Ivan Platonovich Golub ( 1920 - 1944 ) - Soviet officer, tanker , participant of the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, posthumously).
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| Date of Birth | June 29, 1920 | |||
| Place of Birth | Kolomiytsy village, Yekaterinoslav Province [1] | |||
| Date of death | January 5, 1944 (23 years) | |||
| Place of death | near the village of Gordiyevka, Dzerzhinsky district , Zhytomyr region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR | |||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||
| Type of army | armored troops | |||
| Years of service | 1939-1944 | |||
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| Part | 13th Guards Tank Brigade | |||
| Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||
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During the Great Patriotic War, the tank commander of the 2nd battalion of the 13th Guards Tank Brigade , Guards Junior Lieutenant. Especially distinguished himself in the battles on January 5, 1944 in the territory of the Zhytomyr region , was killed near the village of Gordievka .
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Biography
Early years
Born on June 29, 1920 in the village of Kolomiytsy, now of the Pokrovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region . Ukrainian [2] . Ivan Golub spent his childhood and youth in the village of Kuybyshevo in Zaporizhia, where he graduated from high school. Then he worked at the station Starokonstantinovka . Member of the Komsomol [2] [3] .
In September 1939, drafted into the ranks of the Red Army . He graduated from the regimental school, having mastered the specialty mechanic-driver of a light tank [3] [2] . Later, his tank regiment was equipped with modern at that time medium tanks T-34 , and tank mechanic sergeant I. P. Golub, as an excellent military and political training, was one of the first to transfer to a new vehicle. At the first driving lessons, Re showed a high class and received thanks from the commander of the unit [3] .
A participant in the parade on Red Square on May 1, 1941, where one of the T-34s led [3] .
During the Great Patriotic War
Since the beginning of World War II fought on the North-Western Front . In December 1942, tank mechanic sergeant I. P. Golub was sent to the Oryol Frunze Armored School , which he successfully graduated in the fall of 1943, on the eve of the holiday on November 7 [3] .
The tank commander of the 2nd battalion of the 13th Guards Tank Brigade of the 4th Guards Tank Corps of the 60th Army Guards Junior Lieutenant I. P. Golub fought on the 1st Ukrainian front [2] .
At the end of 1943, in the area of Chopovichi in the Zhytomyr region, the crew of his tank defended an important section in the path of the enemy, who had launched a counterattack. Despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, he successfully repulsed several attacks, preventing the enemy from advancing and entering the rear of the Soviet troops, disabling two " tigers ", destroyed more infantry platoons, and put down several guns [2] .
On December 24, the Zhytomyr-Berdichev operation began , and the 13th Guards Tank Brigade itself launched an offensive. Tankers took control of the road from Zhytomyr to the north and then, turning to the south-west, cut the Zhytomyr- Novograd-Volynsky railway line. During the offensive, I.P. Golub, along with other tank crews, broke into the village of Genovichi , where they destroyed several enemy guns and vehicles, and when the German troops counterattacked, they skillfully organized a defense. Having put his tank into the shelter and having well disguised it, the crew of I. P. Golub managed to let the two German heavy tanks “ Tiger ” closer and tackle the first of them from a short distance. The second tank attempted to hide in a hollow, but I.P. Golub undertook a maneuver, and bypassing the skyscraper on the left, set fire to the "tiger" from the vantage point [3] .
In the evening of December 31, tank crews of the brigade entered the area of the village High Furnace of the Zhytomyr region [3] . On January 5, 1944, his tank at high speed rapidly and unexpectedly for the enemy broke into the village and attacked the enemy, who had quite significant forces there. Tankers shot three " tigers ", two self-propelled guns " Ferdinand ", five guns and with fire of their machine gun destroyed the enemy soldiers to the company. It was also broken several cars with ammunition and military cargo. A panic arose in the village, and the crew of I. P. Golub, moving from house to house, shot the escaping soldiers [2] .
Having escaped forward, the tankers intercepted the road along which the enemy was retreating, smashed the head vehicle of the column and stopped traffic. As a result, more than 40 cars and 50 loads with cargoes were captured [2] .
In this battle, the tank I. P. Golub received six holes, and the commander himself was stunned and wounded by fragments. Despite the difficult condition, he continued to fight near the village of Gordiyevka . Here the crew of his tank entered combat with the enemy's field battery, which fired at the 2nd tank battalion advancing on the village [2] .
In the tank is no longer a single shell. And then I.P. Golub made a bold decision - to crush the guns with the tracks of his tank. At top speed, the car rushed to the battery, the guns were crushed by caterpillars, and the artillery calculations so far were enough cartridges shot from a machine gun [2] .
The path to the 2nd tank battalion of the 13th Guards Tank Brigade was cleared, but Guards Junior Lieutenant Ivan Platonovich Golub was killed in this battle [2] .
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 24, 1944, “for courage, bravery, heroism and exemplary performance of tasks in the fight against the German fascist invaders”, Guard Junior Lieutenant Ivan Platonovich Golub was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union [2] .
He was buried in the village of Gordievka Romanovsky district Zhytomyr region [2] [4] .
Awards and titles
Soviet state awards and titles [2] :
- Hero of the Soviet Union (May 24, 1944, posthumously)
- Order of Lenin (May 24, 1944, posthumously)
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree
- medals
Memory
An obelisk was erected on the grave in the village of Gordievka, Romanovsky district, Zhytomyr region, and a monument was erected in front of the local school named after him [2] .
His name is carved on the Glory Board in the village of Kuybyshevo, Zaporozhye region, where the street is named after him [2] .
On December 15, 1965, by the order of the Minister of Defense, I. P. Golub was forever enrolled in the lists of personnel of the Guards Kantemirovskaya division [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Now Pokrovsky district , Dnipropetrovsk region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Serdyukov I. L. Golub, Ivan Platonovich . The site " Heroes of the country ."
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Forever in service, 1980 , p. 12-19.
- Information from the lists of burial in the electronic bank of documents OBD "Memorial" .
Literature
- Golub Ivan Platonovich // 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.
- Golden Stars Polissya. 3rd ed., Kiev, 1985. - p. 103-105.
- And the general and private. Dnepropetrovsk, 1983. - pp. 132-136.
- Golub Ivan Platonovich // Forever in the ranks. M. , 1980, kn.7. - pp. 12-19.
Links
Golub, Ivan Platonovich . The site " Heroes of the country ."