Biography Anna Zapala

The family of Philip Markelov lived very poorly. In search of work, Philip Ivanovich and Agafya Stepanovna and her eldest son Ivan moved to the center of the metallurgical industry of the early 20th century, the city of Yekaterinoslav. It was in Yekaterinoslav on December 27 of the year that the second son, Vasily, was born in the Markel family. The work of Philip Markelov was hard, for 16 hours a day he stood at the hot furnaces, where steel was brewing.

Philip Ivanovich possessed heroic strength and great endurance. He was one of those who always fought with injustice, defended himself and his comrades, never sat on the sidelines from the common affairs of his street or his workshop. In the year, the Markelovs left the factory hut and returned to their family Kostyukovichi. Agafya Stepanovna received an inheritance - a house with a household on Muravilskaya Street and a garden.

The beginning of the First World War. Philip Ivanovich, like all suitable men, was drafted into the royal army. On the ganged wires of his relatives, she gave instructions: "Remember, Filka, in our Markels all the men served so that either the chest in the crosses or the head in the bushes." Agafier Stepanovna had to educate four children alone. Vasily was 6 years old and, on the order of his father, he tried his best to help his mother, younger Nikolai and Mary.

If not for their economy, they would simply not survive. Father himself repeatedly spoke about Vasily "went into me." And indeed, Vasily in everything looked like his father: with character, and liveliness of the mind, and memory, and diligence to the entrusted business, and passionate curiosity for everything new. The Markel house had its own life, and in a protracted war - it has its own.

Philip Markelov fought skillfully and courageously, he was awarded the soldier’s St. George Crosses of the 4th and 3rd degree. In February, the bourgeois revolution took place in the Russian Empire, and later the October Revolution. Philip Markelov was elected to the regimental committee, because the soldiers believed in his sense of justice in the declared struggle against the war and for the freedom of the working people.

Subsequently, with a weapon in his hands, he fought in the Red Guard, and then in the Red Army. Vasily has his own achievements-he graduated from the parish school now we would say that the elementary classes, helped his mother’s household, drove mail, worked as a loader, a carpenter, did not turn away from any black work to help the family. Only in the year, Philip Ivanovich was mobilized from the Red Army and returned to his family.

Vasily was 12 years old and an independent man looked into his father's eyes. Respect for work, for the parental house, for the people with whom he worked together, Vasily Filippovich carried his whole life. The work was in full swing in his hands and a smart teenager was offered to be an assistant to the master. But Vasily Markelov was not satisfied with work in a private workshop, he did not like him to think how to earn more and bow low to his superiors.

In the year, at the age of 15, Vasily enters the Black Worker in "Bakery Product". Do not be surprised at the word of a laborer. This means to do any work: to wear coal, sweep the yard, take out food waste and garbage, clean the toilets, roofs, stoves, but only those who own the profession were considered workers at any enterprise.

In this case, in order to become a working person, it was necessary to be able to bake bread, to be a stoker at the furnaces or to understand the electrical equipment here, in a real work team, the talent of Vasily Markelov, as the organizer and leader, was manifested early. Komsomol members were young people who fully supported the conquests of the revolution under the slogan of "Down with the capitalists!

Factories and factories in the hands of workers! Earth - peasants! Peace to all peoples! After the Civil War in Russia, the industry and other spheres of the economy were greatly destroyed. The energy resource for the restoration of many factories and the population was fuel, peat, peat, peat Coal, kerosene in the year, at the age of 16, Vasily Markelov goes to the mine on the Komsomol ticket a job, the young Soviet Russia was in dire need of the work of the miner and is now difficult, despite the mechanization of all processes Kylo will see you when visiting the Cadet Corps Museum.

The Konoons at the mine were considered the most fighting people, walked with long whips and dashing their caps. By the way, the song “Tanks rumbled on the field” that became popularly famous was redone from the song about Konogon. Once, in the face, a place in the mine underground when the brigade worked, where the markels was Konoona, a collapse occurred.

The miners turned out to be filled with rock and cut off from the exit from the mine. Three days, in the dark, without fresh air, without water and without food, there were miners. Many of them have already prayed to God and did nothing to break out of the mine.Only Markelov did not give up and with those who supported him, on the fourth day they broke the blockage and the brigade got out of the mine.

