Fedor Kuzmich Popov born (December 8, 1921, settled in Batarinsky, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Megino-Kangalassky ulus - died on October 13, 1943, in the Loevsky district of the Gomel region of Belarus - Krasnoarmeyets, Hero Soviet Union.

Biography

Popov Fedor Kuzmich was born on December 8, 1921 in the Batarinsky nasleg, now the Megino-Kangalassky ulus of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in a peasant family. Yakut. Primary education. He worked at the state farm.
AT Soviet army since 1942. In the same year at the front.

Rifleman of the 467th Rifle Regiment (81st Division, 61st Army, Central Front), Private Fyodor Popov, was one of the first in the regiment as part of the squad on October 1, 1943, crossed the Dnieper River near the village of Glushets. With his bold actions, he contributed to overcoming the river by other rifle units of the regiment: in hand-to-hand combat in the enemy's trench, he destroyed up to 50 enemy soldiers and officers and held the bridgehead until the main forces crossed.

In battle on October 11, 1943, he was mortally wounded and died two days later on October 13 from his wounds. Was buried in Glushets, Gomel region mass grave(subsequently, the mass grave was reburied in the village of Derazhichi, Loevsky district of the same region).

By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1944, for the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown to the Red Army soldier Popov Fyodor Kuzmich posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

During the years of the Great Patriotic War Popov's countrymen organized a fundraiser for the construction of a tank. In response to this initiative, a telegram was received from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin and a letter of thanks was received from Major General of the Tank Forces Lipodaev, which reads: “I inform you that the tank“ Hero of the Soviet Union Popov “And handed over to the troops of Colonel General Comrade. Rybalko (field mail No. 16180)."

Awarded the Order of Lenin.

Streets in the cities of Gomel, Yakutsk and at home are named after him. In with. Maya Megino-Kangalassky ulus erected a monument.

Popov, Fedor Kuzmich on the site "Heroes of the Country"

Notes

1. They defended Belarus. Comp.: Kalashnikov A. A. - Yakutsk: Triada, 2005, ISBN 5-9508-0004-4

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Ministry of Education of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Municipal Institution "Department of Education" Municipality"Kobyaysky ulus (district)" RS (Y) Municipal budgetary educational institution"Kuokui middle comprehensive school With in-depth study individual items"

LESSON - PRESENTATION ON THE TOPIC "Hero of the Great Patriotic War Yakutian Fedor Popov"

Nomination 6.3. Presentations in methodological work. Performed by the teacher of history and social studies Eremeeva Rozalia Ksenofontovna

• Relevance: Every year there are fewer living witnesses of the bloody events of the Great Patriotic War. Modern children cannot imagine what our people went through in the difficult years of war hard times! At present, there are certain forces seeking to distort history, to desecrate our shrines! But we have no right to forget about this, and we must teach our children to be patriots of their Motherland with all the means at our disposal for this.

Purpose of the event:

• Purpose of the event: promote the development of cognitive interest in the subject of history.

• Tasks:
• To know the sources of the victory of the Soviet people in the war, to show the mass heroism of soldiers and workers in the rear using the example of the inhabitants of their village, to assess the level of assimilation and comprehension of factual material on the topic of the Great Patriotic War.
• Know how to work with teaching aids, analyze documents, master the techniques of argumentation, critically approach any judgments, learn how to extract knowledge from various sources, economically allocate their time, form the creative thinking of students, their independence, their ability to quickly navigate the factual material and make decisions.
• Master the skills research work to develop the intellectual and emotional sphere of students.
• Cultivate a sense of pride in your small homeland, for their people, who made a certain contribution to the victory, to promote the education of patriotism, the education of a sense of duty to the millions who died in the fight against fascism and a sense of deep respect for fellow countrymen who took part in the defeat of fascism.
• Use the information received to create presentations, practically apply the acquired theoretical knowledge in preparing the celebration of the 69th anniversary of the Great Victory

Locality "Son h alaakh" II Batarinsky nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky district. The place where Fedor was born and lived.

