Mountain shooters of Kazakhstan in the Great Patriotic war

The article considers previously unpublished facts of participation of Kazakh mountain shooters in the great Patriotic war. The relevance of the problem is that military experience should be used in training mountain rifle units of the modern army of Kazakhstan. All Kazakhstanis who participated in mountain battles can be divided into three groups: 1) climbers who fought in mountain units; 2) climbers who fought in regular military units; 3) Kazakhstanis who did not have mountaineering training and successfully fought in mountain units. The author collected voluminous material about the Kazakh mountain shooters of the first group. At the second stage of the study, more attention is paid to the biographies of the second and third group of shooters. Peculiar for this group is the biography of Kazakh climber Khabi Rakhimov. Not only the facts of his participation in combat actions as part of the 316th Panfilov division until December 1941, but also his service after being wounded by the chief of intelligence in the rank of major, the time of death in 1943 on the Kursk bulge were stated. Peculiar for the third group of Kazakh shooters are the biographies of sergeant N.A. Vukolov and Hero of the Soviet Union senior sergeant D. Karakulov, they both fought in the 83rd mountain rifle division of Turkestan.

горные стрелки, альпинисты, горная подготовка, история, военный опыт, горные сражения, горнострелковые подразделения, mountain shooters, mountaineers, mountain training, history, military experience, mountain battles, mountain rifle division, тау атқыштар, альпинистер, тау дайындығы, тарих, әскери тәжірибе, тау шайқасы, тау атқыштар бөлімшесі

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