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Beloved Komelkova

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Galya Chetvertak is an orphan, a pupil of an orphanage. In the orphanage she got her nickname for her short stature. Dreamer. She lived in the world of her own fantasies, and went to the front with the conviction that war is romance. After the orphanage, Galya got into the library technical school. The war caught her in her third year. On the first day of the war, their entire group was sent to the military commissar. Everyone was assigned, but Galya did not fit anywhere either in age or height. During the battle with the Germans, Vaskov took Galya with him, but she, unable to withstand the nervous tension of waiting for the Germans, ran out of hiding and was shot dead by the Nazis. Despite such a "ridiculous" death, the foreman told the girls that she died "in a shootout."

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One of the main characters of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev's story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet...".

Zhenya is a very beautiful red-haired girl, the rest of the heroines were amazed at her beauty. Tall, slender, with fair skin. Zhenya is 19 years old. Zhenya has her own account with the Germans: when the Germans captured the village of Zhenya, an Estonian managed to hide Zhenya herself. In front of the girl's eyes, the Nazis shot her mother, sister and brother. She goes to war to avenge the deaths of her loved ones. Despite the grief, "her character was cheerful and smiling." In Vaskov's platoon, Zhenya showed artistry, but there was also enough room for heroism - it was she who, causing fire on herself, leads the Germans away from Rita and Vaskov. She saves Vaskov when he fights with the second German who killed Sonya Gurvich. The Germans first wounded Zhenya, and then shot her point-blank.

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Senior sergeant, platoon commander of female anti-aircraft gunners.

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One of the main characters of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev's story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet...".

Lisa Brichkina is a simple village girl, originally from the Bryansk region. Daughter of a forester. One day, their father brought a guest to their house. Lisa liked him very much. Seeing the conditions under which the girl grows up, the guest invites Lisa to come to the capital and enter a technical school with a hostel, but Lisa did not have a chance to become a student - the war began. Lisa always believed that tomorrow would come and be better than today. Lisa died first. She drowned in a swamp during the execution of the task of foreman Vaskov.

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Postman

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The landlady of foreman Vaskov

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One of the main characters of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev's story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet...".

Rita is strict, she never laughs, she just moves her lips a little, but her eyes remain serious. "Rita was not one of the smart ones ...". Rita Mushtakova was the first of the class, out of great love, to marry senior lieutenant Osyanin, from whom she gave birth to a son, Albert. And there was no happier girl in the world. At the outpost, she was immediately elected to the women's council and enrolled in all circles. Rita learned to bandage the wounded and shoot, ride a horse, throw grenades and defend against gases, and then ... war. On the very first day of the war, she was one of the few who did not lose her head, did not panic. She was generally calm and thoughtful. Rita's husband died on the second day of the war during a counterattack on June 23, 1941. Upon learning that her husband is dead, she goes to war instead of her husband to protect her little son, who was left with his mother. They wanted to send Rita to the rear, and she asked to fight. She was persecuted, stuffed by force into the wagons, but the stubborn wife of the deceased deputy chief of the outpost, Senior Lieutenant Osyanin, reappeared at the headquarters of the fortified area a day later. In the end, they took me as a nurse, and six months later they sent me to the regimental anti-aircraft school. The authorities appreciated the unsmiling widow of the hero-border guard: they noted it in orders, set it as an example, and therefore respected the personal request - to send, after graduation, to the site where the outpost stood, where her husband died in a fierce bayonet battle. Now Rita could consider herself satisfied: she had achieved what she wanted. Even the death of her husband went somewhere in the farthest corner of her memory: Rita had a job, and she learned to hate quietly and mercilessly ... In Vaskov's platoon, Rita became friends with Zhenya Komelkova and Galya Chetvertak. She died last, putting a bullet in her temple and thereby saving Fedot Vaskov. Before she died, she asked him to take care of her son. The death of Rita Osyanina is psychologically the most difficult moment in the story. Boris Vasiliev very accurately conveys the state

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One of the main characters of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev's story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet...".

Sonya Gurvich is a girl who grew up in a large friendly Jewish family. Sonya is from Minsk. Her father was a local doctor. She herself studied for a year at Moscow University, knew German well. A neighbor from lectures, Sonya's first love, with whom they spent only one unforgettable evening in the park of culture, volunteered for the front. Knowing German, she could have been a good translator, but there were many translators, so she was sent to the anti-aircraft gunners (who, in turn, were few). Sonya is the second German victim in Vaskov's platoon. She runs away from the others to find and return Vaskov's pouch, and stumbles upon patrol saboteurs who killed Sonya with two stab wounds in the chest.

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Major, Commander Vaskov

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The protagonist of Boris Lvovich Vasiliev's story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet...".

