Khristenko, Vasily Timofeevich

He was born on April 12, 1925 in the village of Bolshaya Mikhailovka (now Kirovsky District, Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan) in the family of an employee. Russian

He graduated from 10 classes in the village of Maykain-Gold of the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan. He worked as a driller in a mine.

In the Red Army since January 1943. He studied at the Tambov Military Infantry School. On the fronts of World War II - from August 1943.

During the Great Patriotic War, he participated in forcing the Dnieper (1943), the Korsun-Shevchenkovsky operation , in the battles for the liberation of Bucharest, Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. He was twice wounded. As part of the troops of the Transbaikal Front, as the foreman of reconnaissance of the 6th Guards Tank Army, he took part in the defeat of militaristic Japan.

After demobilization, he studied at the Kirov Ural Polytechnic Institute, in 1950 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Law School. After its completion - an investigator , assistant prosecutor, prosecutor in the Topchikhinsky district of the Altai Territory.

In 1953−1959 - Secretary, second secretary of the CPSU district committee for the Volodarsky MTS zone,

in 1959−1962 - Chairman of the Topchikhinsky District Executive Committee .

In the years 1962-1964 - the first secretary of the Zmeinogorsk district committee of the CPSU.

In 1964−1979 - First Secretary of the Shipunovsky District Committee of the CPSU.

In 1957, he graduated in absentia from the All-Union Law Institute, and in 1965, in absentia, the Slavgorod Agricultural College.

In 1979−1989 - First Deputy Chairman of the Altai Regional Executive Committee.

Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1945. He was elected a delegate to the 24th and 25th congresses of the CPSU, a deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, a candidate member of the bureau of the krai committee of the party, and a deputy of the regional council of people's deputies.

Since 1989 he was retired.

While retired, he did a lot of community work. He was a member of the Russian Committee of War Veterans and Military Service. Since 1991 - Chairman of the Altai Regional Committee of Veterans of War and Military Service.

Participant of the Victory Parade in 1990 and 1995 in Moscow.

He died on February 9, 2010 at the 85th year of his life. He was buried with military honors in Barnaul , at the Vlasikhinsky cemetery ^[1] .

Family

• Father - Khristenko Timofey Vasilievich, medical assistant, participant in the First World War and the Civil War.
• Mother - Khristenko Ustinya Grigoryevna, peasant woman.
• Wife - Khristenko Angelina Dmitrievna.
• Sons - Vladimir Vasilyevich and Yuri Vasilyevich, both died.

State awards of the Russian Federation and the USSR:

• Hero of Socialist Labor ( Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 13, 1972, Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle Medal )
• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, IV degree (April 18, 2005) - for many years of active public work on social support for veterans and patriotic education of youth ^[2]
• Order of Honor - for active participation in the veteran movement and in the work on military-patriotic education of youth
• Order of Friendship (April 1, 1995) - for many years of fruitful work on patriotic education of youth, social protection of veterans and strengthening friendship between nations ^[3]
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (March 11, 1985)
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree (June 10, 1945) - for the exemplary performance of combat missions of command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the valor and courage shown at the same time
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Red Star (October 14, 1945) - for exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the Japanese imperialists and the valor and courage shown at the same time
• Order of the Badge of Honor
• Full Knight of the Order of Glory :
  • I degree - May 15, 1946, No. 1794 - for exemplary fulfillment of command assignments in battles with Nazi invaders
  • II degree - January 24, 1945, No. 8964 - for the exemplary performance of combat missions of command on the front of the struggle against the German invaders and the valor and courage shown at the same time
  • III degree - February 22, 1944 - for the courage and courage shown in battles
  • III degree - November 4, 1944, No. 165203 - for courage and courage shown in battles
• Medals, including:
  • Zhukov Medal
  • Anniversary medal "For Valiant Labor (For Military Valor). In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "
  • 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."
  • Anniversary medal "60 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
  • Anniversary medal "65 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
  • Medal "For the victory over Japan"
  • Medal "For the capture of Budapest"
  • Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"
  • Medal "For the Liberation of Prague"
  • Veteran of Labor Medal
  • Medal "For the development of virgin lands"
  • Anniversary medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Anniversary medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Anniversary medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Ranks:

• Honorary Citizen of Altai Territory (1997)
• Honorary Professor of Altai State Technical University.

• "So it was: Notes of a front-line intelligence officer." - Barnaul: Altai book. publishing house, 1989
• “Hardening in labor: Experience of the Altai regional organization DOSAAF” [Lit. recording by A. S. Astapov]. - M.: Publishing. DOSAAF, 1985
• “Notes by a front-line scout. 2nd ed., Ext. ”- Barnaul: Altai book. Publishing House, 1995.

Khristenko, Vasily Timofeevich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• The most titled veteran of the Altai Territory Vasily Khristenko
• HRISTENKO Vasily Timofeevich

• Complete Knights of the Order of Glory with the Four Orders