During the Great Patriotic War, the Germans called Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death". The Tuvans fought to the death even with the obvious superiority of the enemy, they did not take prisoners.
The Tuvan People's Republic became part of the Soviet Union already during the war, on August 17, 1944. In the summer of 1941, Tuva was de jure an independent state. In August 1921, the White Guard detachments of Kolchak and Ungern were expelled from there. The capital of the republic was the former Belotsarsk, renamed Kyzyl (Red City). Soviet troops were withdrawn from Tuva by 1923, but the USSR continued to provide Tuva with all possible assistance, without claiming its independence. It is customary to say that Great Britain was the first to support the USSR in the war, but this is not the case. Tuva declared war on Germany and its allies on June 22, 1941, 11 hours before Churchill's historic radio announcement. Mobilization immediately began in Tuva, the republic declared its readiness to send its army to the front. 38 thousand Tuvan arats in a letter to Joseph Stalin said: “We are together. This is our war too. " Regarding Tuva's declaration of war on Germany, there is a historical legend that when Hitler found out about it, he was amused, he did not even bother to find this republic on the map. But in vain.
Immediately after the start of the war, Tuva transferred to Moscow the gold reserve (about 30 million rubles) and the entire production of Tuvan gold (10-11 million rubles annually). Tuvans really accepted the war as their own. This is evidenced by the amount of assistance that the poor republic provided to the front. From June 1941 to October 1944 Tuva supplied 50,000 war horses and 750,000 head of cattle for the needs of the Red Army. Each Tuvan family gave the front from 10 to 100 head of cattle. The Tuvans literally put the Red Army on skis, putting 52,000 pairs of skis on the front. The Prime Minister of Tuva, Saryk-Dongak Chimba, wrote in his diary: “they have exhausted all the birch forest near Kyzyl”. In addition, the Tuvans sent 12,000 sheepskin coats, 19,000 pairs of mittens, 16,000 pairs of felt boots, 70,000 tons of sheep wool, 400 tons of meat, ghee and flour, carts, sleighs, harnesses and other goods for a total of about 66.5 million rubles. To help the USSR, the arats collected 5 echelons of gifts worth more than 10 million Tuvan aksha (rate of 1 aksha - 3 rubles 50 kopecks), products for hospitals for 200,000 aksha. According to Soviet expert estimates, presented, for example, in the book "The USSR and Foreign States in 1941-1945", the total supplies of Mongolia and Tuva to the USSR in 1941-1942 were only 35% less than the total volume of Western allied supplies to those years in the USSR - that is, from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the South African Union, Australia and New Zealand combined.
The first Tuvan volunteers (about 200 people) joined the ranks of the Red Army in May 1943. After a short training, they were enrolled in the 25th separate tank regiment (from February 1944 it was part of the 52nd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front). This regiment fought on the territory of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. In September 1943, the second group of volunteer cavalrymen (206 people) was enrolled, after training in the Vladimir region, in the 8th Cavalry Division. The cavalry division took part in raids on the rear of the enemy in western Ukraine. After the battle near Durazhno in January 1944, the Germans began to call the Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death". During interrogation, the captured German officer G. Remke said that the soldiers entrusted to him "subconsciously perceived these barbarians (Tuvans) as the hordes of Attila" and lost all combat capability ... were dressed in national costumes, wore amulets. Only at the beginning of 1944 did the Soviet command ask the Tuvan soldiers to send their "objects of Buddhist and shamanic cult" to their homeland. Tuvans fought bravely. The command of the 8th Guards Cavalry Division wrote to the Tuvan government: “… with the obvious superiority of the enemy, the Tuvans fought to death. So in the battles near the village of Surmich, 10 machine gunners led by the squad leader Dongur-Kyzyl and the calculation of anti-tank rifles led by Dazhy-Seren died in this battle, but did not retreat a step, fighting to the last bullet. Over 100 enemy corpses were counted in front of a handful of brave men who died a heroic death. They died, but where the sons of your Motherland stood, the enemy did not pass ... ”. A squadron of Tuvan volunteers liberated 80 Western Ukrainian settlements.
