Semen G. Baikov ( 1914 , p. Kandievka , Penza province - July 8, 1941 , Pskov) - Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1942 ), commander of a sapper platoon of the 50th separate motorized engineering battalion of the 1st mechanized corps of the 11th Army of the North-Western Front , junior lieutenant .
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||
| Type of army | engineering troops | ||
| Years of service | 1935-1941 | ||
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| Part | 50th Separate Motorized Engineering Battalion of the 1st Mechanized Corps | ||
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Biography
Born in 1914 in the village of Kandievka, Kerensky district, Penza province (now the Bashmakovsky district of the Penza region) in a peasant family. Russian
He graduated from junior high school. He worked on a collective farm .
In the Red Army since 1935 . Member of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941 .
Feat
He led a group of sappers who mined the Riga Bridge across the Velikaya River in Pskov . Having ensured the transition of the outgoing units, he was supposed to blow it up, but by the time the command to blow up the bridge was received, the Soviet artillery division remained on the opposite bank. The sappers decided to skip them. While the fighters from the division crossed the bridge, the wire going to the charge was damaged by German artillery. Seeing that the bridge cannot be blown up, Semyon Grigorievich Baykov with several sappers rushed to the farms of the bridge and blew it up with incendiary tubes. Lieutenant Baykov himself, who blew up the support closest to the enemy, died. [1] [2] [3] [4] Junior Sergeant Panov, Private Alekseev, Anashenkov, Nikitin, Kholyavin and Khomlyashov were posthumously awarded the Orders of Lenin, but after the war it turned out that five of them, wounded and shell-shocked, survived. [five]
Rewards
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 16, 1942, for the exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the struggle against Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown to this, junior lieutenant Baykov Semen Grigorievich was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. [2]
Memory
- The name of the Hero is assigned to the street in Pskov .
- In 1968, the USSR postage stamp dedicated to Baykov was issued.
Notes
- ↑ Baikov Semyon Grigorievich
- ↑ 1 2 Award documents in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 682524/793756 , d. 4/4 , l. 5 / 173-175 ).
- ↑ Information in the electronic document bank of the OBD “Memorial” .
- ↑ Information in the electronic document bank of the OBD “Memorial” .
- ↑ Magazine "Twinkle". February 1961
Links
- Baykov, Semyon Grigorievich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
- Pskov Streets bearing the names of the heroes of World War II.
- Riga bridge