Sergeant Major Fedot Vaskov is the commandant of the 171st patrol in the Karelian wilderness. The crews of the anti-aircraft installations of the siding, getting into a quiet environment, begin to toil from idleness and get drunk. In response to Vaskov's requests to "send non-drinkers," the command sends two squads of anti-aircraft gunners there ... Fedot graduated from four classes of the regimental school, and in ten years he rose to the rank of foreman. Vaskov experienced a personal drama: after the Finnish war, his wife left him. Vaskov demanded his son through the court and sent him to his mother in the village, but the Germans killed him there. The foreman always feels older than his years. The peasant's mind, the peasant's leaven is emphasized by the author in the "gloomy foreman" Fedot Vaskov. “Strong reticence”, “peasant slowness”, special “male solidity” since “the only peasant in the family remained - and the breadwinner, and the drinker, and the breadwinner”. “Old man” and “moss-covered stump, who has twenty words in reserve, and even those from the charter” are called thirty-two-year-old Vaskov behind his back by his subordinate anti-aircraft gunners. “All his life Fedot Evgrafovich carried out orders. He did it literally, quickly and with pleasure. He was the gear of a huge, carefully tuned mechanism. Having come across with their "search group" of five "girls with three-rulers in an embrace" on sixteen armed fascist thugs from head to toe, rushing through the Sinyukhin ridge to the Kirov railway, to the "canal named after. comrade Stalin”, Vaskov “hid his confusion. He thought and thought, tossed and turned with his heavy brains, sucked all the possibilities of the upcoming deadly meeting. From his military experience, he knew that “playing hovanki with a German is almost like playing with death”, that the enemy “must be beaten. Beat until he crawls into the lair, ”without pity, without mercy. Understanding how difficult it is for a woman, who always gives birth to life, to kill, taught, explained: “These are not people. Not people, not people, not even animals - fascists. Look at it accordingly."

Boris Lvovich Vasiliev

“And the dawns here are quiet…”

May 1942 Countryside in Russia. There is a war with Nazi Germany. The 171st railway siding is commanded by foreman Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov. He is thirty two years old. He has only four grades. Vaskov was married, but his wife ran away with the regimental veterinarian, and his son soon died.

It's quiet on the road. Soldiers arrive here, look around, and then begin to "drink and walk." Vaskov stubbornly writes reports, and, in the end, he is sent a platoon of “non-drinking” fighters - anti-aircraft gunners. At first, the girls laugh at Vaskov, but he does not know how to deal with them. Rita Osyanina is in command of the first squad of the platoon. Rita's husband died on the second day of the war. She sent her son Albert to her parents. Soon Rita got into the regimental anti-aircraft school. With her husband's death, she learned to hate the Germans "quietly and mercilessly" and was harsh with the girls in her squad.

The Germans kill the carrier, instead they send Zhenya Komelkova, a slender red-haired beauty. In front of Zhenya a year ago, the Germans shot her loved ones. After their death, Zhenya crossed the front. She was picked up, protected "and not that he took advantage of defenselessness - Colonel Luzhin stuck to himself." He was a family man, and the military authorities, having found out about this, the colonel "took into circulation", and sent Zhenya "to a good team." Despite everything, Zhenya is "sociable and mischievous." Her fate immediately "crosses out Rita's exclusivity." Zhenya and Rita converge, and the latter "thaws".

When it comes to transferring from the front line to the patrol, Rita is inspired and asks to send her squad. The junction is located near the city where her mother and son live. At night, Rita secretly runs into the city, carries her products. One day, returning at dawn, Rita sees two Germans in the forest. She wakes up Vaskov. He receives an order from the authorities to "catch" the Germans. Vaskov calculates that the route of the Germans lies on the Kirov railway. The foreman decides to go a short way through the swamps to the Sinyukhina ridge, stretching between two lakes, along which it is the only way to get to the railway, and wait for the Germans there - they will certainly go by the roundabout. Vaskov takes Rita, Zhenya, Lisa Brichkina, Sonya Gurvich and Galya Chetvertak with him.

Lisa is from Bryansk, she is the daughter of a forester. For five years, she took care of her terminally ill mother, because of this she could not finish school. A visiting hunter, who awakened her first love in Liza, promised to help her enter a technical school. But the war began, Liza got into the anti-aircraft unit. Liza likes Sergeant Major Vaskov.

Sonya Gurvich from Minsk. Her father was a local doctor, they had a large and friendly family. She herself studied for a year at Moscow University, knows German. A neighbor from lectures, Sonya's first love, with whom they spent only one unforgettable evening in the park of culture, volunteered for the front.

Galya Chetvertak grew up in an orphanage. It was there that she met her first love. After the orphanage, Galya got into the library technical school. The war caught her in her third year.

The path to Lake Vop lies through the swamps. Vaskov leads the girls along a path well known to him, on both sides of which there is a quagmire. The fighters safely reach the lake and, hiding on the Sinyukhina ridge, are waiting for the Germans. Those appear on the shore of the lake only the next morning. There are not two of them, but sixteen. While the Germans have about three hours to go to Vaskov and the girls, the foreman sends Lisa Brichkin back to the siding - to report on a change in the situation. But Lisa, crossing the swamp, stumbles and drowns. No one knows about this, and everyone is waiting for help. Until then, the girls decide to mislead the Germans. They portray lumberjacks, shouting loudly, Vaskov felling trees.