Of the 80,000-thousandth population of the Tuvan Republic, about 8,000 Tuvan warriors took part in the Great Patriotic War. 67 soldiers and commanders were awarded orders and medals of the USSR. About 20 of them became holders of the Order of Glory, up to 5,500 Tuvan soldiers were awarded other orders and medals of the Soviet Union and the Tuvan Republic. Two Tuvans were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - Khomushku Churgui-ool and Tyulyush Kechil-ool.
Tuvans not only helped the front financially and fought bravely in tank and cavalry divisions, but also provided the Red Army with the construction of 10 Yak-7B aircraft for. On March 16, 1943, at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow, the Tuvan delegation solemnly handed over the aircraft to the 133rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Red Army Air Force. The fighters were transferred to the commander of the 3rd Aviation Fighter Squadron Novikov and assigned to the crews. Each was written in white paint "From the Tuvan people." Unfortunately, not a single Tuvan squadron aircraft survived until the end of the war. Of the 20 servicemen of the 133rd Aviation Fighter Regiment, who were the crews of the Yak-7B fighters, only three survived the war.
During the Great Patriotic War, the Germans called the Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death". The Tuvans fought to the death even with the obvious superiority of the enemy, they did not take prisoners.
"This is our war!"
The Tuvan People's Republic became part of the Soviet Union already during the war, on August 17, 1944. In the summer of 1941, Tuva was de jure an independent state. In August 1921, the White Guard detachments of Kolchak and Ungern were expelled from there. The capital of the republic was the former Belotsarsk, renamed Kyzyl (Red City).
Soviet troops were withdrawn from Tuva by 1923, but the USSR continued to provide Tuva with all possible assistance, without claiming its independence.
It is customary to say that Great Britain was the first to support the USSR in the war, but this is not the case. Tuva declared war on Germany and its allies on June 22, 1941, 11 hours before Churchill's historic radio announcement. Mobilization immediately began in Tuva, the republic declared its readiness to send its army to the front. 38 thousand Tuvan arats in a letter to Joseph Stalin said: “We are together. This is our war too. " Regarding Tuva's declaration of war on Germany, there is a historical legend that when Hitler found out about it, he was amused, he did not even bother to find this republic on the map. But in vain.
Everything for the front!
Immediately after the start of the war, Tuva transferred to Moscow the gold reserve (about 30 million rubles) and the entire production of Tuvan gold (10-11 million rubles annually).
Tuvans really accepted the war as their own. This is evidenced by the amount of assistance that the poor republic provided to the front.
From June 1941 to October 1944 Tuva supplied 50,000 war horses and 750,000 head of cattle for the needs of the Red Army. Each Tuvan family gave the front from 10 to 100 head of cattle. The Tuvans literally put the Red Army on skis, putting 52,000 pairs of skis on the front. The Prime Minister of Tuva, Saryk-Dongak Chimba, wrote in his diary: “they have exhausted all the birch forest near Kyzyl”.
In addition, the Tuvans sent 12,000 sheepskin coats, 19,000 pairs of mittens, 16,000 pairs of felt boots, 70,000 tons of sheep wool, 400 tons of meat, ghee and flour, carts, sleighs, harnesses and other goods for a total of about 66.5 million rubles. To help the USSR, the arats collected 5 echelons of gifts worth more than 10 million Tuvan aksha (rate of 1 aksha - 3 rubles 50 kopecks), products for hospitals for 200,000 aksha.
According to Soviet expert estimates, presented, for example, in the book "The USSR and Foreign States in 1941-1945", the total supplies of Mongolia and Tuva to the USSR in 1941-1942 were only 35% less than the total volume of Western allied supplies to those years in the USSR - that is, from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, the South African Union, and New Zealand combined.
