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27.08.2022 05:30 •  Английский язык

Read the text and decide if the statements are True or False. Baurzhan Momyshuly is a legendary name. He was a hero of the Soviet Union, a famous writer, a famous soldier of the Great War, a true people's batyr.
Bauyrzhan Momyshuly was born on December 24, 1910 in a distant village of the Zhualinsky district of the Zhambyl region in the family of a cattle breeder. In 1929, he graduated from Aulie-Ata school - 9-year school. After school, he continued his studies in Turkestan. In 1932, he joined the army in Turkestan and became an officer.
In January 1941, he became an artillery commander and was sent to Almaty. Baurzhan Momyshuly was a battalion commander. Next was the front.
During the Second World War, he was the only Kazakh - a division commander. He went through the whole long war, first with the rank of senior lieutenant, and met the end of the war as a colonel. He commanded a battalion, regiment and division. After the Second World War, Bauyrzhan Momyshuly began writing fiction about the Second World War.
From personal memory notes of Baurzhan Momyshuly: “An expected combat order has been received… to take up the defense of the Kryukovo village. There was only one goal - to prevent the enemy from reaching Moscow ... I measured the distance with a compass, we were 30 kilometers away from Moscow. Moscow was under bombardment.
… It was a rainy day. We managed to stop the Germans on the first day. On the second day in Kryukovo, there was a six-hour street fight, on the third day – a 12-hour street fight was already in the center. Every other day, street fighting continued for 18 hours
... We did not give up the station. On December 8, 1941, we launched a strong four-hour artillery preparation; we drove the Germans out of the station, and captured many trophies. Only in the sector of the 1073th regiment there 18 tanks were captured. We approached Istra, began to pursue the enemy."