The Germans retreat to Lake Legontov, not daring to go along the Sinyukhin ridge, on which, as they think, someone is cutting down the forest. Vaskov with the girls moves to a new place. He left his pouch in the same place, and Sonya Gurvich volunteers to bring it. Hurrying, she stumbles upon two Germans who kill her. Vaskov and Zhenya are killing these Germans. Sonya is buried.

Soon the fighters see the rest of the Germans approaching them. Hiding behind bushes and boulders, they shoot first, the Germans retreat, fearing an invisible enemy. Zhenya and Rita accuse Galya of cowardice, but Vaskov defends her and takes her on reconnaissance for "educational purposes". But Vaskov does not suspect what mark Sonya's death left in Gali's soul. She is terrified and gives herself away at the most crucial moment, and the Germans kill her.

Fedot Evgrafych takes the Germans on himself to lead them away from Zhenya and Rita. He is wounded in the hand. But he manages to get away and get to the island in the swamp. In the water, he notices Lisa's skirt and realizes that help will not come. Vaskov finds the place where the Germans stopped to rest, kills one of them and goes to look for the girls. They are preparing to take the final stand. The Germans appear. In an unequal battle, Vaskov and the girls kill several Germans. Rita is mortally wounded, and while Vaskov is dragging her to safety, the Germans kill Zhenya. Rita asks Vaskov to take care of her son and shoots herself in the temple. Vaskov buries Zhenya and Rita. After that, he goes to the forest hut, where the five remaining Germans sleep. Vaskov kills one of them on the spot, and takes four prisoners. They themselves tie each other with belts, because they do not believe that Vaskov is "all alone for many miles." He loses consciousness from pain only when his own, Russians, are already coming towards him.

Many years later, a gray-haired, stocky old man without an arm and a rocket captain, whose name is Albert Fedotovich, will bring a marble slab to Rita's grave.

In May 1942, the 171st railway siding was commanded by foreman Fedot Evgrafych Vaskov. He had a wife and a son, but his wife preferred a regimental veterinarian, and his son died. The trip was quiet, so all the fighters sent, after a while, began to tirelessly drink. Vaskov wrote an unthinkable number of reports when the girls from the anti-aircraft regiment were finally sent to him. It was difficult for him to manage them. The platoon commander was Rita Osyanina. On the second day she lost her husband, she decided to go to an anti-aircraft school. Son Albert went to be raised by Rita's parents. The commander from her turned out to be very severe. After the death of the carrier, a new one got into the platoon.

Zhenya Komelkova, was a beauty with red curls. The whole family perished before her eyes. Due to relations with the married Colonel Luzhin, the command sent Zhenya to Rita in order to isolate them from each other. When they met, the girls became friends. Upon learning of the transfer to the siding, Rita was delighted. It was close to the city where her relatives lived. Every night, secretly, she ran to her son and mother, bringing food to them. But, returning one morning, she noticed two Germans and told Vaskov about it. The military command orders to catch them. Vaskov decides to shorten the path, passing through the swamps to the Sinyukhina ridge. They will pass along the ridge, between two lakes and will wait for the enemy, who is likely to come around. Zhenya, Rita, Liza Brichkina, Sonya Gurvich and Galya Chetvertak set off with him. Lisa was the daughter of a forester, she was forced to leave school because of her sick mother, whom she looked after for five years. She fell in love with a guest who accidentally stopped by, and he promised to help in entering a technical school. The plans were interrupted by the war. The Belarusian girl Sonya Gurvich was born in a large friendly family of a local doctor. Galya Chetvertak grew up in an orphanage, where she found her first love.

The girls with the commander walked along the path, on both sides of which was surrounded by a quagmire. When they reached the lake, they fell silent, waiting for the enemy. Instead of two, sixteen people showed up the next morning. Vaskov sends Liza with a report to the command. But Lisa, passing along the path, stumbled and drowned. Vaskov does not know about this and waits for help to come. Depicting lumberjacks, the girls forced the enemy to retreat, thinking that they were cutting wood. Vaskov sent Sonya to fetch his pouch, which he forgot in the old place. Sonya gives herself away and is killed. Sonya's death hurt Galya very much, and at a crucial moment, she gave herself away, for which she paid with her life. Fedot takes the Germans on himself to save Zhenya and Rita. He is wounded, but reaches the swamp and notices Lisa's skirt.

He understands that they can't wait for help. Arriving at the place where the Germans stood, he kills one and goes in search of the girls. In another unequal battle, Zhenya is killed. Rita asked Fedot to take care of her son and shot herself. After burying the girls, he goes to the hut where the Germans are holy. One was killed, four were captured by Vaskov. Seeing that the Russians were coming, he lost consciousness. Many years later, Captain of the Rocket Forces Albert Fedotovich and an armless old man will erect a marble monument on Rita's grave.

