Bryn, Vasily Martynovich

Vasily Bryn was born on January 12, 1910 in the village of Nikolaevka (now the Tambov District of the Amur Region ) in a peasant family. In 1941 he graduated from an agricultural college , after which he worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm . In July 1941 he was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. Since July 1942 - on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He took part in the Battle of Stalingrad and Kursk . By September 1943, the Guard Corporal Vasily Bryn was the sapper of the 89th Guards Separate Engineer Battalion of the 78th Guards Rifle Division of the 7th Guards Army of the Steppe Front . He distinguished himself during the battle of the Dnieper ^[1] .

On the night of September 24–25 , 1943, Bryn in the vicinity of the village of Domotkan, Verkhnedneprovsky District, Dnipropetrovsk Region, Ukrainian SSR, transported 70 Soviet soldiers and officers across the Dnieper , and on a ferry from two landing boats — 3 guns in ammunition, making a total of 12 flights ^{[1 ]} .

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 26, 1943, for "exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the struggle against Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown" of the guard, Corporal Vasily Bryn was awarded the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and a medal The Golden Star, numbered 1379 ^[1] .

In 1944 he joined the CPSU (b) . He took part in the Uman-Botoshan , Iasi-Chisinau , Debrecen , Budapest , Brnovsk operations, the liberation of the Moldavian SSR , Romania , Hungary , Czechoslovakia . In November 1945, with the rank of foreman, Bryn was demobilized. He lived and worked in the village of Kamennaya Gebl, Skvirsky district, Kiev region , and later moved to Novorossiysk , where he worked as a forwarder for Kurorttorg. He died on April 16, 1983, was buried in the Novorossiysk cemetery "Solnechnoe" ^[1] .

He was also awarded the orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and the Red Star , medals "For Military Merit" , "For the Capture of Budapest" and "For the Victory over Germany" ^[1] .

• 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.
• Sergienko A. M. Amurtsy - Heroes of the Great Patriotic War. - Blagoveshchensk, 1970.