Biography of Mikhail Ilyich Surkov

However, Mikhail Surkov, who, only according to officially confirmed data, destroyed near the Nazis, the stars were never awarded. This injustice has not yet been fixed. The ancestors of Surkov, according to the publication by the “roads of fathers”, were hunters, so it is not surprising that Mikhail himself chose this craft. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Surkov already had quite a lot of experience: he was able to silently move through the forest in order not to scare the prey, and without a miss came into the eye of the squirrel so as not to spoil the valuable skin of the animal.

All these qualities were useful to Mikhail at the front. Surkov served in the 1st battalion of the Rifle Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division, which in turn was part of the army of the Southern Front. It’s hard to believe, but already in the first months of the year on Mikhail Surkov, there were more killed Nazis, among whom there were many officers. It is noteworthy that Surkov became one of the few snipers, the effectiveness of which was recorded on the film.

The operators came to the fighter in the year. It was then that the number of Germans destroyed by him reached the exploits of Mikhail Surkov about the mentioned fact, in particular, wrote the illustrated magazine “Soviet screen” for the year. Surkov, the film operator A. Levitan, captures the newsreel, captured by the operator I. Arons, shoots at the helmet - it was such an inscription that was listed under the photograph published in the publication.

During the shooting, Mikhail Surkov eliminated a couple of fascists. Thus, the number of Germans, destroyed by a sniper, increased before and this is only according to officially confirmed data. And some researchers are inclined to the fact that thanks to Surkov, the Nazis lost at least a thousand of their soldiers. Such assumptions do not seem at all fantastic, if we take into account information about the exploits committed by Mikhail Ilyich.

So, Valentina Spirina in her book “May 9.

Always, ”writes that once Surkov killed German tankers, like a squirrel, with a shot in the eye, released into the observation hatches of combat vehicles. And once during the attack by a sniper, among the first to burst into the enemy’s trench, neutralized 3 enemies with the help of cold weapons. However, these and several other Nazis were not included in Surkov.

Without a hero of the hero, nevertheless, even information about the Germans destroyed by Mikhail Surkov causes some Western historians in some Western historians. So, about his suspicions writes in the publication in the publication “Sniper Encyclopedia” and John Walter, which, like many other foreign researchers, believes that the number of “victims” of Surkov is exaggerated by Soviet propaganda in order to produce a greater effect on citizens.

Mikhail Ilyich is really mentioned in hundreds of sources that saw the light during the war and after its end. For example, in the book “Mettle Strots”, T. Grits and S. Telinger G. Nevertheless, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Surkov, was not awarded, although many snipers had such, in the “piggy banks” of which there were much fewer killed enemies.

However, Mikhail Ilyich, who in the year after the next seventh wounds returned to his native lands, did not claim anything and lived quite modestly until his death. It is worth noting that the life path of Surkov was short: the old wounds affected. He died in the year at the age of 32, without receiving the star of the hero.