Aleksei Nikolayevich Aldoshin ( December 25, 1912 [ January 7, 1913 ] - August 9, 1987) - Soviet soldier, participant in the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).
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| Place of Birth | Maryina village , Novosilsky uyezd , Tula province , Russian empire | |||||||||||||
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||||||
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| Years of service | 1944 - 1945 | |||||||||||||
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| Retired | inspector at the woodworking plant number 7 in Moscow | |||||||||||||
During World War II - machine gunner of the 177th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 60th Guards Rifle Division , guard corporal . Particularly distinguished during the Warsaw-Poznan operation in January 1945. On January 14, when breaking through the enemy’s defense with a light machine gun, he destroyed the enemy firing point and silenced the enemy grenade launcher. In a battle near the village of Male God ( Commune Stromec , Białobrzeg County , Masovian Voivodeship , Poland ), he threw off a German counterattack with machine-gun fire [1] .
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Biography
He was born on December 25, 1912 ( January 7, 1913 ) in the village of Maryina of the Lometsko-Setushinsky volost of the Novosilsky district of the Tula province [2] . He graduated from elementary school. He worked as a miner in the Donbass [1] .
In the Red Army since February 1944 (drafted by Sofievsky RVC of the Dnipropetrovsk region of the Ukrainian SSR [3] ). Member of World War II : from February 1944 - machine gunner of the 177th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 60th Guards Rifle Division . He fought on the 3rd Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian fronts. He participated in the liberation of Right-Bank Ukraine , in the Iasi-Chisinau , Warsaw-Poznan and Berlin operations [1] .
He distinguished himself during the Warsaw-Poznan operation as part of the 5th shock army of the 1st Belorussian Front . On January 14, 1945, during the breakthrough of the enemy’s defense in the vicinity of the village of Budy Avgustowski ( Commune Grabow nad Pilice , Kozienicki County , Masovian Voivodeship , Poland ), under heavy fire, made a pass in Bruno’s spiral and destroyed the enemy’s firing point and silenced the enemy enemy grenade launcher, bravely acted during the development of the attack. Together with a self-propelled gun, he went from the flank of a German heavy artillery battery, using three well-aimed guns, destroyed three gunners and captured three guns, two tractors, a motorcycle and a car. Then, in a battle near the village of Male God ( Commune Stromec , Białobrzeg County , Masovian Voivodeship , Poland ), having let the enemy go 200 meters away, he thwarted his counterattack with machine-gun fire [1] [4] .
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 27, 1945, Guards Corporal Aldoshin Alexei Nikolayevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal [1] .
February 4, 1945 was slightly injured [3] . On April 16, 1945, in the area of the settlement of Tsekhin, the commander of the calculation of the machine gun of the guard, senior sergeant A.N. Aldoshin advanced in the advance detachment of the 177th Guards Rifle Regiment with the task of breaking through the heavily fortified defense in depth of the German troops on the west bank of the Oder River. When attacking the front edge of the enemy’s defense, he boldly advanced and flanked fire with his calculation suppressed the fire of two enemy firing points and destroyed up to 13 German soldiers, which ensured the advance of the Soviet infantry [3] .
And on April 24, he already participated in urban battles on the streets of Berlin . In a battle near the bridge south-west of the Silesian Railway Station, he fired off two enemy counterattacks using the Maxim machine gun and ensured the overall success of the offensive. During the Berlin operation he was introduced by the regiment commander to the Order of the Red Banner , but he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree (June 4, 1945) [3] .
After the War of the Guard, Senior Sergeant A.N. Aldoshin was demobilized . He returned to his native places, then moved to Moscow . He worked as a controller at a woodworking plant No. 7 [1] .
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He died on August 9, 1987. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow [1] .
Awards and titles
Soviet state awards and titles [1] :
- Hero of the Soviet Union (February 27, 1945, Gold Star medal No. 5641) [4] ;
- Order of Lenin (February 27, 1945);
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree (March 11, 1985) [5] ;
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree (June 4, 1945) [3] ;
- medals.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Website “Heroes of the country” .
- ↑ Now in Zalegoschensky district , Oryol region , Russia .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” (archive materials of TsAMO , f. 33 , op. 686196 , d. 4008 , l. 230 ).
- ↑ 1 2 Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” (archive materials of TsAMO , f. 33 , op. 793756 , d. 1 , p. 186 ).
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ”.
Literature
- Aldoshin Alexey Nikolaevich // Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1987.- T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN comp., Reg. RCP No. 87-95382.
- For the native land. - Eagle: Book Publishing House, 1963. - S. 10-12. - 299 p.
- Frolov P.I. Battle constellation of the Oryol / P.I. Frolov, V.A. Pirogov, A.F. Makushev. - Tula: Prioksky Book Publishing House, 1985. - S. 16-17. - 367 p.
Links
- Simonov A.A. Aldoshin, Alexey Nikolaevich . Site " Heroes of the country ".