Childhood and youth

December 8, 1921 in the II Batarinsky nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky district in the area of ​​\u200b\u200b"Son h alaah ”, in the poor family of Kuzma Samsonovich and Praskovya Konstantinovna Popov, Fyodor Kuzmich Popov was born. The family had 7 children, Fedor was the sixth child and the youngest of the sons.

Kuzma Samsonovich taught children to work from an early age. The boys were the father's first assistants in all household affairs. From the age of 7, Fedya went hunting and fishing with his father.

In 1930, the Popov family joined the Oktyabr collective farm, when Fedya was 9 years old. Together with adults, he became a participant in the collective labor of collective farmers.

I went to school in 1931. at the age of 10, when the law on universal education began to be implemented. He went to school from a remote alas, daily walking 7 kilometers and the same back.

Fedor grew up as a dexterous, physically developed, strong-willed and hardy person. AT school years As before, he helped his parents with the housework: he studied at school in the winter, and in the summer he worked with other schoolchildren on the collective farm.

Fedor was fond of sports. He especially liked to compete with his peers in running and swimming, in the national Yakut jumps: on one leg (kylyy) and on two legs (kuobah), he was also engaged in the national type of freestyle wrestling - hapsagai. As a child, he was no different from his peers, he was an ordinary boy.

In 1936, due to the illness of his parents, he was forced, after graduating from the 5th grade, to leave school and start working life.

And in 1937, the young collective farmer himself began to teach adults to read and write. After completing a 3-month teacher training course for educational program points, Fedor taught 20 people to write and read in his native collective farm during one winter. Then he was assigned to campaign work.

When Fedor was 19 years old in 1940-1942, he was appointed foreman of the field-growing brigade "Son h alaakh" of the native collective farm "October". He was very demanding of himself, at any work (when cultivating the land, sowing) he was always with the team. Soon all the collective farmers of F. Popov's brigade appreciated their disciplined, demanding and sympathetic young leader. Soon his brigade became advanced.

The native places of Fyodor Popov, where the Hero spent his childhood and youth .

With the beginning of the war, on June 22, 1941, all life on the collective farm went differently. And people have changed. Fedor has also changed. Most of the male collective farmers went to the front. Immediately there was a shortage of workers. Those who left for the army were replaced by women, old people and teenagers. Difficult days have begun.

From the first days of the war, Fedor longed for and expected to be drafted into the Red Army, and he became smitten with the desire to go to the front voluntarily. And with these thoughts he turned to the chairman of the collective farm Cherkashin N.A. But the always calm and reasonable Nikolai Afanasyevich explained to him: “Your work in the rear is also a front, do not rush; your turn will come anyway."

In the first winter of war, the workload on the young brigadier increased several times. By the spring of 1942, the loss of livestock began, some families began to starve. In order to somehow feed the members of his brigade, Fedor organized an under-ice fish catch. Thanks to his skillful leadership and the selfless work of all the collective farmers, the brigade overwintered with the least losses.

In 1941 According to the Decree of the Soviet Government, training in Russian colloquial speech for conscripts was organized at recruiting stations in the national republics and regions. In the autumn of 1941, conscript Fedor was the first to sign up for Russian language courses organized at a local school.

Fedor before leaving for the front, June 1942

Painting "Seeing off", artist Popov A.

As a participant in the war, labor veteran Nikitin N.V. recalls: in 1942, on the last day of June, they sailed from Yakutsk on the steamer Propagandist, Fedor was there. In appearance, he was tall, thin, agile. Together they traveled for about a month to the Yug station of the Urals.

Before getting to the front, F. Popov and fellow countrymen called up with him - Yakutians for several months underwent military training in the rear. Fedor, like many Yakutians, was to become an automatic skier. In one of the military units stationed near the city of Perm, his military training began. Military studies and work were hard: I had to ski along the paths covered with pine branches with all the soldier's equipment on my shoulders, carry logs and make dugouts. In autumn, on weekends, they helped the collective farm with grain and potato harvesting. Some guys fainted under such loads. Fedor with difficulty, but withstood the test. But in early December, he caught a cold and ended up in a hospital in Perm (formerly Molotov) with pneumonia. In letters to his relatives, our countryman was constantly interested in the harvest and affairs in his native collective farm. So, he lay in the hospital for 4 and a half months, in April 1943 he left the hospital. After a month of military training, in August 1943 he was sent to the active army.

"Feat", the work of the artist F.N. Popov

The right bank of the Dnieper, where the military unit crossed in October 1943

Papinsky Gennady Nikolaevich, Komsomol organizer of the regiment where F.K. Popov served.

In one winter of 1941-1942. conscripts began to understand Russian colloquial speech, radio programs, read newspapers in Russian.

On June 24, 1942, Fedor was drafted into the army; he hands over his brigadier affairs to his older brother Peter.

Leaving his father's house and his family, Fedor left a memory of himself on the day of his departure: in a picturesque meadow not far from his home, he installed a 3-meter pole from a larch trunk (“Karies ostoolbo”). This pillar is still standing today. When the war ended, he had to return and make a notch on the trunk (mark) about his return ...

June 29, 1942 Fedor and other conscripts were escorted to the front. 64 conscripts gathered, their relatives and friends of Fyodor, except for his mother, brothers and sisters (his father died in 1941), were escorted by members of the brigade. In farewell parting words sounded firm confidence in victory over the enemy. Saying goodbye to friends and comrades, he swore with honor to fulfill his duty as a defender of the Motherland, to justify high rank soldier of the Red Army. From Fedor's native nasleg, only 148 people were called to the war; of these, 68 were killed and went missing in the war.

At the front

1942 was the year of a radical turning point in the Great Patriotic War. After the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, the offensive initiative passed to the Red Army. In the autumn of 1943 the German command made desperate attempts to delay the unfolding offensive Soviet troops on the line Smolensk - r. Sozh - the middle and lower reaches of the river. Dnieper. A grandiose battle for the Dnieper unfolded. It was here that in the autumn of 1943, after the battles near Orel, 81 divisions, fighting as part of the 61st Army, approached.

In the days of the battle for the Dnieper, tens of thousands of Soviet troops swam across the river, overcoming it with all means at hand. Among them was the machine gunner F.K. Popov. Arriving at the front in the second half of 1943, he was enrolled in the 81st Rifle Division, 467th Regiment, 3rd Company. Participated in many offensive battles on the outskirts of the Dnieper. He showed himself to be a brave, determined and brave warrior. By the end of September, the 81st Rifle Division, having driven back the Nazis beyond the Dnieper, entrenched itself on the left (eastern) bank, in the area locality Lyubech, Chernihiv region.

The command of the Red Army decided to force the Dnieper River in the area occupied by 81 rifle division. The 3rd rifle company, in which Fedor Popov served, received an order: to cross the Dnieper on the night of October 2-3, 1943. and, entrenched on the right bank (western), by all means hold the bridgehead until the approach of the main forces of the Red Army. At dawn, under the cover of fog, the crossing began. F.K.Popov was one of the first to jump into the water and boldly pushed off the shore. But it was not possible to cross unnoticed by the enemy. Noticing the melters, the Nazis opened fire on them. F.K. Popov, among the first to swim up, ran ashore and, disguised as a bush, began to climb the slope of the coast. Fedor was the first to “jump into the enemy’s trench, fire from his weapon and in hand-to-hand combat exterminate 23 enemy soldiers and officers, grab an enemy light machine gun.” Meanwhile, more and more soldiers of the 3rd company, having crossed, occupied the enemy’s trenches. Throughout October 3, 1943. an unequal battle ensued. German large military units that arrived from the reserve made 9 counterattacks, bombers and artillery furiously bombed the tiny foothold occupied by a rifle company on the right bank, trying to destroy them or drive them back to the river. During a whole day of battle, there were critical moments when the enemy tried to cut off the combat company from the river and surround them.

Commemoration of the Hero

Collective farmers II Batarinsky Nasleg - fellow countrymen of the hero, having learned about his feat and heroic death, raised funds for the construction of the tank "Hero of the Yakut Popov Fedor Kuzmich". They were supported by the entire Megino-Kangalassky district. In total, 56,000 rubles were collected.

