Memory. Semyon Nomokonov

On August 12, 1900, the famous sniper Semyon Nomokonov was born.

Personal business

Semyon Danilovich Nomokonov (1900-1973) was born in the village of Delyun in Transbaikalia in a family of hereditary hunters of the Khamnigan Tungus. He spent all his childhood in the taiga, at the age of seven he picked up a gun, and for 10 years he was considered a real hunter and had the nickname "The Eye of the Korshun."

At the age of 15 he was baptized. At baptism, he received the name Semyon. In 1928 he settled in the village of Nizhny Stan (now the Tungokochensky district), where he joined the commune of the "Dawn of a New Life", and then to the state farm. He worked as a carpenter, continued to hunt. At the age of 19 he married. One after another, five sons and a daughter were born in a family. But the whole family was carried away overnight to the grave of Scarlatin. Nomokonov at that time was in the craft and learned about the tragedy only upon returning home. Miraculously, only the youngest of his sons, Vladimir, survived.

After the death of the Nomokon family, he married again. The second wife of Martha Vasilievna gave birth to him 6 sons and 2 daughters.

In August 1941, Nomokonov was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the front. At first, a middle -aged, illiterate and did not have a military specialty, the fighter fulfilled various economic instructions, was a nurse on the Kalinin Front, but very soon he showed himself as a well -aimed shooter. On one of the autumn days of 1941, picking up the next wounded man on the battlefield, Nomokonov saw how the German was aiming in their direction. With an instant reaction of a taiga hunter, he threw up a rifle and shot, hitting a target. In the evening, the units only said that about the mark of the shot of the orderly. When the information reached the command, the seeds were enrolled in a sniper platoon. Thus began his path to the glory of the sniper.

At first, his personal weapon was the usual three -line Mosin rifle even without an optical sight. Nomokonov appeared with an optical sight only in the winter of 1942 and he went through the whole war with her. The sniper hit the enemy from it with 300, 500 meters and even a kilometer.

Hunting skills were very useful to Evenk in the war. Even his equipment was similar to the hunting. Nomokonov had a whole arsenal of various devices: he used a variety of ropes, laces, horns, fragments of mirrors. The shoes were woven from horse hair, which allowed to move completely silently.

Sometimes Nomokonov did not leave the “Sidka”, as he called the place of shelter, for two to three days.

One of these ambushes took place later, which later became the famous duel with a German sniper. They hunted one after another. Lieutenant Colonel A. Danilov describes this duel like this: “Semyon hid in a echoor lobby, where, it would seem, and the mouse can be noticeable. In a nearby tomb, he attached a charged rifle and handed a black lace from it to him. But the enemy sniper did not show signs of life. By the end of the 2nd day, at the sunset of the day, it seemed to Nomokonov that the board suddenly stirred in the sheathing of the attic of an empty house. At night, he got to the trench, aimed the rifle on the attic and returned to his shelter. When morning came, Semyon noticed a barely visible gap where, according to his assumptions, the enemy was hiding. He took her on the fly, and he pulled it by the lace. The spare rifle fired from the trench, and then the bullet hit the trench from the attic.

“Everything is clear,” Nomokonov said to himself, and at the same instant the trigger lowered. The fascist fell to the ground. "

Nomokonov went through the whole war. He fought at the Valdai heights, Karelian Isthmus, Ukraine, in Lithuania, East Prussia, and then during the Soviet-Japanese war in Manchuria. Served in 5 fronts, 2 divisions, 6 regiments.

He finished the battle path with the spurs of the Great Hingan after the victory over Japan. Nomokonov received his last military award here, as well as gifts from the command of the division “For special differences at the front” - a horse, binoculars and a rifle No. 24638. After demobilization, he went home on a wagon made with his own hands.

After the war, he returned to his native state farm. Having retired, in the mid-1960s he moved to the village of Zugalai, Mogoytuysky district of the Aginsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug, where he worked on the collective farm named after V.I. Lenin.

Semyon Nomokonov died on July 15, 1973.

What is famous

Only according to official figures, the foreman of the 221st Infantry Division Semyon Nomokonov destroyed 367 enemy soldiers and officers. He distinguished himself during the battles at Valdai altitudes, destroying the German general general who arrived to inspect the front edge.

For the first time, the newspaper of the North-Western Front “For Homeland” in December 1941 spoke about it. The newspaper note reported that the former Transbaikal hunter, and now Sniper Semyon Nomokonov, has not his own account of 76 destroyed Nazis, including one general. In the spring of 1942, the same newspaper wrote that the Sniper account reached the number 106.