"Black Death"
The first Tuvan volunteers (about 200 people) joined the ranks of the Red Army in May 1943. After a short training, they were enrolled in the 25th separate tank regiment (from February 1944 it was part of the 52nd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front). This regiment fought on the territory of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
In September 1943, the second group of volunteer cavalrymen (206 people) was enrolled, after training in the Vladimir region, in the 8th Cavalry Division.
The cavalry division took part in raids on the rear of the enemy in western Ukraine. After the battle near Durazhno in January 1944, the Germans began to call the Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death".
During interrogation, the captured German officer G. Remke said that the soldiers entrusted to him "subconsciously perceived these barbarians (Tuvans) as the hordes of Attila" and lost all combat capability ...
It should be said here that the first Tuvan volunteers were a typical national part, they were dressed in national costumes and wore amulets. Only at the beginning of 1944 did the Soviet command ask the Tuvan soldiers to send their "items of Buddhist and shamanic cult" to their homeland.
Tuvans fought bravely. The command of the 8th Guards Cavalry Division wrote to the Tuvan government: “... with the obvious superiority of the enemy, the Tuvans fought to death. So in the battles near the village of Surmich, 10 machine gunners led by the squad leader Dongur-Kyzyl and the calculation of anti-tank rifles led by Dazhy-Seren died in this battle, but did not retreat a step, fighting to the last bullet. Over 100 enemy corpses were counted in front of a handful of brave men who died a heroic death. They died, but where the sons of your Motherland stood, the enemy did not pass ... ”.
A squadron of Tuvan volunteers liberated 80 Western Ukrainian settlements.
Tuvan heroes
Of the 80,000-thousandth population of the Tuvan Republic, about 8,000 Tuvan warriors took part in the Great Patriotic War.
67 soldiers and commanders were awarded orders and medals of the USSR. About 20 of them became holders of the Order of Glory, up to 5,500 Tuvan soldiers were awarded other orders and medals of the Soviet Union and the Tuvan Republic.
Two Tuvans were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - Khomushku Churgui-ool and Tyulyush Kechil-ool.
Tuva squadron
Tuvans not only helped the front financially and fought bravely in tank and cavalry divisions, but also provided the Red Army with the construction of 10 Yak-7B aircraft for. On March 16, 1943, at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow, the Tuvan delegation solemnly handed over the aircraft to the 133rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Red Army Air Force.
The fighters were transferred to the commander of the 3rd Aviation Fighter Squadron Novikov and assigned to the crews. Each was written in white paint "From the Tuvan people."
Unfortunately, not a single Tuvan squadron aircraft survived until the end of the war. Of the 20 servicemen of the 133rd Aviation Fighter Regiment, who were the crews of the Yak-7B fighters, only three survived the war.
Alexey Rudevich
During the Great Patriotic War, the Germans called Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death".
The Tuvans fought to the death even with the obvious superiority of the enemy, they did not take prisoners.
"This is our war!"
The Tuvan People's Republic became part of the Soviet Union already during the war, August 17, 1944.
In the summer of 1941, Tuva was de jure an independent state. In August 1921, the White Guard detachments of Kolchak and Ungern were expelled from there. The capital of the republic was the former Belotsarsk, renamed Kyzyl (Red City). Soviet troops were withdrawn from Tuva by 1923, but the USSR continued to provide Tuva with all possible assistance, without claiming its independence. It is customary to say that Great Britain was the first to support the USSR in the war, but this is not the case. Tuva declared war on Germany and its allies on June 22, 1941, 11 hours before Churchill's historic radio announcement. Mobilization immediately began in Tuva, the republic declared its readiness to send its army to the front. 38 thousand Tuvan arats in a letter to Joseph Stalin, they said: “We are together. This is our war too "... Regarding Tuva's declaration of war on Germany, there is a historical legend that when Hitler found out about it, he was amused, he did not even bother to find this republic on the map. But in vain.
Everything for the front!
