Victor Antonovich Vedenko ( 1910 - 1944 ) - Soviet officer, participant in the Great Patriotic War , commander of the rifle company of the 334th rifle regiment of the 47th rifle Nevelskaya order of Suvorov, division of the 6th Guards Army of the 1st Baltic Front , Hero of the Soviet Union (22.07. 1944), lieutenant .
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| Date of Birth | October 9 (22), 1910 | ||||
| Place of Birth | with. Visunsk Russian empire (now Bereznegovatsky district of the Nikolaev region of Ukraine ) | ||||
| Date of death | June 26, 1944 (33 years old) | ||||
| Place of death | Shumilinsky district , Vitebsk region , Belarusian SSR , the USSR | ||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire the USSR | ||||
| Type of army | infantry | ||||
| Years of service | 1941 - 1944 | ||||
| Rank | Lieutenant  | ||||
| Commanded | rifle company | ||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||
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Biography
He was born on October 9 (22), 1910 in the village of Visunsk now in the Bereznegovatsky district of the Nikolaev region of Ukraine in a peasant family. Ukrainian .
Primary education. He worked as a tractor driver, foreman of the field crop brigade in his homeland.
He was drafted into the Red Army in 1941 by the Sanchurovsky district military enlistment office of the Nikolaev region of the Ukrainian SSR. In the army since June 1941. In 1943 he became an officer, completing junior lieutenant courses. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1943.
The commander of the rifle company of the 334th rifle regiment (47th rifle division, 6th guards army, 1st Baltic front), Lieutenant Viktor Vedenko was especially distinguished in the battles for the Obol station in the Vitebsk region of Belarus .
On June 26, 1944, a rifle company entrusted to Lieutenant Vedenko took possession of the station and repelled five enemy counterattacks. The company commander Vedenko heroically died in this battle.
He was buried in cemetery No. 2, 500 meters north-west of the village of Plitovka, 1st Sirotinsky district, Vitebsk region . He was reburied in the town of Obol , where the obelisk is installed.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 22, 1944, for the exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the battle against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown to this, Lieutenant Vedenko Viktor Antonovich was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Rewards
- Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Order of Lenin .
- Order of the Red Banner .
- Order of the Red Star .
- Medals.
Memory
- A street in Oboli is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union V. A. Vedenko.
- The name of Vedenko Viktor Antonovich was assigned to the Snigirev model automobile school DOSAAF of the Nikolaev region [1] .
Notes
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
Vedenko, Victor Antonovich . Site " Heroes of the country ". (Retrieved February 10, 2012)
- Vedenko Viktor Antonovich
- Vedenko, Viktor Antonovich at the Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants