Nikolai Vasilyevich Budyuk ( 1920 - 1944 ) - captain of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army , participant of the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1945 ).
| Nikolai Vasilyevich Budyuk | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | 1920 | |||||
| Place of Birth | village Novomarevka , Bashtansky district , Nikolaevkskaya area | |||||
| Date of death | October 13, 1944 | |||||
| Place of death | East Prussia | |||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||
| Type of army | artillery | |||||
| Years of service | 1939 - 1944 | |||||
| Rank | Captain  | |||||
| Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||
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Biography
Nikolay Budyuk was born in 1 920 in the village of Novomaryevka (now - Bashtansky district of the Nikolaev region of Ukraine ) in a peasant family.
After graduating from ten classes of secondary school and factory apprenticeship school, he worked as a mechanic at the Nikolaev Shipyard .
In 1939 he was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army by the Nikolaev City Military Commissariat . Since the beginning of World War II - on its fronts. He participated in battles on the Western , South-Western , Belarusian and 3rd Byelorussian fronts. In 1944, he graduated from the officer development courses. By June 1944, Captain Nikolai Budyuk commanded a battery of self-propelled artillery units of the 953rd Light Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment of the 65th Infantry Corps of the 5th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front. He distinguished himself during the liberation of the Byelorussian and Lithuanian SSR [1] .
On June 23, 1944, during the battle for the village of Kings, the battery of Budyuk destroyed 6 German machine-gun points, a gun and 80 enemy soldiers and officers, which made it possible for the infantry units to clear the way to the Luchesa River and ensure its crossing in the area of Bogushevsk . On the whole, on June 22–25, 1944, the battery destroyed 7 guns, 24 machine guns, 10 cars, a tractor, and about 380 enemy soldiers and officers. On July 12 - 13, Budyuk was one of the first to break into the stormed Vilnius and destroyed 2 gun emplacements there and hit a German tank and an armored vehicle. On October 11, 1944, during the offensive in East Prussia, Budyuk was seriously wounded, from which he died on October 13 in the mobile field hospital No. 751.
He was buried in the folvark of the Pilvginini administrative region of Lithuania [1] .
Awards
- By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 24, 1945, Captain Nikolai Budyuk was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union for "exemplary performance of the combat tasks of the command on the front against the German invaders and showing courage and heroism".
- He was also awarded the Order of Lenin , the Red Banner , World War 1 degree, the Red Star , as well as a number of medals.
Memory
- Nikolay Budyuk’s name is on the Stele of Heroes - workers of the Nikolaev Shipbuilding Plant [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Budyuk, Nikolai Vasilyevich . The site " Heroes of the country ."
Literature
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. College I. Shkadov . - Moscow : Military Publishing , 1987. - T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 s. - 100 000 copies - ISBN SEC., Reg. Number in the PSC 87-95382.
- Bundyukov A.T., Kravchenko M.V. Filial fidelity to the Fatherland. Odessa, 1982.
- For homeland, freedom and honor! Book 5. Gorky, 1978.
- Forever in the heart of the people. 3rd ed., Ext. and rev. Minsk, 1984.