Immediately after the start of the war, Tuva transferred to Moscow the gold reserve (about 30 million rubles) and the entire production of Tuvan gold (10-11 million rubles annually). Tuvans really accepted the war as their own. This is evidenced by the amount of assistance that the poor republic provided to the front. From June 1941 to October 1944 Tuva supplied 50,000 war horses and 750,000 head of cattle for the needs of the Red Army. Each Tuvan family gave the front from 10 to 100 head of cattle. The Tuvans literally put the Red Army on skis, putting 52,000 pairs of skis on the front. The Prime Minister of Tuva, Saryk-Dongak Chimba, wrote in his diary: “they have exhausted all the birch forest near Kyzyl”. In addition, the Tuvans sent 12,000 sheepskin coats, 19,000 pairs of mittens, 16,000 pairs of felt boots, 70,000 tons of sheep wool, 400 tons of meat, ghee and flour, carts, sleighs, harnesses and other goods for a total of about 66.5 million rubles. To help the USSR, the arats collected 5 echelons of gifts worth more than 10 million Tuvan aksha (rate of 1 aksha - 3 rubles 50 kopecks), products for hospitals for 200,000 aksha. According to Soviet expert estimates, presented, for example, in the book "The USSR and Foreign States in 1941-1945", the total supplies of Mongolia and Tuva to the USSR in 1941-1942 were only 35% less than the total volume of Western allied supplies to those years in the USSR - that is, from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the South African Union, Australia and New Zealand combined.
"Black Death"
The first Tuvan volunteers (about 200 people) joined the ranks of the Red Army in May 1943. After a short training, they were enrolled in the 25th separate tank regiment (from February 1944 it was part of the 52nd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front). This regiment fought on the territory of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. In September 1943, the second group of volunteer cavalrymen (206 people) was enrolled, after training in the Vladimir region, in the 8th Cavalry Division. The cavalry division took part in raids on the rear of the enemy in western Ukraine. After the battle near Durazhno in January 1944, the Germans began to call the Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death". During interrogation, the captured German officer G. Remke said that the soldiers entrusted to him "subconsciously perceived these barbarians (Tuvans) as the hordes of Attila" and lost all combat capability ...
It should be said here that the first Tuvan volunteers were a typical national part, they were dressed in national costumes and wore amulets. Only at the beginning of 1944 did the Soviet command ask the Tuvan soldiers to send their "items of Buddhist and shamanic cult" to their homeland. Tuvans fought bravely. The command of the 8th Guards Cavalry Division wrote to the Tuvan government: “… with the obvious superiority of the enemy, the Tuvans fought to the death. So in the battles near the village of Surmich, 10 machine gunners led by the squad leader Dongur-Kyzyl and the calculation of anti-tank rifles led by Dazhy-Seren died in this battle, but did not retreat a step, fighting to the last bullet. Over 100 enemy corpses were counted in front of a handful of brave men who died a heroic death. They died, but where the sons of your Motherland stood, the enemy did not pass ... ”. A squadron of Tuvan volunteers liberated 80 Western Ukrainian settlements.
Tuvan heroes
Of the 80,000-thousandth population of the Tuvan Republic, about 8,000 Tuvan warriors took part in the Great Patriotic War. 67 soldiers and commanders were awarded orders and medals of the USSR. About 20 of them became holders of the Order of Glory, up to 5,500 Tuvan soldiers were awarded other orders and medals of the Soviet Union and the Tuvan Republic. Two Tuvans were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - Khomushku Churgui-ool and Tyulyush Kechil-ool.
Tuva squadron
Tuvans not only helped the front financially and fought bravely in tank and cavalry divisions, but also provided the Red Army with the construction of 10 Yak-7B aircraft for. On March 16, 1943, at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow, the Tuvan delegation solemnly handed over the aircraft to the 133rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Red Army Air Force. The fighters were transferred to the commander of the 3rd Aviation Fighter Squadron Novikov and assigned to the crews. Each was written in white paint "From the Tuvan people." Unfortunately, not a single Tuvan squadron aircraft survived until the end of the war. Of the 20 servicemen of the 133rd Aviation Fighter Regiment, who were the crews of the Yak-7B fighters, only three survived the war.
TUVINIANS: "BLACK DEATH" VERMACHT
During the Great Patriotic War, the Germans called the Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death". The Tuvans fought to the death even with the obvious superiority of the enemy, they did not take prisoners.
"This is our war!"
The Tuvan People's Republic became part of the Soviet Union already during the war, on August 17, 1944. In the summer of 1941, Tuva was de jure an independent state. In August 1921, the White Guard detachments of Kolchak and Ungern were expelled from there. The capital of the republic was the former Belotsarsk, renamed Kyzyl (Red City).
Soviet troops were withdrawn from Tuva by 1923, but the USSR continued to provide Tuva with all possible assistance, without claiming its independence.
It is customary to say that Great Britain was the first to support the USSR in the war, but this is not the case. Tuva declared war on Germany and its allies on June 22, 1941, 11 hours before Churchill's historic radio announcement. Mobilization immediately began in Tuva, the republic declared its readiness to send its army to the front. 38 thousand Tuvan arats in a letter to Joseph Stalin said: “We are together. This is our war too. " Regarding Tuva's declaration of war on Germany, there is a historical legend that when Hitler found out about it, he was amused, he did not even bother to find this republic on the map. But in vain.
Everything for the front!
Immediately after the start of the war, Tuva transferred to Moscow the gold reserve (about 30 million rubles) and the entire production of Tuvan gold (10-11 million rubles annually).
Tuvans really accepted the war as their own. This is evidenced by the amount of assistance that the poor republic provided to the front.
From June 1941 to October 1944 Tuva supplied 50,000 war horses and 750,000 head of cattle for the needs of the Red Army. Each Tuvan family gave the front from 10 to 100 head of cattle. The Tuvans literally put the Red Army on skis, putting 52,000 pairs of skis on the front. The Prime Minister of Tuva, Saryk-Dongak Chimba, wrote in his diary: “they have exhausted all the birch forest near Kyzyl”.
In addition, the Tuvans sent 12,000 sheepskin coats, 19,000 pairs of mittens, 16,000 pairs of felt boots, 70,000 tons of sheep wool, 400 tons of meat, ghee and flour, carts, sleighs, harnesses and other goods for a total of about 66.5 million rubles. To help the USSR, the arats collected 5 echelons of gifts worth more than 10 million Tuvan aksha (rate of 1 aksha - 3 rubles 50 kopecks), food products for hospitals for 200,000 aksha.
According to Soviet expert estimates, presented, for example, in the book "The USSR and Foreign States in 1941-1945", the total supplies of Mongolia and Tuva to the USSR in 1941-1942 were only 35% less than the total volume of Western allied supplies to those years in the USSR - that is, from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the South African Union, Australia and New Zealand combined.
"Black Death"
The first Tuvan volunteers (about 200 people) joined the ranks of the Red Army in May 1943. After a short training, they were enrolled in the 25th separate tank regiment (from February 1944 it was part of the 52nd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front). This regiment fought on the territory of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
In September 1943, the second group of volunteer cavalrymen (206 people) was enrolled, after training in the Vladimir region, in the 8th Cavalry Division.
The cavalry division took part in raids on the rear of the enemy in western Ukraine. After the battle near Durazhno in January 1944, the Germans began to call the Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death".
During interrogation, the captured German officer G. Remke said that the soldiers entrusted to him "subconsciously perceived these barbarians (Tuvans) as the hordes of Attila" and lost all combat capability ...
It should be said here that the first Tuvan volunteers were a typical national part, they were dressed in national costumes and wore amulets. Only at the beginning of 1944 did the Soviet command ask the Tuvan soldiers to send their "items of Buddhist and shamanic cult" to their homeland.
