Molochinsky, Grigory Fedorovich

Born in 1910 in the village of Romashkino, now in the Kurmanayevsky district of the Orenburg region, in a peasant family. Russian

He graduated from junior high school. Before conscription, he worked in his native village. Then he worked as a teacher in a boarding school in the Oryol region of the Rostov region . He was married (wife - Daria Vladimirovna), the family had four children ^[1] .

Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940 . In June 1941 he was drafted to the front. From the beginning of World War II to the day of his death, he fought on the South-Western, 3rd Belorussian fronts, participated in defensive battles of the first period of the war near Voronezh, the liberation of Belarus, Lithuania, defeating the enemy on the territory of East Prussia. He was seriously injured.

He died in the battles for Koenigsberg on April 6, 1945 . He was buried in the suburbs of Kaliningrad - the village of Chkalovsk . There is a monument on the grave.

So wrote about the father of a senior researcher at the Kaliningrad Museum of History and Art A.I. Petrikin, the daughter of Molochinsky - Rita Grigoryevna:

“He was born into a worker-peasant family, they had seven children, but all: both parents and six children — died of starvation, there was only one father. His uncle took him up. He lived badly, did not have to study, he knew science himself. In 1930, he was drafted into the Red Army. There he joined the Communist Party and, having been discharged from the army, he went to study in absentia in Rostov . After demobilization, he worked at school as a teacher at the station of Double Rostov Region. From 1935 to 1941 he worked at the boarding school of the 3rd Comintern farm in the Oryol region , where he was sent after graduation in Rostov. In 1941 he went to war ” ^[2] .

• The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, 1945 for courage and heroism shown during the assault on the fortified city of Königsberg ( posthumous ).
• He was awarded the Order of Lenin (1945) and medals.

The award sheet by which Grigory Molochinsky was presented for the awarding of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union states:

“Comrade Molochinsky in the battle on April 6, 45, during the assault on the city of Konigsberg, showed courage and courage. As a party organizer of a company, he inspired fighters by personal example during the battle. The company commander, Comrade Failed. Molochinsky boldly assumed command and, despite the enemy’s hurricane fire, moved forward all the time, destroying the Nazis with the fire of his machine gun. When a company lay under strong enemy fire, comrade Molochinsky rose to his full height with an exclamation, “Forward! For the Motherland! ” And rushed forward to the enemy trenches. The whole company rose as one after the brave party organizer, burst into the trenches of the enemy, knocked him out of his positions and destroyed up to 40 Nazis. ”

• One of the streets of the Central district of the city of Kaliningrad is named after the Hero.
• About his exploits there is material in the branch of the regional museum of local lore of Kaliningrad.
• In 1982, the essay on the Hero of the Soviet Union Grigory Fedorovich Molochinsky was published by the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda ^[3] .

• Molochinsky, Grigory Fedorovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• History of the Orenburg Region - Molochinsky Grigory Fedorovich .
• Molochinsky Grigory Fedorovich .
• Heroes of the Soviet Union, who lived on the Don before the Great Patriotic War .