Sabanin, Mikhail Grigorievich

Born on April 23, 1923 in the village of Urvanka, Epifansky district, Tula province, in the family of a peasant . Russian. He graduated from 7 classes. He worked as a turner in the Stalinogorsk depot of the Tula region.

During the Great Patriotic War

With the beginning of World War II, he was evacuated for a short time with equipment in the eastern regions of the USSR, then returned to his native place. Participated in the restoration of the depot and machine park ^[2] .

In May 1942, a Komsomol member M. G. Sabanin drafted into the Red Army . After several months in the training unit, sent to the front.

On September 5, 1944, the senior reconnaissance officer of the mortar battalion of the 1st Separate Guards Motorized Infantry Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Corps of the 65th Army of the 1st Byelorussian Guard Front Sergeant Major M. Sabanin under the settlement of Karnovsk (12 km north of Serock , Poland ) I found two enemy artillery batteries and corrected the mortar fire from which the batteries were covered from the observation point .

On September 6, 1944, in repelling the enemy's counterattacks, he skillfully chose a place for an observation post . According to his target designation, up to 20 soldiers and officers of the enemy were destroyed by fire from the mortar battery, and 2 machine-gun points were suppressed. September 14, 1944 awarded the Order of Glory III degree .

From 4 to 7 October 1944, reflecting the enemy's counterattacks on the bridgehead near the village of Pogozhelets (14 km south of Pultusk , Poland ), M. G. Sabanin corrected the fire of a mortar battery. As a result, a lot of enemy manpower was destroyed, a tank and 2 armored personnel carriers were hit. M. G Sabanin was wounded twice, but did not leave the battlefield. For this episode, on October 23, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the II degree .

In battles from January 14 to March 1, 1945 for the cities of Plonsk , Rypin , Tuzel ( Poland ), senior intelligence officer M. G. Sabanin as part of the 1st Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Corps of the 65th Army of the 3rd Belorussian the front was in the combat formations of the infantry, corrected the fire of mortar batteries, ensuring the advancement of rifle subunits. On March 7, 1945, in battles under the settlement of Shttengenwalde (13 km west of Koenigsberg , now Kaliningrad ), Sabanin, following in the assault group, captured 2 enemy officers, and also carried the wounded battery commander from the battlefield.

On March 11, 1945, at the approaches to the city of Danzig (now Gdansk , Poland ), M. G. Sabanin, together with intelligence officers, in street battles in the village, Kvashino destroyed up to 10 and captured three soldiers of the enemy. In the battles for the settlement of Legitries (18 km west of the city of Konigsberg ) M. G. Sabanin from the observation point corrected the fire of the mortar batteries, as a result of which the enemy anti-aircraft gun was suppressed. In this battle he was wounded, but he did not leave the battlefield.

March 27-28, 1945 in street fighting in Danzig captured several soldiers and two non-commissioned officers . June 29, 1945 awarded the Order of Glory I degree .

Member of the CPSU since 1945.

In the post-war years

In 1946, demobilized from the army. He lived in the city of Stalinogorsk , where he worked as a mechanic, foreman, assistant site manager at the mine number 26.

May 31, 1952 died in an explosion at mine number 26.

The name of M. G. Sabanin is immortalized in the Alley of Heroes ( Moskovskaya Street ) of the city of Novomoskovsk.

• Order of the Red Star (March 4, 1944)
• Order of Glory I degree (June 29, 1945)
• Order of Glory II degree (October 23, 1944)
• Order of Glory III degree (September 14, 1944)
• medals, including:
  • two medals "For courage" (July 24, 1943; November 20, 1943)
  • Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad"
  • medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

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