Tuvans fought bravely. The command of the 8th Guards Cavalry Division wrote to the Tuvan government: “… with the obvious superiority of the enemy, the Tuvans fought to death. So in the battles near the village of Surmich, 10 machine gunners led by the squad leader Dongur-Kyzyl and the calculation of anti-tank rifles led by Dazhy-Seren died in this battle, but did not retreat a step, fighting to the last bullet. Over 100 enemy corpses were counted in front of a handful of brave men who died a heroic death. They died, but where the sons of your Motherland stood, the enemy did not pass ... ”.
A squadron of Tuvan volunteers liberated 80 Western Ukrainian settlements.
Tuvan heroes
Of the 80,000-thousandth population of the Tuvan Republic, about 8,000 Tuvan warriors took part in the Great Patriotic War.
67 soldiers and commanders were awarded orders and medals of the USSR. About 20 of them became holders of the Order of Glory, up to 5,500 Tuvan soldiers were awarded other orders and medals of the Soviet Union and the Tuvan Republic.
Two Tuvans were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - Khomushku Churgui-ool and Tyulyush Kechil-ool.
Tuva squadron
Tuvans not only helped the front financially and fought bravely in tank and cavalry divisions, but also provided the Red Army with the construction of 10 Yak-7B aircraft for. On March 16, 1943, at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow, the Tuvan delegation solemnly handed over the aircraft to the 133rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Red Army Air Force.
The fighters were transferred to the commander of the 3rd Aviation Fighter Squadron Novikov and assigned to the crews. Each was written in white paint "From the Tuvan people."
Unfortunately, not a single Tuvan squadron aircraft survived until the end of the war. Of the 20 servicemen of the 133rd Aviation Fighter Regiment, who were the crews of the Yak-7B fighters, only three survived the war.
Alexey Rudevich 
Tuvinians: the "black death" of the Wehrmacht
A couple of excerpts from the article, so that it would be clear what feat the Tuvans performed during the Great Patriotic War:
In the summer of 1941, Tuva was de jure an independent state.
Of the 80,000-thousandth population of the Tuvan Republic, about 8,000 Tuvan warriors took part in the Great Patriotic War
According to Soviet expert estimates, presented, for example, in the book "The USSR and Foreign States in 1941-1945", the total supplies of Mongolia and Tuva to the USSR in 1941-1942 were only 35% less than the total volume of Western allied supplies to those years in the USSR - that is, from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the South African Union, Australia and New Zealand combined.
Germans during Great Patriotic War called Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death". The Tuvans fought to the death even with the obvious superiority of the enemy, they did not take prisoners.
"This is our war!"
Tuva people's republic became part of Soviet Union already during the war, on August 17, 1944. In the summer of 1941, it was de jure an independent state. In August 1921, the White Guard detachments were expelled from there. Kolchak and Ungern... The former capital of the republic Belotsarsk renamed to Kyzyl (Red city)... Soviet troops were withdrawn from Tuva by 1923, but the USSR continued to provide Tove all possible help, without pretending to its independence. It is customary to say that the first support the USSR in the war had United Kingdom, However, it is not. declared war Germany and her allies on June 22, 1941, 11 hours before Churchill's historic radio announcement. Mobilization immediately began in Tuva, the republic declared its readiness to send its army to the front. 38 thousand Tuvan arats in a letter to Joseph Stalin said: “We are together. This is our war too. " About the announcement Tuva wars Germany There is a historical legend that when Hitler found out about this, he was amused, he did not even bother to find this republic on the map. But in vain.
Everything for the front!
