Alexander Chekalin Biography

Chekalin Alexander Pavlovich - partisan of the partisan detachment of the "advanced" of the Tula region. Born on March 25 in the village of Peskovatskoye, now the Suvorovsky district of the Tula region. He studied at the secondary school of the city of Likhvin, in May he graduated from 8 classes. Member of the Great Patriotic War. After the occupation of Likhvin, by the Nazi troops in October, he entered the fighter partisan detachment of the "advanced" and, until the day of death, fought in its composition in the Tula region.

Despite his sixteen years, he steadily endured all the difficulties of harsh life, participated in many military operations of the detachment, and often went to reconnaissance. By November, the partisan detachment inflicted significant damage to the Nazis. Warehouses burned, exploded on the mines of cars, enemy trains walked downhill, enemy sentries, patrols, and traitors disappeared without a trace.

Once a group of partisans, including Sasha Chekalin, was ambushed by the road to Likhvin. In the distance, a car appeared. A minute passed - and the explosion prompted the car to pieces. A few more cars passed and exploded behind her. One of them, crowded with soldiers, tried to slip. But the grenade, abandoned by Chekalin, destroyed her. In early November, Sasha was seriously ill, and the commissar allowed him to go to a powerful person in the village to be treated there.

The Germans learned about his whereabouts, and Chekalin hurried to another village where his relatives lived. There, the traitor gave out a young patriot. At night, the Nazis broke into the house where the sick partisans lay. At the shout of the fascist officer to give up Alexander Chekalin grabbed the grenade and threw it into the fascists. The grenade did not explode.

German monsters seized the young hero, took him to the headquarters and subjected him to unheard of torture. The executioners could not force a single recognition they need. Having achieved anything from Chekalin, the Nazis on November 6, a young hero was hanged on the central square of Likhvin. For more than 20 days, the Germans did not allow to remove his corpse from the gallows.

And only when the city was freed from German invaders, the combat associates of the Komsomol members of the partisan Chekalin buried him with military honors. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 4, for courage and heroism, manifested in the partisan struggle in the rear against the German invaders, Chekalin Alexander Pavlovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.

In the year, the city of Likhvin was renamed the city of Chekalin.

In the homeland, in the village of Peskovatskoye, a memorial is installed. His name is a street in the city of Tula, a memorial plaque was installed on one of the houses.