The protagonist, foreman, commandant of the patrol. Vaskov is distinguished by a "muzhik's mind" and "firm reticence." He is 32 years old, but he feels much older, as he became the breadwinner of the family at the age of fourteen. Vaskov has four grades of education.

One of the main characters, a participant in the war, who served at the 171st junction. She was an orphan from an orphanage, who on the very first day of the war was sent as part of a group to the military commissar. She dreamed of participating in the war, but since she was not suitable, neither in height nor in age, they did not want to take her. In the end, she was assigned to the anti-aircraft gunners.

One of the main characters, an anti-aircraft gunner who fell into the squad of Fedot Vaskov. Zhenya was a beautiful, slender, red-haired girl, whose beauty was admired by everyone around her. The village where she grew up was captured by the Germans.

One of the main characters of the story, a brave anti-aircraft gunner who served in Vaskov's detachment. Liza grew up in the family of a forester from the Bryansk region. All her life she cared for her seriously ill mother, which is why she could not even finish school.

One of the main characters, the eldest in the platoon. Rita is a serious and reserved person. She almost never laughs or shows emotion. He treats other girls in the squad strictly and always keeps to himself.

One of the main characters, an anti-aircraft gunner from the detachment of foreman Fedot Vaskov. Sonya is a shy girl from Minsk, who studied at Moscow University as an interpreter, and with the outbreak of war ended up in a school for anti-aircraft gunners.

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A minor character, a platoon commander sergeant, the eldest of the anti-aircraft gunners.

­ Major

A secondary character, the direct commander of Sergeant Vaskov, it was he who provided the anti-aircraft gunners to his platoon.

­ Owner Maria Nikiforovna

The beginning of the 70s was literally illuminated by the light of "Zor". The people were reading the novel by Boris Vasiliev, “The Dawns Here Are Quiet,” published in 1969 in the journal Yunost. Two years later, readers were already breaking into the famous performance of "Taganka". And 45 years ago, a two-part film by Stanislav Rostotsky was released on the screens, which was watched by 66 million in the first year - every fourth inhabitant of the USSR, if we count infants. Despite subsequent film adaptations, the viewer gives an unconditional palm to this, mostly black-and-white, picture and generally considers it one of the best films about the war.
From the heroes of yesteryear

In those years, the war was often filmed, and filmed superbly. A film about five dead girls and their rude, but such a sincere foreman managed to stand out from this constellation. Probably because former front-line soldiers gave him their memories, soul, experience, starting with the author of the script, writer Boris Vasiliev.

He knew how to write about the war especially. His characters were never perfect. Vasiliev, as it were, was saying to the young reader: look, the same people as you went to the front - those who ran away from lessons, fought, fell in love at random. But something in them turned out to be like that, which means there is something in you.

The film director Stanislav Rostotsky also passed the front. Vasiliev's story interested Stanislav Iosifovich precisely because he wanted to make a movie about a woman in the war. He himself was carried out of the battle by nurse Anya Chegunova, who later became Beketova. Rostotsky found a savior who, as it turned out, reached Berlin, then got married and gave birth to beautiful children. But by the time the shooting was over, Anna was already blind and fading away from brain cancer. The director brought her to the studio screening room and recounted the whole picture in detail what was happening on the screen.

The chief cameraman Vyacheslav Shumsky, the chief artist Sergei Serebrennikov, the make-up artist Alexei Smirnov, the costume designer's assistant Valentina Galkina, and the film's director Grigory Rimalis fought. They simply physically could not allow untruths to appear on the screen.
Sergeant Major Vaskov: Andrey Martynov

The difficult task was to find actors - such that they would be believed. Rostotsky conceived: let someone famous play the foreman, and girls, on the contrary, debutantes. He chose Vyacheslav Tikhonov for the role of foreman Vaskov, and Boris Vasiliev believed that front-line soldier Georgy Yumatov would do the best. But it so happened that the search for "Vaskov" continued. The assistant saw the 26-year-old actor at the graduation performance.

Andrei Leonidovich was born in Ivanovo, from childhood he raved about the theater. And his hero was not only six years older, but also from the village, had a “corridor education”, he dropped his words - like he gave him a ruble.

The first tests were very unsuccessful, but, apparently, Rostotsky was very attracted to the type of actor and his perseverance. In the end, Martynov played Vaskov, so much so that the viewer unconditionally fell in love with this ridiculous foreman after his on-screen fighters. Martynov superbly conducted the final scenes of the film, where he, already gray-haired, one-armed, together with his adopted son, sets up a modest tombstone in honor of his girls.

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The actor had another starring role - in the television series "Eternal Call". Martynov successfully worked in film and theater. He has voiced over 120 foreign films, including The Godfather and Schindler's List.

Life gave him a kind of surprise: his wife was a German citizen, whom he met at the festival. Franziska Thun spoke excellent Russian. The couple had a son, Sasha. But Andrei did not want to live in Germany, although at home his colleagues literally pecked him for marrying a foreigner. And Francis did not want to move to the USSR. Their union eventually fell apart.

Rita Osyanina - Irina Shevchuk

Rita is the only heroine who was married and became a widow in the very first days of the war. In the rear, she had a small child with her mother, who was later adopted by Vaskov.

The painful personal drama of her heroine Shevchuk was helped to play by her complex romance with the actor Talgat Nigmatulin, who was then gaining popularity (Pirates of the 20th Century). But Irina had to experience the happiness of motherhood many years later. In 1981, she gave birth to a daughter, the famous actress Alexandra Afanasiev-Shevchuk (the girl's father is composer Alexander Afanasiev).

Irina Borisovna successfully combines acting and public career. In 2016, she starred in the film Stolen Happiness. At the same time, Shevchuk is the vice-president of one of the largest film festivals in Russia, Kinoshock.

Zhenya Komelkova: Olga Ostroumova

By the time of the filming of "Dawn" Olga at the same Rostotsky played a memorable role in "We'll Live Until Monday." Zhenya Komelkova - bright, daring and heroic - was her dream.

In the film, Ostroumova, whose grandfather was a priest, had to play a completely unusual “nudity” for the USSR. According to the scenario, the anti-aircraft gunners washed in the bath. It was important for the director to show beautiful female bodies, designed for love and motherhood, and not for bullets.

Olga Mikhailovna is still considered one of the most beautiful Russian actresses. Despite her extremely feminine appearance, Ostroumova has a strong character. She was not afraid to divorce her second husband, the chief director of the Hermitage Theater Mikhail Levitin, although they had two children in marriage. Now the actress is already a grandmother three times.

In 1996, Olga Mikhailovna married actor Valentin Gaft. Two such bright creative people managed to get along, although Gaft is the star of Sovremennik, and Ostroumova works at the Theater. Moscow City Council. Olga Mikhailovna said that at any time she was ready to listen to the poems of Valentin Iosifovich, which he writes as talentedly as he plays in films and on stage.
Liza Brichkina - Elena Drapeko

Lena, of course, really wanted to play Zhenya Komelkova. But in her, a thin girl who was born in Kazakhstan and studied in Leningrad, the director “saw” the full-blooded beauty Lisa, who grew up in a remote forest estate and was secretly in love with the foreman. In addition, Stanislav Iosifovich decided that Brichkina should not be a Bryansk, but a Vologda girl. Elena Drapeko learned to “okay” so much that for a long time she could not get rid of her characteristic dialect.

One of the most difficult scenes for the young actress was the scene when her heroine is drowning in a swamp. Everything was filmed in natural conditions, Lena-Lisa was wearing a wetsuit. She had to dive into the mud. She was supposed to die, and everyone around was laughing at how the “swamp kikimora” looked like. Moreover, her glued freckles were restored all the time ...

The unbending character of Elena Grigorievna manifested itself in the fact that she became not only a very famous actress, who is still acting, but also a public figure. Drapeko - State Duma deputy, candidate of sociological sciences.

Political activity did not always contribute to personal life. But Elena Grigoryevna has a daughter, Anastasia Belova, a successful producer, and a granddaughter, Varenka.
Sonya Gurvich: Irina Dolganova

Irina Valerievna was as modest in life as her heroine, the quietest and most "bookish" among the five fighters. Irina arrived for the audition from Saratov. She didn't believe in herself so much that she didn't even leave an address. They barely found her and immediately sent her to play scenes at the rink with the then-beginner Igor Kostolevsky, otherwise they would have to wait for the next winter.

Rostotsky forced Irina, as required by the script, to wear boots two sizes larger, which caused the girl real torment. And from the scene when her Sonya dies from a blow with a German knife and her friends find her, Irina Shevchuk and Olga Ostroumova were genuinely horrified: Dolganova's face looked so lifeless.

Despite the "modest" role, Irina received an offer to stay in Moscow, at the film studio. Gorky. But I decided that theater is more important for an actress. For many years she has been playing in the Nizhny Novgorod Youth Theater. Irina Valerievna has a husband - a businessman and a son - a doctor. In her city, Dolganova is well known not only as an actress, but also as a defender of homeless animals.

Galya Chetvertak: Ekaterina Markova

For Markova, the realities of childhood and youth were sharply different from those that fell to the orphanage Galka Chetvertak, who was even given a surname for her small stature. Ekaterina grew up in the family of the famous Soviet writer Georgy Markov. She was a very purposeful girl: she specially went to study at an evening school for working youth, as she wanted to graduate from the studio at the Moscow Theater. Stanislavsky.

But what, of course, made Katya and Galka related is a rich imagination. Jackdaw invented everything for herself: parents, a groom and a happy future, which the German bullet did not allow to come true. And Markova became a writer, without leaving work in one of the best theaters in the country - Sovremennik.

Several stories by Ekaterina Georgievna have been successfully filmed.

