Zaitsev, Vasily Petrovich

Vasily Petrovich Zaitsev
Vasily Petrovich Zaitsev
Date of Birth	February 26, 1916
Place of Birth	;
Date of death	October 15, 1944 (28 years old)
A place of death	Schirvindt , East Prussia , Third Reich
Affiliation	the USSR
Type of army
Years of service	1936 - 1944
Rank
Commanded	company
Battles / wars	;

Vasily Petrovich Zaitsev - participant of the Great Patriotic War , commander of the 4th company of the 2nd battalion of the 297th infantry regiment of the 184th Red Banner Dukhovschinsky infantry division of the 5th army of the 3rd Belorussian Front , Hero of the Soviet Union .

Content

1 Biography
2 World War II
3 Awards
4 memory
5 notes
6 Literature
7 References

Biography

Born on February 26, 1916 in Izhevsk (according to other sources - March 11, 1915 in the village of Verkhnyaya Ludzya, Vyatka province ^[1] ). By nationality - Udmurt. He graduated from seven classes. He worked as a postman on the collective farm, chairman of the village council.

He was drafted into the Red Army in 1937 and sent to the border troops of the NKVD of the USSR, served in the Far East ^[2] . After discharge to the reserve, he lived in Izhevsk, worked at the Central Post Office.

World War II

On the fronts of World War II since July 1941 . In 1942 he graduated from junior lieutenant courses. Since December 1943, he commanded the rifle company of the 297th rifle regiment of the 184th rifle division, as part of the Western , 3rd Belorussian fronts, he liberated Smolensk, Belarus . He was wounded five times. On August 17, 1944, Zaitsev’s company was the first in the Red Army to reach the state border with East Prussia in the region north of the city of Naumestis (Lithuania) ^[2] , in connection with which its commander sent a historical report to Supreme Commander Joseph Stalin :

“I will report to you according to service and to your liking. On August 17, at 7.30 a.m., it was my honor to be the first to hoist our victorious Red Banner on the state border of the socialist Fatherland with Nazi Germany ... We know that the enemy must be defeated. Everything that the struggle for the complete destruction of Germany will require of me and my fighters, we will give without hesitation ” ^[1] .

In October 1944, when Soviet troops entered the territory of East Prussia, he was seriously wounded in battle and died in a hospital a few days later. He was buried in the city of Kaunas ^[2] .

Rewards

Gold Star Medal (Decree of March 24, 1945 );
Order of Lenin ;
Order of the Red Banner ;
Order of Alexander Nevsky ;
Order of the Patriotic War II degree ;
Order of the Red Star .

Memory

By the decision of the Executive Committee of the Izhevsk City Council of April 28, 1965, Bessarabskaya Street was renamed Vasily Zaitsev Street ^[3] .

September 12, 2014 on the central square of the village of Zavyalovo was unveiled a monument-bust of Vasily Petrovich Zaitsev ^[4] .

Notes

↑ ¹ ² Zaitsev Vasily Petrovich (neopr.) . Books of Udmurtia. Date of treatment November 6, 2012. Archived November 23, 2012.
↑ ¹ ² ³ Heroes of the Fatherland from among former pupils of law enforcement bodies and troops who died in battles for East Prussia (Neopr.) . Information about the dead in the Kaliningrad region. Date of treatment November 6, 2012. Archived November 23, 2012.
↑ Zaitsev Vasily Petrovich. Zaitsev street (neopr.) . Information site in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic. Date of treatment November 6, 2012. Archived November 23, 2012.
↑ A monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union was erected in Zavyalovo (Neopr.) . Susanin.udm.ru (September 12, 2014). Date of appeal September 12, 2014.

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.
Vorobyov E.3. Thirty-three heroes. - M., 1977 .-- S. 157-164.
The heroes of the Soviet Union are our countrymen. - Izhevsk, 1962. - S. 49-51.
Golubev V.V. Steps to immortality. - Izhevsk, 1978. - S. 91-123.
Kulemin I.G., Sentemova L.F., Islentieva R.A. Heroes of the Soviet Union are our fellow countrymen. - Ustinov, 1985. - S. 46-47.

Links

Zaitsev, Vasily Petrovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

[уд-1] ¹ ² Zaitsev Vasily Petrovich (neopr.) . Books of Udmurtia. Date of treatment November 6, 2012. Archived November 23, 2012.

[май-2] ¹ ² ³ Heroes of the Fatherland from among former pupils of law enforcement bodies and troops who died in battles for East Prussia (Neopr.) . Information about the dead in the Kaliningrad region. Date of treatment November 6, 2012. Archived November 23, 2012.

[3] Zaitsev Vasily Petrovich. Zaitsev street (neopr.) . Information site in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic. Date of treatment November 6, 2012. Archived November 23, 2012.

[4] A monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union was erected in Zavyalovo (Neopr.) . Susanin.udm.ru (September 12, 2014). Date of appeal September 12, 2014.