Avramenko, Grigory Yakovlevich

Born April 23, 1909 in the Kiev region. Ukrainian .

In 1935 he graduated from the Kiev Institute of Land Reclamation. He served in the railway troops, then worked as deputy chief of the Snovskaya distance of the Belarusian Railways. In 1939 he became the head of the track machine station No. 19 (ПМС-19) in Novosibirsk .

Member of the Great Patriotic War . Since 1942 , G. Ya. Avramenko has been the head of the Main Repair and Restoration Train No. 20 (GOREM-20) ^[1] .

Restoring and repairing elements of the upper structure of the railway in the area of ​​hostilities in the Northern, 2nd Ukrainian and 2nd Baltic Fronts. Under the shelling of enemy artillery and bombing by fascist aviation, he skillfully supervised the restoration of bridges and crossings, and ensured the delivery of fighters, military equipment, and ammunition in a timely manner. Was injured.

After the end of the Patriotic War, G. Ya. Aramenko restored the destroyed track facilities on the Korosten track of the South-Western Railway .

This train, called GOREM-20 (Head Repair and Restoration Train No. 20) was formed in Siberia on the Tomsk railway at the beginning of the war. By order of the Commissariat of Transport, he was relocated to the Kirov Railway for the reconstruction work at the disposal of the Karelian Front Command. The southern section of this road from the station Lodeinoe field to the station Maselskaya was occupied by the enemy army. Therefore, there was an urgent need to quickly complete work on a new, just-built railway line connecting the Kirov and Northern roads from Sorokskaya station (now Belomorsk) to Obozerskaya station. GOREM-20 built a connecting branch bypassing the station Obozerskaya. This made it possible to quickly transfer trains from the Kirov railway to the North and back. Then GOREM-20 completed the assembly of a metal bridge across the Onega River. ^[2]

The first head of the train was Grigory Yakovlevich Avramenko, in the last year of the war Leonid Alekseevich Nikolaev became the head of GOREM-20.

• By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 5, 1943 , Avramenko Grigory Yakovlevich was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Sickle and Hammer medal.
• He was awarded the Order of Lenin (5.11. 1943 ), the Red Banner of Labor ( 1942 ), World War 1-st degree (29.07. 1945 ), and medals.

• List of railway workers - Heroes of Socialist Labor

Avramenko, Grigory Yakovlevich (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ."