Aleksandr Mikhailovich Korolsky - shooter of a motorized rifle battalion of the 69th mechanized brigade of the 9th mechanized corps of the 3rd Guards Tank Army of the Voronezh Front , military rank - private .
| Alexander Mikhailovich Korolsky | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | August 22, 1902 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Atamanovo village | |||||
| Date of death | February 2, 1944 (41 years) | |||||
| Affiliation | Red Army | |||||
| Years of service | 1941 - 1944 | |||||
| Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||
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Biography
Early years
Born on August 22, 1902 in the village of Atamanovo, Sukhobuzim district, Krasnoyarsk Territory, in a poor family. Russian. Graduated 5 classes. Participated in the Civil War . In 1925 - 1928 he was elected as a deputy of the Ataman Zemsky rural committee of the Sukhobuzim district. At the end of 1929 he was appointed head of the forest site.
In January 1930, Korsky was arrested and sentenced to capital punishment on charges of sabotaging logging works in honor of religious holidays (Christmas, Old New Year). The execution only because of poor origin and in view of Korolsky’s merit in the expropriation of land during the revolutionary period and the civil war was replaced by 10 years of forced labor camps. Term Korolsky was serving on the White Sea-Baltic Canal . He worked as a foreman.
In 1936, Kingski was prematurely released for selfless work and offsets. Returned to Atamanovo. He worked as a builder, a foreman at the state farm.
Participation in the Great Patriotic War
When the Great Patriotic War began , in view of almost 40 years of age, Korolsky, but mainly by conviction, was not drafted into the army. And only in January 1943, he achieved a call up in the army and sent to the front. He fought on the Kursk Bulge, liberated Sumy and Poltava regions of Ukraine, for which he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.
In September, pursuing the enemy, the troops of the 3rd Guards Tank Army reached the Dnieper in the area of the Great Bukrin bend. Here, initially, the Soviet command planned to seize the “main” bridgehead for a further throw directly to Kiev. Therefore, the forcing of the river by the troops began immediately.
On the night of September 22, 1943, private Korolsky was among the first of his motorized rifle battalion to cross the Dnieper near the village of Zarubintsy, Kanevsky district, Cherkasy region. Fierce fighting began on the Bukrin bridgehead.
On September 26-29, 1943, Korsky participated in attacks to expand the bridgehead, seize the villages of Lukovitsa, Grigorovka and 2 heights dominating the terrain. Replacing the deceased platoon commander of machine gunners, led the defense of the conquered piece of land on the right bank of the Dnieper. Meanwhile, other parts of the 1st Ukrainian Front crossed the bridgehead.
The German troops, realizing the full significance of the Bukrinsky bridgehead, increased the onslaught on it. Fights began to take a protracted nature. And then the 3rd Guards Tank Army, and in its ranks and the rank and file Korol'sky, secretly redeployed to the Lyutezhsky bridgehead , which was captured north of Kiev.
Korsky participated in the rapid throw of his mechanized corps in the direction of the city of Fastow, cutting off the enemy's Kiev grouping waste. November 6, 1943 the city of Kiev was liberated.
In November 1943, the Military Council of the 1st Ukrainian Front convicted Korolsky with a conviction, and he was presented for the heroic title for crossing the Dnieper.
The decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 17, 1943 for the exemplary performance of the combat tasks of the command on the front of the struggle against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown to Alexander Mikhailovich Korsky was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Because of an error in the Ordinance on awarding, Korsky did not recognize. In one of the intense battles in the area of the city of Berdichev, Zhytomyr Region, Korolsky was seriously injured and on February 2, 1944, he died in an army hospital.
Before the Victory, his sons Boris, Dmitry and Ivan fought with the Nazis. Only in 1964, the son of Boris was awarded the Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on conferring the title of Hero to his father, and his sons learned about the fate of his father, who for a long time was considered missing.
Awards
He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree, and a medal.
Memory
In the village of Atamanovo, Krasnoyarsk Territory, a lane is named after A.M. Korolsky.
Links
Korolsky, Alexander Mikhailovich . The site " Heroes of the country ."