People of labor: foreman from the Alkeevsky district valiantly fought on the fields of the Second World War
The 1945 goes into history, and there is less of those who are called Victory soldiers next to us. We must remember their names and the price they paid for a peaceful sky above our heads.
On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Victory, in our section "People of Labor" we continue telling about agricultural workers - participants in the Great Patriotic War. Today, the hero of our column is Khazim Mardegalyamovich Fakhrutdinov, who worked on the collective farm “Yash Kuch” as the foreman of the livestock farm.
He was born on June 5, 1924 in the village of Verkhnee Alkeevo of the Alkeevsky District.
He was taken to war in 1943. For seven months, Khazim Mardegalyamovich suffered in the "death camp" Suslonger, where he was to be trained in the skill of a machine gunner. But instead they beat and starved.
Fortunately, Khazim Mardegallyamovich came out of this hell alive and healthy. At the end of 1943 he came to the front line of the front. He fought against the Nazis as a machine gunner.
“Having blown up a mine, I was seriously injured. A machine gun with a 60 kg steel wheel flew off to the side and it threw me to the other side. It’s good that the mine was laid in a plowed field, otherwise, I would not have survived. Soft land saved me, ”remembers Khazim Mardegallyamovich.
Khazim left leg was amputated in a military hospital. But mine fragments in his body he wore for decades. Having been treated for a long time in hospitals, the 21-year-old front-line soldier Khazim returned to his native land. Despite the fact that he lost one leg, he stayed optimistic - he worked all his life.
He built a house by himself, set up a new barn, a bathhouse. He didn’t get sick, didn’t lie in hospitals, he was at work all the time.
- Of course, I am considered disabled, but I have been working all my life. When I was a livestock breeder, I took care of the quality of the feed. I watched that not a single armful of hay was spoiled. My sheep breeding team was among the foremost in the area. In winter, we helped feed the farms of neighboring villages”, the veteran recalls.
Khazim Mardegallyamovich, at the age of 95, is satisfied with his life and repeats: “The state cares about us very much, renders all kinds of help. And I still want to live. After all, life is so beautiful! ”
Now he lives in the village of Nizhny Alkeevo cared by his daughter Cariba.