History 19/03/20 “secret agent”: as at the hands of Bandera killed Nikolay Kuznetsov

the spy master, polyglot, conqueror of hearts, and a great adventurer, he personally killed 11 Nazi generals, but was killed by soldiers of the UPA*.

Linguistic talent

Boy from the village of Zyryanka four hundred inhabitants possessed in perfection the German language by qualified teachers. Later Kolya Kuznetsov picked up profanity when meeting with the Forester – a German former soldier of the Austrian-Hungarian army. Yourself by learning Esperanto, he translated into his favorite “Borodino”, and while studying at the College, translated into German Russian “Encyclopedia of forest science”, then became fluent in Polish, Ukrainian and Komi Republic. The Spaniards who served in the Bush under Exactly the group Medvedev, suddenly became concerned, told the commander: “the Fighter Grachev understands when we speak native”. But it’s Kuznetsova opened the understanding of the unfamiliar to the language. Mastered six dialects of German and I meet somewhere at a table with their officer, immediately determined, from which he hails, and switched to a different dialect.

before the war

After a year in the Tyumen agricultural College, Nicholas left school because of his father’s death and a year later continued his studies at the Talitsky forest College. Later he worked as an assistant Adjuster on the device of the forests of local significance, where he reported on colleagues involved in the additions. He was twice expelled from the Komsomol accused of “white guard, the kulak origin” in the years of study and the denunciation of colleagues, but a condemnation to a year of correctional labor. With the “Uralmashplant” was fired for absenteeism. Biography Kuznetsova didn’t bristle with facts that represented him as a trustworthy citizen, but the unchanging penchant for adventure, his curiosity and overactivity are the perfect qualities for a spy. Young Siberian classic the appearance of “Aryan”, which perfectly knew German, I noticed the local office of the NKVD in 1939 was sent to the capital to study.

matters of the heart

According to one of the leaders of the Soviet intelligence service, Nikolay Ivanovich was the lover of the most Prim of the Moscow ballet, though “some of them it is in the interest of the case was shared with German diplomats”. In Kudymkar Kuznetsov married a local nurse Helen Chugaeva, but leaving the Perm, broke up with his wife three months after marriage, and not having a divorce. Love with socialite Xana in the 1940s did not happen due to a cautious attitude towards the Germans, because Nicholas was already part of the legend and introduced the lady as Rudolf Schmidt. Despite the abundance of ties, this novel remained the most important in the history of the hero – in a partisan Kuznetsov asked Medvedev: “Here’s the address, if you die, be sure to tell us the truth about me Ksani”. And Medvedev, the Hero of the Soviet Union, found after the war in Central Moscow this same Ksana, fulfilled the will Smith.

Kuznetsov and UPA*

Over the last ten years in Ukraine appeared a number of articles seeking to discredit the famous scout. The essence of the four charges is that he fought not with the Germans and the Ukrainian insurgent OUN members and UPA* and the like. Archival materials refute these statements. For example, the already mentioned idea for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the attached petition before the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, signed by the head of the 4th Department of the NKGB Pavel Sudoplatov. In justifying the award refers to the elimination of Kuznetsov eight high-ranking German generals, the organization of illegal residency and not a word about the suppression of any Ukrainian independence supporters. Of course, medvedivtsi, including Kuznetsov, who had to struggle with the forces of the Ukrainian nationalists, but only as allies of the Nazi occupation regime and its intelligence services. From the hands of the OUN and died indusica intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov.

the Death of

German patrols were aware of the search for houtman in the regions of Western Ukraine. In March 1944, UPA fighters broke into the house of the village of Boratyn, which was the shelter Kuznetsov and his colleagues – Ivan Belov and Jan Kaminsky. Beebe was struck by a bayonet at the entrance. Some time under guard, they waited for the rebel commander, centurion Montenegro. He identified “the German” by high-profile terrorist attacks against the Nazi bosses. Kuznetsov and then detonated a grenade in a room filled with soldiers of the UPA. Kaminsky attempted to flee, but he caught the bullet. The bodies were loaded onto a horse-drawn carriage neighbor Golubovic Spyridon Gromaca, taken outside the village and dug snow, and laid the remains near the old Creek and covered with brushwood.

Posthumous fame

a week after the tragic collision, the Germans entered the village, found the remains of a soldier in the form of the Wehrmacht and reburied them. Local residents later showed the place of reburial of the staff of the Lviv KGB M. Rubtsov and the film. Strutinsky has made the reburial of the alleged remains Kuznetsova in Lvov on the Hill of Fame on July 27, 1960. The memory of one of the heroes of the war that shook the world and brought liberation from the fascist plague brown, muddy stream poured over Europe, will remain milestones in history. Rights were Nikolai Kuznetsov, when one day, discussing the guerrilla bonfire of the Avengers, said, “If after the war we’ll talk about that and how did it hardly believe. I would perhaps not have believed if it had not been a party to these cases.”

action Hero

Many believe that the fate of Nikolai Kuznetsov tells the famous painting “the feat of the scout” by Director Boris Barnet. In fact, the idea of the movie appeared before the character under the name of Rudolf Schmidt. The script for a film repeatedly altered, some of the facts really was a narrative of the events of his service, for example, the episode with the abduction of Kyung was written with a similar theft Kuznetsov General Ilgen. And yet, most of the subjects of the paintings were based on the collective image of the war heroes, the film reflects the facts and the biographies of the other scouts. Subsequently, at the Sverdlovsk film Studio it was delivered two feature films about Nikolay Kuznetsov: “Strong in spirit” (in 1967) and “special forces” (in 1987), but such popularity as “the feat of the scout”, they are not acquired.

* banned organization in Russia

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