Markova lived for many years in a happy union with the magnificent actor Georgy Taratorkin, who recently passed away. The couple raised two children. His son Philip is a historian by education, now he has taken the priesthood. And the viewer knows Anna Taratorkina's daughter well from films, serials and roles in RAMT.

The story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", a summary of which is given later in the article, tells about the events taking place during the Great Patriotic War.

The work is dedicated to the heroic deed of the anti-aircraft gunners, who suddenly found themselves surrounded by the Germans.

About the story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"

The story was first published in 1969, it was approved by the editor of the magazine "Youth".

The reason for writing the work was a real episode of wartime.

A small group of 7 soldiers recovering from their wounds prevented the Germans from undermining the Kirov railway.

As a result of the operation, only one commander survived, who subsequently received the medal "For Military Merit" at the end of the war.

The episode is tragic, however, in the realities of wartime, this event is lost among the horrors of a terrible war. Then the author remembered the 300,000 women who carried the hardships of the front along with the male fighters.

And the plot of the story was built on the tragic fate of anti-aircraft gunners who die during a reconnaissance operation.

Who is the author of the book "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"

The work is written by Boris Vasiliev in the narrative genre.

When the Great Patriotic War began, he barely finished the 9th grade.

Boris Lvovich fought near Smolensk, received a shell shock, and therefore knew firsthand about front-line life.

He became interested in literary work in the 50s, writing plays and scripts. The writer took up prose stories only 10 years later.

The main characters of the story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"

Vaskov Fedot Evgrafych

The foreman, in whose command the anti-aircraft gunners entered, held the commandant's position at the 171st railway siding.

He is 32 years old, but the girls gave him the nickname "old man" for his intractable character.

Before the war, he was an ordinary peasant from the village, had 4 classes of education, at the age of 14 he was forced to become the only breadwinner in the family.

Vaskov's son, whom he sued from his ex-wife after a divorce, died before the start of the war.

Gurvich Sonya

A simple shy girl from a large family, born and raised in Minsk. Her father worked as a local doctor.

Before the war, she managed to study for a year at Moscow State University as an interpreter, she spoke fluent German. Sonya's first love was a bespectacled student who studied in the library at the next table, with whom they timidly communicated.

When the war began, due to an excess of translators at the front, Sonya ended up in a school for anti-aircraft gunners, and then in the detachment of Fedot Vaskov.

The girl was very fond of poetry, her cherished dream was to see her many household members again. During a reconnaissance operation, Sonya was killed by a German with two stab wounds in the chest.

Brichkina Elizabeth

Country girl, forester's daughter. From the age of 14, she was forced to leave her studies and take care of her terminally ill mother.

She dreamed of entering a technical school, so after the death of her mother, following the advice of one of her father's friends, she was going to move to the capital. But her plans were not destined to come true, they were corrected by the war - Lisa went to the front.

The gloomy Sergeant Vaskov immediately aroused great sympathy in the girl. During a reconnaissance raid, Liza was sent through the swamp for help, but she was in too much of a hurry and drowned. After some time, Vaskov will find her skirt in the swamp, then he will realize that he was left without help.

Komelkova Evgeniya

Cheerful and beautiful red-haired girl. The Germans shot all the members of her family, the merciless massacre took place right in front of Zhenya's eyes.

Her neighbor saved the girl from death. Burning with a desire to avenge the death of her relatives, Zhenya went into anti-aircraft gunners.

The attractive appearance of the girl and her perky character made her the object of courtship of Colonel Luzhin, so the authorities, in order to interrupt the romance, redirected Zhenya to the women's detachment, so she came under the command of Vaskov.

In intelligence, Zhenya twice showed fearlessness and heroism. She saved her commander when he was fighting a German. And then, putting herself under the bullets, she led the Germans away from the place where the foreman and her wounded friend Rita hid.

Chetvertak Galina

A very young and receptive girl, she was distinguished by short stature and a habit of writing stories and fables.

She grew up in an orphanage and did not even have her own last name. Because of her small stature, the elderly caretaker, who was friendly to Galya, came up with her surname Chetvertak.

Before the call, the girl almost managed to finish 3 courses of the library technical school. During the reconnaissance operation, Galya could not cope with her fear and jumped out of cover, falling under German bullets.

Osyanina Margarita

The senior person in the platoon, Rita was distinguished by seriousness, was very reserved and rarely smiled. As a girl, she bore the surname Mushtakova.

At the very beginning of the war, her husband, Lieutenant Osyanin, died. Wanting to avenge the death of a loved one, Rita went to the front.

She gave her only son Albert to be raised by her mother. The death of Rita was the last of the five girls in intelligence. She shot herself, realizing that she was mortally wounded and was an unbearable burden for her commander Vaskov.

Before she died, she asked the foreman to take care of Albert. And he kept his promise.

Other characters of "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"

Kiryanova

She was a senior combat comrade of Rita, industrial platoon. Before serving on the border, she participated in the Finnish War. Kiryanova, along with Rita, Zhenya Komelkova and Galya Chetvertak, were redirected to the 171st siding.

Knowing about Rita's secret attacks on her son and mother while serving with Vaskov, she did not betray her longtime colleague, standing up for her that morning when the girl met the Germans in the forest.

Brief retelling of the story "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"

The events of the story are given in a strong reduction. Dialogue and descriptive moments are omitted.

Chapter 1

The action took place in the rear. At the inactive railway siding at number 171, only a few surviving houses remain. There were no more bombings, but as a precaution, the command left anti-aircraft installations here.

Compared to other parts of the front, there was a resort at the junction, the soldiers abused alcohol and flirted with local residents.

The weekly reports of the commandant of the patrol, foreman Vaskov Fedot Evgrafych, on anti-aircraft gunners led to a regular change in composition, but the picture was repeated again and again. Finally, after analyzing the current situation, the command sent a team of anti-aircraft gunners under the leadership of the foreman.

The new squad had no problems with drinking and revelry, however, for Fedot Evgrafych it was unusual for the command of a female cocky and trained staff, since he himself had only 4 grades of education.

Chapter 2

The death of her husband made Margarita Osyanina a stern and self-contained person. From the moment of the loss of her beloved, a desire for revenge burned in her heart, so she remained to serve on the border near the places where Osyanin died.

To replace the dead carrier, they sent Yevgeny Komelkov, a mischievous red-haired beauty. She also suffered from the Nazis - she had to see with her own eyes the execution of all family members by the Germans. Two dissimilar girls became friends and Rita's heart began to thaw from the grief experienced, thanks to Zhenya's cheerful and open disposition.

Two girls accepted the shy Galya Chetvertak into their circle. When Rita finds out that it is possible to transfer to the 171st junction, she immediately agrees, since her son and mother live very close by.

All three anti-aircraft gunners come under the command of Vaskov and Rita, with the help of her girlfriends, makes regular night trips to her relatives.

Chapter 3

Returning in the morning after one of her secret sorties, Rita ran into two German soldiers in the forest. They were armed and carried something heavy in sacks.

Rita immediately reported this to Vaskov, who guessed that they were saboteurs whose goal was to undermine a strategically important railway junction.

The foreman betrayed important information to the command by phone and received an order to comb the forest. He decided to go to Lake Vop in a short way in front of the Germans.

For reconnaissance, Fedot Evgrafych took with him five girls, led by Rita. They were Brichkina Elizaveta, Komelkova Evgenia, Galina Chetvertak and Sonya Gurvich as an interpreter.

Before sending the fighters, they had to be taught how to properly put on shoes so as not to erase their feet, and also to force them to clean their rifles. The quacking of a drake was a conditional signal of danger.

Chapter 4

The shortest path to the forest lake went through a swampy swamp. For almost half a day, the team had to walk waist-deep in cold marsh slush. Galya Chetvertak lost her boot and footcloth, and part of the way through the swamp she had to walk barefoot.

Having reached the shore, the whole team was able to rest, wash dirty clothes and have a snack. To continue the campaign, Vaskov made birch bark for Gali. We reached the desired point only in the evening, here it was necessary to set up an ambush.

Chapter 5

When planning a meeting with two fascist soldiers, Vaskov did not worry much and hoped that he would be able to capture them from the advanced position, which he placed among the stones. However, in case of an unforeseen event, the foreman provided for the possibility of retreat.

The night passed quietly, only the fighter Chetvertak became very ill, walking barefoot through the swamp. In the morning, the Germans reached out to the Sinyukhina ridge between the lakes, the enemy detachment consisted of sixteen people.

Chapter 6

Realizing that he had miscalculated, and that a large German detachment could not be stopped, Vaskov sent Elizaveta Brichkina for help. He chose Lisa because she grew up in nature and was very well oriented in the forest.

To delay the Nazis, the team decided to portray the noisy activities of the lumberjacks. They lit fires, Vaskov chopped down trees, the girls called back and forth cheerfully. When the German detachment was 10 meters from them, Zhenya ran straight to the river in order to divert the attention of enemy scouts while swimming.

Their plan worked, the Germans went around, and the team managed to win a whole day of time.

Chapter 7

Lisa was in a hurry to get help. Failing to follow the instructions of the foreman about the pass on the island in the middle of the swamp, she, tired and frozen, continued on her way.

Almost reaching the end of the swamp, Lisa thought and was greatly frightened by a large bubble that swelled right in front of her in the dead silence of the swamp.

Instinctively, the girl rushed to the side and lost her footing. The pole Lisa tried to lean on broke. The last thing she saw before her death was the rays of the rising sun.

Chapter 8

The foreman did not know exactly about the trajectory of the Germans, so he decided to go on reconnaissance with Rita. They found a halt, 12 Nazis were resting near the fire and drying clothes. The whereabouts of the other four could not be ascertained.

Vaskov decides to change his place of deployment, and therefore sends Rita for the girls and at the same time asks to bring his personalized pouch. But in the confusion, the pouch was forgotten in the old place, and Sonya Gurvich, without waiting for the permission of the commander, ran after the expensive thing.

