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To the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory Dedicated to the memory of the glorious Hero Soviet Union Mehdi Huseyn-zade!
 “On a winter Sunday afternoon, an old man walked slowly through the streets of Trieste with a rumpled bucket and a thick brush in his hands. His face, long unshaven, was black, either from dirt or from sunburn, and kept a phlegmatic expression. Splashing with his tattered boots on the snow slush, he turned into Rue de Saint Jacob in the workers' quarter and, having chosen one of the fences, stopped in front of him, put his brush into a bucket, coated the wet stone of the fence with glue and stuck an ad on it announcing the residents in Italian and German. Trieste that a monetary reward of one hundred thousand Reichsmarks is established for the capture of a partisan under the nickname Mikhailo.
A crowd gathered at the announcement, amazed exclamations were heard:
- One hundred thousand! Wow!..
- Yes, a lot ...
- Well, well done, this Mikhailo!
- One hundred thousand are not lying on the street. Apparently he annoyed them very hard.
- Look how generous you are!
The old man gave everyone an indifferent glance and moved on. Advertisements appeared on every street; they were glued on fences, on tree trunks, on the walls of city houses and on lattice fences of squares, on the windows of empty shops and on the windows of lonely trams, in the port and even among the ruins of an ancient amphitheater.
The Triesteans read the ads and tried to imagine the appearance of the mysterious Mikhailo. Who is he? Where? What is it like? .. The signs indicated in the ads were meager and vague: “above average height, swarthy, broad-shouldered, swollen eyelids, black eyes, a chin with a small dimple ...” - this is how the story of Imran Kasumov and Hasan Seyidbeyli begins. distant shores ", dedicated to the legendary son of the Azerbaijani people, Hero of the Soviet Union Mekhti Huseynzada.
Mikhailo ... Mehdi Huseyn-zade was born in 1918 in the city of Baku. In 1936 he graduated from the Azerbaijan State Art School. In 1937, Mekhti became a student at the Leningrad Institute foreign languages Faculty of French. And in 1940, returning to Baku, he continued his education in Azerbaijan teacher training institute named after V.I. Lenin.
In the Red Army since August 1941. After graduating from the Tbilisi Military Infantry School, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant and in August 1942 he was sent to the formed 223rd Azerbaijani rifle division... In December 1942 he fought in the Mozdok direction, commanded a rifle platoon of the 1041st rifle regiment of the 223rd rifle division. Since December 10, the division has fought heavy offensive battles.
By order of the GUFU KA No. 0288 dated 26.03.43, Lieutenant Mehdi Huseyn-zade was excluded from the lists of the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Red Army as killed on December 29, 1942. In fact - he was wounded in battle and taken prisoner. Sent by the Germans to the hospital. After recovery, in the city of Mirgorod, Poltava region, he was enlisted in the Azerbaijan Legion of the Wehrmacht. Then at the school of translators near Berlin I studied for 3 months German... After successfully completing the course in April 1943, he was sent to the city of Shtrans to form the 162nd Turkestan Division of the Wehrmacht. He served in the 1-C department (propaganda and counterintelligence) of the headquarters of the 314th regiment of this division. In September 1943, the 162nd Turkestan Division was sent to Italy to suppress partisan movement.
While in Italy in Trieste, he established contact with the Yugoslav partisans operating in the Slovenian Primorye of the Adriatic and together with two other servicemen of the division - Azerbaijanis Javad Hakimli and Assad Kurbanov, escaped from the unit and joined the 9th Garibaldi Italian-Yugoslav partisan corps where after a while under the pseudonym "Mikhailo" led a sabotage group and became one of the largest partisan saboteurs of the Second World War.
 On April 2, 1944, "Mikhailo" (the underground pseudonym of Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh) planted a time bomb in the "Opchina" cinema in the city of Trieste. The explosion killed 80 and injured 260 Wehrmacht soldiers, 40 of whom later died in hospital.
In April 1944, "Mikhailo" blew up the "Soldatenheim" on the street. Via Gega in Trieste. The losses of the Nazis amounted to 450 people killed and wounded. For the first time, a price was set for the head of a saboteur - 100,000 Reichsmarks.
At the end of April 1944, Mekhti and his comrades Hans Fritz and Ali Tagiyev blew up the bridge near railway station Little by little. As a result of this sabotage, a German train of 24 wagons crashed.
In June 1944, the officers' casino exploded. The explosion killed 150 and wounded 350 Nazis. Explosion of the military hotel "Deyche Ubernachtungheim" - 250 killed and wounded soldiers and officers.
In the first half of 1944 alone, the losses of the Germans in personnel from the activities of the sabotage group "Mikhailo" amounted to more than 1000 people. The remuneration for the head of the partisan appointed by the occupation authorities increased to 400,000 Reichsmarks.
Mekhdi performed many sabotage in German uniform. So in September 1944, dressed in the uniform of a German officer "Mikhailo", on a motorcycle he approached the German company, which was unarmed on a training march and, having shot up to 20 Nazis from a machine gun, disappeared.
Also in the uniform of a German officer, he made his way to a military airfield, destroyed 2 aircraft with explosives and caused a fire, as a result of which 25 cars and 23 military garages were destroyed.
In the fall of 1944, Huseyn-zade, with a group of partisans, carried out a bold operation to free 700 prisoners of war from the Nazi prison in the city of Oudino (Northern Italy), incl. 147 Soviet soldiers. On behalf of the command of the 9th corps of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, Huseyn-zadeh created and headed a reconnaissance group of saboteurs at the headquarters of the 31st division named after. Gradnik.
On November 2, 1944, returning from an unsuccessful operation to seize property and equipment in German warehouses, Mikhailo was surrounded by the Germans in the Slovenian village of Vitovle. The Germans, having information that there was "Mikhailo" in the village, gathered the inhabitants of the village and demanded that the partisan be handed over. The peasants were not going to extradite Mehdi, then the Germans set fire to several houses and began to shoot the hostages. Mekhti himself opened fire on the Germans from a machine gun, thereby revealing himself and saving the lives of the inhabitants of the village. In an unequal battle, he died with weapons in his hands and was buried by the peasants.
 A week later, after the fighting in the area subsided, the command of the partisan corps sent a platoon, whose fighters dug up Mehti and took it to the town of Chepovan (west of the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia), where the corps headquarters was located. Azerbaijani fighters washed the corpse according to Muslim customs. 9 bullet wounds were found on the hero's body. Lieutenant Mehdi Ganifa oglu Huseyn-zade was buried with military honors in the village of Chepovan, the day of the hero's funeral was declared a day of mourning by the corps command. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 11, 1957, Lieutenant Huseyn-zade Mekhti Ganifa oglu was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for his unparalleled heroism in the fight against the Nazi invaders. A secondary school, a steamer, streets in the cities of the Republic of Azerbaijan are named after Mehdi Huseyn-zade. And in 1973 in Baku on Victory Square, next to the school bearing his name, a sculptural monument was erected, the aforementioned story book (1954) was dedicated to him, based on which the film of the same name was staged in 1958, at the premiere of which, according to the State Committee for Cinematography of the USSR nearly 60 million viewers at the time. The last lines from the story "ON THE FAR SHORE": “... Near Chepovani, and now there is a stone with an inscription carved on it:
“Sleep, our beloved Mekhti, glorious son of the Azerbaijani people! Your feat in the name of freedom will forever remain in the hearts of your friends. "
Yes, people will not forget Mehdi: he died so that they could live, so that the earth flourished! ..
Until the very last hour, the old bibi was waiting for Mekhti - she died, continuing to believe that he was alive. Mekhti's sisters, schoolmates, his friends always told her about him as if he were alive, as if he could be expected home from day to day, from hour to hour
They, in fact, did not lie to the old Bibi: for them Mekhti is alive, - alive in his eternally living deed.
