Olshevsky, Alexander Vasilievich

Alexander Vasilyevich Olshevsky was born on November 16, 1920 in the village of Kara-Ballyk of the Minusinsky district of the Yenisei province of the RSFSR (now a village in the Krasnoturansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Russian Federation ) in a peasant family of Vasily Romanovich and Anastasia Ivanovna Olshevsky. Russian In the early 30s, the Olshevsky family moved to the village of Ust-Syda (now flooded by the Krasnoyarsk reservoir ). Here Alexander Olshevsky graduated from a seven-year school. Then he was sent to tractor training courses. Prior to being drafted into the Red Army, Alexander Vasilievich worked as a tractor driver on the Yenisei collective farm .

In the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army A.V. Olshevsky was called up by the Krasnoturansky District Military Commissariat in 1940. In the army, Alexander Vasilievich mastered the specialty of a tank driver. With the outbreak of World War II, the unit in which Alexander Olshevsky served was transferred to Moscow . In battles with the Nazi invaders, Sergeant A.V. Olshevsky from November 4, 1941. He received baptism of fire in the Battle of Moscow on the Western Front . On November 18, 1941, the Olshevsky tank was hit at the Dubosekovo junction area. The wounded and burnt tanker was evacuated to the hospital. After recovery, Alexander Vasilievich was sent to the Saratov Tank School . Since April 1942, Junior Lieutenant A.V. Olshevsky on the Kalinin Front . During the First Rzhev-Sychevsky operation on August 19, 1942, Alexander Vasilievich was heavily shell-shocked. He was treated for a long time in the hospital. Again at the front since January 14, 1945. Junior Lieutenant A.V. Olshevsky was appointed commander of the self-propelled artillery installation of the 1455th self-propelled artillery regiment of the 9th tank corps of the 2nd Guards Tank Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. In its composition, Alexander Vasilievich participated in the Vistula-Oder , East Pomeranian and Berlin operations , the liberation of the cities of Radom , Lodz , Kalisz , Poznan , Kutno , Tomaszow , Gostynin , Lenchitsa , the assault on the German cities of Tsyllihau , Altdam , Berlin .

Guards Junior Lieutenant A.V. Olszewski was particularly distinguished during the Warsaw-Poznan frontal operation - an integral part of the Wisło-Oder strategic operation . On January 22, 1945, while repelling a German counterattack near the city of Opatuvek , the A.V. Olshevsky self-propelled gun crew entered into battle with superior enemy forces, destroying 1 Tiger tank, 2 T-4 tanks, 1 Ferdinand self-propelled artillery , 1 anti-tank gun and up to 150 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht. Subsequently, through skillful actions, the crew of Olshevsky ensured the rapid advance of the tank brigade to the Oder .

On March 24, 1945, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Guard, the second lieutenant Alexander Vasilyevich Olshevsky was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Alexander Vasilievich finished the war in Berlin on May 3, 1945. On the account of the crew of Olshevsky there were 14 destroyed enemy tanks and self-propelled guns. After the Victory, A. V. Olshevsky continued his service in the 9th Panzer Corps, which in July 1945 was renamed the 9th Panzer Division as part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany . In 1946, Alexander Vasilievich retired to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant . He returned to his native places and lived for some time in the Krasnoturan district. Then he left for Crimea , lived in the hero city of Kerch, Crimean region of the Ukrainian SSR . He worked as the dispatcher of the Crimea- Caucasus ferry . September 20, 1973, Alexander Vasilyevich died. He was buried in Kerch.

• Medal "Golden Star" (03.24.1945);
• Order of Lenin (03.24.1945);
• Order of the Patriotic War 2 degrees (05/14/1945);
• medals, including:
  • medal "For the defense of Moscow" ;
  • medal "For the capture of Berlin . "

• Streets in the village of Krasnoturansk and the village of Kara-Ballyk, Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Russian Federation are named after the Hero of the Soviet Union A.V. Olshevsky.

• Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - 863 s. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
• He deserves the title of Hero: Krasnoyarsk-Heroes of the Soviet Union. 2nd ed., Revised. and add / comp. I.T. Reva. - Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk Book Publishing House, 1975. - S. 286-287. - 382 p.
• Our brave fellow countrymen: Krasnoyarsk-Heroes of the Soviet Union / Pugachev V. .. - Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk Book Publishing House, 1990. - S. 286-287.

• Public electronic document bank “The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (neopr.) . Date of treatment April 4, 2012. Archived March 13, 2012.

Hero of the Soviet Union (Neopr.) . Date of treatment June 3, 2013. Archived June 3, 2013.

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 3, 2013. Archived June 3, 2013.

• Olshevsky, Alexander Vasilievich on www.az-libr.ru (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 3, 2013. Archived June 3, 2013.
• My heroic ancestor is Alexander Vasilyevich Olshevsky (neopr.) . Date of treatment March 31, 2012. Archived June 3, 2013.