Ivan Vladimirovich Borshchik ( 1919 - 1944 ) - senior lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1945 ).
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| Date of Birth | April 26, 1919 | ||||
| Place of Birth | Godunovka village, Yagotinsky district , Kiev region | ||||
| Date of death | August 21, 1944 (25 years old) | ||||
| Place of death | Bagachi district , Dobele district , Latvia | ||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||
| Type of army | artillery | ||||
| Years of service | 1939 - 1944 | ||||
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| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||
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Biography
Ivan Borshchik was born on April 26, 1919 in the village of Godunovka (now Yagotinsky district of the Kiev region of Ukraine ) into a peasant family. At the age of 10, he was left without a father. In 1939 he graduated from nine classes of a school, after which he worked for some time on a collective farm . In the same year he was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army . Since the beginning of World War II - on its fronts. Participated in the defense of Odessa . In 1942 he graduated from the artillery school in Tbilisi and the courses of battery commanders. He participated in the battles for the Kuban and the battle for the Caucasus . Repeatedly injured, did not leave the battlefield. By August 1944, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Borshchik commanded the battery of the 239th artillery regiment of the 77th Infantry Division of the 51st Army of the 1st Baltic Front . He participated in battles in the territory of the Latvian SSR [1] .
Award sheet presented for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305092945/http://podvignaroda.mil.ru/filter/filterimage?path=VS%2F001%2F033-0793756-0006%2F00000546 .jpg & id = 150004124 & id1 = 121439326d4b613a4facd4a37bac493c
During the battles for the city of Solechay , the Borshchik’s battery destroyed the enemy’s manpower, which contributed to the successful capture of the city by infantry units. Also, thanks to the actions of the battery, German troops could not destroy the bridge over the Muzha River. On August 6, 1944, a battery repelled 8 enemy counterattacks in the area of Bagachi, Mitava County , knocking out 3 and damaging 2 German tanks . On August 21, 1944, in a battle with superior enemy forces, almost all battery calculations failed. Borschik personally began to fire on the advancing tanks, knocking out 2 of them. When the heavy tank began to approach the Borshchik’s gun, he grabbed the anti-tank grenade in both hands and went to meet him. He was injured by a shell fragment, but continued to go to the tank. Borshchik threw a grenade under the tank’s caterpillars, blowing it up, but also dying himself. He was buried in a mass grave at the Graveli farm in the Dobel district of Latvia [1] .
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, 1945, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Borshchik was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union . He was also awarded the Orders of Lenin , World War 1 degree and Red Star . He was forever enrolled in the lists of the military unit. In the village of Godunovka, a bust of Borshchik is installed, on the house where the Hero lived there is a memorial plaque , a street and a school are named in his honor. Borschik’s bust is installed on the Heroes Avenue in the city of Yagotin, Kiev Region [1] .
In the memoirs of contemporaries
During the battle on the defense section of the 77th Infantry Division, Major General A.P. Rodionov, the true heroism was shown by the soldiers of the battery of the 239th artillery regiment, commanded by senior lieutenant Ivan Vladimirovich Borshchik. His subordinates repelled five tank attacks. But one by one all the gunners died. Then the commander himself stood up to the gun and with the last shells knocked out two more tanks. The surviving wounded batteries with rifles and machine guns repelled all infantry attacks. But now, clearing the way for the infantry, the tanks moved again. Ivan Borshchik with anti-tank grenades in his hands moved across the tiger. The shard dug into the officer’s hand. He quickly lost strength. Taking both grenades with one hand, the battery commander rushed under the tank and saved his comrades from death.
I.V. Borshchik ... was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.- Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union Baghramyan I.Kh. So we went to victory. - M: Military Publishing, 1977 .-- S. 414.415.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Borschik, Ivan Vladimirovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
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.
- Battle stars of Kiev. - Kiev: Political Publishing House of Ukraine, 1983.
- We cannot forget these roads. Kiev, 1980.