Mehdi and enemies will remember for a long time! Captain Milton will not forget him either, he is now probably a higher rank, and on his orders, villages are being destroyed on different continents to make room for military airfields. Schultz will not forget him either. The absence of a leg does not prevent him from developing a feverish activity to revive the "Wehrmacht", and he, obviously, will calm down only when he loses his head.
Fighting far from his native land, on the distant Adriatic shores, Mekhti was unable to complete his painting. However, it would be useful for the enemies of Mehdi to look at this unfinished picture: it depicts a mighty Soviet soldier who won a victory in blood, walking towards the rising sun. Around - spring, joyful, jubilant native land, the soldier is happy, but at the same time alert and vigilant - woe to the one who tries to encroach on his happiness. "
While the material was being prepared for publication, we managed to find out that quite recently, with the participation of the heads of state of Azerbaijan and Slovenia, the monument to Mikhailo was opened in the village of Chepovani in Slovenia (see photo), and in Baku, documentary about a partisan, with the participation of his surviving comrades. The most interesting thing is that Mikhailo's beloved girl, Mekhti Huseyn-zade, is a connected partisan Angeli, she is already 86 years old, alive and well.
A HERO FROM THE FAR COAST
Published via the newspaper's website link "Azeri Izvestia"
ELEONORA ABASKULIEVA
 The exploits of the legendary "Mikhailo" - Mehdi Huseyn-zade - are still alive in the memory of grateful compatriots
For the generation of the 60s, the film On the Distant Shores, directed by Tofik Tagi-zadeh based on the story of Hasan Seyidbeyli and Imran Kasumov, On the Distant Shores, about the legendary Soviet intelligence officer, a member of the Resistance movement against fascism Mekhti Huseyn-zade, has become cult for obvious reasons ... Not even two decades have passed since the end of the war: those who were lucky enough to survive after the terrible meat grinder of World War II were in the prime of life. The inconsolable widows had not yet taken off their black kerchiefs and their children grieved, mourning those who remained on the battlefields, died in captivity or died in hospitals. The memory was fresh and the wounds were bleeding. Young and old have watched the film dozens of times.
"EVERYWHERE YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT ME"
The life of Mekhti Huseyn-zade, known among the fighters of the European Resistance under the pseudonym "Mikhailo", for its richness with feat and fearless actions in the name of a noble goal contains a huge potential for influencing human characters, especially young people. Because there is nothing more attractive than courage and courage. In addition, Mekhti - "Mikhailo" was not yet thirty years old, when he died in the mountains of Slovenia at the hands of the Nazis, and all his daring, as if devoid of a sense of self-preservation, he performed at an age that in our century is not accepted to be identified with maturity.
Having been seriously wounded in captivity, and then sent with a train of prisoners of war to Berlin, Mekhti did not break down, did not lose heart. He had only one goal - to escape from captivity in order to fight the Nazis. But first I went to the courses of translators and, after studying German for three months, pretty soon became fluent in it. According to those who met him in the Yugoslav underground, Mekhti was distinguished by his outstanding abilities not only in languages (in addition to Azerbaijani, Russian and German, he spoke French - before the war he studied it at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, as well as English, Spanish, Turkish and other oriental languages), but he also painted beautifully, played the tar, wrote poetry.
After completing the courses of translators in Berlin, Huseyn-zade, according to the writer Rugia Aliyeva, a researcher of the participation of our compatriots in the European Resistance, he arrived in the city of Shtrans (Germany), where by that time the 162nd Turkestan German division was being formed from parts of the Azerbaijani and Central Asian legions. Mekhti was enrolled in the "1-C" department, which was engaged in propaganda and counterintelligence. The Germans offered him to study at a counterintelligence school. He agreed to this and did not regret it. Much later came in handy for him in sabotage work. It is not hard to imagine how it got to those who sent him to this school, when it turned out that the fearless "Mikhailo" was taught sabotage work by the Nazis themselves. But this will become known later, when behind the head of the elusive "Mikhailo" German soldiers and officers, the Germans will promise a reward of 300 thousand marks.
In 1943, after Italy's surrender, a division from Shtrans was sent to Italy to suppress the partisan movement. In Udine, Italy, Mekhti Huseyn-zade began to establish contacts with local residents in order to escape to the partisans with their help. On the border with Italy in Yugoslav Trieste, Mekhti and his two comrades, Javad Hakimli and Asad Kurbanov, escaped from the legion and, hiding in the forests, soon united with the partisans of the 9th Garibaldi Yugoslav-Italian corps. A little time passed, and on the initiative of J. Hakimli with this corps a company was formed from among the former Soviet prisoners of war "Ruska Cheta", the commander of which was Hakimli, and the intelligence officer and deputy commander for political affairs - M. Huseyn-zade. Thus began his own war with the Nazis, an oath to wage which he made back in 1942 during the defense of Stalingrad, where senior lieutenant Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh was a mortarman. In a letter to his sister Hurriet, he wrote: “I do not know whether I will survive or not, but I give you my word that you will not have to lower your head because of me, and someday you will hear about me. If I die, I will die like a hero - the death of the brave. " "I'M AFRAID THAT I WILL DIE YOUNG!"
In one of his poems, Mekhti wrote: "I am afraid that I will die young!" and I was not mistaken. It's amazing how some people foresee their future, their destiny. Most often, this can be done by those who are able to assess themselves with absolute accuracy, and Mehdi was, apparently, one of them. The military deeds of an Azerbaijani from the distant Caucasus, who managed to smash the fascists in the very heart of Europe, amaze the imagination with their audacity today. Mine mining, and derailed German military echelons, blown up cars with German servicemen, capture of "tongues", blown up bridges and much more, which Mekhti did with his group, dressed in German uniforms, was just the beginning. Further sabotage operations, led by the elusive "Mikhailo", forced the Nazis to take extreme measures. And how could one not be afraid when on April 2, 1944, as a result of the explosion of a cinema in Villa Opchin near Trieste, committed by Mehdi Huseyn-zade, 80 German soldiers and officers were killed and 110 were wounded.
The second, even more large-scale sabotage was carried out by "Mikhailo" in the same month, but already in Trieste itself: "Soldatenheim" - a soldier's house was blown up. In the Italian fascist newspaper "Il-Piccolo" there was an article "Terrorist attempt on the" German soldier's house ". It is officially reported: "Yesterday, Saturday, communist elements carried out a terrorist attack on the" German soldiers' barracks "in Trieste, which cost the lives of some German soldiers and some Italian citizens." "Some German soldiers" in numbers meant no less than 450 Nazi soldiers and officers killed and wounded. It was after this sabotage that the Germans placed an advertisement in the newspapers that whoever caught or killed the partisan "Mikhailo" would be given a reward in the amount of one hundred thousand marks. After each operation performed by Mehdi, the amount of remuneration grew and reached 300 thousand marks.
But even this, like the hunt of the Germans that had begun on him, did not make the Russian, as they called all the Soviets abroad, the partisan "Mikhailo" from Baku to beware. Two months, spent by him on preparation, ended with another major act of sabotage - the explosion of a casino in Trieste on rue Fortuna. And this time, fortune was on the side of the partisans, and not the German invaders, who were having fun with the stolen money in a gambling establishment. 250 soldiers and officers died that evening at the tables of the casino.
And there was also a blown up printing house where the aforementioned fascist newspaper Il-Piccolo was printed, and other smaller operations. In total, according to the official information available at the corps headquarters, as a result of sabotage carried out by Mehdi during nine months of 1944, more than 1000 (!) German soldiers and officers were killed and wounded. These data were taken from the archives of the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan (FPH, case No. 159, v.2, p.94), which contains all the information about Mehdi Huseyn-zade.
This was needed when, in 1956, Mikhailo was posthumously nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. For the younger generation, who knows about these years and the socio-political situation of those years only from history textbooks, we will tell you only one thing: for those who returned to their homeland from German captivity, everyone indiscriminately was destined for a terrible fate - first filtration camps, and then just Stalin's camps, which are little differed from the fascist. Sometimes, as a gift of fate, just a special settlement. But even so, only a few were lucky. And here - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
In the book "Azerbaijanis in the European Resistance Movement" Rugia Aliyeva provides a certificate prepared in October 1951 under the heading "Top Secret" by the Minister of State Security of Azerbaijan, Major General S.F. Yemelyanov: Participants of the 162nd Turkestan German Division, the MGB of the Azerbaijan SSR came to the attention of the heroic story of the activities and death of a certain Huseynov Mehdi, a Baku resident. By the measures taken, the identity of Huseynov was identified - Huseyn-zade Mehdi Ganifa oglu, born in 1918, a native of Baku ..., and his exploits were also documented with eyewitness testimony.
On the basis of the collected materials, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan petitioned the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1955 to confer the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) on Huseyn-zada Mehdi Ganifa oglu. However, all the materials "were found to be insufficient and in February 1956 were returned with a proposal for additional documentation of his exploits by interviewing new eyewitnesses." At the same time, inspections were carried out by the Yugoslav security organs. In April 1957, the legendary partisan, the brave son of the Azerbaijani people, who fought against the Nazis in the very center of Europe, Mehdi Huseynzade was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. LIFE AFTER DEATH
The homeland has not forgotten its son. Film "On Distant Shores", which passed through all the screens of the then big country, was a resounding success. The fame that came to the actor Nodar Shashik-oglu after playing the role of the main character in this film could not be compared with his former fame in other films.
In 1963, the memoirs of J. Hakimli entitled "Intigam" ("Revenge") were published in the Azerbaijani language. The book, in which the military exploits of "Mikhailo" were described through the eyes of an eyewitness with Caucasian emotionality, told about the everyday life of the first partisan shock brigade and the company "Ruska Cheta".
On October 25, 2007, in the village of Shempas, near the Slovenian city of Nova Gorica, a solemn ceremony was held to unveil a bust of the brave son of Azerbaijan, Hero of the Soviet Union, Mehdi Huseyn-zade, made by the Azerbaijani sculptor Akif Askerov. On a granite pedestal in Slovenian, Azerbaijani and English the inscription is carved: “Mekhti Huseyn-zade (“ Mikhailo ”), 1918-1944. Hero of the Resistance Movement in Slovenia during the Second World War. Brave son of Azerbaijan ”.
In the village of Novkhany, Absheron region, where the Huseyn-zade family is from, a monument to the hero was also unveiled. But the most magnificent monument to the memory of the brave partisan "Mikhailo", the hero of the European Resistance, was erected in the center of Baku. Every year on April 11 (on the day when M. Huseyn-zade was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union), on May 9 (on Victory Day) and on November 2 (on the day of Mekhti's death) people come here to lay flowers at its foot and bow head in front bright memory a brave compatriot.
At the end of last year, the presentation of the film "Underground nickname - Mikhailo" by director Tahir Aliyev, filmed by the documentary studio "Salname" based on the script of the writer-publicist Intigam Gasim-zade, took place. Dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Hero of the Soviet Union Mekhti Huseyn-zade, 38-minute film tells about his combat path... Filming took place in Azerbaijan, Slovenia, Italy and Austria.
On December 29, at the National Museum of History of ANAS, a scientific conference was held dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Mehdi Huseyn-zade, in which his relatives, representatives of the museum, the public, and funds mass media... A new exposition dedicated to the hero has opened here, which contains documents, letters, things belonging to our brave compatriot. After the war, its commander Javad Hakimli, on whose initiative "Mikhailo" was reburied with all military honors, brought his silver cigarette case, ring, small French-Russian dictionary, photographs, documents to the Mekhti sisters in Baku. Now everyone can get acquainted with all this, and especially, I think, the youth. Unfortunately, museum pedagogy has not yet taken its place in school and university programs, as has already happened all over the world. A new specialty has appeared - a museum teacher who conducts lessons with schoolchildren in historical halls and is a staff member of the museum. The work of such museums is carried out under the motto "Show the country (say, Azerbaijan) through world history... Show the world through the history of Azerbaijan ”. The life and deeds of the brave fighter against fascism, Mekhti Huseyn-zade, fit perfectly into this perspective of the upbringing of the younger generation. And for all that has been done in relation to the popularization of the heroic participation of our compatriots in the European Resistance (honor and praise to the enthusiasts and employees of the National Museum of History and the Military Museum of the Ministry of Defense, who tried to draw public attention to the 90th anniversary of the beloved son of the Azerbaijani people Mekhti Huseyn-zade !), nevertheless, there remains some sediment about the fact that the anniversary of such people should be celebrated more widely, on a larger scale. As the poet said: “This is not necessary for the dead! It is necessary for the living! ". IN THE EYE OF A RESEARCHER
Rugia Aliyeva, who not only studied the archives of the special depository, which contains materials about all captured during the Second World War, but also well acquainted with many Azerbaijani Resistance fighters - comrades of "Mikhailo" in partisan and sabotage work, can talk about Mekhti Huseyn-zade for hours.
The writer Rugia Aliyeva has been dealing with the topic of Azerbaijani fighters of the European Resistance for more than twenty years. And she never ceases to be amazed at the characters of those who, it seems, managed, in a completely hopeless situation, not only to save their lives, but also to heroically fight fascism.
- Rugiya Hanım, second World War has already become the past. Why does it seem important to you today, more than six decades later, to write about her heroes?
- It seems to me, no matter how many years have passed since that terrible war against fascism, these people should never be forgotten. It is impossible to belittle their deeds, their high patriotism, Caucasian love of freedom, which drove them one iota. They did everything possible and impossible to defeat fascism. And this feeling made them invincible in the rest of the post-war life, no matter how difficult it was for many of them. They knew for sure that they had not lived their lives in vain. Over the years, as you get older, you realize how much that means. By the way, do not think that young people are not interested in history. Of course they are different. But at the premiere of the documentary film, which I am the scriptwriter, "Password Az-Rodez", I looked at the faces of young viewers and saw that they were touched by this topic, the history of the struggle of our compatriots against fascism in the ranks of the French European Resistance.
- In your opinion, did the personality of Mehdi Huseyn-zade show a war?
- No, of course not. I, like all of us, admire the life and deeds of Mehdi Huseyn-zade. But I'm absolutely sure that, live legendary hero Second World War ordinary life, he would still remain in the memory of the Azerbaijani people. This was a completely extraordinary person, endowed with great inclinations. Moreover, they concerned not only art, the ability in various areas of which he was generously gifted: passion for writing poetry, the talent of a painter, the ability to languages and many others. His extraordinary audacity, which was admired by friends and paid tribute to enemies, was a meaningful calculation of a military strategist who knew how to clearly plan planned operations, take into account the realities of the German military machine, which he thoroughly studied. I don't know, maybe my admiration will be considered overkill, but as a person, he seems close to the people of the Renaissance.
He was a very versatile person, and not only in the humanitarian field, but also in technical disciplines. He taught fellow partisans to draw topographic maps, prepared explosives, developed sabotage plans, and was an excellent organizer. And another very important feature was that Mehdi was very sociable, knew how to influence people, find a language with everyone, was easy to communicate. I believe that without the artistic abilities that "Mikhailo" possessed, he would hardly have been able to pass himself off as a fascist so successfully. In a word, he was given a lot. And he brilliantly disposed of what he had. Someone, perhaps, will say: "And he lived only 26 years." It's true. But how did he live! If even after six decades we admire his exploits, his life and destiny, you must admit that it is worth a lot!
- How did Mikhailo die?
- Mekhti Huseyn-zade died, as he lived, - a hero. According to eyewitnesses and his comrades-in-arms, the planned operation to steal uniforms from the German warehouses of the town of Gorizia ended in failure. The Germans pursued the partisans who stopped in one of the villages. Someone told the fascists that the legendary "Mikhailo" was among the attacking partisans. The Nazis warned the residents that if they did not betray the partisan, the village would be burned down, and all residents, including the elderly, women, and children, would be shot. There was no traitor. And then Mekhti made his last choice- he opened fire on the fascists in order to reveal himself. The house was immediately surrounded. Mekhti threw grenades at the Nazis, adding dozens of Germans who died at his hands to his account with the Nazis. I saved the last bullet in the pistol for myself.
After the Germans left, the inhabitants of the village of Vitovle, where this happened, buried the hero. A week later, comrades in the partisan corps took his body to the territory controlled by the partisans, where he was interred with all military honors. Javad Hakimli said that at his insistence, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh was buried according to Muslim tradition - facing Mecca Let the descendants know and remember!
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Mehdi Huseyn-zade was born on December 22, 1918 in the village of Novkhani, Baku province, in the family of the future head of the Baku city police Ganif Huseyn-zade, who after the establishment of Soviet power in the fight against banditry in Azerbaijan. In 1936 he graduated from the Baku Art School, then studied at Leningrad Institute foreign languages, and in 1940, returning to Baku, he continued his education at the Lenin Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute! Mehdi was truly an all-round developed person!
Having lost his parents early, he, together with the sisters Pikya and Hurriyet, was brought up by his aunt, his father's sister, Sanam khanum.
Mehdi was a mischievous child, and Aunt Sanam often punished him for his pranks, although she loved him very much. No one could have thought that this child had so much kindness, tenderness, devotion and love for others.
When 24-year-old Baku resident Mehdi Huseynzade was sent from the Tbilisi military school to the Stalingrad front, he already had a premonition of an early death, about which he wrote in a poem that he sent to his sisters in Baku in May 1942: "I am afraid that I will die young ..." But how could he have known that after only a little over two years this premonition would come true, and he himself will become a hero of three countries - the USSR, Yugoslavia and Italy ...
On June 22, 1941, fascist troops invaded the territory of the Soviet Union. Military units were urgently mobilized throughout the country. Young people every day, tens of thousands, voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army. This fate did not pass Mekhti Huseyn-zade too. In August 1941, he enlisted in the army, where, after graduating from the military infantry school, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant and sent to the front, in the very heat of Stalingrad.
At the front, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh demonstrates only his best qualities to his comrades. He steadfastly endures all the hardships and hardships of military field life. He is appointed commander of a mortar platoon, where, despite his 22-year-old age, he becomes a real authority among his comrades, since in communication with them he is always simple and easy to find mutual language with almost every person.
A year after joining the Red Army, Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh is seriously wounded. Badly wounded, he was taken prisoner by fascist troops and sent to Germany.
After recovery, in the city of Mirgorod, Poltava region, he was enlisted in the Azerbaijan Legion of the Wehrmacht and sent to Germany. At the school of translators near Berlin I studied German for 3 months. After successfully completing the course in April 1943, he was sent to the city of Shtrans to form the 162nd Turkestan Division of the Wehrmacht. He served in the 1-C department (propaganda and counterintelligence) of the headquarters of the 314th regiment of this division. In September 1943, the 162nd Turkestan Division was sent to Italy to suppress the partisan movement. While in Italy in Trieste, he established contact with the Yugoslav partisans operating in the Slovenian Primorye of the Adriatic and together with two other servicemen of the division - Azerbaijanis Javad Hakimli and Assad Kurbanov, escaped. Thanks to local patriots, M. Huseynzade and J. Hakimli managed to get out on the partisans. and soon they fought as part of the 9th Yugoslav-Italian partisan corps.
J. Hakimli created a company "Ruska couple" here, and Mekhti became his deputy for political affairs and a scout of the detachment. A little later, for the sabotage acts that were unique in their audacity, Mehdi was enlisted in the headquarters of the 9th corps. Knowledge of the German language and order in the fascist army, which he acquired earlier in the legion, made it possible for Mehdi and his group to penetrate into places of concentration of Germans and commit sabotage. Having received the nickname "Mikhailo", he led a sabotage group and became one of the largest partisan saboteurs of the Second World War. Mehti spoke English, Spanish, German, Russian, Turkish and French... Mikhailo also drew beautifully, played the tar and wrote poetry, and also knew sapper business very well and drove a car very well.
His first operation as a saboteur, "Mikhailo" carried out all in the same city of Trieste in April 1944. In the cinema "Opchina", where all the local elite of the Wehrmacht gathered, he planted a time bomb. The bomb worked very accurately: after a powerful explosion, over 80 fascist officers died and another 260 were seriously injured. But Mikhailo did not stop there.
A few days later, the local Wehrmacht Soldier's House was blown up. The explosion killed and received severe injuries more than 450 German military personnel. For the head of Mehdi Huseyn-zade, the fascist command for the first time appointed an award in the amount of 100 thousand Reichsmarks!
The Italian fascist newspaper Il-Piccolo published an article entitled "Terrorist attempt on the" German soldiers 'house ", which officially stated:" Yesterday, on Saturday, communist elements carried out a terrorist attempt on the "German soldiers' barracks" in Trieste, which cost their lives some German soldiers and some Italian citizens. "
At the end of April 1944, Mekhti and his comrades Hans Fritz and Ali Tagiyev blew up the bridge at the Postaino railway station. As a result of this sabotage, a German train of 24 wagons crashed. A few days later, by decision of the partisan headquarters, Mikhailo executed Gestapo officer N. Cartner.
In June 1944, the officers' casino exploded. The explosion killed 150 and wounded 350 Nazis. Explosion of the military hotel "Deyche Ubernachtungheim" - 250 killed and wounded soldiers and officers.
In the first half of 1944 alone, the losses of the Germans in personnel from the activities of the sabotage group "Mikhailo" amounted to more than 1000 people. The remuneration for the head of the partisan appointed by the occupying authorities increased to 300,000 Reichsmarks.
Mekhdi performed many sabotage in German uniform. In September of the same year, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh, in the uniform of a German technical service officer, entered the enemy's airfield and, using delayed-action mines, blew up 2 planes, 23 military garages and 25 cars.
The following month, partisans under the command of Mikhailo organized a daring raid on a fascist local prison in the city of Oudino (Northern Italy). Mehdi, in the uniform of a Wehrmacht officer, together with two partisans, who were also dressed in the uniform of German soldiers, accompanied by "prisoners", approached the gates of a German prison and demanded that the sentry open the gates. As soon as they were on the territory of the prison, Huseyn-zadeh with his partisans disarmed the guards and opened the doors of all cells, freeing 700 prisoners of war, including 147 Soviet soldiers... The next day, the fascist radio broadcast that the prison was allegedly attacked by a three thousandth partisan division. In a letter to his sister Hurriyet, while still at the front, Mekhti writes: "I do not know whether I will survive or not, but I give you my word that you will not have to lower your head because of me, and someday you will hear about me. If I die , then I will die like a hero - the death of the brave "
For the head of Mehdi Huseyn-zade, the Germans established a fantastic award of 400 thousand Reichsmarks, but Mehdi continued to remain elusive. On behalf of the command of the 9th corps of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, Huseyn-zadeh created and headed a reconnaissance group of saboteurs at the headquarters of the 31st division named after. Gradnik.
Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh begins to commit his sabotage right under the Germans' noses. Once, disguised as a Nazi military uniform, he alone on a motorcycle drove up to a company of marching Nazis and opened fire on them from a machine gun. He killed more than 20 German soldiers, and while the rest of the company was at a loss, Mikhailo managed to escape safely.
Fulfilling his assignments, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh repeatedly used the skills and knowledge that had been instilled in him in the Azerbaijani legion of the Wehrmacht under the command of German officers against the Nazis. The Germans themselves taught "Mikhailo" all the subtleties military intelligence, technologies for undermining and sabotage. When they realized this - it was already too late - their anger knew no bounds. And Mekhti Huseyn-zade, meanwhile, continued to perform his feats.
Mekhti was well-read, knew by heart many works of the classics of Azerbaijani and Eastern literature, infected his comrades with his cheerfulness and optimism. Mekhti returned from all operations safe and sound, and even managed to tell jokes, sang, wrote poetry, painted landscapes of Slovenia, winning the sympathy and respect of his comrades.
But, alas, it was not without a traitor. Upon learning that Mekhti was instructed to carry out an operation to remove uniforms from Hitler's warehouses, the Nazis attacked the trail of the partisans and pursued them to the village of Vitovlye, where the tragedy broke out. The Nazis, having surrounded the village, demanded to indicate the house where Mikhailo was hiding, otherwise they threatened to burn the entire village.
But no matter how the Germans tried to find his shelter, they did not succeed. Locals flatly refused to hand over the partisan. When a German officer threatened them with execution for this, "Mikhailo" himself came out of his hiding place and opened fire on the Nazis. Mehti gave his life dearly. After a short battle, he killed 25 armed opponents. Mehdi himself received 8 bullet wounds, but nevertheless continued to fight. When Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh discovered that he had practically no cartridges left, he fired a bullet in his heart, not wanting to surrender. fascist invaders.
I would like to note that, despite the fact that in the archives of M. Huseynzade, one of the certificates says that the Germans mocked Mehdi's body, mutilated his face, gouged out his eyes, etc. (FPC, file: no. 159, Vol. 2., p. 7.), however, this did not correspond to reality and was completely refuted by the surviving witness of those events, Javad Hakimli, who then personally washed the body of Mehdi according to Muslim customs.
Mikhailo's sense of fear was at zero, it was a brave, impudent partisan who caused panic among the Germans "- this is how his military friends spoke of the legendary Mikhailo - Hero of the Soviet Union Mekhti Huseynzade.
In 1957 legendary scout, anti-fascist Mehdi Huseynzade was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded posthumously the Yugoslav Orders and the Italian Medal for Military Valor, which equates to the status of the National Hero of Italy. On the instructions of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, a monument to the hero was unveiled in the center of Baku in 1973. And on October 25, 2007, the bust of Mikhailo was installed in Slovenia, in the village of Shempas.
While in Slovenia at the opening ceremony of the monument to Mikhailo, his nephew, doctor Mekhti Azizbekov, met with the hero's fighting friends. Slovenian veterans, paying tribute to the memory of their brother-soldier, noted that Mikhailo was a very brave man. And a resident of the Shempas village Angela Pershich said: “Everyone loved him. He said, "I am here to make you happy."
"... Near Chepovani, a stone with an inscription carved on it still stands:
"Sleep, our beloved Mekhti, glorious son of the Azerbaijani people! Your feat in the name of freedom will forever remain in the hearts of your friends."
The prototype of Mehdi Huseyn-zade is found in the story "On the Distant Shores" by Imran Kasumov and Hasan Seyidbeyli. In 1958, based on the story at the Azerbaijanfilm studio, the feature film On the Distant Shores was shot, the premiere of which, according to the USSR State Committee for Cinematography, attracted nearly 60 million viewers at that time. And in 2008 the documentary "Mikhailo" was shot at the Salname studio. In 1963, the memoirs of one of Mekhti's comrades, Javad Hakimli, entitled "Intigam" ("Revenge"), were published, which described the military exploits of "Mikhailo", told about the everyday life of the first partisan shock brigade and the company "Ruska Cheta". On May 9, 1978, a monument to Mehdi Huseyn-zade was unveiled in Baku. A football stadium in Sumgait, an embankment in Mingechaur, a secondary school in the village of Novkhani (Baku), streets in Baku and Terter are named after Mehdi Huseynzade. A bust of the hero was erected in the village of Shempas (Slovenia). On December 29, 2008, a scientific conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Mehdi Huseyn-zade was held at the National Museum of ANAS.
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Mehdi Ganifa oglu Huseyn-zade was born on December 22, 1918 in the picturesque Azerbaijani village of Novkhani on the shores of the Caspian Sea. His father, Ganifa Huseyn-zadeh, later became the head of the Baku city police and participated in the fight against banditry in the territory of Azerbaijan.
From childhood, the boy showed outstanding abilities in many sciences, but his main passion was foreign languages. During his short life, he perfectly mastered Spanish, French, German, Italian and several other languages. In addition, Mekhti had an innate gift of artistry: he played the tar perfectly, painted pictures and wrote poetry.
In 1936, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh graduated from the Azerbaijan State Art School, after which he entered the Leningrad Institute of Foreign Languages at the department of the French language. Returning to Baku in 1940, he continued his education at the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute, dreaming of receiving a teacher's diploma. But the war got in the way.
On June 22, 1941, fascist troops invaded the territory of the Soviet Union. All over the country, military units were urgently mobilized, tens of thousands of young people were conscripted and voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army. This fate did not pass Mekhti Huseyn-zade too. In August 1941, he was drafted into the army and, after graduating from a military infantry school, was sent to the front.
As the commander of the mortar platoon, Lieutenant Huseyn-zade participated in Stalingrad battle... In August 1942, seriously wounded, Mehdi was captured and sent to Germany.
Noticing the extraordinary abilities of the prisoner of war, the Germans offered him to join the Azerbaijani legion of the Wehrmacht. Mehdi agrees, deciding that since he cannot now wage an open war with the enemy, he will undermine the enemy from the inside. Thus, Mekhdi Huseyn-zade takes the path of a scout-saboteur.
In Germany, Huseyn-zade is mainly engaged in education. First, he is sent to German courses, which he masters perfectly in just three months of study. Then Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh is assigned to the 162nd Turkestan division of the Wehrmacht, which is sent to suppress the partisan movement in Italy.
In October 1943, when the camp of Azerbaijani prisoners of war was located in Northern Italy, near Udine, he managed to get at the headquarters of the German command a plan for a surprise attack by the Nazis on the "Garibaldians" partisan detachment. Antifascists (Rashid Rahimov and Hasan Jabbarov) who made their way to the partisans informed them of this, thanks to which the enemy regiment attacking the partisans suffered heavy losses and was forced to retreat.
Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh with two compatriots fled from the Turkestan division and joined the Garibaldi Italian-Yugoslav partisan corps. The partisans trust him to lead a specially trained sabotage group, and there he receives his code name - Mikhailo, which, after only a few months, will cause fear and hatred among the Nazis.
Mikhailo spent his first operation as a saboteur in Italian city Trieste in April 1944. In the cinema "Opchina", where all the local elite of the Wehrmacht gathered, he set up a time bomb: after a powerful explosion, over 80 fascist officers died and another 260 was seriously injured. And that was just the beginning.
A few days later, the local Wehrmacht Soldier's House was blown up. As a result, more than 450 German soldiers were killed and seriously injured. And for the first time for the head of Mehdi Huseyn-zade, the fascist command assigns a reward - 100 thousand Reichsmarks.