In perpetuating the memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union F.K. Popov by the decision of the Council People's Commissars(Ministers) of the Yakut ASSR dated April 12, 1944:

The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union Popov F.K. was awarded the II Batara incomplete high school Megino-Kangalassky district.

The name of the glorious son of the Yakut people was given to the Oktyabr collective farm II Batarinsky nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky district (and then to an enlarged collective farm that united several collective farms in the same area).

Proletarskaya Street in Yakutsk was renamed Hero Popov Street.

A one-time allowance was issued from the funds of the Republican Fund for Assistance to the Families of Military Personnel to her sister Evdokia Kuzminichna.

In 1946 in the village of Maya - the center of the Megino-Kangalassky ulus, a monument-house was erected, inside which a sculpture of a valiant warrior was installed.

In 1947, at the school of the Batarinsky nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky ulus, where Fedor studied, a special room for Hero Popov was organized. This room has been turned into a museum of Hero Popov.

In 2001, a new museum-complex named after Hero Popov was opened, dedicated to the history of the Batarinsky nasleg, which was opened for the 80th anniversary of the Hero.

In 2001, school No. 20 in Yakutsk was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union F.K. Popov

Mass grave in the village of Derazhichi, Loevsky district of Belarus

Loev, Gomel region, Byelorussian SSR. Monument to the soldiers who fell in the "Battles for the Dnieper".

Monument to fallen soldiers in the Great Patriotic War s.Maya

Fedor Kuzmich Popov(December 8, 1921, now Batarinsky nasleg, Megino-Kangalassky ulus, Yakutia - October 13, 1943, Loevsky district of the Gomel region of Belarus) - Red Army soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Biography

He was born on December 8, 1921 in the Batarinsky nasleg, now the Megino-Kangalassky ulus of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in a peasant family. Yakut. Primary education. He worked at the state farm.

In 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army by the Churapchinsky RVC. In the same year he was sent to the front.

The shooter of the 3rd rifle company of the 467th rifle regiment (81st rifle division, 61st army, Central Front), Red Army soldier Fedor Popov, was one of the first in the regiment as part of the squad on October 1, 1943, crossed the Dnieper River near the village of Glushets. With his bold actions, he contributed to overcoming the river by other rifle units of the regiment: in hand-to-hand combat in the enemy's trench, he destroyed up to 50 enemy soldiers and officers and held the bridgehead until the main forces crossed.

In battle on October 11, 1943, he was mortally wounded and died two days later on October 13 from his wounds.

He was buried in the village of Glushets, Gomel region, in a mass grave (subsequently reburied in a mass grave on the northern outskirts of the village of Derazhichi, Loevsky district of the same region).

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1944, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown by the first of the Yakuts, the Red Army soldier Fyodor Kuzmich Popov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

During the Great Patriotic War, Popov's countrymen organized a fundraiser for the construction of a tank. In response to this initiative, a telegram was received from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin and a letter of thanks was received from Major General of the Tank Forces Lipodaev, which reads: “I inform you that the tank“ Hero of the Soviet Union Popov" and handed over to the troops of Colonel General Comrade. Rybalko (field post No. 16180)."

Memory

• The name of the Hero Fedor Popov was given to:

• A monument was erected in the Maya village of the Megino-Kangalassky ulus.
• The poem of the Yakut poet L. A. Popov “Yrya buolbut oloh” (Life that has become a song) is dedicated to the feat of F.K. Popov.

This article is dedicated to the feat of Fyodor Kuzmich Popov, the first Sakha who was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

At dawn on October 3, 1943, under the cover of fog, the crossing over the Dnieper began. F.K. Popov was one of the first to jump into the water and boldly pushed off the shore. But it was not possible to cross unnoticed by the enemy. Noticing the melters, the Nazis opened fire on them.

F.K. Popov, among the first to swim up at a run, got ashore and, disguised as bushes, began to climb the slope of the coast.
Fedor was the first to "jump onto the enemy's trench, fire from his weapon and in hand-to-hand combat exterminate 23 enemy soldiers and officers, grab an enemy light machine gun." Meanwhile, more and more soldiers of the 3rd company, having crossed, occupied the enemy's trenches. Throughout October 3, 1943, an unequal battle took place.

