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Aleshkov Sergey Andreevich (1934 or 1936, Gryn, Western Region - 1990, Chelyabinsk) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, son of the regiment. Took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. Sergei Alyoshkov was the youngest defender of Stalingrad, at that moment he was six years old fighter and a pupil of the 142nd Guards Infantry Regiment of the 47th Guards Rifle Division.

Biography
When the area where Sergey lived was occupied by the Nazis in the autumn of 1941, the village became the base of the partisan detachment, and its people became partisans. Sergey's mother and his ten years old elder brother Petya were captured by the Hitlerites on one of the partisans tasks. After torture, his mother and brother were executed: Petya was hanged, and the mother who was trying to save her son was shot by the Gestapo. Sergey was saved by a neighbor. She threw the child out of the window of the hut and shouted him to run as fast as he could. The boy rushed into the forest. It happened in the fall of 1942. It's hard to say how long the child wandered, hungry, exhausted, frozen in the Kaluga forests. He was resqued by Red Army soldiers of the 142nd Guards Infantry Regiment, commanded by Major Vorobiev. They carried the boy in his arms across the front line. And let him stay in the regiment. Later Sergey rescued his commander at Stalingrad, under fire, calling for help and taking part in digging up a littered bunker with the regimental commander and several officers. For this he issued Order No. 013 of April 26, 1943, and was awarded the Medal "For Military Merit" [1] Also, on November 18, 1942, Sergey with soldiers of one company, fell under mortar fire. A fragment of mine was wounded his leg and got into the hospital. After treatment he returned to the regiment. The soldiers arranged a homage on this occasion. Before the ranks, the order was issued to reward Sergey with the medal "For Military Merit" No. 013 (order of April 24, 1943). [1]

Revards

 * Medal "For Military Merit" (1943)
 * Medal "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1945)
 * Order of the Patriotic War I degree (1985)

links

 * Denisenkov Vasiliy Semenovich: "Шестилетний гвардеец" : [С.А. Алешков] / Калуж. облпотребсоюз. - Калуга : [Приок. кн. изд-во. Калуж. отд-ние], 1972. - 49, [5] с. : ил.; 20 см.
 * http://kopateli.cc/topic/11577-aleshkov-aleshkin-sergey-andreevich-6-let/
 * http://www.stalingrad.ws/bitva/bitva_nast_5.shtml
 * http://politikus.ru/articles/49354-gvardii-ryadovoy-serezhenka-samyy-molodoy-soldat-velikoy-otechestvennoy-voyny.html


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 * http://smolbattle.ru/threads/Дети-на-войне.11016/