Brief biography of Karatsupa

Born in with. Alekseevka Kuibyshevsky district of the Zaporizhzhya region in Ukraine in a peasant family. He lost his parents early and at the age of seven was determined in the Schuchinsky orphanage in the Kokchetav region. In the city of Nikita he came to the military enlistment office and said that he wanted to serve where everything is harder. So he ended up in the Khabarovsk school of service dogs by captenarmus.

But not for long, the estimated fighter was in charge of the property of the unit. Once, returning to the barracks, he noticed two puppies under the bridge. He took one for himself, gave the other a friend. At that time, there were few thoroughbred shepherds in the border parts, and Nikita decided to raise a service dog from the mongrel. He called him a Hindus for the dark color.

The puppy turned out to be weak: it happened that after classes on the site could not go and Karatsupa in his arms carried him to the aviary; Slowly fed, cooked. And the unborn puppy turned into a large, strong dog. Together with him, after graduating from service dogs, N. Karatsup went to the border, to the outpost of Poltavka of the Grodekovsky detachment in the Primorsky Territory.

On this site, they made the majority of the detentions of violators who made the legend of the country's border troops. The observant, physically strong, estimated, Karatsupa secretly sat in ambush for hours, waiting for the offender, he could run on the off -road for more than a dozen kilometers.

And still, the colleagues were surprised when once he, together with the Hindu, detained nine armed violators at night. Nikita Fedorovich himself was a memorial case when he had to pursue the border violator from Poltavka with a run of 40 km. He detained him only in Ussuriysk, while watching a film in the cinema. Determined by cap. The instructor of the service-search dog N.

Karatsep was handed the Order of the Red Star. The first went to the marine border guards and later wrote the fascinating book “The Adventures of the Bold” boat. Ryabchikov lived at the outpost of Poltavk for several weeks. Essays in the newspaper and the book of his documentary stories “Rangers” brought N. Karatsup all the Union fame. The boys played the border guards, most mongrels became Hindu.

In the military enlistment offices, conscripts wrote statements about the desire to become a border guard. Over the 20 years of service at the border, he participated in armed clashes with enemies, detained violators of saboteurs and scouts in Primorye, and raised near the trackers. C to gg. There was a period in his track record, when he helped organize a border service in North Vietnam.

Everywhere with him were shepherds, bearing the name of his first four -legged assistant. In the middle of the x. Khrushchev visited India, and friendly ties were established with this country, for ethical reasons in new publications about N. Karatsup and in reprints, Hindu turned into Ingus. In total, Karatsupa had six service-search dogs under this name. About his service on the border, rich in experience, Nikita Fedorovich wrote the book “Notes of the Square”.

The homeland highly appreciated the merits of the border guard: he was awarded the Order of Lenin, two orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, and many medals. Karatsup was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He came to Primorye more than once, met with youth, visited border outposts. The name of N. Karatsupa is included in the list of the Poltavka outposts, it is named after the legendary border guard.

There is a personalized outpost in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. About the life and service of N. Karatsupa, the documentary "Rastypol" was shot. His son Anatoly continued his father’s profession. N. Karatsupa died in November, condolences regarding the death of the Hero of the Soviet Union, who created the School of Schools in the border troops of the country, was expressed by President of the Russian Federation B.

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