Anatoly Zhivov died when he was 19 years old. This Hero repeated the feat of Alexander Matrosov, covering with his body the embrasure of the enemy machine gun.
Anatoly Pavlovich Zhivov repeated the feat of Alexander Matrosov. Anatoly covered the loophole of the machine gun with his body to enable the brothers in arms to seize the enemy’s position.
Biography
Anatoly was born in March 1925. He was born in the Kaluga region in the village of Kuzmishchevo.
When the boy was 6 years old, he and his relatives left for Moscow. The boy did not have the opportunity to get a secondary education, since he had to feed himself. Tolya was able to finish only 5 classes - a year before the start of World War II he entered as a locksmith's apprentice at the famous Trekhgornaya manufactory factory.
Start of war
If not for further events, then a successful career would surely await the purposeful young man. He would work, study, could become a workshop foreman and even an engineer. Over time, he would have a family, wife, children. But war intervened in the plans of the young generation of that time.
In the fall of 1941, the enemy entered Moscow. The Nazis fired on the capital not only with long-range guns, but also from the air. Anatoly Zhivov, along with his peers and civilians of other ages, was on duty on the roofs. They extinguished incendiary bombs.
Then the boy received the sad news that the Nazis had come to his native village. They killed many inhabitants. Along with the rest, Anatoly's grandmother also died. Then the young man vowed to take revenge on the invaders for the death of a loved one.
In the summer of 1942, workers were sent from the capital to build a Manganese mine near the city of Zhizdra. Together with his comrades, profit came here and Tolya.
And when the young man turned 18, then in late spring 1943 he went as a volunteer to the front.
