The city of Krasnodon (a former working village) is located in the east of Ukraine, on the border with Russia. He became famous thanks to the facts related to the youth partisan detachment, which began its activities during the German occupation. After the liberation of Krasnodon in 1943 and the publication of the novel by writer Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev in 1945, this city gained very wide popularity. This book is called The Young Guard. A brief summary of it will help readers to learn the fate of the Komsomol members who defended their homeland during the Great Patriotic War.
How it all began, or getting to know the characters
In July 1942, a group of girls, including Ulyana Gromova, Valya Filatova and Sasha Bondareva (all of them are recent graduates of the Pervomaiskoye mining village secondary school), frolic on the riverbank. But they are disturbed by the sounds of bombers flying overhead, and the distant rumble of artillery. Each of the girls claims that if the evacuation begins, she will remain and will fight with the German invaders. Suddenly, explosions shook the earth.
Girls come out of the forest and see a road clogged with military and civilian vehicles. Komsomol rush to the village. Ulyana meets Lyuba Shevtsova, who reports that the Soviet troops are retreating. It was decided to blow up the plant, to hastily evacuate documents and equipment. Some party workers, led by local leader of the partisans Ivan Protsenko, remain in the village, other residents are also evacuated.
Evacuation and acquaintance with Sergey Tyulenin
So begins the work "Young Guard". A summary of the first chapters introduces the reader to the main participants in all subsequent events. Characters such as Komsomol member Anatoly Popov, Viktor Petrov and Oleg Koshevoi appear here. There is a description of the evacuation, during which German bombers attack a refugee convoy.
At this time, in Krasnodon, hospital staff are trying to place the wounded soldiers who were in the hospital at the homes of local residents. Sergey Tyulenin, a seventeen-year-old guy who witnessed the Nazi attack on Voroshilovgrad, is returning home after building defense and digging trenches.
When he realized that the Red Army was doomed, he collected rifles, hand grenades, revolvers and ammunition, after which he buried them in his backyard. A further summary of Fadeev’s novel “Young Guard” will tell about the invasion of German troops in the village and the actions of the population remaining in Krasnodon.
The invasion of the German invaders and the reaction of local residents
The Nazis arrive in Krasnodon. Sergey is following their approach. The German general, Baron von Wenzel, occupies the house of Oleg Koshevoy, in which his mother and grandmother remained. Others chop jasmine and sunflower bushes throughout the village, leaving no cover for a possible adversary. They settle in local homes, drink, eat and bawl songs. About forty wounded Soviet fighters who remained in the hospital were brutally shot.
Sergei Tyulenev and Valya Borsch hid in the attic of their school to spy on the enemy. They watched the German headquarters, which was located directly opposite the school building. On the same night, Sergei digs out several Molotov cocktails in his yard and sets fire to the headquarters.
So the book "Young Guard", a brief summary of which describes individual events of the Second World War, from the first pages acquaints the reader with heroic characters. Komsomol members, who, despite their young age, were not afraid to confront the Nazi invaders.
The return of Oleg Koshevoy and further confrontation
What events will be presented in the following summary? "Young Guard" is not only the name of the work. This is the Komsomol underground organization, which was formed in Krasnodon. And it all starts with the return to the village of Oleg Koshevoy. He meets Sergei Tyulenin, and together the guys begin to seek contact with the underground to convince the partisans that they can be trusted, despite their young age.
The guys decide to collect all the weapons that can still remain in the steppe after the battle, and securely hide. Moreover, they are going to create their own youth organization. Philip Lyutikov, who was the secretary of the district committee, soon attracted many Komsomol members to underground work, among them Oleg Koshevoi and Sergey Tyulenev. Thus formed the "Young Guard". The novel, a brief summary of which tells the reader about the members of this organization, was named after her.
Not all turned out to be courageous Komsomol members
The novel further describes the battles of a partisan detachment led by Protsenko. In the beginning, everything goes well, but after a while the fighters are surrounded. A special group is allocated, which should ensure the retreat of the detachment. In it is Stakhovich. What will the summary present to the reader now?
"Young Guard" is a novel in which, unfortunately, there are not only images of brave Komsomol members defending their homeland and close to the German invaders. There were those who did not find in themselves the courage to fight back. Among them was Komsomolets Stakhovich, who was scared and fled to Krasnodon. And there he deceived, saying that he was sent by the headquarters to organize the partisan movement. The next traitor is Chairman Fomin. In the area there are arrests of party members. The Nazis executed many of them by burying them in the ground alive.
Active organization
Lyubov Shevtsova, also a member of the Young Guard organization (a brief summary of the novel already mentioned her name), shortly before these brutal arrests, she was sent by an underground organization to take special courses. A very bright and pretty girl now easily establishes the necessary contacts with the Nazis for the underground, and also obtains important information. So the most important events of the novel "Young Guard" begin to unfold.
The book, a brief summary of which only superficially depicts the ups and downs of youth’s life during the Second World War, tells in great detail about each hero of the Young Guard and his tragic fate. Thanks to the vigorous actions of the Komsomol members, leaflets were pasted up, and Ignat Fomin, who handed over his fellow villagers, was hanged. Then prisoners of war of the Soviet Army were released.
The youth organization consisted of several groups. Each was responsible for the tasks assigned to her. Someone attacked cars moving with groups of Nazis, others attacked tank cars. And there was another detachment that acted absolutely everywhere. It was headed by Sergey Tyulenev. Want to know how things were next? We offer you a summary.
"Young Guard" (Fadeev A. A.), or Careless actions of Komsomol members
So the action of the novel comes to a tragic end. The work "Young Guard" A. Fadeeva tells in her final chapters about the careless act of the organization, which caused numerous arrests and deaths. Before the New Year, the Komsomol stumbled upon a car with gifts for German soldiers. The guys decided to sell them on the market, the underground needed money. So the police went on their trail.
Arrests began. Lyutikov immediately ordered that all members of the Young Guard leave the city. But not everyone managed to leave. Stakhovich began to extradite his comrades under torture by German soldiers. Not only young Komsomol members, but also adult underground workers were arrested. Oleg Koshevoi took all the blame for the actions of the organization on himself and until the last kept silent about the main leaders, despite the torture to which he was subjected.
The last pages of a wonderful work
What ends with the work written by A. A. Fadeev (The Young Guard)? A summary of the chapters told the reader about almost all the main events related to the Komsomol organization. And it remains to add only a few words that, thanks to the courage and courage of many Komsomol members, the Germans did not know that Lyutikov was the head of the underground.
Young Guard brutally beaten and tortured. Many did not even feel the blows, but continued to be silent. And then the half-dead, exhausted by endless bullying prisoners were killed and thrown into the mine. And already on February 15, Soviet tanks appeared on the territory of Krasnodon. Thus ended the famous novel of Fadeev about the courage and courage of the young Komsomol members of this city.