Valentin Kirillovich Eroshkin ( February 13, 1925 - 1997 ) - a veteran of the Great Patriotic War , combat engineer-reconnaissance of the 100th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 35th Guards Rifle Division ( 8th Guards Army , 1st Belorussian Front ), Hero of the Soviet Union (1945 ), Guard Senior Sergeant .
| Valentin Kirillovich Eroshkin | |||||||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | February 13, 1925 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Ozinki village, Pugachev district , Samara province , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||
| Date of death | May 12, 1997 (72 years old) | ||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Balakovo city, Saratov region , Russia | ||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||||||
| Type of army | infantry | ||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1941 - 1961 | ||||||||||||||
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| Part | 100th Rifle Regiment of the 35th Guards Rifle Division | ||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||||||
| Awards and prizes |
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Content
Biography
Born on February 13, 1925 in the village of Ozinki (now the Dukhovnitsky district of the Saratov region [1] ) in the family of an employee. Russian After the eight-year period, he worked as a tractor driver at a grain farm.
In the Red Army since July 1941. Volunteer. He fought on the Western , Stalingrad , South-Western , 3rd Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian fronts. He took part in defensive battles near Smolensk , in the Battle of Stalingrad , the liberation of Ukraine and Poland.
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the awarding of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal was awarded on March 24, 1945 for the courage and courage shown when crossing the Vistula and holding the bridgehead on the left bank of the river.
At 5 a.m. on August 1, 1944, Eroshkin, on the orders of regiment commander Major Voinkov A.M., transferred his first landing force to the west bank of the Vistula on his boat. Under strong enemy fire, a brave sapper continued to transfer fighters across the river. During the fourth voyage, an air bomb exploded near the Eroshkin’s boat. The boat was destroyed. The shell-shocked Eroshkin managed to swim out, get to the shore, and after some time continued to transfer the soldiers on a new boat [2] .
June 24, 1945 V.K. Eroshkin participated in the Victory Parade . Until 1961 - in the Soviet army.
He participated in the Totsky military exercises with the real use of nuclear weapons on September 14, 1954 . The reconnaissance company under the command of V.K. Eroshkin was the first to enter the epicenter of a nuclear explosion [3] .
Major retired. Honorary citizen of the city of Balakovo, Saratov region .
Awards and titles
- Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad . " Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 22, 1942.
- Medal "For Courage" (04.15.1944) [4]
- Medal "For Courage" (05/27/1944) [5]
- Order of Glory III degree (11.2.1945) [6]
- Title Hero of the Soviet Union . Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, 1945:
- Order of Lenin
- Gold Star Medal No. 6662.
- Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 9, 1945.
- Medal "For the capture of Berlin . " Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 9, 1945.
- Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw" . Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 9, 1945.
- Medal "For Military Merit" . Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 1951.
- Order of the Red Star . Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 1956.
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree (6.4.1985) [7]
Memory
- A memorial plaque in memory of Eroshkin was erected by the Russian Military Historical Society on the building of the Solyansk seven-year school where he studied.
Notes
- ↑ The village of Ozinka (1889; the village of Ozinki - 1900) was part of the Khlebnovsky volost of the Nikolaev district of the Samara province, located at r. Small Irgiz 35 miles from the county town (see:
• 54. Khlebnovskaya: No. 2096. D. Ozink // List of populated areas of the Samara province, according to 1889 / Comp. P.V. Kruglikov; Samar. lips. stat. com - Samara: Type. I.P. Novikova, 1890. - S. 208. - XXVII, 243, 17, V p.
• Khlebnovskaya: No. 4910. S. Ozinki // List of populated areas of the Samara province, compiled in 1900 by the Secretary of the Samara Provincial Statistics Committee I. A. Protopopov / [Comp.] I. A. Protopopov. - Samara: Lip. typ., 1900. - P. 392. - [2], XXXIX, 520 p.
In 1919-1924, the Khlebnovsky volost was part of the Balakovo district , from 8.5.1924 - into the Pugachevsky district .
To date, der. (village) Ozinka (Ozinki) was not preserved; now the settlements of Novozakharkino and Grachi , belonging to the same volost, are part of the Novozakharkinsky municipal entity ( Dukhovnitsky district of the Saratov region). - ↑ Kurtasov A.P. Here are our roots: Essays on the history of the Dukhovnitsky district of the Saratov region. - Saratov: Region. Volga. Publishing House "Children's Book", 1998. - S. 164.
- ↑ Day after day. From the local history piggy bank of Yuri Kargin
- ↑ Eroshkin Valentin Kirillovich born in 1925 . Record no .: 33563372 unopened (inaccessible link) . Feat of the people . Date of treatment February 3, 2016. Archived March 13, 2012.
- ↑ Eroshkin Valentin Kirillovich born in 1925 . Record no .: 30250580 unopened (inaccessible link) . Feat of the people . Date of treatment February 3, 2016. Archived March 13, 2012.
- ↑ Eroshkin Valentin Kirillovich born in 1925 . Record no .: 23282989 unopened (inaccessible link) . Feat of the people . Date of treatment February 3, 2016. Archived March 13, 2012.
- ↑ Eroshkin Valentin Kirillovich . Record no .: 1511854219 unopened (inaccessible link) . Feat of the people . Date of treatment February 3, 2016. Archived March 13, 2012.
Literature
- Afanasyev N.I. From the Volga to the Spree: Battle Path of the 35th Guards Rifle Lozov Red Banner Division. - M .: Military Publishing, 1982.- 254 p.
- Varennikov V.I. Victory Parade . - M .: Vagrius, 2005 .-- 544 p.
Links
Eroshkin, Valentin Kirillovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".