Vorobyov, Nikolai Andreevich

Nikolai Vorobyov was born in the village of Makhoshevskaya (modern Krasnodar Territory ) into a peasant family. Russian. He graduated from the College of Agricultural Mechanization in 1936 .

In 1937 he was drafted into the Navy by the Razinsky district military enlistment office of the city of Baku of the Azerbaijan SSR . In 1939 he graduated from the Sevastopol Anti-aircraft Artillery School. Since June 1941, he participated in the Great Patriotic War. ^[one]

Lieutenant Nikolai Vorobyov served as commander of the 365th anti-aircraft battery of the 110th anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the Air Defense of the Coastal Defense of the Black Sea Fleet. The battery consisted of several cannons and occupied a height of 60.0 m. This height was the key to taking the fortress city of Sevastopol, the Soviet troops called the battery defending it "Lieutenant Vorobyov’s battery", and in the reports of the German command it figured as Fort "Stalin" . Within two hundred and thirteen days during the defense of Sevastopol, the 365th anti-aircraft battery shot down five enemy planes, knocked out six tanks, repelled fifteen enemy attacks. Almost all the batteries died on the battlefield. ^[one]

Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, commander of the 11th German Army, wrote in his memoirs “Lost Victories” about the importance of this height:

On the morning of December 31, 1941, the Nazi forces began to storm a height of 60.0: at first it was subjected to massive shelling, then a tank attack followed, followed by infantry. Two tanks guns knocked out three tanks during the defense, and Nikolai Vorobyov himself used a military trick - with the help of a rocket launcher taken from a dead German sniper-spotter, he aimed the enemy’s guns at his own soldiers, who had broken through to the firing position of the battery. The German troops retreated, but an hour later they repeated the attack, which was also repelled. When the situation was critical, Lieutenant Vorobyov decided to call fire on himself. ^[one]

June 7, 1942 Nikolai Vorobyov was seriously wounded in the head and evacuated to the mainland.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 14, 1942, for the exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the struggle against Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown to them, Lieutenant Vorobyov Nikolai Andreevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal "(No. 859).

After the war, he continued to serve in the army. Since 1949, Major Vorobyov served as the head of the sergeant's school. In the post-war years, he enjoyed great popularity among Sevastopol, as one of the heroic defenders of the city, and invariably opened all the post-war parades. ^[one]

However, in addition to rewards, 13 penalties were recorded in the official card of Nikolai Vorobyov, he was often seen in drunkenness, and by the decision of the court of honor he was reduced in military rank.

On September 21, 1952, Nikolai Vorobyov, under the guise of a walk, took a minor girl on a motorcycle to the city of Balaklava, gave her wine and raped her. On October 30, 1952, he was convicted by the military tribunal of the Black Sea Fleet on the basis of part 2 of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 4, 1949 “On Strengthening Criminal Responsibility for Rape” to 6 years of forced labor camps. Nikolai Vorobyov pleaded guilty and in his last word before announcing the verdict of the court stated:

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 13, 1954, he was deprived of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin and other awards. After his release, he tried to meet with the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union K.E. Voroshilov, the highest leadership of the country and the Navy of the USSR to return the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but did not achieve a result. Nikolai Vorobyov died on May 1, 1956, was buried in Sevastopol.

In 1993, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office investigated the newly discovered circumstances of the case of N. A. Vorobyov on the basis of a decision of the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Major General Justice V. I. Kravchenko of March 31, 1993, however, both the prosecutor’s office and the Supreme Court of Ukraine concluded that Vorobyov’s guilt has been proved, and the verdict in his case is lawful and substantiated ^[1] .

During his service in the army, Nikolai Vorobyov was awarded the following orders and medals of the USSR (deprived of all awards on July 13, 1954):

• Medal Gold Star Hero of the Soviet Union
• The order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner
• medal "For Military Merit"
• medal "For the defense of Sevastopol"
• Medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus"
• medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• medal "XXX years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Vorobyov, Nikolai Andreevich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".