Yaremchuk, Dmitry Onufrievich

He was born on October 24 ( November 6 ), 1914 in the village of Stanislavchik of the Kherson province , now Stanislavovo of the Blagoveshchensk district of the Kirovograd region in a peasant family. Ukrainian . He graduated from 7 classes, in 1933 - pedagogical courses. He worked as a warehouse manager at a hydroelectric power station in the Kedsky district of the Adzharitshal Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now the Republic of Adzharia).

In the Red Army since June 23, 1941. In 1942 he graduated from the Sukhumi Military Infantry School. He served as commander of a mortar platoon in the 51st fortified area (UR) of the Transcaucasian Front. In July-October 1943 he served in the 6th officer training brigade in the city of Gorky. In 1944 he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Officer Armored School .

On the fronts of World War II from August 2, 1944. He fought as a commander of a company of T-34 tanks on the 1st Baltic, 3rd Belorussian fronts, in the Zemland task force. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1944. In battles 1 time wounded.

Participated:

• in battles in the Baltic region near the cities of Kursenai, Kruopiai, Dobele, in the Memel operation and battles for the cities of Kelma, Sibben - in 1944;
• in the Instenburg-Königsberg and Zemland operations, including forcing the Inster, Pregel, Daim rivers and the liberation of the cities of Grunwald, Taplacken, Tapiau (Gvardeysk), Insterburg (Chernyakhovsk), Domstau, Hussinen, Preisisch Eiszlau (Bagisheisenhausen) Primorsk) - in 1945.

The commander of the tank company of the 89th tank brigade, Lieutenant Yaremchuk, captured the 2nd tank on October 6, 1944 and held the bridge over the Krozhenta river in the town of Kelma (Kelme, Lithuania) until the main forces of the brigade approached.

One of the detachments of the 13th Guards Rifle Corps of General A.I. Lopatin was to capture a bridge over the Krozhent River. 50 riflemen and 6 tanks under the general command of Lieutenant D.O. Yaremchuk at night suddenly broke into the enemy’s position 800 meters southeast of the city. In a fierce battle, the guards captured two anti-tank batteries that covered the bridge. 20 submachine gunners in two tanks quickly broke through to the 100-ton reinforced concrete bridge. A hot battle ensued with guards, which included sappers who prepared the bridge for the explosion. Every second he could fly into the air.
So it would have happened if the forty-six-year-old participant in the civil war, sapper Artyom Mikhailovich Plysenko, with four young comrades had not been among the machine gunners. While there was a battle with the guards, they scattered across the bridge in order to neutralize the explosives. Plysenko managed to literally instantly forestall the explosion, and at that time two tanks under the command of Lieutenant V.V. Knyazev, having slipped a bridge, crashed into the artillery column in a hurry of darkness, hurrying to slip into the rear. They worked the road so diligently that only 5 corrupted tractors remained on it, and 9 guns, 4 mortars, 4 anti-aircraft guns and about 50 corpses. D.O. Yaremchuk, A.M. Plysenko and V.V. Knyazev were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

- Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union Baghramyan I.Kh. So we went to victory. - M: Military Publishing, 1977.- S. 452.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 24, 1945 “for exemplary performance of command missions on the front against the Nazi invaders and courage and heroism shown at the same time”, Lieutenant Yaremchuk Dmitry Onufrievich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Medal The Star ”(No. 5018).

In 1945-1949 he studied at the command department of the Military Academy of Armored and Mechanized Forces named after I.V. Stalin . In October 1949 - August 1954 he served in the 8th mechanized division of the Belarusian military district as deputy chief of staff for operational work of the 95th heavy tank self-propelled regiment, deputy commander of the 97th motorcycle battalion, commander of the 97th reconnaissance battalion. Since August 1954, he served as an officer of the 1st division of the combat training department of the headquarters of the Voronezh military district.

August 22, 1955 committed suicide (hanged himself).

• Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union;
• Order of Lenin (03.24.1945);
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree (2.6.1945);
• Order of the Red Star (05/20/1945; was presented to the Order of the Patriotic War II degree);
• medals.

Yaremchuk, Dmitry Onufrievich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - 863 s. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .