Nikolai Ivanovich Antonov ( May 22, 1918 - December 25, 1995 ) - Soviet officer , participant in the Great Patriotic War , commander of the machine gun company of the 218th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 77th Guards Rifle Division of the 61st Army of the Central Front , guard senior lieutenant [1] .
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| Date of Birth | May 22, 1918 | ||||||||
| Place of Birth | Gorka village, now Volkhov district, Leningrad region | ||||||||
| Date of death | December 25, 1995 (aged 77) | ||||||||
| A place of death | Kiev , Ukraine | ||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||
| Type of army | infantry | ||||||||
| Years of service | 1941 - 1968 | ||||||||
| Rank | Colonel | ||||||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||
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Hero of the Soviet Union ( 01/15/1944 ), reserve colonel since 1968.
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 Memory
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Biography
He was born on May 22, 1918 in a peasant family in the village of Gorka now in the Volkhov district of the Leningrad region . Russian Member of the CPSU (b) since 1946. He graduated from incomplete secondary school and the school of FZU.
July 16, 1941 Opochensky district military enlistment office drafted into the Red Army . In 1942 he graduated from the Odessa Military Infantry School. In the battles of World War II from September 1942.
The commander of the machine gun company of the 218th Guards Rifle Regiment (77th Guards Rifle Division, 61st Army, Central Front) of the Guard, Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Antonov, distinguished himself in September 1943 in the village of Komarin in the Bragin district of the Gomel region of Belarus .
During the crossing of the Soviet troops across the Dnieper River of the Guard, Senior Lieutenant Antonov N.I. received the task: to divert the enemy’s attention from the actual crossing point of the division with the fire of his company. Distracting the attention of the Nazis with machine-gun fire, the fearless officer reliably covered the battalion. As a result, rifle companies have advanced far into the fascist defenses. The skillful actions of the company of the guard of senior lieutenant Antonov on the false crossing section of the Dnieper contributed to the successful overcoming of the river by the battalion in the main direction.
For the valor and heroism of the guard in the battles for the Dnieper, Senior Lieutenant Antonov Nikolai Ivanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1944 with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal (No. 3315).
Since 1944, N. I. Antonov continued to serve in command posts in the Internal Troops of the NKVD / MVD of the USSR . He was the commander of the battalion and deputy chief of staff of the regiment. He graduated from the Higher School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since 1968, Colonel Antonov N.I. - in stock, and then retired. He lived in the capital of Ukraine - the hero city of Kiev . He died on December 25, 1995.
Rewards
- Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 3315)
- The order of Lenin
- Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree
- Medals, including:
- Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
- Anniversary medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
- Anniversary medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
- Anniversary medal “Forty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”
Memory
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- He was buried in Kiev at the Berkovtsy City Cemetery .
Notes
- ↑ Position and military rank on the date of conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Literature
- 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.
Links
Antonov, Nikolai Ivanovich (Hero of the Soviet Union) . Site " Heroes of the country ". (Retrieved August 26, 2011)