy of admiration. And Mikhail Agibalov is one of them. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was already a captain, Hero of the Soviet Union. He received this title for the courage shown in battles with the Japanese on the Khalkhin Gol River.

From lumberjacks to tank crews

Mikhail Agibalov had a difficult childhood. He grew up in a poor peasant family in the Samara province. He was four years old when his mother died. Two years later, my father passed away. There was an orphanage in Samara, but it was almost a hundred miles away. In broken bast shoes, he covered this path on foot. Mikhail graduated from seven classes at the orphanage. From here he entered the railway school. At the age of 17, Mikhail Agibalov left for Komsomol mobilization to Siberia to cut down forests. He worked for four years with a saw and an ax on Sakhalin, and then volunteered to join the army. At first he was an artilleryman, and then he was sent to the armored forces.

For the freedom of steppe Mongolia!

1939 Battles near the Khalkhin Gol River in distant steppe Mongolia. Agibalov commands a tank company. An order was received to attack the hill occupied by the Japanese. Our tanks burst into the enemy's position, but were unable to build on their success - they ran out of shells. An order was received to retreat to the starting line. Only Agibalov’s tank remains on the hill. All enemy fire was concentrated on him. Soviet tank crews repelled several attacks, but they ran out of shells, cartridges, and grenades. However, here a tank company came to the rescue and replenished its ammunition. The “Golden Star” of the Hero of the Soviet Union became the best memory of those battles in Mongolia.

Zhukov's order

In October 1941, Mikhail Agibalov became commander of the tank battalion of the 21st Tank Regiment. On October 12, the tank brigade completed its formation and found itself in the south of the Kalinin region - near the village of Turginova. On the night of October 14-15, an order was received from the commander of the Western Front, Army General G.K. Zhukov: destroy the enemy group in the Kalinin area.

On October 15, Agibalov’s tankers made a rush along the washed-out roads adjacent to the shore of the Moscow Sea and crossed the Lama River on the move.

On October 16, having overcome swamps and swamps, the tanks dispersed in the village of Turginovo and the village of Melechkino. The attack on Kalinin was scheduled for October 17. The order was as follows: “The 21st Tank Brigade has the task of disrupting the impending attack of the enemy Kalinin group on Moscow, defeating it and paralyzing control. A tank regiment with a landing of machine gunners on armor to carry out a deep raid along the route: Bolshoye Selishche, Ustinovo, Legkovo, destroy the enemy in Pushkino. Further following to Ivantsevo, Pochinki, Troyanovo, Lebedevo... take possession of the city of Kalinin.”

The situation changed every minute, and it is unlikely that those who gave the order suspected that it was almost impossible to carry it out. Moreover, the tankers were warned: there would be no artillery support, nor cover from the flanks or from the air. Later, the surviving tankers recalled how Captain Agibalov gathered them before the battle. His speech was short and not at all commanding:

– You see, guys, people are running into the forests from the Nazis. We must return children and women to their homes. And for this - to win the battle, to stop the enemy. I am confident in you: no one will falter in the offensive. And the battle, I’ll tell you straight, will be a very difficult battle, and maybe even unequal. It all depends on your courage, endurance, perseverance. We have no right to feel sorry for ourselves. Remember this, my friends...

On the night of October 17, our tankers approached the Volokolamsk Highway. These were 26 T-34 tanks, 8 T-60 light tanks and several high-speed armored vehicles. The left column of tankers was commanded by Mikhail Agibalov, the right column was commanded by regimental commander Mikhail Lukin.

Legendary Raid

The Nazis have already well fortified the approaches to Kalinin. Our tankers came under gunfire and a bomb attack. As a result, only one tank, commanded by Stepan Gorobets, broke through to Kalinin. He rushed through the entire city, captured by the enemy, inflicted considerable damage on the enemy and reached the location of our units that stood behind Kalinin. It was not for nothing that this raid was called legendary. What happened to the tank commanded by Agibalov?

The blow of the Agibalov column stunned the enemy. Soldiers and officers abandoned their cars and ran wherever they could. The tankers overtook and crushed the enemy motorized infantry and shot at German tanks at point-blank range. In the village of Pushkino, Agibalov’s tank destroyed the German headquarters. However, behind Pushkin, our column of tankers came under a Junkers bomb attack. As a result, only eight tanks broke through directly to Kalinin.

