Bochkovich, Kirill Vasilyevich

Kirill Vasilyevich Bochkovich
Kirill Vasilyevich Bochkovich
Date of Birth	1918
Place of Birth	pos. Savran , Podolsk province
Date of death	August 24, 1944
Place of death	with. Zhebriyans, Kiliisky District, Odessa Region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR
Affiliation	the USSR
Type of army	Navy
Years of service	1939 - 1944
Rank
Battles / Wars	The Great Patriotic War

Kirill Vasilyevich Bochkovich ( 1918 - August 24, 1944 ) - participant of the Great Patriotic War , deputy commander of the air defense platoon of the 384th separate marine battalion of the Odessa Black Sea Fleet naval base , Hero of the Soviet Union (1945), headmaster of the second article .

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Biography

Kirill Vasilyevich was born in 1918 in the village of Savran of the Podolsk province in the family of a Ukrainian peasant.

In 1939 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army , while serving in the Navy, he graduated from the electromechanical school of the Black Sea Fleet training squad.

Since 1941 he took part in the Great Patriotic War on the Voroshilov cruiser, the Bodry and Frunze squadrons of the Black Sea Fleet.

In May 1943 he was appointed deputy commander of an air defense platoon of the 384th battalion of marines of the Black Sea Fleet, and in the autumn of the same year took part in amphibious operations for the liberation of Taganrog , Mariupol and Osipenko .

In the second half of March 1944, he joined the landing group under the command of Senior Lieutenant Konstantin Fedorovich Olshansky . The task of the landing was to facilitate the frontal attack of the Soviet troops during the liberation of the city of Nikolaev , which was part of the Odessa operation . After disembarking in the seaport of Nikolaev, the detachment repulsed 18 enemy attacks within two days, destroying about 700 Nazis.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 20, 1945, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism displayed by the foreman of the 2nd article, Kirill Vasilyevich Bochkovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union ^[3] .

KV Bochkovich was the only member of the paratroopers who took part in the liberation of the city of Nikolaev, who was not wounded and was immediately able to continue to participate in the war, returning to the 384th Marine Battalion.

On August 24, 1944, in the area of the village of Zhebryainy ( Kiliya district, Odessa region ), Kirill Vasilyevich was killed during a landing operation ^[4] . Buried in Odessa .

Awards

Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union
The order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner
Medals

Memory

In Savrani, in the school park there is a monument to the hero-countryman ( )
In the city of Podolsk ( Odessa region ), in the area of a sugar factory on the street named after him (near a boarding school), a bust of Hero was installed ( ).
In the village of Primorskoe, the name of Bochkovich bears the street, and a monument is erected ( ).
In Nikolaev, a monument was erected in the park named after 68 paratroopers ( ).
In the village of Epiphany on the bank of the Bug estuary , from where the paratroopers went on mission, a memorial granite block with a memorial inscription was installed ( ).

Notes

↑ The exact date of birth of Bochkovich according to the sources has not been established, and therefore the name of the state entity on the territory of modern Ukraine is definitely impossible to establish. See. Ukrainian People's Republic , Ukrainian Power . Now Savransky district , Odessa region , Ukraine .
↑ Now Ukraine .
↑ The newspaper "Izvestia" No. 094 of April 21, 1945 with the Decree on awarding the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (inaccessible link) (Verified May 9, 2010)
↑ Reshetnik Y. Legendary landing: a look from the XXI century (Neopr.) . Evening Nikolaev No. 34 (3050) (March 25, 2011). The appeal date is March 16, 2012. Archived on May 25, 2012.

Literature

Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. College I. Shkadov . - Moscow : Military Publishing , 1987. - T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 s. - 100 000 copies - ISBN SEC., Reg. Number in the PSC 87-95382.
Zhigalov I.M. Navy valor. - M. , 1983.
N.Ya. Medvedev. We were 68 / Ivan Zhigalov's literary record. - Edition revised and updated. - M .: DOSAAF, 1966. - 50 000 copies.
Bozhatkin M.I. The landing force takes the fight. - Nikolaev: Possibilities of Kimmeria, 1998. - 379 p. - BBK ST 63.3 (4УКР-4МИК) .
Marine valor / compilers Yu. I. Chernov, A. A. Voronin. - M .: Military Publishing , 1982. - 206 p. - 65 000 copies - BBK 359.75 (09) + 3KSM .

Links

Bochkovich, Kirill Vasilyevich (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ." (Checked May 9, 2010)

[1] The exact date of birth of Bochkovich according to the sources has not been established, and therefore the name of the state entity on the territory of modern Ukraine is definitely impossible to establish. See. Ukrainian People's Republic , Ukrainian Power . Now Savransky district , Odessa region , Ukraine .

[2] Now Ukraine .

[3] The newspaper "Izvestia" No. 094 of April 21, 1945 with the Decree on awarding the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (inaccessible link) (Verified May 9, 2010)

[4] Reshetnik Y. Legendary landing: a look from the XXI century (Neopr.) . Evening Nikolaev No. 34 (3050) (March 25, 2011). The appeal date is March 16, 2012. Archived on May 25, 2012.