Deynega, Alexey Tikhonovich

Aleksey Tikhonovich Deynega was born on March 15 ( March 2, according to the old style ) in 1914 in a peasant family in the village of Motrino of the Kremenchug district of the Poltava province of the Russian Empire (now the Kobelyak district of the Poltava region of Ukraine ). Ukrainian . At the end of seven classes of the rural school, he worked on the Red Partisan collective farm , then at the Motrinsky Village Council. In 1936-1938 he was in military service. After demobilization, the junior commander A.T. Deynega returned to his native village. Before the war, he worked as secretary of the Motrinsky Village Council.

A. T. Deynega was called up to the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army on August 14, 1943, by the Kishenkovsky District Military Commissariat of the Poltava Region of the Ukrainian SSR . In battles with the Nazi invaders, Junior Sergeant A.T. Deynega since August 1943, as part of a separate motorized reconnaissance company of the 43rd Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the 27th Army of the Voronezh Front (from October 20, 1943 - the 1st Ukrainian Front ) . He participated in the Battle of the Dnieper at the Bukrinsky bridgehead , in the Kiev offensive operation and in the Kiev defensive operation , liberated the Right-Bank Ukraine , participating in the Zhytomyr-Berdychiv operation , then as part of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in the Uman-Botoshansk operation , forced the South Bug and Dniester rivers , Rod and Siret . He has gone from junior sergeant to senior sergeant. Alexei Tikhonovich with his fighters repeatedly carried out the tasks of the command of reconnaissance and sabotage work in the enemy’s rear lines, the capture of “languages”. So, during the Iasi-Chisinau operation, a group of scouts under the command of senior sergeant A.T. The intelligence obtained by the groups of A.T. Deynegi also contributed to the successful operations of the 27th Army during the Debrecen and Budapest operations. In February 1945, Alexei Tikhonovich participated in the capture of the city of Budapest . During the liquidation of an enemy group surrounded by the city with four soldiers of his squad, Alexei Tikhonovich repelled an attempt to break through the Germans at his station, destroying about 120 Wehrmacht soldiers and officers , and another 342 German and Hungarian soldiers surrendered.

In total, during the participation in the hostilities, reconnaissance and sabotage groups under the command of A. T. Deynegi blew up 11 bridges behind enemy lines, 9 German depots, destroyed 4 enemy headquarters, took 11 “languages”, including four officers. Alexei Tikhonovich ended the war as part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front on May 10, 1945 on the Mur River in Austria during the Vienna offensive operation . On June 29, 1945, Sergeant Aleksey Tikhonovich Deynega was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

After demobilization in 1945, Alexei Tikhonovich settled in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk, Dnipropetrovsk region of the Ukrainian SSR. He worked as deputy chairman of the Dneprodzerzhinsky district executive committee. From 1947 to 1968 he led the city consumer services plant. September 20, 1988, Alexei Tikhonovich died. He was buried in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk.

• Medal "Golden Star" (06/29/1945);
• Order of Lenin (06/29/1945);
• Order of the Red Banner (12.13.1944);
• Order of Glory 2 degrees (03.16.1945);
• Order of Glory 3 degrees (08.16.1944);
• Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree (04/06/1985);
• medals .

• The bust of the Hero of the Soviet Union A.T. Deynegi is installed in the city of Kobelyaki, Poltava region of Ukraine.

• 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.
• For courage and courage: documentary essays about the Heroes of the Soviet Union - natives of Poltava and the Poltava region. 2nd ed., Revised. and ext / ed. S.I. Isaev. - Kharkov: Prapor, 1984. - S. 126-128. - 455 s.

• Public electronic document bank “The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (unopened) . Archived March 13, 2012. No in the database 46638375 Hero of the Soviet Union (Neopr.) . Archived on May 21, 2013. , 43719586 Order of the Red Banner (Neopr.) . Archived on May 21, 2013. , 1514667318 Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (neopr.) . Archived on May 21, 2013. , 25542299 Order of Glory, 2nd degree (neopr.) . Archived on May 21, 2013. , 35016963 Order of Glory 3rd degree (neopr.) . Archived on May 21, 2013.

• Deynega, Alexey Tikhonovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Deynega Alexey Tikhonovich on www.az-libr.ru (neopr.) . Archived June 22, 2012.
• Poltava historical (neopr.) . Archived on May 21, 2013.