Large German military units that arrived from the reserve made 9 counterattacks, bombers and artillerymen furiously bombed a tiny bridgehead. During the whole day of battle, there were critical moments when the enemy tried to cut off the combat company from the river and surround them.

But, having learned the enemy's plan, our troops changed their combat positions. Making their way into the flank of the counterattacking enemy infantry, they smashed the enemy with flanking fires. In such a fight, Fedor destroyed 50 enemy soldiers and officers. Leaving many corpses, the Nazis hastily rolled back to their original positions.

In the afternoon, when our ammunition was running out, between attacks they crawled up to the corpses of the enemies and picked up German machine guns, machine guns and grenades, then they used this captured weapon.

By the evening, when the enemy's onslaught began to weaken, large units of the Red Army began to be melted down along the floating bridge built during the day.

Hero of the Soviet Union Fyodor Popov was born on December 8, 1921 in the II Batarinsky nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky district in the Synapalaakh area, into a poor family of Kuzma Samsonovich and Praskovya Konstantinovna Popov. There were 7 children in the family, he was the sixth child and the youngest of the sons.

In 1941, according to the Decree of the Soviet Government, training of Russian colloquial speech for conscripts was organized at recruiting stations in the national republics and regions. In the autumn of 1941, conscript Fedor was the first to enroll in Russian language courses organized at a local school. In one winter of 1941-1942, conscripts began to understand colloquial Russian, radio broadcasts, read newspapers in Russian, and on June 24, 1942, Fedor was drafted into the army.

After crossing the Dnieper, the fighting took place with no less ferocity, and on October 11, 1943, Fedor Popov was mortally wounded and died two days later on October 13 from his wounds. He was buried in the village of Glushets, Gomel Region, in a mass grave (subsequently reburied in a mass grave on the northern outskirts of the village of Derazhichi, Loevsky District, the same region).

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1944, for the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, the Red Army soldier Fyodor Kuzmich Popov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

During the Great Patriotic War, Popov's countrymen organized a fundraiser for the construction of a tank. In response to this initiative, a telegram was received from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin and a letter of thanks was received from Major General of the Tank Forces Lipodaev, which reads: “I inform you that the tank“ Hero of the Soviet Union Popov" and handed over to the troops of Colonel General Comrade. Rybalko (field post No. 16180)."

Hero of the Soviet Union Fyodor Popov was born on December 8, 1921 in the II Batarinsky nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky district in the Synapalaakh area, into a poor family of Kuzma Samsonovich and Praskovya Konstantinovna Popov.

There were 7 children in the family, he was the sixth child and the youngest of the sons.
Kuzma Samsonovich from an early age taught children to work and the first assistants in all household affairs were boys. As was customary in the Yakut family, Fedya went hunting with his father from an early age. He liked very much to check the muzzles on the lakes for crucian carp, he himself got used to alert the hair loops on the hare.

At the age of 9, Fedor was distinguished by a physically strong physique and purposefulness. When the Popovs joined the collective farm in 1930, Fedya, along with adults, harnesses himself to the hard work of a collective farmer. The following year, in pursuance of the Law on General Education adopted in 1929, Fedor enters school. The school was located seven versts, in the area "Kördugen", in the house of the local rich man Neustroev L.N.

Fedor grew up as a dexterous, physically developed, strong-willed and hardy person. During his school years, he still helped his parents with the housework: he studied at school in the winter, and worked on the collective farm with other schoolchildren in the summer. Fedor was fond of sports. He especially liked to compete with his peers in running and swimming, in the national Yakut jumps: on one leg (kylyy) and on two legs (kuobah), he was also engaged in the national type of freestyle wrestling - hapsagai. As a child, he was no different from his peers, he was an ordinary boy.
In 1936, due to the illness of his parents, he was forced, after graduating from the 5th grade, to leave school and start working life.

