Gagarin, Peter Petrovich

Peter Petrovich Gagarin
Peter Petrovich Gagarin
Date of Birth
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Date of death
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Affiliation	the USSR
Type of army
Years of service	1941-1945
Rank
Part	• 31st separate engineering battalion of the 32nd army;; • 51st engineering and combat brigade
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Peter Petrovich Gagarin ( 1909 - 1962 ) - Soviet soldier. Member of World War II . Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1945 ). Junior sergeant .

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Biography

Pyotr Petrovich Gagarin was born in 1909 in a peasant family in the village of Stary Gorod of the Temnikovsky district of the Tambov province (now the village of the Temnikovsky district of the Republic of Mordovia ). Mordvin ^[1] . Primary education. He worked in a personal farm. Then he was dispossessed, because he had a shingle (mill), and was not exiled only because he still had a baby. The family was officially evicted from the house, and the Gagarins had to rent a corner in their own house. When everything calmed down, Pyotr Petrovich entered the collective farm, where he worked before being drafted for military service.

P. P. Gagarin was called up to the Temnikovsky District Military Commissariat of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on June 24, 1941. In battles with the Nazi invaders, Private P. P. Gagarin from February 1942 on the Karelian Front as part of the 31st separate engineering battalion of the 32nd Army . February 22, 1942 Pyotr Petrovich was wounded, but quickly returned to duty. In October 1942, the engineer battalion was reorganized for Arkhangelsk and became part of the 51st engineer and engineer brigade , and the Red Army soldier Gagarin was transferred to the 2nd company of the 4th engineer and engineer battalion. Since March 1943, Pyotr Petrovich on the Southwestern Front , where the sappers of the brigade performed engineering tasks in the interests of various units: they built fortifications, created barriers, mined the terrain, made passages in the minefields of the enemy, and ensured the overcoming of his engineering barriers.

From October to December 1943, the 51st brigade as part of the 1st Guards Army participated in the Donbass offensive operation , during which Peter Petrovich was seriously wounded on September 6, 1943. In his unit, which fought in the 3rd Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front , he returned in December 1943. At the end of January - February 1944, the Red Armyman P.P. Gagarin participated in the Nikopol-Kryvyi Rih operation . Then, as part of the 46th Army, he liberated Right-Bank Ukraine during the Bereznegovato-Snigirevskaya and Odessa operations. When crossing the Southern Bug under enemy fire, the Red Armyman P.P. Gagarin made 22 voyages, crossing 162 soldiers to the right bank of the river. When crossing the Dniester estuary on the night of August 21-22, 1944, south of the city of Akkerman (now the city of Belgorod-Dniester, Odessa region of Ukraine ), Petr Petrovich crossed the rifle units, made two passes in the enemy’s wire fence, and then took part in the assault with the infantry German positions.

In August-September 1944, the Red Armyman P.P. Gagarin participated in the Iasi-Kishinev operation , the liberation from fascism of Romania and Bulgaria . Since September 20, the 46th Army was subordinated to the 2nd Ukrainian Front and took part in the Debrecen operation . In October 1944, the Budapest operation began, during which the troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, overcoming the stubborn resistance of the enemy, reached the Danube in early December 1944. Units of the 46th Army had to force a river near the Hungarian town of Erci , 20 kilometers south of Budapest . On the night of December 4-5, 1944, under strong enemy fire, the calculation of Private Gagarin was the first to set sail from the left bank of the Danube with paratroopers on board, setting an example to the other landing groups. The boat of Peter Petrovich was the first to reach the left bank. Having landed the landing, the Red Army soldier Gagarin with his calculation took part in the battle for securing the bridgehead . After the landing of all the landing groups, the sappers began to return, but Gagarin’s boat was sunk, and two soldiers of his crew were wounded. Pyotr Petrovich managed to save both his comrades, after which, as part of another calculation, he continued to transfer rifle units across the Danube, making 18 flights overnight and transporting 380 people, 25 machine guns and 17 mortars with calculations and ammunition.

March 24, 1945 Red Army soldier Gagarin Petr Petrovich decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Subsequently, Peter Petrovich participated in the Vienna and Prague operations. He completed the battle path on May 11, 1945 in Czechoslovakia near the city of Ceske Budejovice . P.P. Gagarin was demobilized in September 1945 with the rank of junior sergeant. He returned to his native village, worked on a collective farm. April 15, 1962 Pyotr Petrovich died. He was buried in the village of Old Town .

Rewards

Medal "Golden Star" (03.24.1945);
Order of Lenin (03.24.1945);
Order of the Red Star (04/05/1944);
Order of Glory 3 degrees (10/05/1944);
medals, including:

medal "For Military Merit" (02.21.1943).

Memory

A street in the village of the Old Town of the Republic of Mordovia is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union P.P. Gagarin.

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.
Heroic past: essays and sketches about the Heroes of the Soviet Union - natives of Mordovia / comp .: V. S. Ionova, A. D. Shiryaev; under the editorship of M.P. Glebova. - Saransk: Mordovian book. Publishing House, 1985. - S. 90-93. - 376 p.

Notes

↑ 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. - S. 302.