Lizyukov, Pyotr Ilyich

Pyotr Ilyich Lizyukov was born in 1909 in the city of Gomel in the family of a rural teacher . He worked at the Gomel Radio Plant. The brother of the Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Ilyich Lizyukov and the commander of the partisan detachment Yevgeny Ilyich Lizyukov .

In the interwar period

In the Red Army since 1929 . In 1931 he graduated from the 1st Leningrad Artillery School.

1931 - 1936 - commanded a platoon in the 37th artillery regiment, located in the city of Klintsy, Bryansk region .

1936 - 1939 - commander of the battery, the city of Kursk .

He was elected a deputy of the Leninsky District Council of the city of Kursk.

1940 - 1941 - commander of the artillery division.

During the Great Patriotic War

On June 22, 1941, the artillery regiment, in which P. I. Lizyuk served, took the battle on the Western Bug River near the city of Sokal . After the death of the regiment commander, the chief of staff P.I. Lizyukov took over the command. The regiment with fights retreated to Kiev . July 17, 1941 took part in the counterattack of the Red Army on the Dnieper, after which about a month his unit left the encirclement.

In early 1942, Major P.I. Lizyukov was appointed commander of the 651st artillery regiment of the 69th light artillery brigade , who fought on the Southwestern Front .

Member of the Battle of Stalingrad .

Supervises the formation, and then training, of the 46th anti-tank brigade . As the commander of this brigade, May 1, 1944 sent to the Leningrad Front .

In June 1944, the team participated in the liberation of the city of Vyborg .

In late summer - early autumn after the end of hostilities with Finland, the brigade under the command of P.I. Lizyukov in September-October 1944 participated in the liberation of the cities of Tallinn and Riga .

The 46th anti-tank artillery brigade as part of the 11th Guards Army ( 3rd Belorussian Front ) reached the Frishes-Huff Bay (currently the Gulf of Kaliningrad ) on January 29, 1945, thereby interrupting land communications with the East Prussian group .

On January 30, 1945, in the vicinity of Heide-Waldburg (currently the coastal village in the city of Kaliningrad ), an artillery brigade under the command of P.I. Lizyukov restrained the enemy’s counter-offensive. Stopping the retreat of the units, he organized the defense, he himself lay down behind a heavy machine gun and opened fire on the enemy. In this battle, Colonel P.I. Lizyukov died.

The circumstances of the death

In order to stop German tanks, the last artillery reserve of the 11th Guards Army - the 46th Fighter-Antitank Brigade of Colonel Pyotr Ilyich Lizyukov was sent in a hurry to the Heide-Waldburg - Seepoten road southeast of the Waldburg estate. units was able to make up for the loss of the 26th Guards Rifle Division .

January 30, 1945 the weather in the vicinity of Heide-Waldburg (currently the coastal village in the city of Kaliningrad ) remained very bad, the strongest snowstorm continued. To have time to reach the breaking tanks, the brigade fighters had to literally drag the guns in their hands, overcoming the snowdrifts. From the German side, more than 40 heavy tanks (Pz. V Panther and Pz. VI Tiger ) from the battalions of Major Paul and Major Bock, who were part of the tank regiment of the Great Germany division (Colonel Bruno Kahl), went in this direction. as well as assault guns .

The Soviet artillerymen, having immediately taken up positions on almost bare terrain, knocked out several enemy tanks and self-propelled guns at once. The cars stopped, and regrouping, again went on the offensive. Lizyukov ordered to let them closer and shoot them from close range. Concentrated fire of tank guns and self-propelled guns inflicted a brigade (which, most likely, did not even have time to dig caponchiks for guns) heavy losses. In particular, all officers were killed in two batteries. A fierce battle lasted until the evening of January 30th. The set fire to German tanks, self-propelled guns and armored personnel carriers, like huge torches, burned, illuminating the entire area and helping gunners aim. They could not break through on this site ... ^[1]

However, German tank attacks continued. The battle in this direction has entered a critical phase. Being at the headquarters of the 26th Guards Rifle Division, and seeing infantrymen retreating from Honigbaum’s side, P. I. Lizyukov rushed towards the soldiers with a machine gun in his hands, stopped them and, organizing the defense, lay down behind a machine gun , opening fire on the approaching infantry of the enemy . The brigade commander sent his driver and adjutant to the commander's car to the rear to other regiments of the brigade. Given the large losses in the officers of the brigade (Lizyukov was in one of the batteries of the 1309th iptap), the brigade commander, instead of returning to the command post, got up to one of the guns where the calculation commander was killed. Together with gunner Private S. T. Kotenko and the Komsomol of the 1309th Iptap Art. Lieutenant S. Petropavlovsky, he began to fire at tanks. Lizyukov’s gun managed to knock out another tank. From time to time, the brigade commander lay down behind a machine gun and tried to cut off the enemy infantry. But despite the brigade’s fire, German technology gradually approached the firing positions of the gunners. As a result, one of the tanks managed to break through to the firing positions and shoot a cannon near which there was a brigade commander ...

German technology actually broke through the defense of the 1309th regiment. Nevertheless, it was not possible to pass freely in this direction because of the desperate resistance of the artillerymen. The Great Germany tank regiment lost at least 15 tanks and self-propelled guns (Pz.IV, Pz. V "Panther", StuG III) in the direction of 1309th, of which about three Tigers and three self-propelled fighter tanks Jagdpanzer IV. "

In a battle with two artillery regiments of the 46th Brigade P. Lizyukov and artillerymen of the 26th Division, German tank battalions lost about 30 vehicles (of which irrevocably - several Pz. VI Tiger), that is, almost a third of the entire tank regiment " Great Germany. " The result of this day was no less difficult for the Soviet troops. The Germans were able to reconnect with Königsberg , and the Soviet units on the night of January 31 had to finally retreat to Seeoten - to the positions that they occupied as early as the morning of January 29. The 26th Guards Rifle Division lost more than 800 people killed, missing and wounded in one day, and the soldiers who were surrounded by the division tried to get to the front line for another day. As a result, the division was completely withdrawn into the second echelon. Taking into account the losses of evening and night battles, the 36th Guards Corps lost more than 1 thousand people in a day.

Later, the commander of the 46th fighter-anti-tank brigade, Colonel Pyotr Ilyich Lizyukov, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 19, 1945 “for exceptionally skillful management of parts of the brigade, personal courage and heroism, as a result of which the enemy suffered great losses,” was awarded the title of Hero posthumously Soviet Union .

• Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union (April 19, 1945, posthumously);
• Order of Lenin (April 19, 1945, posthumously);
• two orders of the Red Banner (November 6, 1942, ??);
• Order of Kutuzov II degree ;
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (August 22, 1943);
• Order of the Red Star ;
• Order of the Badge of Honor .

• He was buried in the village of Ushakovo, Guryevsky District, Kaliningrad Region ^[2] .
• In Gomel , the street is named after the Lizyukov brothers.
• In the Belarusian-Slavic gymnasium No. 36 (Gomel, 16 Lizyukov Brothers St.), the museum of the Lizyukov brothers was opened; a memorial plaque was installed on the gymnasium building ^[3] .
• In honor of his name, the fishing trawler of the Kaliningrad fishing flotilla was named.
• The name of Pyotr Ilyich Lizyukov was forever listed in the unit.
• In 2019, a memorial sign to the Lizyukov brothers ^{[4] [5]} was erected in Gomel on Victory Square.

• Gomel. Encyclopedic reference book. - 1st edition. - Minsk: Belorussian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1991.- S. 286 - 287. - 527 p. - 15,000 copies.

Lizyukov, Pyotr Ilyich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".