Oganov, Sergey Mambreevich

Born February 23, 1921 in the city of Tiflis (now Tbilisi) in a working class family. Armenian He graduated from 9 classes of high school. Member of the Komsomol . While still in the 9th grade, Sergei submitted an application to the Tbilisi Mining and Artillery School.

In the Red Army since 1939. In 1941 he graduated from the Tbilisi Artillery School ^[1] . Member of the Great Patriotic War since July 1941. He fought on the southern front. He participated in battles on the Dnieper near the city of Kherson , in the defense of Melitopol, Mariupol and Rostov-on-Don.

The battery commander of the 606th Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Sergey Oganov, controlling battery fire on the small Berber-Oba barrow near the village of Bolshoi Saly ( Myasnikovsky District of Rostov Region), on November 17-18, 1941, repelled 3 enemy tanks and infantry counterattacks, destroying battles in 2 days 22 fascist tanks. All battery warriors led by the commander died, but did not let the enemy pass.

He was buried in a mass grave on the Berber-Oba mound. After the war, the mass grave was transferred to the center of the village of Big Salas .

Feat

As a battery commander, Sergey Oganov fought heroically in defensive battles near Rostov-on-Don in the fall of 1941. The battery was only four guns. Personnel - less than a third of the staff. Commander Sergei Oganov was not only a commander, but also a gunner, and a carrier of shells, and a loader. In minutes, he set fire to three enemy vehicles. However, a fragment of a shell mortally wounded a brave warrior.

The command of the battery was taken by Lieutenant V.I. Puzyrev. Politruk S. Vavilov became one of the guns. Having shot the entire stock of shells, he also died the hero’s death.

Three fierce attacks of the enemy were repulsed by courageous gunners. 22 enemy tanks were shot down. The brave fighters of the battery died heroically, but honorably fulfilled the command order of the command. Not a single enemy tank passed through the line of defense they occupied.

Courageous batteries were posthumously awarded orders and medals. And battery commander Sergei Andreevich Oganov and political instructor Sergei Vasilievich Vavilov were posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union .

• By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 22, 1943, for the exemplary performance of command missions on the front of the struggle against Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown to this, Lieutenant Oganov Sergey Andreevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous).
• He was awarded the Order of Lenin.

• By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, S. M. Oganov was forever enlisted in the battery lists of the Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School named after 26 Baku Commissars.
• By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, S. M. Oganov was forever enlisted in the lists of personnel of the 160th Guards Tank Regiment stationed in ZabVO.
• In 1972, a monument was erected on the mound , where artillerymen performed their feat (and the “Artillery Mound” called by the people), the monument (the author of the monument is architect E. Kalayjan).
• In 1983, a monument dedicated to battery gunners — commander S. Oganov and political instructor S. Vavilov — was erected in Rostov-on-Don at the intersection of Taganrog Avenue and Oganov Street (architect - S. Khasabov, sculptors - P. Kochetkov and E. Kochetkova).
• A separate monument to the Oganovites was erected in the Greater Salas themselves.
• Streets in the city of Rostov-on-Don and in the village of Big Salas are named after the Hero.
• About Sergey Oganov, the poet Ludwig Duryan wrote the poem “He was coming down from the Sun” ^[2]

• List of Heroes of the Soviet Union of the Rostov region .

• Oganov, Sergey Mambreevich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Afanasenko V.I. The Truth About Oganov's Battery // Donskoy Temporary / Don State. public library. - Rostov-n / D, 1993—2014.
• Oganov Sergey Mambreevich .
• Monuments to the Oganovites .
• Heroes of the Soviet Union, awarded the title for exploits in the Don .
• G. Mamaev, local historian. Centralized library system of Rostov-on-Don (inaccessible link) .
• Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR