Mikhail Ivanovich Petrov ( September 22, 1918 - June 14, 1944 [1] ) - Soviet partisan, scout and saboteur, Hero of the Soviet Union , lieutenant .
| Mikhail Ivanovich Petrov | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | September 22, 1918 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Shiryayka village, now Pereslavl district, Yaroslavl region | |||||
| Date of death | June 14, 1944 (25 years old) | |||||
| A place of death | Lublin Voivodeship | |||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||
| Years of service | 1938 - 1944 | |||||
| Rank | lieutenant  | |||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 Memory
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature and sources
- 6 References
Biography
Mikhail Ivanovich Petrov was born in the village of Shiryayka, now in the Pereslavl region of the Yaroslavl region, into a peasant family. Russian Member of the CPSU (b) [1] .
He graduated from elementary school, worked on a collective farm [1] .
In the Red Army since 1938 [1] .
With the beginning of World War II at the front [1] .
In August 1942, as part of the landing group, the second lieutenant Petrov was abandoned behind enemy lines and was soon appointed head of intelligence of the partisan detachment under the command of N. A. Prokopyuk [1] .
Under his leadership, on New Year's Eve 1943, scouts destroyed an enemy garrison in the village of Gorodnitsa, Zhytomyr Region [1] .
Subsequently, they defeated a gang of Bandera in the Ratnovsky district ( Volyn region ), together with the Polish partisans destroyed the enemy train with ammunition and gasoline [1] .
Personally blew up 6 echelons with manpower and enemy equipment [1] .
Since the beginning of the battles of Soviet and Polish partisans against the German police forces in the Janowski forests of the Lublin Voivodeship , the commander of the assault company as part of the Soviet partisan formation V.P. Chepigi. June 13, 1944 M. I. Petrov distinguished himself in a battle near Shklyarnya [2] . On the afternoon of June 14, 1944, when a German artillery battery opened fire at the center of the partisan camp near Fleece, junior lieutenant Mikhail Petrov led a partisan counterattack against the Germans, and then continued the counterattack and attacked the positions of the German artillery battery, as a result of which the partisans captured two artillery guns and three mortars [3] .
Continuing the pursuit of the retreating enemy, Junior Lieutenant Petrov was killed by an automatic burst, but a counterattack undertaken under his command allowed to expand the breakthrough [2] .
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded posthumously November 5, 1944 [2] for organizing a breakthrough of the German defenses [4] .
Rewards
- Gold Star Medal ;
- Order of Lenin [1] ;
- Order of the Red Star [1] ;
- Polish Order of the “Grunwald Cross” 3rd degree;
- medals [1] , including:
- medal "For Military Merit" .
Memory
- He was buried in the city of Janow (Poland), where a monument was erected [1] .
- The name of the hero is named Scout Petrov Street in the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky [1] .
- A street in the village of Kubrinsk is named after the hero.
- A memorial plaque was installed in the village of Shiryayka [1] . Later it was transferred to the village of Kubrinsk and lost.
- In 1978, an artistic labeled envelope dedicated to the hero was published.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Petrov Mikhail Ivanovich // Heroes of the Soviet Union: a brief biographical dictionary in 2 vols. / redkoll., pred. I.N. Shkadov. Volume 2. M., Military Publishing House, 1988. pp. 259-260.
- ↑ 1 2 3 A.I. Zevelev, F.L. Kurlat, A.S. Kazitsky. Hate, compressed into thol. - M.: Thought, 1991. p. 286–288.
- ↑ Conversation with reserve major Stanislav Vronsky (underground nickname Stanislav) // V. Nametkevich, B. Rostropovich. People, facts, thoughts. M., Military Publishing House, 1963. p. 195-211.
- ↑ History of Poland (in 3 vols.) / Redkoll., F. G. Zuev, A. Ya. Manusevich, A.I. Khrenov. Additional volume. M., publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1965. p. 18.
Literature and Sources
- The newspaper "Victory is ours", No. 34 of November 22, 1944
- Sentinels of the Western Frontiers. 2nd ed., Trans. and add. Kiev, 1984. pp. 178-179.
- Heroes of the fiery years. 3rd ed. Yaroslavl, 1985. pp. 297-300.
- The feat of glorification. Kiev, 1985. p. 273-275.
- D. Dobrokhotova. Fidelity // The Border Guard magazine, No. 1, 1988. pp. 81-86
Links
Petrov, Mikhail Ivanovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".