Naprudnoye village. From here to the center of Kalinin is less than 16 kilometers. Today no one knows what happened to Agibalov’s car. A T-34 tank had just crushed a cannon, set fire to a fuel tanker and fired at a column of enemy soldiers. And suddenly the tank stood up, the gun fell silent. Enemies do not dare to approach the car for a long time. The artillerymen pulled up a cannon and hit the Soviet tank with direct fire. The tank was silent. The fascists, emboldened, go on the attack. And then a barrage of fire falls on them. A battery hits the tank. Another attack, and the machine gun again blocks their path. The third, fourth, fifth attack... The machine gun fell silent, but single pistol shots were still heard. Finally everything fell silent. The Nazis crawled up to the tank and saw the dead tank commander, Mikhail Agibalov. He had a TT pistol in his hand. Next to him lay a tank machine gun. He remained to cover the retreat of his comrades and died.

Mikhail Agibalov was buried in a mass grave near the village of Aksinkino, Kalininsky district.

Materials were used from the book by P. Ivanov and S. Fliegelman “Brighter than the Legend.”

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08.11.1911 - 17.10.1941
Hero of the Soviet Union

A Mikhail Pavlovich Gibalov - commander of a tank company of the 1st tank battalion of the 11th Tank Order of Lenin brigade named after brigade commander M.P. Yakovlev 1st Army Group, senior lieutenant.
Born on November 8, 1911 in the village of Zuevka (now Neftegorsky district, Samara region) into a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1939. Since 1920, he lived in the city of Samara, where he graduated from the 7th grade, the FZU school, and worked at Samara enterprises. In 1930-1932 he worked on Sakhalin as a foreman at the Pilvovsky timber industry enterprise.
In the Red Army since 1932. He served as a Red Army soldier in the 26th artillery regiment in the city of Nikolaevsk-Ussuriysk. In 1936, he graduated from the Ulyanovsk Armored School and was sent to the Trans-Baikal Military District to serve as commander of a tank platoon of the 1st Tank Battalion of the 32nd Mechanized Brigade. In 1938, he was appointed assistant chief of staff of the 1st tank battalion of the 11th tank brigade.
From May 11 to September 16, 1939 M.P. Agibalov took part in battles with Japanese militarists on the Khalkhin Gol River.
Having taken command of a tank company of the 1st tank battalion (11th tank brigade, 1st army group) on July 3, 1939, senior lieutenant M.P. On July 30, 1939, Agibalov inspired soldiers to heroic deeds by personal example and destroyed several enemy firing points.
Z honoring the Hero of the Soviet Union, with the presentation of the Order of Lenin, to senior lieutenant Agibalov Mikhail Pavlovich awarded on August 29, 1939 - for skillful and firm command of the company and personal heroism shown in the July battles. After the establishment of the special distinction, he was awarded the Gold Star medal No. 129.
Returning to his homeland, M.P. Agibalov commanded a tank battalion, and from December 1939 he studied at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army.
Since October 1941, Captain M.P. Agibalov at the front. Commanded the 1st tank battalion of the 21st tank regiment of the 21st tank brigade (30th Army, Kalinin Front).
He died a heroic death in battle on October 17, 1941, during the Kalinin offensive operation. He was buried in the village of Aksinkino, Tver Region.
Awarded two Orders of Lenin, Orders of the Mongolian People's Republic.
In memory of the Hero, obelisks were erected for him in the villages of Zuevka and Naprudnovo. In the name of Hero of the Soviet Union M.P. Agibalov names streets in the city of Samara and in the village of Zuevka in the Samara region, a museum and school in this village, boarding school No. 113 in Samara, and a club in the village of Naprudnovo in the Tver region.
A significant part of Hero’s materials was kindly provided by reserve major Vladimir Mikhailovich Savonchik (city of Krasnodar).