With the beginning of the war, on June 22, 1941, all life on the collective farm took a different turn. And people have changed. Fedor has also changed. Most of the male collective farmers went to the front. Immediately there was a shortage of workers. Those who left for the army were replaced by women, old people and teenagers. Labor days have begun. At the age of 19, in 1940-1942, he was appointed foreman of the field-growing brigade "Synaalaakh" of his native collective farm "October". He was very demanding of himself, at any work (when cultivating the land, sowing) he was always with the team. Soon all the collective farmers of F. Popov's brigade appreciated their disciplined, demanding and sympathetic young leader.
From the first days of the war, Fedor longed for and expected to be drafted into the Red Army, and he became smitten with the desire to go to the front voluntarily. And with these thoughts he turned to the chairman of the collective farm Cherkashin N.A. But the always calm and reasonable Nikolai Afanasyevich explained to him: “Your work in the rear is also a front, do not rush; your turn will come anyway."
In the first war winter, the load on the young
the brigadier has grown several times. By the spring of 1942, the loss of livestock began, some families began to starve. In order to somehow feed the members of his brigade, Fedor organized an under-ice fish catch. Thanks to his skillful leadership and the selfless work of all the collective farmers, the brigade overwintered with the least losses.
In 1941, according to the Decree of the Soviet Government, training of Russian colloquial speech for conscripts was organized at recruiting stations in the national republics and regions. In the autumn of 1941, conscript Fedor was the first to enroll in Russian language courses organized at a local school. During one winter of 1941-1942, conscripts began to understand colloquial Russian, radio broadcasts, and read newspapers in Russian.
On June 24, 1942, Fedor was drafted into the army; he handed over his brigadier affairs to his older brother Peter.
Leaving his father's house and his family, Fedor left a memory of himself on the day of departure: in a picturesque meadow not far from his home, he installed a 3-meter pole from a larch trunk.

When the war ended, he had to return and make a notch on the trunk (mark) about his return ...

On June 29, 1942, Fedor and other conscripts were escorted to the front. 64 conscripts gathered, their relatives and friends of Fyodor, except for his mother, brothers and sisters (his father died in 1941), were escorted by members of the brigade. In parting parting words sounded firm confidence in victory over the enemy. Saying goodbye to friends and comrades, he
swore with honor to fulfill his duty as a defender of the Motherland, to justify the high rank of a soldier of the Red Army.
from the memoirs of a WWII veteran Nikitin Nikolai Vasilyevich:

participant of the Great Patriotic War, labor veteran Nikitin Nikolai Vasilievich, who still lives in the village of Symakh and remembers well how on that cold day in June 1942, together with Fedor, he sailed on the steamer Propagandist from Yakutsk, according to his memoirs: “Very clearly I remember how on that cold June day we were loaded onto the paddle steamer Propagandist. Fedor Popov was with us. In appearance, he was short, thin, dexterous, no different from other conscripts. Together we traveled for about a month to the Yug station in the Urals. Before getting to the front, F. Popov and fellow Yakutians called up with us underwent military training in the deep rear for several months.

Mobilization point in Yakutsk. 1942

Conscripts from Yakutia were placed in a training unit near Perm. Heavy military training began. In August 1943, Fedor gets to the front line. Arriving at the front in the second half of 1943, he was enlisted in the 81st Rifle Division of the 467th Regiment of the 3rd Company. Participated in many offensive battles on the outskirts of the Dnieper. He showed himself to be a brave, determined and brave warrior.
By the end of September, the 81st Rifle Division, having driven back the Nazis beyond the Dnieper, entrenched itself on the left (eastern) bank, near the village of Lyubech, Chernigov Region. The command of the Red Army decided to force the Dnieper River in the area occupied by the 81st Rifle Division. The 3rd rifle company, in which Fyodor Popov served, received an order: to cross the Dnieper on the night of October 2 to October 3, 1943 and, having gained a foothold on the right bank (western), by all means hold the bridgehead until the main forces of the Red Army approach .