Vasily Filippovich carried the memory of this case to the end of his days. In the most hopeless situations, in war and in life, he knew that one could never give up, succumb to panic and weakness, and there would always be a way out. Finding more than three days underground, without an influx of fresh air, did not pass for miners without consequences. For health reasons, Vasily could no longer work at the mine.

From the steppe regions of the mining town, he was sent to forest Belarus to the forestry industrial industrial economy, where they not only chopped and exported the forest, but also cared for forest and its inhabitants. Markelov became a forester, his main responsibility was the fight against poaching: illegal cutting down of the forest and illegal prey of various forest animals and poultry.

The forest expanses of the new young forester were on many square kilometers. And they had to inspect them daily. In the summer - on a horse, in winter - on skiing. He did not give mercy to poachers in his site. It is necessary to pursue a day, it means that it will follow the trail for a day until the poachers surrendered to the young and stubborn forest room. Soon, all the violators bypassed the part of Vasily, knew that he was stubborn and would never leave the pursuit of them.

The identification and persecution of violators formed in Markelov not only physical endurance, but also the character of a young man. During the rounds of the forest, Vasily learned to read traces, notice any little, disguise himself, patiently sit in an ambush, accurately evaluate the situation and find the right decisions in a rapidly changing environment. In the year, to his 18 years, Vasily enjoyed well -deserved respect and authority among all the employees of the timber industry, he is elected chairman of the working committee.

In the leadership positions of most enterprises and organizations of that time were engineers and technical specialists of tsarist Russia. Not all of them accepted the new revolutionary transformations of their homeland, but worked in their posts. The task of the working committee was very important: to monitor the implementation of the work plan, accrual and payment of wages; help workers in household and production matters; organize and conduct training illiterate; counteract any sabotage activities of their engineers and technicians.

The active, energetic and purposeful Komsomol member Markelov in the year receives recommendations and becomes a candidate for members of the All -Union Communist Party of the Bolsheviks - the CPSU b. It was great confidence in Vasily from senior comrades - the Bolsheviks who gave their recommendations. In the summer age, at the beginning of the construction of the Red Army, young people were called into its ranks.

It was once a year in the month of September. Vasily had to serve in the army since September. The Komsomol gives him the Komsomol ticket to the direction with the recommendation that he is worthy to study in Minsk at the Belarusian Military School on the Red Commander. Perhaps no one could have assumed then that the profession of a military man would become a matter of his whole life for Vasily Markelov.

And he was used to doing his work for his homeland thoroughly, with zeal, using ingenuity, go to the end, not stopping at any difficulties. From the first months of study, Vasily Markelov became an excellent student in tactical, fire and physical training. Enrolled in a group of snipers. Using authority among classmates and teachers. For excellent shooting from Nagan, he was awarded a personal gun.

From the second year, in September, he was appointed foreman of the machine gun company. The company comes first in both combat and physical training. The personal example of her foreman also is of great importance and in the ski cross, the company reached the first place throughout the school. At the party meeting of the military school, the Communists accept candidate Markelov as actual members of the Bolshevik party.

If you notice, then the name of Vasily Filippovich, like Margelov, has never been named in previous materials. And this was not a mistake or a typo. Being a cadet of the Belarusian military school since September, only in the year, when his candidate experience in the Bolshevik party ended, he is given a party ticket, with the surname Margelov. So, the simple mistake of the clerk, forever changed the name of the future general of the army.

Replacing a party ticket was not allowed. In the Soviet Union, a movement was launched to organize ski transitions to a significant date. Margelov was instructed to choose a team of school cadets of 10 people for a ski transition to Moscow. The foreman Margelov conducted the hardest selection. He did not even take his best friend, did not hope for his physical training.

Many military schools and schools were prepared for such a transition, a whole competition has unfolded who better prepares. From the very beginning of the year, winter was snowy and frosty. The transition along the railways was planned and almost a km had to go through.There were no good sports skis, as in our time, there were no reliable mounts suitable for sports light and warm clothes, special ski boots