In 1944, a sabotage group under the command of Huseyn-zade blew up a number of strategic targets important for Germany. During these explosions, over a thousand servicemen were killed. At the end of April 1944, together with his comrades-in-arms Ali Tagiyev and Hans Fritz, Mekhti blows up a railway bridge near the Postojna station in Slovenia. As a result, a German military train of 24 wagons was wrecked.
Shot from the film "On the Distant Shores" A month later, the officers' casino was blown up, during which more than 150 people were killed and another 350 were injured. The bounty for Mikhailo's head rises to 400,000 Reichsmarks. The best scouts of the Wehrmacht were called to capture him, but this does not stop the young man, on the contrary, such a turn of affairs only inflames him.
Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh begins to commit his sabotage right under the Germans' noses. Once, disguised as a Nazi military uniform, he alone on a motorcycle drove up to a company of marching Nazis and opened fire on them from a machine gun. He laid down more than 20 German soldiers, and while the rest of the company was at a loss, he managed to safely escape.
Fulfilling his assignments, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh repeatedly used the skills and knowledge that had been instilled in him in the Azerbaijani legion of the Wehrmacht under the command of German officers against the Nazis. The Germans themselves taught Mikhailo all the subtleties of military intelligence, technologies for conducting explosions and sabotage. When the mentors realized this, their anger knew no bounds, but it was too late.
Once Mikhailo, in the uniform of a Wehrmacht officer, made his way to a German military airfield, where he single-handedly destroyed two German aircraft, 25 cars and 23 garages, fully equipped with German military equipment. In October 1944, a group of partisans under the command of Gusein-zade decided to seize the fascist prison in Udine, where prisoners of war were held. There was no way to get inside by force, so Mikhailo used a trick that had been known since the times of Troy.
Disguised as Nazi uniforms, Mehdi and two comrades led a detachment of Yugoslav partisans under the guise of prisoners of war into the prison yard. As soon as the guys found themselves inside, they immediately disarmed the unsuspecting guards, after which they released about 700 prisoners, including 147 citizens of the Soviet Union.
The life of Mekhti Huseyn-zade was the life of a hero, but his death was no less heroic. For the capture of the partisan Mikhailo, the German occupation authorities have long offered a solid reward: 400 thousand Reichsmarks in modern money equals about 500 thousand dollars. But the people never wanted to betray their idol. This happened on November 16, 1944.
After an unsuccessful operation to seize German warehouses, Mehti was surrounded by Wehrmacht soldiers in the Slovenian village of Vitovle. But no matter how the Germans tried to find his shelter, they did not succeed: the locals flatly refused to betray the partisan. When the German officer threatened them with execution, Mikhailo himself came out of cover and opened fire on the Nazis.
He gave his life dearly. After a short battle, Mehdi killed 25 armed opponents, he himself received 8 bullet wounds, but continued to fight. And only after firing all the cartridges, the last bullet put the partisan in his heart. At the time of his death, Mehdi Huseyn-zade was only 25 years old.
In 1957, the legendary intelligence officer, anti-fascist Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded posthumously with the Yugoslav Orders and the Italian Medal for Military Valor, which equates to the status of the National Hero of Italy. On the instructions of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, a monument to the hero was unveiled in the center of Baku in 1973. And on October 25, 2007, the bust of Mikhailo was installed in Slovenia, in the village of Shempas.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the monument to Meskhi Huseyn-zade in the Slovenian village of Shempas Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh became the prototype of the hero of the story “On the Distant Shores” by Imran Kasumov and Hasan Seyidbeyli. In 1958, a feature film of the same name was shot based on its motives at the Azerbaijanfilm studio, the premiere of which was seen by almost 60 million viewers throughout the USSR. And in 2008 the Salname studio shot the documentary Mikhailo.
In 1963, the memoirs of one of Mekhti's comrades, Javad Hakimli, were published under the title Intigam (Revenge), which described the military exploits of Mikhailo, the everyday life of the first partisan shock brigade and the Ruska Cheta company. A football stadium in Sumgait, an embankment in Mingechaur, a secondary school in the village of Novkhani (Baku), streets in Baku and Terter are named after Mehdi Huseynzade. In the village of Shempas near the town of Novo Gorica (Slovenia) a bust of the hero was erected.
The Great Patriotic War is truly a terrible, terrifying event. At one time, she bared the characters of many people, showing which of them is truly capable of. It was she who gave us those whom we today call heroes - those whose bright sense of duty and patriotism in their souls made them give their lives for the good of the Motherland and their fellow countrymen without hesitation. One of these heroes was the great Soviet intelligence officer, The hero of the USSR - Mehdi Huseyn-zade.
Mehdi was born on December 22, 1918 in the picturesque Azerbaijani village of Novkhani on the shores of the Caspian Sea. From childhood, the boy showed outstanding abilities in many sciences, but his main passion was foreign languages. Throughout his life, and this is not much more than 25 years, Mehdi has perfectly mastered more than 7 different languages. Among them: Spanish, French, German, Italian and others.
In addition to languages, Mehdi also possessed an innate gift of artistry. He excellently played the tar, painted pictures and wrote poetry. In one of his poems, he wrote: "I'm afraid I'll die young!"... Then Mehdi did not yet know that his nightmare was destined to come true.
In 1936, Mekhdi Huseyn-zadeh graduated from the Azerbaijan State Art School, but his education does not end there. Passion for languages prompts the young man to enter the Leningrad Institute of Foreign Languages, where he successfully enters the French language department. Later, in 1940, Mehdi continued his education at the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute, where he dreamed of getting a teacher's diploma, but this dream remained unfulfilled for him.
On June 22, 1941, fascist troops invaded the territory of the Soviet Union. Military units were urgently mobilized throughout the country. Young people every day, tens of thousands, voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army. This fate did not pass Mekhti Huseyn-zade too. In August 1941, he enlisted in the army, where, after graduating from the military infantry school, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant and sent to the front, in the very heat of Stalingrad.
At the front, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh demonstrates only his best qualities to his comrades. He steadfastly endures all the hardships and hardships of military field life. He is appointed commander of a mortar platoon, where, despite his 22-year-old age, he becomes a real authority among his comrades, since in communication with them he is always simple and easily finds a common language with almost every person.
A year after joining the Red Army, Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh is badly wounded. Badly wounded, he was taken prisoner by fascist troops and sent to Germany. After being cured in a German hospital, the fascist command, noticing the extraordinary abilities of the young man, called on him to serve in the Azerbaijani legion of the Wehrmacht. Mehdi agrees, deciding the following: since he cannot now wage an open war with the enemy, he will undermine the enemy from the inside. Thus, Mekhdi Huseyn-zade takes the path of a scout-saboteur.
Having entered the armed forces of Germany, Mehdi perfectly plays the role of a newly converted Nazi. Without betraying his true feelings, the young man adapts to the policy of the Third Reich. But his heart still belongs only to thoughts about the Motherland.
In Germany, Huseyn-zade is mainly engaged in education. First, the fascist command sends him to German courses, which he perfectly masters in just 3 months of training. Then Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh is assigned to the 162nd Turkestan division of the Wehrmacht, which is sent to suppress the partisan movement in Italy.
So, in 1943, Mekhti Huseyn-zade finds himself in the Italian city of Trieste. There, risking his life, he manages to establish contact with the Yugoslav partisan detachment operating on the shores of the Adriatic Sea. After short negotiations, Mehdi and two of his compatriots decide to flee from the Turkestan division to join the partisan detachment. The escape succeeds and three young guys find themselves in the 9th Garibaldi Italian-Yugoslav partisan corps, in which Mekhti Huseyn-zade will perform her future feats.
