The amazing story of one funeral. Interview with a scientist
For eighty years, no one knew what happened at the front with the Kyrgyz Shamshi Egishzharov.
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Vice-Rector of KRSU Leonid Sumarokov spoke about the fate of one fighter on Sputnik Kyrgyzstan radio.
"In the summer of 1943 there was the Battle of Kursk. Kyrgyzstan received a message that Shamshy Egishzharov was missing. At the same time, a funeral for Egishzharov Shamysh came to the Omsk region. It was wartime, the clerks were working in the most difficult conditions, and an error crept into the document. This person is on the missing list today, but we have found the place where he is buried," the historian said.
He also spoke about the legendary compatriot Anatoly Stavenkov, a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR.
"The task of his division was to disorient and distract the enemy from the main events that took place in the Stalingrad direction. Stavenkov's division was in the direction of the main attack of Paulus' group, which was trying to get out of the resulting cauldron. They immediately defeated the Romanian division and defended the crossing of the Aksai River for several days," Sumarokov noted.
According to him, later one of the German generals admitted that the formations and commanders defending this river played a decisive role in the encirclement of Paulus’ group at Stalingrad.
