Slavgorod, George Vasilyevich

Born on August 10, 1914 in the village of Maltchevskaya oblast, the Don Cossack Army (now Millerovo District of the Rostov Oblast) in a peasant family. Ukrainian .

In 1937 he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute. He worked as a teacher in the village of Goryachevodskaya.

In the Red Army since 1939 . On the front in the Great Patriotic War from July 1941 . In 1942 he graduated from the courses of political personnel. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1943 .

The commander of the battalion of the rifle regiment of the guards, Major Georgy Slavgorodsky, skillfully organized on January 24, 1945, the crossing of the Oder and the capture of the bridgehead south-east of the city of Olau (now Olav , Poland ). The battalion repelled 13 counterattacks. January 26, he raised the battalion in bayonet attack, was seriously wounded in this battle and died.

He was buried in the village of Lyubionzh , Voluvsky county , Poland .

• The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded posthumously on June 27, 1945 .
• He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner, World War 2 degrees and medals.

• Izyumsky A. B. The Unfinished Diary: On the Front-Line Diaries of G. V. Slavgorodsky // Donskoy Temporary. Year 2016 / Don. state public b-ka - Rostov n / a, 2015. - Vol. 24. - p. 70-79.

Igor Serdyukov. Slavgorodsky, George Vasilyevich (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ." The appeal date is January 14, 2016.

• The heroes of the Soviet Union are natives of the Don .
• Slavgorodsky George Vasilyevich .
• Millerovo. George Vasilyevich Slavgorodsky .