In the partisan corps, Mekhti proves himself as a brave and strong-willed person. He is trusted to lead a specially trained sabotage group. There he gets his code alias - "Mikhailo", which, after only a few months, will cause a feeling of fear and hatred not only among the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, but also among the entire fascist leadership.
His first operation as a saboteur, "Mikhailo" carried out all in the same city of Trieste in April 1944. In the cinema "Opchina", where all the local elite of the Wehrmacht gathered, he planted a time bomb. The bomb worked very accurately: after a powerful explosion, over 80 fascist officers died and another 260 were seriously injured. But Mikhailo did not stop there.
A few days later, the local Wehrmacht Soldier's House was blown up. As a result of the explosion, more than 450 German soldiers were killed and seriously injured. For the head of Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh, the fascist command for the first time appointed an award in the amount of 100 thousand Reichsmarks. Through the stubborn efforts of the sabotage group under the command of Huseyn-zade, a number of strategic objects important for Germany were blown up in 1944. During these explosions, over 1000 German soldiers were killed, of which about half were Wehrmacht officers.
Together with his comrades-in-arms Ali Tagiyev and Hans Fritz, Mekhti Huseyn-zade at the end of April 1944 blows up the railway bridge near the Postojna station in Slovenia. As a result of this explosion, a German military train of 24 cars is wrecked.
A month after this sabotage, "Mikhailo" organizes the bombing of the officers' casino, during which more than 150 people were killed and another 350 were injured. The bounty for the Mikhailo head rises to 400,000 Reichsmarks. The best scouts of the Wehrmacht were called to capture him, but this does not stop the young man, on the contrary, such a turn of affairs only inflames him.
Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh begins to commit his sabotage right under the Germans' noses. Once, disguised as a Nazi military uniform, he alone on a motorcycle drove up to a company of marching Nazis and opened fire on them from a machine gun. He killed more than 20 German soldiers, and while the rest of the company was at a loss, Mikhailo managed to escape safely.
Fulfilling his assignments, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh repeatedly used the skills and knowledge that had been instilled in him in the Azerbaijani legion of the Wehrmacht under the command of German officers against the Nazis. The Germans themselves taught "Mikhailo" all the subtleties of military intelligence, technologies for conducting explosions and sabotage. When they realized this - it was already too late - their anger knew no bounds. And Mekhti Huseyn-zade, meanwhile, continued to perform his feats.
There was a case when he in the officer's uniform of the Wehrmacht made his way to a German military airfield. During this operation, he single-handedly destroyed 2 German aircraft, 25 cars and 23 garages fully equipped with German military equipment. Just imagine how difficult it must have been to pull off such a thing! But it was the difficulties that always inspired Mehdi Huseyn-zade to new achievements.
In October 1944, a group of partisans under the command of "Mikhailo" broke into the territory of a fascist prison in the Italian city of Oudinot, where Wehrmacht soldiers were holding prisoners of war. There was no way to get into the prison by force, so "Mikhailo" decided to use a trick, known since the Trojan times.
Mekhti Huseyn-zade, along with two comrades, dressed in Nazi uniforms, under the guise of prisoners of war, led a detachment of Yugoslav partisans into the prison yard. As soon as the guys found themselves inside, they immediately disarmed the unsuspecting fascists, after which they released about 700 prisoners of war, among whom 147 were citizens of the Soviet Union.
During his life, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh saw many obstacles on his way, but thanks to his fortitude and extraordinary willpower, he was able to overcome various difficulties. The life of Mekhti Huseyn-zade was the life of a hero, but his death was no less heroic.
For the capture of the partisan "Mikhailo" the German occupation authorities have long offered a solid reward, in the amount of 400 thousand Reichsmarks, which in terms of modern money is equal to about 500 thousand dollars. But the people never wanted to betray their idol. This happened on November 16, 1944.
After an unsuccessful operation to seize German warehouses, Mekhti Huseyn-zade was surrounded by Wehrmacht soldiers in the Slovenian village of Vitovle. But no matter how the Germans tried to find his shelter, they did not succeed. Local residents flatly refused to hand over the partisan. When the German officer threatened them with execution for this, "Mikhail" himself came out of his hiding place and opened fire on the Nazis.
Mehdi gave his life dearly. After a short battle, he killed 25 armed opponents. Mehdi himself received 8 bullet wounds, but nevertheless continued to fight. When Mekhti Huseyn-zadeh discovered that he had practically no cartridges left, he fired a bullet in his heart, not wanting to surrender to the fascist invaders. At the time of death young man just 25 years old.
The story of Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh demonstrates to us how great potential each of us has. This story proves once again that a person has nothing to fear but his own fear. And if we believe in our own strength, if we strive with an unyielding will to defend our right to happiness, we will be able to defeat any enemy that comes our way.
Mehdi Huseyn-zade was just such a person. He believed in firmness of character, willpower and the fact that one person, through purposeful action, is able to change a lot. Brave scout, brave lieutenant, glorious hero national history- this is how we will remember the great citizen of the Soviet Union - Mehdi Huseyn-zade. This is how he will forever remain in the hearts of his descendants.
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In 1957, the legendary intelligence officer, anti-fascist Mehdi Huseynzadeh was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded posthumously with the Yugoslav Orders and the Italian Medal for Military Valor, which equates to the status of the National Hero of Italy. On the instructions of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, a monument to the hero was unveiled in the center of Baku in 1973. And on October 25, 2007, the bust of Mikhailo was installed in Slovenia, in the village of Shempas.
While in Slovenia at the opening ceremony of the monument to Mikhailo, his nephew, doctor Mekhti Azizbekov, met with the hero's fighting friends. Slovenian veterans, paying tribute to the memory of their brother-soldier, noted that Mikhailo was a very brave man. And a resident of the Shempas village Angela Pershich said: “Everyone loved him. He said, "I am here to make you happy."
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Mekhti Ganifa oglu Huseyn-zade: Lieutenant, Yugoslav partisan and intelligence officer, famous for his daring operations against the German-Italian invaders during the Second World War on the territory of Yugoslavia and Italy.
Born on December 22, 1918 in the village of Novkhany, Baku province, in the family of the future head of the Baku city police Ganif Huseynzade, who after the establishment of Soviet power in the fight against banditry in Azerbaijan. Mekhti graduated from the Baku Art School, then studied at the Leningrad Institute of Foreign Languages, and in 1940, returning to Baku, continued his education at the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute named after V.I.Lenin. In the Red Army since August 1941. After graduating from the Tbilisi Military Infantry School, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant and in August 1942 he was sent to the formed 223rd Azerbaijani Infantry Division. Mehdi commanded a mortar platoon in the Battle of Stalingrad. In August 1942, near the town of Kalach, he was taken prisoner seriously wounded.
Azerbaijani legion of the Wehrmacht
After recovery, in the city of Mirgorod, Poltava region, he was enlisted in the Azerbaijan Legion of the Wehrmacht and sent to Germany. At the school of translators near Berlin I studied German for 3 months. After successfully completing the course in April 1943, he was sent to the city of Shtrans to form the 162nd Turkestan Division of the Wehrmacht. He served in the 1-C department (propaganda and counterintelligence) of the headquarters of the 314th regiment of this division. In September 1943, the 162nd Turkestan Division was sent to Italy to suppress the partisan movement. While in Italy in Trieste, he established contact with the Yugoslav partisans operating in the Slovenian Primorye of the Adriatic and together with two other servicemen of the division - Azerbaijanis Javad Hakimli and Assad Kurbanov, escaped from the unit and joined the 9th Garibaldi Italian-Yugoslav partisan corps. Having received the nickname "Mikhailo", he led a sabotage group and became one of the largest partisan saboteurs of the Second World War. Mehti spoke English, Spanish, German, Russian, Turkish and French. Mikhailo also drew beautifully, played the tar and wrote poetry, and also knew sapper business very well and drove a car very well.