Photo: Alexander Ustinov (1909 – 1995)

Biography provided by Nikolai Vasilievich Ufarkin (1955-2011)

08.11.1911 -17.10.1941
Hero of the Soviet Union
Decree of 08/29/1939
Medal No. 129
Monuments
Samara, memorial plaque

Agibalov Mikhail Pavlovich - commander of a tank company of the 1st tank battalion of the 11th tank order of Lenin brigade named after brigade commander M.P. Yakovlev 1st Army Group, senior lieutenant.

Was born November 8, 1911 in the village of Zuevka (now Neftegorsky district, Samara region) in a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1939. Since 1920 lived in the city of Samara, where he graduated from the 7th grade, the FZU school, and worked at Samara enterprises. In 1930-1932 he worked on Sakhalin as a foreman at the Pilvovsky timber industry enterprise.

In the Red Army since 1932. He served as a Red Army soldier in the 26th artillery regiment in the city of Nikolaevsk-Ussuriysk. In 1936, he graduated from the Ulyanovsk Armored School and was sent to the Trans-Baikal Military District to serve as commander of a tank platoon of the 1st Tank Battalion of the 32nd Mechanized Brigade. In 1938, he was appointed assistant chief of staff of the 1st tank battalion of the 11th tank brigade.

From May 11 to September 16, 1939 M.P. Agibalov took part in battles with Japanese militarists on the Khalkhin Gol River.

Having taken command of a tank company of the 1st tank battalion (11th tank brigade, 1st army group) on July 3, 1939, senior lieutenant Agibalov M.P. until July 30, 1939, he inspired soldiers to heroic deeds by personal example and destroyed several enemy firing points.

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union, with the presentation of the Order of Lenin, was awarded to senior lieutenant Mikhail Pavlovich Agibalov on August 29, 1939, for skillful and firm command of the company and personal heroism shown in the July battles. After the establishment of the special distinction, he was awarded the Gold Star medal No. 129.

Returning to his homeland, M.P. Agibalov commanded a tank battalion, and from December 1939 he studied at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army.

Since October 1941, Captain Agibalov M.P. at the front. Commanded the 1st tank battalion of the 21st tank regiment of the 21st tank brigade (30th Army, Kalinin Front). He died a heroic death in battle on October 17, 1941, during the Kalinin offensive operation. He was buried in the village of Aksinkino, Tver Region.

Awarded two Orders of Lenin, Orders of the Mongolian People's Republic.

In memory of the Hero, obelisks were erected for him in the villages of Zuevka and Naprudnovo. In the name of Hero of the Soviet Union Agibalov M.P. named streets in the city of Samara and in the village of Zuevka, Samara region, a museum and school in this village, boarding school No. 113 of Samara, a club in the village of Naprudnovo, Tver region.

A significant part of the materials and photos of the Hero were kindly provided by Reserve Major Savonchik.

The publication was prepared by the Samara regional public organization "Heroes of the Fatherland" as part of the project "Encyclopedia of Feat".
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On February 23, 2017, as part of a social project of the Samara regional public organization “Heroes of the Fatherland,” a memorial plaque to the Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Pavlovich Agibalov, a native of the village, was unveiled in the village of Zuevka.
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early years

Born on October 26 (November 8), 1911 in the village of Zuevka, now the Neftegorsky district of the Samara region, into a peasant family, at the age of 4 he lost his mother, at the age of 8 - his father. Russian. Since 1920, he lived in the city of Samara, where he graduated from the 7th grade, the FZU school, then entered the railway school, and worked at Samara enterprises. From 1930 to 1932 he worked on Sakhalin as a foreman at the Pilvo timber industry enterprise.

Service in the Red Army

On the Khalkhin Gol River

From May 11 to September 16, 1939, M.P. Agibalov took part in battles with Japanese troops on the Khalkhin Gol River.

Having taken command of the tank company of the 1st Tank Battalion (11th Tank Brigade, 1st Army Group) on July 3, 1939, Senior Lieutenant M. P. Agibalov, by July 30, 1939, inspired soldiers to heroic deeds by personal example and destroyed several firing points enemy.

During the interwar years

Returning to his homeland, M.P. Agibalov commanded a tank battalion, and from December 1939 he studied at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army.

Was married; wife - Nadezhda Vasilievna Orekhova. Had a daughter.