At dawn, under the cover of fog, the crossing began. F.K. Popov was one of the first to jump into the water and boldly pushed off the shore. But it was not possible to cross unnoticed by the enemy. Noticing the melters, the Nazis opened fire on them.
F.K. Popov, among the first to swim up at a run, got ashore and, disguised as bushes, began to climb the slope of the coast. Fedor was the first to "jump onto the enemy's trench, fire from his weapon and in hand-to-hand combat exterminate 23 enemy soldiers and officers, grab an enemy light machine gun." Meanwhile, more and more soldiers of the 3rd company, having crossed, occupied the enemy's trenches. Throughout October 3, 1943, an unequal battle took place. Large German military units that arrived from the reserve made 9 counterattacks, bombers and artillerymen furiously bombed the tiny bridgehead. During a whole day of battle, there were critical moments when the enemy tried to cut off the combat company from the river and surround them. But, having learned the enemy's plan, our troops changed their combat positions. Making their way into the flank of the counterattacking enemy infantry, they smashed the enemy with flanking fires. In such a fight, Fedor destroyed 50 enemy soldiers and officers. Leaving many corpses, the Nazis hastily rolled back to their original positions. In the afternoon, when our ammunition was running out, between attacks they crawled up to the corpses of the enemies and picked up German machine guns, machine guns and grenades, then they used this captured weapon. By the evening, when the enemy's onslaught began to weaken, large units of the Red Army began to be melted down along the floating bridge built during the day.

Replacing the heroic defenders of the bridgehead on the right bank, the Soviet soldiers drove the Nazis from the banks of the Dnieper. Hundreds of corpses were left by the enemy at this nameless Dnieper crossing. During this day, F. Popov alone defeated 70 enemy soldiers and officers.
In the autumn of 1943, Soviet soldiers waged fierce battles with the German invaders in the Loevshchina. It was here, on this piece of Belarusian land, that they, despite their origin and nationality, shoulder to shoulder mercilessly entered into bloody battles with the enemy. Many of them forever remained lying on Loev's land. Among them are Uzbeks and Russians, Ukrainians and Georgians, Tatars and Yakuts. They once, being very young guys, went to defend their homeland from the Nazi invaders, but never returned home. They are buried here, on Loev's land, far from their native land.

Trying to regain lost positions, the Nazis launched several counterattacks, which were repulsed in fierce battles. When one of these counterattacks was repelled on October 11, 1943, Fyodor Kuzmich Popov was seriously wounded and died on October 13 in the medical battalion.

Fyodor Popov's relatives received a notice that “Faithful to the oath, Private F.K. Popov, showing courage and courage, died a heroic death in a fierce battle with the Nazis and was buried in a mass grave with military honors on the right bank of the Dnieper, on the outskirts of the village of Glushets, Gomel region of the Byelorussian SSR " .

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1944 F.K. Popov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for his military feat.

The heroic death of the fellow countryman filled the hearts of the Batarinians with bitterness and pride for Fyodor Popov, and having gathered for a rally, they pledged to significantly exceed the tasks for supplying meat and other agricultural products to the state, to begin raising funds for the construction of the tank "Hero of the Yakut Popov Fedor Kuzmich". They were supported by the entire Megino-Kangalassky region, which decided to collect the necessary amount for the construction of several such tanks. Fundraising was successful.

In October 1944, the 54th Guards Tank Brigade received five named tanks:
"I inform you that the tank“Hero of the Soviet Union Fedor Kuzmich Popov”, made with funds raised by the workers of the Megino-Kangalassky district, was handed over to the troops of Colonel-General Rybalko ... I ask you to inform everyone who took part in the fundraising about this.
Major General armored forces Lipodayev.

Decree of the Council of People's Commissars (Ministers) of the Yakut ASSR of April 12, 1944:
1. In accordance with the desire of the party organizations of the Megino-Kangalassky district assign the name of the Hero of the Soviet Union Popov F.K. II Batara incomplete secondary school of the Megino-Kangalassky district.

2. The name of the glorious son of the Yakut people assign collective farm "October" II Batarinsky nasleg Megino-Kangalassky district.
3. Rename Proletarskaya street in Yakutsk to Geroya Popov street.
4. To issue a one-time allowance from the Republican Fund for Assistance to the Families of Military Personnel to her sister Evdokia Kuzminichna, in the amount of 3 thousand rubles.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the YASSR I. Vinokurov.