Prokopy Ivanovich Galushin - foot reconnaissance intelligence officer of the 332th Guards Rifle Regiment, Hero of the Soviet Union .
| Prokopiy Ivanovich Galushin | |||
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| Date of Birth | July 19, 1925 | ||
| Place of Birth | Bushkovo , Kholmogorsky district , Arkhangelsk province , RSFSR , USSR | ||
| Date of death | March 18, 1945 (aged 19) | ||
| A place of death | Schored , Feyer , Hungary | ||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||
| Type of army | infantry | ||
| Years of service | 1943 - 1945 | ||
| Rank | private | ||
| Part | 332 Guards Rifle Regiment | ||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||
| Awards and prizes |
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Content
Biography
Born on July 19, 1925 in the village of Bushkovo, Kholmogorsky district of the Arkhangelsk province [1] (now Kholmogorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region ) in a peasant family. Russian
He was the twelfth child in a large family of I. V. Galushina and V. I. Galushina [1] .
Primary education. Before the war, he graduated from the 7-year-old secondary school No. 2 in Arkhangelsk , after which he became an apprentice driver, and then an engineer for the steamer Sura of the Northern Shipping Company [1] .
After the start of World War II , on June 23, 1941 he turned to the military registration and enlistment office of Arkhangelsk together with a request to enlist as a volunteer in the army, but was refused, because at the time of the appeal he was 16 years old [1] .
He continued to work on the ship “Sura” (which transported military goods from Murmansk and Kandalaksha) [1] .
In January 1943 he enlisted in the army as a volunteer, was enlisted in the airborne troops, and went on combat training in the Volga region [1] .
At the end of 1944 he became a scout.
Since January 1945 - in the army - Private Guards, reconnaissance platoon on foot reconnaissance of the 332th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 104th Guards Rifle Division [1] (9th Guards Army, 3rd Ukrainian Front).
On March 16, 1945, the division entered the battle north of Lake Balaton. Fights for heights in the area of the villages of Schored and Bodayk took on a fierce character [1] .
On March 18, 1945, Private Guard Galushin at a critical moment in the battle for the village of Schöred (18 km north-west of the town of Szekesfehervar , Hungary ) with two anti-tank grenades rushed under the enemy’s self-propelled gun Ferdinand , destroying it, ensuring the advance of the battalion but he himself died.
July 29, 1945 awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously [1] .
He was buried in the village of Schored.
Prokopiy Ivanovich had seven [2] brothers and two sisters [3] . Among the numerous nephews of P. I. Galushin, one can single out the literary critic Vladimir Bondarenko [4] and the poetess Elena Soini .
Rewards
- Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union [1]
- Order of Lenin [1]
Memory
- Bust in the village of Kholmogory [1]
- forever enlisted in the crew of the ship "Sura" [1]
- at the request of the command of the unit and the Arkhangelsk regional military commissariat, by order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, he was forever enlisted in the lists of the 1st company [1] of the 328th Guards Parachute Regiment of the 104th Guards Airborne Division
- The Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren named after P.I. Galushin was built in Arkhangelsk [1]
- ocean ship - timber carrier “Prokopy Galushin” [1] of project 450B Sibirles operating as part of the Northern Shipping Company (1966-1972) and the Far Eastern Shipping Company (1972-1988)
- A street in the city of Arkhangelsk is named after the hero. In 1981, a memorial plaque dedicated to P.I. Galushin was installed on one of the houses on it.
- in the Hungarian People's Republic the name of P. I. Galushin was carried by a street and a school in the city of Szered [1]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Major A. Oliynyk. North of Balaton // Forever in the ranks: Prince. 8 / comp. V. G. Bezrodny. M., Military Publishing, 1985. p. 44-55
- ↑ In total, Ivan and Vera Galushkin had 12 children - ten sons and two daughters, but the two elders died before the birth of Procopius
- ↑ Vladimir Bondarenko. Vera Ilinichna, mother of nine soldiers // Tomorrow: a weekly newspaper. - 2005. - No. 20 (599) . - S. 7 .
- ↑ Vladimir Bondarenko. Reasonable murder // Literature Day: newspaper. - 2002. - No. 8 . Archived October 15, 2014.
Literature
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1987.- T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - S. 309. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN comp., Reg. RCP No. 87-95382.
- “In the name of victory”, Arkhangelsk, 2005
- Golden stars of the northerners . - Arkhangelsk: North-West Book Publishing House, 1971. - S. 61-64.
Links
Galushin, Prokopiy Ivanovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".