Yashchenko, Nikolai Ivanovich

Nikolai Yashchenko was born on October 31, 1919 in Novosibirsk in the family of a railway worker.

In 1937 he graduated from high school in Novosibirsk, for further education he moved to Alma-Ata ( Kazakh SSR ), where in 1941 he graduated from the Kazakh Mining and Metallurgical Institute .

World War II

He was drafted into the Red Army in July 1941. In 1942 he graduated from the Alma-Ata Infantry and Machine Gun School . He joined the ranks of the CPSU (b) in 1942 .

From April 1942 he fought in the South-West , from August 1942 - Stalingrad , from February 1943 - Voronezh , from July 1943 - Stepnoy , from October 1943 - 2nd Ukrainian and from February 1944 on 3rd Ukrainian fronts . He took part in the defense of Donbass and Don in the summer of 1942, in the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk , in the battle of the Dnieper , the liberation of the Right-Bank Ukraine , Romania , Yugoslavia , Hungary , Austria . He fought as commander of a rifle company, chief of staff of a battalion, assistant chief of staff of the 48th infantry regiment for intelligence, deputy chief of staff and chief of staff of the 343rd infantry regiment (then the 214th guards), regiment commander.

On November 13, 1944, the commander of the 214th Guards Rifle Regiment ( 73rd Guards Rifle Division , 57th Army , 3rd Ukrainian Front), Major Yashchenko, with an advanced rifle battalion under enemy fire, successfully crossed the Danube in the area of ​​the settlement of Batin (Yugoslavia) . In battles on the bridgehead, the regiment under the command of Yashchenko took control of the dominant height. For courage and skillful leadership of the fighting in these battles, he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky by order of the troops of the 57th Army No. 0180 / n dated November 30, 1944.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, 1945, for the courage and heroism shown when crossing the Danube and holding the bridgehead on its western shore, the guard, Major Nikolai Ivanovich Yaschenko was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 3486) )

Post-War Service

In 1948 he graduated from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze . From 1950 to 1953, the deputy head of the Voronezh Suvorov Military School worked on combatant units, and from May 1967 to November 1980, he was the military commissar of the Chelyabinsk region .

In 1980, Major General Nikolai Ivanovich Yashchenko resigned. He lived in Chelyabinsk , where he died on June 8, 2001 . He was buried in the Assumption (Zink) cemetery of Chelyabinsk (18th quarter).

• Hero of the Soviet Union .
• Order:
  • two orders of Lenin ;
  • Order of the Red Banner ;
  • Order of Alexander Nevsky ;
  • Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree ;
  • Order of the Patriotic War 2 degrees ;
  • two orders of the Red Star ;
  • Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree ;
  • Order of the Partisan Star of the 2nd degree (Yugoslavia);
  • Order of September 9, 1944 (Bulgaria).
• Medals:
  • medal “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
  • anniversary medal “Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
  • anniversary medal “Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
  • anniversary medal “Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
  • anniversary medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

• On the facade of the building of the military commissariat of the Chelyabinsk region, where Nikolai Ivanovich worked, a memorial plaque was installed.
• A memorial plaque is installed on the facade of a secondary school No. 1 in Novosibirsk, where Nikolai Ivanovich studied.

Yashchenko, Nikolai Ivanovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". (Retrieved October 5, 2010)

http://komandiry-polkov.ru/yashchenko-nikolay-ivanovich/