During the Great Patriotic War

Since October 1941, Captain Agibalov M.P. has been at the front. Commanded the 1st Tank Battalion of the 21st Tank Regiment of the 21st Tank Brigade of the 30th Army on the Kalinin Front. He died a heroic death in battle on October 17, 1941, during a raid of the 21st tank brigade on Kalinin near the village of Naprudnoye, Kalininsky district, Kalinin region. Initially listed as missing.

Posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin (September 23, 1942). He was buried in the village of Aksinkino, Tver Region.

Awards

Medal "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union (August 29, 1939)
Two Orders of Lenin (August 29, 1939; September 23, 1942, posthumously)
Order of the Mongolian People's Republic.

Memory

In memory of the Hero, obelisks were erected in the villages of Zuevka and Naprudnovo
Streets in the city of Samara and in the village of Zuevka, Samara region, are named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Agibalov M.P.
Since November 29, 1994, one of the streets in the Mamulino microdistrict in Tver bears his name
The name of the Hero was given to the museum and school in the village of Zuevki, as well as boarding school No. 113 of Samara and a club in the village of Naprudnovo, Tver region.

Mikhail Agibalov was born on November 8, 1911 in the village of Zuevka, Neftegorsky district of the Samara region. He grew up in an ordinary peasant family. In 1917, a misfortune happened in the Agibalovs’ house. At the age of 4, Mikhail lost his mother, and when he was 8 years old, his father, after which the authorities took care of the move and the transfer of parental rights to the orphanage in Samara. After coming of age, Mikhail entered the FZU school, which he successfully completed. Having received the secondary qualification of a locomotive mechanic, he got a job at the locomotive depot of the Samara station.

In 1928, Mikhail joined the Komsomol. On the proposed Komsomol trip, consisting of 1,200 volunteers, he decided to go to Sakhalin to work in the timber industry. Upon arrival, Mikhail was assigned to the position of lumberjack at the timber industry enterprise created that year in the village of Pilvo, and a little later he was appointed foreman. The Pilvovsky (Pilvensky) timber industry enterprise became a good life school for Mikhail Pavlovich. Komsomol members actively participated in logging, timber rafting, and shipment of timber for export. In addition to daily work, in the life of the village, patriotic education was carried out, which was carried out by the Komsomol political school in the Pilvo region, military training was carried out by the Osoaviakhim district council, and international education was conducted by the local branch of the international organization for assistance to fighters of the revolution (MOPR). Local trade unions worked to organize a society of proletarian tourism and local history. All residents, like Mikhail, took part in the life of the village that had already become their home. Only the border guards of the Pilvo outpost, who served for a long time, took a more active part.

In December 1932, Mikhail Pavlovich joined the Red Army. He served as a Red Army soldier in the city of Nikolaevsk-Ussuriysk in the 26th artillery regiment. By 1963, he graduated from the Ulyanovsk armored school and was sent to the Trans-Baikal Military District to serve as commander of the 1st platoon of the tank battalion of the 32nd mechanized brigade.

During his service, Mikhail Pavlovich showed himself well as a commander, so by decision of his superiors in 1938 he was appointed assistant chief of staff of the 1st tank battalion of the 11th tank brigade.

In the period from May 11 to September 16, 1939, Mikhail Pavlovich Agibalov was sent to the battlefield with Japanese troops on the Khalkhin Gol River. He especially distinguished himself in the battle from July 4 to 5, 1939 at the Bayin-Tsagan heights, where the Japanese army lost a significant part of the artillery, about 10 thousand soldiers and officers. By this time, Agibalov had more than once had to get out of a burning tank. After the tank company spent all its shells during the battle for the heights, Agibalov ordered his subordinates to retreat to their original positions and replenish ammunition. The commander himself, with great courage and bravery, remained in his occupied position, where during the battle he was wounded several times, but never budged. His personal example repeatedly inspired warriors to heroic deeds.