Subsequently, the outstanding sniper from Transbaikalia was repeatedly mentioned in the reports of the Swinformburo, the front -line and central newspapers wrote about it, and the Germans gave him the nickname “The Taja Shaman”.

The subscription Sergei Zarubin wrote about him the book “Sniper Tube”.

Also during the war, Nomokonov taught a sniper affair over 150 soldiers.

After the war, he was awarded the title of honorary soldier of the Transbaikal (now Siberian) military district. In his homeland, bullet shooting competitions are held in his honor.

What you need to know about

For combat merits, Semyon Nomokonov was awarded the orders of Lenin, the Red Banner and two orders of the Red Star, but was not awarded the title of the hero.

In January 2010, the candidacy of Semyon Nomokonov took first place in the contest "Great People of the Transbaikalia", organized under the patronage of the administration of the Trans -Baikal Territory.

At the requests of Transbaikalsev and on the eve of the 65th anniversary of the Victory, the organizers of the competition initiated the issue of representing the famous sniper to the title of Hero of the Russian Federation, but the Ministry of Defense did not find it possible to assign this title to him

Direct speech

“A goal can always appear. At any time, managed to freeze, hide. Get together in a lump, hold your head low, turn your eyes with one eyes, ” from the instructions of Nomokonov seeds .

“He seemed to be conspired! Enemy bullets have repeatedly fell into his camouflage, clothes and even shoes, the best snipers of the enemy hunted for him, but he won. He was an unsurpassed master of disguise, possessed remarkable endurance and talent of St. John's wort. Going to a duel with an enemy, as a hunt, he took with him simple hunting devices. In his arsenal there was a mirror to lure an opponent, laces and ropes to drive false targets, he dressed wandering from horse hair woven to his feet to step silently, ” from an article about Nomokonov “ master of sniper science ”.

“In August 1945, acting on the Trans -Baikal Front, Sniper S. D. Nomokonov destroyed 8 soldiers and officers of the Kwantun Army. By order of the front commander, S. D. Nomokonov, as a taiga hunter, is allocated as a gift a nominal sniper rifle No. 24638, binoculars and a horse. The request to allow the hero of the war an unhindered crossing across the border , ”-from the certificate of the commander of the 221st Mariupol, Khinggan Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Rifle Division, Major General V.N. Kushnarenko.

He is a master of sniper science,

Fascist evil spirits,

What gold hands.

What a sharp eyes!

Vasily Lebedev-Kumach.

9 facts about Semyon Nomokonov

• The name "Tungus" was used only until 1931. After that, “Evenki” became the official ethnonym. But in the documents, Nomokonov wrote: "Tungus from the Hamnegan family." Thus, both Evenki and Buryats include their eminent fellow countrymen of Nomokonov.
• Translated into Russian, Hamnegan - “Forest Man”.
• For the first time, Semyon Nomokonov picked up a primer at 32 years old. He learned to read with his son Vladimir.
• Vladimir Nomokonov also fought and was also a sniper. On his account is more than 50 killed fascists. At one time, as it turned out later, the father and son were in the neighboring sections of the front, but met only after the war.
• Unable to calculate the elusive sniper, the Germans often simply covered the places with a continuous mortar fire where he could hide. During the war, the nomokonov was wounded 8 times, received two concussions.
• Nomokonov noted the number of killed soldiers and officers of the enemy on the tube, burning out points (soldiers) and crosses (officer) “on the state rifle cannot be placed. They say - spoil. Yes, and they can replace it, and the war ended - passed it. The tube is always with me, ”he said.
• Nomokonov’s tubes were often given. So, having learned about the sniper duel, the front commander personally gave him an ivory pipe. He was given pipes sailors, schoolchildren, collective farmers, workers. One of his tubes is located in a museum in Moscow, the other in Chita, the third in Achinsk.
• Nomokonov rifle No. 24638 is stored in the Museum of the History of the Troops of the Order of Lenin of the Siberian Military District, where there is a corner dedicated to the famous sniper.
• The story of Semyon Nomokonov formed the basis of the film "Sniper 2. Tungus."

Materials about Semyon Nomokonov

Fascist wicked thunderstorm. An article about Semyon Nomokonov on a page dedicated to Soviet snipers 1941 - 1945.

Semyon Nomokonov - Honorary Soldier

Master of sniper science

Article about Semyon Nomokonov in Wikipedia