Anton Antonovich Antonov ( 1919 - 1944 ) - Soviet military man. Member of the Great Patriotic War . Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, posthumously). Red Army Guard .
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| Date of Birth | 1919 | ||
| Place of Birth | Sentovo village, Elisavetgrad district , Kherson province , Ukrainian SSR; now Alexander district , Kirovograd region | ||
| Date of death | April 13, 1944 | ||
| Place of death | Tashlyk village, Grigoriopolsky district , Moldavian ASSR | ||
| Type of army | infantry | ||
| Years of service | 1944 | ||
| Rank |  Red Army man | ||
| Part | 290th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 95th Guards Rifle Division | ||
| Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||
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Biography
Anton Antonovich Antonov was born in 1919 in the village of Sentovo of the Elisavetgrad district of the Kherson province of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (now the village of Rodnikivka, Aleksandrovsky district, Kirovograd region of Ukraine ) in a peasant family. Ukrainian . Nonpartisan Primary education. Before the war, he worked as a turner at the Kirovograd factory "Red Star".
A. Antonov was called up to the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army after the liberation of Kirovograd from the Nazi invaders. From January 1944, the Red Army soldier Antonov fought as a machine gunner for a light machine gun of the 1st rifle battalion of the 290th guards regiment of the 95th guards rifle division of the 5th guards army of the 2nd Ukrainian front . He participated in the battles for the Right-Bank Ukraine . Especially distinguished himself in the Uman-Botosha operation .
On March 23, 1944, the Red Army soldier A. A. Antonov, with his machine gun, first forced the Southern Bug near the village of Chausovo, Pervomaisky district, Nikolaev region of the Ukrainian SSR , and took up a firing position, repelled a counterattack by the enemy, who tried to prevent the crossing of the Soviet troops. In battle, destroyed 8 German soldiers. Developing a rapid offensive, the advanced parts of the division reached the Dniester River . On the night of April 12-13, 1944, in the group of eight volunteers under the command of the guard captain S. V. Tselykh, under the fire of the opponent of the guard, the red army soldier A. A. Antonov forced the Dniester near the village of Tashlyk . During the crossing Anton Antonovich was on the nose of the amphibious assault ship and with fire from a machine gun he suppressed the enemy firing points. Having secured the landing of the group on the right bank of the river, the machine-gunner A. A. Antonov heroically died.
For the exemplary performance of the combat tasks of the command on the front of the struggle against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown by this decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 13, 1944, the guard Red Army Antonov Anton Antonovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. He was buried in a mass grave of Soviet soldiers in the village of Tashlyk of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika ).
Awards
- Gold Star Medal (09/13/1944, posthumously)
- Order of Lenin (13/09/1944, posthumously)
Memory
- The bust of the Hero of the Soviet Union A. A. Antonov was installed in the village of Tashlyk of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika
- The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union A. A. Antonov is a school in the village of Tashlyk
- In the name of Hero of the Soviet Union A. A. Antonov, a street in the city of Kirovograd is named
Literature
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. College I. Shkadov . - Moscow : Military Publishing , 1987. - T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 s. - 100 000 copies - ISBN SEC., Reg. Number in the PSC 87-95382.
- Korenev A. A. Password - a feat. - Chisinau: Map of Moldovenienaske, 1968. - p. 210-211. - 243 s.
- Chabanenko V.V. Glorified through the ages: essays on the Heroes of the Soviet Union - natives of the Kirovograd region. - Dnepropetrovsk: Promin, 1983. - 367 p.
Documents
- The publicly available electronic bank of documents "The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." . Archived March 13, 2012. No. in the database 150001163 Unsolved . Archived May 12, 2013. , 18938765 Unsolved . Archived May 12, 2013. , 20918732 Unsolved . Archived May 12, 2013.
- Generalized data bank "Memorial" . Archived May 10, 2012. TsAMO, f. 58, op. 18002, d. 295 . (inaccessible link) , TsAMO, f. 58, op. 977525, d. 279 .
Links
- Antonov, Anton Antonovich . The site " Heroes of the country ."
- Anton Anton Antonovich on www.az-libr.ru Neopr . Archived June 16, 2012.
- Encyclopedia of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Not available link) . Archived May 12, 2013.