The history of the 35th battery.

The construction of the 35th coastal batteries began in 1913 on a draft of a military engineer General NA Buynitskogo . During the First World War halted construction , and completed in 1924-1927 years, armed with two twin tower installations linkorovskogo caliber.

 

35th Coastal Battery tower is one of the most powerful coastal defense fortifications, the main base of the Black Sea Fleet. Originally had a number 25. In 1915, construction stopped, and made ​​guns in Petrograd , tower installation and equipment are available on the Baltic shore batteries of the fortress Revel ( now Tallinn ).Continued construction of the later and was completed in 1924-1927 on a draft military engineers VV Vystavkin and BK Sokolov.The battery was armed with two 305- mm twin tower installations MB-2 -12, designed and manufactured by the Leningrad Metal Works ( gun- machines and some of the mechanisms we used ready-made - taken from the battleship Poltava towers BF ). Weight of projectile - 471 kg , range - up to 42 km .

 

By its battery unit consisted of two artillery units ( of reinforced concrete sets , which were installed turrets ). Inside the block of the 1st tower on two floors housed the cellars of ammunition, and residential premises , and within a block of the 2nd tower addition and power station control room with the fire control devices .In 450 m north and 200 m south of blocks located command posts with armored conning tower and open courtyards for rangefinders . Gun units and command centers connected by underground corridors ( poternami ). There were two emergency exit to the sea.After completion of the battery was number 8 and is included in the 6th Artillery Regiment of serfdom . Its first commander was G. Steinberg. In 1929 the Soviet delegation visited the battery government headed by Stalin and a group of senior officers of the German armed forces ( Reichswehr ) under the leadership gene . Blomberg .

 

 

The tragedy and heroism of the 35 Battery.

In 1930, the battery got a new number - 35 and was included in the 3rd Battalion 6th Artillery Brigade land . By the beginning of World War II , the 35th tower Coastal Battery , commanded by Captain A. J.Leshchenko was part of the 1st Separate artdiviziona main coastal defense base BSF. The first firing batteries in the defense of Sevastopol in 1941 - was held 1942goda 7. 11. 1941 parts of the German 132nd Infantry Division in the district of the village Mekenziya .Heavy wear guns and intensity combat operations ( over two months was made more than 300 rounds per gun at a rate of 200 ) had already made ​​December 1, 1941 to begin work on replacing the gun barrels of the 1st tower, which were conducted by experts from the Artillery Repair Plant № 1127 ( brigadier SIProkuda ), so in the month of December were just shooting the 2nd tower. December 17, 1941 during an intense fire at the enemy launched an assault of Sevastopol in the 2nd tower due to premature firing (inflammation of the powder charge when not fully closed the gate ) there was a loud explosion , all who brought her down.

 

The failure of the artillery battery and a critical situation on the land front was forced to pass most of the personnel of the Marine units in the GRA (most of them died in combat in the Mekenzivyh mountains, and survived in 1942 were returned to the battery .)The reconstruction of the 2nd tower (in which workers participated Sevastopol Sea Plant. Ordzhonikidze ), and replacement gun barrels lasted about two and a half months.During the June battles in 1942 led 35 battery daily fire on the attacking enemy troops , and after death , surrounded by the 30th Battery was the last reserve of heavy artillery, the GRA. In turn , the enemy subjected its potent air attack. During one of their loved ones June 23 bombing bombs had been put out of action the 1st tower .In recent days, the defense for 35 coastal battery was deployed command posts and GRA Maritime Army. In 09 hours 50 minutes . June 30 radio center of the battery commander of the GRA . adm. FSThe October to address the People's Commissar of the Navy was sent with a message about shifrogramma it could no longer hold Sevastopol and the request to evacuate the officers.

 

The same evening in the mess the battery , the last joint meeting of the military councils of the GRA and the Maritime Army.By the end of his admiral October ordered the battery commander to provide cover for the evacuation and the expenditure of ammunition to undermine the weapons and equipment. During the day, July 1st 2nd tower held several firings by the motorized parts of the German 72th Infantry Division in the district of Cape Fiolent ( core fire was practical , becauselive ammunition had been expended ). Last firing battery was carried out by shrapnel to the p- well Kamyshovaya beam. On the night of July 2, the personnel of the battery had been undermined by both the tower and power station , but poterny and most of the buildings survived and artillery units in them , up to 12 . 07. 1942 continued to resist the last defenders of Sevastopol.In the postwar period, 35 BB is not restored, but some of its structures (right side block of the 2nd tower and command post right ), we used the established in 1945 at Cape Chersonese 130- mm coastal battery № 723 ( disarmed in 1960). In 1988, the right command post 35 BBand his 450- meter was equipped poterne Seismological Laboratory Simferopol State University them . Frunze.

 

 

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