Immediately after the start of the war, Moscow gold reserves (about 30 million rubles) and the entire production of Tuvan gold (10-11 million rubles annually). Tuvans really accepted the war as their own. This is evidenced by the amount of assistance that the poor republic provided to the front. From June 1941 to October 1944 Tuva supplied Red Army 50,000 war horses, 750,000 head of cattle. Each Tuvan family gave the front from 10 to 100 head of cattle. The Tuvans literally put the Red Army on skis, putting 52,000 pairs of skis on the front. Prime Minister Tuva Saryk-Dongak Chimba wrote in his diary: "they have exhausted all the birch forest near Kyzyl." In addition, the Tuvans sent 12,000 sheepskin coats, 19,000 pairs of mittens, 16,000 pairs of felt boots, 70,000 tons of sheep wool, 400 tons of meat, ghee and flour, carts, sleighs, harnesses and other goods for a total of about 66.5 million rubles. To help the USSR The arats collected 5 echelons of gifts worth more than 10 million Tuvan aksha (course 1 aksha - 3 rubles 50 kopecks), and food products for hospitals for 200,000 aksha. According to Soviet expert estimates, presented, for example, in the book "The USSR and Foreign States in 1941-1945", the total supplies Mongolia and Tuva, USSR in 1941-1942 in terms of volume were only 35% less than the total volume of Western allied supplies in those years in the USSR- that is from USA, Of Canada, Great Britain, Australia, South African Union, Australia and New Zealand put together.
"Black Death"
The first Tuvan volunteers (about 200 people) joined the ranks Red Army in May 1943. After a short training, they were enrolled in the 25th separate tank regiment (from February 1944 it was part of the 52nd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian front). This regiment fought on the territory of Ukraine, Moldavia, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia... In September 1943, the second group of volunteer cavalrymen (206 people) was enrolled, after training in the Vladimir region, in the 8th Cavalry Division. The cavalry division took part in raids on the rear of the enemy in the west Of Ukraine... After the fight under Foolishly in January 1944, the Germans began to call the Tuvans "Der Schwarze Tod" - "Black Death". During interrogation, the captured German officer G. Remke said that the soldiers entrusted to him "subconsciously perceived these barbarians (Tuvans) as the hordes of Attila" and lost all combat capability ... It should be said here that the first Tuvan volunteers were a typical national part , they were dressed in national costumes, wore amulets. Only at the beginning of 1944 did the Soviet command ask the Tuvan soldiers to send their "items of Buddhist and shamanic cult" to their homeland. Tuvans fought bravely. The command of the 8th Guards Cavalry Division wrote to the Tuvan government: “... with the obvious superiority of the enemy, the Tuvans fought to the death. So in the battles near the village of Surmich, 10 machine gunners led by the squad leader Dongur-Kyzyl and the calculation of anti-tank rifles led by Dazhy-Seren died in this battle, but did not retreat a step, fighting to the last bullet. Over 100 enemy corpses were counted in front of a handful of brave men who died a heroic death. They died, but where the sons of your Motherland stood, the enemy did not pass ... ”. A squadron of Tuvan volunteers liberated 80 Western Ukrainian settlements.
Tuvan heroes
Of the 80,000-thousandth population Tuvinian republic v Great Patriotic War about 8000 Tuvan warriors took part. 67 soldiers and commanders were awarded orders and medals the USSR... About 20 of them became cavaliers Order of Glory, up to 5500 Tuvan soldiers were awarded other orders and medals Soviet Union and Tuvinian republic... Two Tuvans were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union - Khomushku Churgui-ool and Tyulyush Kechil-ool.
Tuva squadron
Tuvans not only helped the front financially and fought bravely in tank and cavalry divisions, but also provided Red Army construction of 10 aircraft Yak-7B for. On March 16, 1943, at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow, the delegation of Tuva solemnly handed over the aircraft to the 133rd Fighter Aviation Regiment Red Army Air Force... The fighters were transferred to the commander of the 3rd Aviation Fighter Squadron Novikov and assigned to the crews. Each one was written in white paint "From the Tuvan people"... Unfortunately, not a single Tuvan squadron aircraft survived until the end of the war. Of the 20 servicemen of the 133rd Aviation Fighter Regiment who were fighter crews Yak-7B, only three survived the war.