The legendary Mikhailo, a fantastic award was appointed for him
The military deeds of an Azerbaijani from the distant Caucasus, who managed to smash the fascists in the very heart of Europe, amaze the imagination with their audacity today. In mid-January 1944, Mikhailo, together with his soldiers, captured topographic maps of the enemy. The next month, Mehdi, in the uniform of a German officer, made his way into the German barracks and, planting a mine on the fire extinguishers, blew up the central room. On April 2, Huseyn-zade organized the explosion of a cinema building in Villa Opcine near Trieste, as a result of which 80 German soldiers and officers were killed and 110 were wounded, 40 of whom later died in the hospital. In the same month in Trieste, during a sabotage carried out by Mihailo, on the Via Gega street, "Soldatenheim" - a soldier's house was blown up. The losses of the Nazis amounted to 450 people killed and wounded. For the first time, a price was set for the head of a saboteur - 100,000 Reichsmarks.
An article was placed in the Italian fascist newspaper Il-Piccolo " Terrorist attempt on the "German soldier's house", which officially states:" Yesterday, Saturday, communist elements carried out a terrorist attack on the "German soldiers' barracks" in Trieste, which cost the lives of some German soldiers and some Italian citizens".
At the end of April 1944, Mekhti and his comrades Hans Fritz and Ali Tagiyev blew up the bridge at the Postaino railway station. As a result of this sabotage, a German train of 24 wagons crashed. A few days later, by decision of the partisan headquarters, Mikhailo executed Gestapo officer N. Cartner.
In June 1944, the officers' casino exploded. The explosion killed 150 and wounded 350 Nazis. Explosion of the military hotel "Deyche Ubernachtungheim" - 250 killed and wounded soldiers and officers.
In the first half of 1944 alone, the losses of the Germans in personnel from the activities of the sabotage group "Mikhailo" amounted to more than 1000 people. The remuneration for the head of the partisan appointed by the occupation authorities increased to 400,000 Reichsmarks.
Mekhdi performed many sabotage in German uniform. In September of the same year, Mehdi Huseyn-zadeh, in the uniform of a German technical service officer, entered the enemy's airfield and, using delayed-action mines, blew up 2 planes, 23 military garages and 25 cars.
The following month, partisans under the command of Mikhailo organized a daring raid on a fascist local prison in the city of Oudino (Northern Italy). Mehdi, in the uniform of a Wehrmacht officer, together with two partisans, who were also dressed in the uniform of German soldiers, accompanied by "prisoners", approached the gates of a German prison and demanded that the sentry open the gates. As soon as they were on the territory of the prison, Huseyn-zadeh with his partisans disarmed the guards and opened the doors of all cells, releasing 700 prisoners of war, including 147 Soviet soldiers. The next day, the fascist radio broadcast that the prison was allegedly attacked by a three thousandth partisan division. In one of his poems, Mekhti wrote: " I'm afraid I'll die young!". In a letter to his sister, Hurriyet Mehti writes:" I do not know whether I will survive or not, but I give you my word that you will not have to lower your head because of me, and someday you will hear about me. If I die, I will die like a hero - the death of the brave "
For the head of Mehdi Huseyn-zade, the Germans established a fantastic award of 400 thousand Reichsmarks, but Mehdi continued to remain elusive. On behalf of the command of the 9th corps of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, Huseyn-zadeh created and headed a reconnaissance group of saboteurs at the headquarters of the 31st division named after. Gradnik.
Heroic death
On November 16, 1944, returning from an unsuccessful operation to seize property and equipment in German warehouses, Mikhailo was surrounded by the Germans in the Slovenian village of Vitovle. The Germans, having information that "Mikhailo" was located in the village, gathered the villagers and demanded that the partisan be handed over. The peasants were not going to extradite Mehdi, then the Germans set fire to several houses and began to shoot the hostages. Mekhti himself opened fire on the Germans from a machine gun, thereby revealing himself and saving the lives of the inhabitants of the village. In an unequal battle, he died with a weapon in his hands. Mehdi fired back to the end, killing 25 enemies. The last bullet Mikhailo put into his heart. A week later, after the fighting in the area subsided, the command of the partisan corps sent a platoon, whose fighters dug up Mehti and took it to the town of Chepovan (west of the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia), where the corps headquarters was located. The Azeri fighters washed the corpse according to Muslim customs and buried it facing Mecca. 9 bullet wounds were found on the hero's body. Lieutenant Mehdi Ganifa oglu Huseyn-zade was buried with military honors in the village of Chepovan, the day of the hero's funeral was declared a day of mourning by the corps command. And he lived only 26 years. But how did he live! If even after 65 years we admire his deeds, his life and destiny, you must admit that it is worth a lot!
Instead of oblivion - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
All those who returned home from German captivity, indiscriminately, were destined for a terrible fate - first filtration, and then simply Stalin's camps, which were not much different from the fascist ones. And here - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
In the book "Azerbaijanis in the European Resistance Movement" Rugia Aliyeva cites a certificate prepared in October 1951 under the heading "Top Secret" by the Minister of State Security of Azerbaijan, Major General S.F. Yemelyanov: Participants of the 162nd Turkestan German Division, the MGB of the Azerbaijan SSR came to the attention of the heroic story of the activity and death of a certain Huseynov Mehdi, a Baku resident. , and also documented his exploits with eyewitness testimony.
On the basis of the collected materials, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan petitioned the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1955 to award Huseynzade Mehdi Ganif oglu the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). However, all the materials "were found to be insufficient and in February 1956 were returned with a proposal for additional documentation of his exploits by interviewing new eyewitnesses." At the same time, inspections were carried out by the Yugoslav security organs. In April 1957, the legendary partisan, the brave son of the Azerbaijani people who fought against the Nazis in the very center of Europe, Mehdi Huseynzade was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
The prototype of Mehdi Huseyn-zade is found in the story of Imran Kasumov and Hasan Seyidbeyli On the Distant Shores. " almost 60 million viewers went to time. And in 2008 the documentary film "Mikhailo" was filmed at the "Salname" studio. military exploits of "Mikhailo", told about the everyday life of the first partisan shock brigade and the company "Ruska Chet." school in the village of Novkhani (Baku), streets in Baku and Terter. A bust of the hero was erected in the village of Shempas (Slovenia). On December 29, 2008, a scientific conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth was held in the National Museum of History of ANAS Denia Mekhti Huseyn-zade.
Mekhti Huseyn-zade had two sisters - Bikya-khanum and Khuriyet. Akshin's nephew Alizadeh became a famous Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
The last lines from the story "ON THE FAR SHORE"
"... Near Chepovani, a stone with an inscription carved on it still stands:
"Sleep, our beloved Mekhti, glorious son of the Azerbaijani people! Your feat in the name of freedom will forever remain in the hearts of your friends."
Yes, people will not forget Mehdi: he died so that they could live, so that the earth flourished! ..
Until the very last hour, the old bibi was waiting for Mekhti - she died, continuing to believe that he was alive. Mekhti's sisters, schoolmates, his friends always told her about him as if he were alive, as if he could be expected home from day to day, from hour to hour
They, in fact, did not lie to the old Bibi: for them Mekhti is alive, - alive in his eternally living deed.
Mehdi and enemies will remember for a long time! Captain Milton will not forget him either, he is now probably a higher rank, and on his orders, villages are being destroyed on different continents to make room for military airfields. Schultz will not forget him either. The absence of a leg does not prevent him from developing a feverish activity to revive the "Wehrmacht", and he, obviously, will calm down only when he loses his head.
