The memorial on the Rubanovo Spit is dedicated to the tragic page of the Taman defense in early September 1942 – the defense and death of our batteries located on the peninsula between Taman and Dinsky bays, which were cut off by the Germans after the landing on the northern Azov coast of the Taman peninsula.
The Taman Peninsula borders on the north with the Sea of Azov, on the west with the Strait of Kerch and on the south with the Black Sea.
By order of the base command, boats and seiners were repeatedly sent to the Rubanova Spit and the village of Garkusha to rescue Panasenko’s batteries. On September 2, the military commissar of the northern group of batteries, senior political instructor V. Gorodnichy, who was absent due to illness during the battle on the batteries, on his own initiative several times went to the Rubanovaya spit on the seiner boats of the OVR. He managed to find only Chief Chief Zelenukha, who reported that Panasenko had led his group to the 533rd battery. In the evening and at night on September 3, several torpedo boats and a “hunter” followed the people of Panasenko’s group to Rubanova Spit. They headed along the banks of the Rubanova Spit and the village of Garkushi, some of them dropped people off, gave signals with lights, but found no one. Regimental commissar A.I. Ryzhov went to search for his batteries on a torpedo boat to Rubanova Spit, but also to no avail.
Moving from Mount Goreloy to the south, to the sea, a group of fighters, pursued by the enemy, could not reach the coast and were surrounded by the enemy. Then the batteries took up a perimeter defense in the open area of the Rubanova Spit, about two kilometers from the coast of the Taman Bay and two kilometers from the village of Garkusha. Here the battle of the sailors-batteries took place, who fought surrounded by the German fascist invaders to the last bullet.
