Alexander Matrosov is a famous hero of the Great Patriotic War. Having sacrificed his life, he helped the unit fulfill an important combat mission. The feat of the young Red Army soldier was not forgotten, and due to numerous publications in newspapers and literary works, descendants remember him.
Biography
Sailors was born in 1924 in the city of Yekaterinoslavl. Having lost his parents, the boy grew up first in the Ivanovo orphanage (Ulyanovsk region), and then in the Ufa labor colony. After graduating from seven classes, he remained to work in the colony as an assistant educator.
There is a version that Matrosov is not a real surname. The boy allegedly invented a new name and surname himself and entered the orphanage by his new name.
There is another childhood story of the famous hero. According to the second option, the boy’s father, Matvey Matrosov, was dispossessed and sent to Kazakhstan, where “his tracks were lost”. Alexander became an orphan and ended up in an orphanage. Soon, the boy escaped from a public institution, for some time he was homeless and reached Ufa on his own, where he ended up in a labor colony. There he was a very successful pupil and an example for other children, went in for sports, wrote poetry and took an active part in political information classes.
At 16, Matrosov was admitted to the Komsomol.