After a short time, the foreman heard a barely audible cry. As an experienced fighter, he guessed what this cry means. Together with Zhenya, they went in the direction of the sound and found the body of Sonya, who had been killed with two stab wounds in the chest.

Chapter 9

Leaving Sonya, the foreman and Zhenya set off in pursuit of the Nazis so that they would not have time to report the incident to their own. Rage helps the foreman to clearly think over a plan of action.

Vaskov quickly killed one of the Germans, Zhenya helped him cope with the second, stunning the Fritz in the head with a butt. This was the first hand-to-hand fight for the girl, which she suffered very hard.

In the pocket of one of the Fritz, Vaskov found his pouch. The entire team of anti-aircraft gunners, led by the foreman, gathered near Sonya. The body of a colleague was buried with dignity.

Chapter 10

Making their way through the forest, Vaskov's team unexpectedly ran into the Germans. In a fraction of a second, the foreman threw a grenade forward, machine-gun bursts crackled. Not knowing the forces of the enemy, the Nazis decided to retreat.

During a short fight, Galya Chetvertak could not overcome her fear and did not participate in the shooting. For such behavior, the girls wanted to condemn her at the Komsomol meeting, however, the commander stood up for the confused anti-aircraft gunner.

Despite being very tired, perplexed about the reasons for the delay in help, the foreman goes on reconnaissance, taking Galina with him for educational purposes.

Chapter 11

Galya was very frightened by the real events that were taking place. A visionary and writer, she often plunged into a fictional world, and therefore the picture of a real war unsettled her.

Vaskov and Chetvertak soon discovered two bodies of German soldiers. By all indications, the soldiers wounded in the skirmish were finished off by their own comrades. Not far from this place, the remaining 12 Fritz continued reconnaissance, two of which came quite close to Fedot and Galya.

The foreman safely hid Galina behind the bushes and hid himself in the stones, but the girl could not cope with her feelings and, screaming, jumped out of the shelter right under the German machine-gun fire. Vaskov began to lead the Germans away from his remaining fighters and ran to the swamp, where he took refuge.

During the chase, he was wounded in the arm. When it dawned, the foreman saw Liza's skirt in the distance, then he realized that now he could not count on help.

Chapter 12

Being under the yoke of heavy thoughts, the foreman went in search of the Germans. Trying to understand the train of thought of the enemy and examining the traces, he came across the Legont Skete. From hiding, he watched as a group of fascists of 12 people hid explosives in an old hut.

For protection, the saboteurs left two soldiers, one of whom was wounded. Vaskov managed to neutralize a healthy guard and take possession of his weapon.

The foreman, Rita and Zhenya met on the bank of the river, in the place where they portrayed lumberjacks. After going through terrible trials, they began to treat each other like brothers. After a halt, they began to prepare for the last battle.

Chapter 13

Vaskov's team held the defense of the coast as if they had the entire Motherland behind them. But the forces were unequal, and the Germans still managed to cross to their shore. Rita was seriously wounded by a grenade explosion.

In order to save the foreman and the wounded girlfriend, Zhenya, shooting back, ran further and further into the forest, leading the saboteurs with her. The girl was wounded in the side by a blind shot from the enemy, but she did not even think to hide and wait.

Already lying in the grass, Zhenya fired until the Germans shot her point-blank.

Chapter 14

Fedot Evgrafych, having bandaged Rita and covered her with spruce paws, wanted to go in search of Zhenya and things. For peace of mind, he decided to leave her a revolver with two rounds.

Rita understood that she was mortally wounded, she was only afraid that her son would remain an orphan. Therefore, she asked the foreman to take care of Albert, saying that it was from him and from her mother that she was returning that morning when she encountered German soldiers.

Vaskov made such a promise, but before he could move a few steps away from Rita, the girl shot herself in the temple.

The foreman buried Rita, and then found and buried Zhenya. The wounded hand ached a lot, the whole body burned with pain and tension, but Vaskov decided to go to the skete to kill at least one more German. He managed to neutralize the sentry, five Fritz were sleeping in the skete, one of which he shot immediately.

Having forced them to bind each other, barely alive, he led them into captivity. Only when Vaskov saw the Russian soldiers did he allow himself to lose consciousness.

Epilogue

Some time after the war, in a letter to his comrade, one tourist describes amazing quiet places in the region of two lakes. In the text, he also mentions one old man without an arm, who came here with his son Albert Fedotovich, a rocket captain.

Subsequently, this tourist, together with his new comrades, installed a marble slab with names on the grave of anti-aircraft gunner girls.

Conclusion

A piercing story about female heroism during the Great Patriotic War leaves an indelible mark on the hearts. The author repeatedly emphasizes in his narrative about the unnatural nature of the participation of women in hostilities, and the fault lies with the one who unleashed the war.

In 1972, director Stanislav Rostotsky made a film based on the story. He dedicated it to the nurse who carried him off the battlefield, saving him from certain death.