From the memoirs of M.F. Vorotnikov, adjutant to the commander of the 57th Special Corps G.K. Zhukov: “... The battalion of G.M. Mikhailov is attacking. The Japanese rain down fire from anti-tank guns and petrol bombs on the tanks. During five hours of continuous attack, the battalion suffered heavy losses, especially in the command cadres. The commander of the 1st tank company, Alexey Rogov, died. His place was taken by the assistant chief of staff of the battalion, Captain M.P. Agibalov. The commander of the 3rd tank company, Nepolsky, was killed. Political commissars of all companies of the battalion were killed. The tanks of the commander of the 3rd tank platoon V. Shubnikov, the commander of the 1st tank platoon V. Solovyov, senior lieutenant Taranukhin, and lieutenant Bezrodny were knocked out. G.M. Mikhailov himself received a concussion, his driver was killed, the tank turned around and stopped. The situation of the surviving crew members was critical. But Mikhailov sat down at the levers of the tank and continued the attack. The enemy suffered heavy losses.

Captain M.P. Agibalov, even before the start of the Khalkingol events, somehow stood out among the command staff of our battalion. We, young lieutenants, were attracted to him by his bearing, energy, courage in decision-making, resourcefulness, and spiritual simplicity. In battle he withstood more than a dozen attacks. As the commander of a tank company, he was distinguished by tactical literacy, the ability to control the company’s fire, and successfully solved combat missions with minimal losses in personnel.”

For his personal heroism, courage, skillful and firm command of the company in the July battles, on August 29, 1939, senior lieutenant Mikhail Pavlovich Agibalov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

Returning to his homeland from distant Mongolia, Mikhail Pavlovich commanded a tank battalion for some time. While at home, he married his beloved Nadezhda Vasilievna Orekhova. And in December 1939 he entered the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army to improve his skills.

In October 1941, Captain Agibalov was again called to the front. At his disposal was the 1st Tank Battalion of the 21st Tank Regiment, 30th Army, Kalinin Front.

From the memoirs of S. Fligelman: “The tank of Captain M.P. Agibalov led a battalion of “thirty-fours” through dense enemy fire. The last radiogram from him was received at brigade headquarters at 12.00. He took his last battle in the village of Naprudnoye, ten kilometers from Kalinin. Here the command vehicle set fire to a fuel tanker and put many Nazis to flight. Then the tank stopped and its gun fell silent. Several guns fired at the car, but it remained motionless and silent. Emboldened, the German soldiers run towards the frozen tank, when suddenly they are cut off by a machine-gun burst. After a hurricane of artillery shelling, wave after wave of enemy attacks hit the tank. The machine gunner fights them off. It fires in short bursts and conserves ammo. After single shots, now pistol shots, there is silence. The Nazis are surrounding a tank, under which lies a tall tanker in overalls, a TT pistol clutched in his hand. Next to him is a machine gun. This unequal battle was led by Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Pavlovich Agibalov, who covered his crew’s retreat to the forest. He ordered his guys to leave, and he lay down behind the machine gun. Mikhail was such a person: he could not order his subordinate to save his life with his death, although he had the right to do so. He considered it his right to save the lives of others.”

Leaving his beloved wife Nadezhda and little daughter Galina, on October 17, 1941, Mikhail Pavlovich Agibalov died in battle as a hero during a raid of the 21st tank brigade on Kalinin in the village of Naprudnoye, Kalininsky district, Kalinin region, initially being listed as missing.

From the front order of the Military Council of the Kalinin Front dated September 23, 1942 No. 379 on awarding Captain Mikhail Petrovich Agibalov, Hero of the Soviet Union, posthumously: “On October 17, 1941, Captain Agibalov received a combat order to go behind enemy lines along the Volokolamsk Highway to the city of Kalinin. Comrade Agibalov led the tanks into battle at dawn. The tanks crashed into an enemy column heading for reinforcements to the city of Kalinin. The entire column was destroyed."

For all his military activities, the Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Mongolian People's Republic and the Gold Star medal.

He was buried in the village of Aksinkino, Tver Region.

In memory of the Hero, on November 29, 1994, one of the streets in the Mamulino microdistrict in Tver bears his name. And in the villages of Zuevka and Naprudnoe, obelisks were installed. A museum and school in the village of Zuevki, boarding school No. 113 in Samara and a club in the village of Naprudnovo in the Tver region were named after the Hero.