Kolbasov Nikolai Illarionovich – commander of the firing platoon of the 199th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 94th Guards Rifle Division of the 69th Army Steppe Front, a junior lieutenant of the Guards.
Born on December 21, 1911. Russian. Before being drafted into the Red Army lived and worked in Karsakpai.
For courage and bravery shown in the battles in Belgorod direction, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR by the Decree of February 22, 1944 awarded the commander of the 199th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 92nd Rifle Order of Suvorov II degree Zvenigorod-Berlin Division, Nikolai Illarionovich Kolbasov the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
In June 1942 he was called up to the Red Army by the Dzhezkazgan RVC. He fought at Stalingrad. Steppe fronts.
His best qualities of commander and soldier Nikolai Kolbasov showed in the Battle of Kursk-Orlovsk.
Here are excerpts from the award sheet filled in on August 6, 1943: “On the first day of the battle in the Belgorod direction on July 7, 1943, having rolled out the gun to the open position, the platoon of the guard of the junior lieutenant Kolbasov entered into single combat with German tanks “tiger”, which went to our positions, totaling 70 pieces. Kolbasov’s artillerymen shot the enemy tanks at point-blank range. Three times the enemy rolled back and attacked again, but the gunners became a wall again. On the same day, Kolbasov’s platoon destroyed 46 vehicles with the enemy infantry moving on the roads to our positions with accurate firing raids from its two guns.
On July 11, concentrating up to 150 tanks and two infantry regiments, the enemy fell on the left flank of the 288th Guards Rifle Regiment. After a fierce bombardment of our batteries, 17 “tiger” tanks appeared in the area of brave artillerymen of Kolbasov, firing on guns from three sides. Having unfolded the guns, the gunners met them with crushing fire. Three of the tanks caught fire, but the enemy was attacking. With a direct hit of the projectile, the cannon was crumpled and Nikolai’s gun count was disrupted. Then sausage himself stood by the cannon. He was both a gunner and a loader, and a projectile carrier. Letting the tanks of the enemy closer, Sausage hit without a miss. He hit four tanks that didn’t reach his gun just a few tens of meters.
There were fewer men and shells left in the platoon, the enemy regrouped and moved towards Sausage’s gun again. The fearless commander organized a circular defense and together with the infantry soldiers with personal weapons destroyed about 100 Hitlerites. The enemy began to retreat in order to surround the brave. Sausage raised the remaining people to counterattack and led them out of the ring of enemy tanks and machine guns.
Hero of Zhezkazgan fell to the death of the brave in the battles for the liberation of Ukraine and was buried in the village of Drabinovka, Poltava region.
One of the streets in the village of Karsakpai is named after Nikolai Kolbasov. At the Zhezkazgan Order of Lenin Mining and Metallurgical Plant named after K.I. Satpayev established a prize named after Nicholas Kolbasov.
The material is published, based on the book published in the RIO Bolashak Baspa and the Internet.
Heroes of Karaganda [Text]: a collection of biographical information / edited by Zh. S. Akylbaev, A. A. Abdakimov, N. O. Dulatbekov, R. K. Omarbekova. – Karaganda: Bolashak-Baspa, 2000. – – 146 p.
