Polyakov, Ivan Kuzmich

Ivan Kuzmich Polyakov was born on September 25, 1922 in a peasant family in the village of Verkhnyaya Kumashka, Yadrinsky district, Chuvash Autonomous Region of the RSFSR ^[1] . Chuvash . He graduated from seven classes of a school in the village of Shtanashi ^[2] and courses of accountants. Before conscription, he worked on a collective farm .

I.K. Polyakov was drafted into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army in March 1942 and sent to the Krasnodar machine gun and mortar school, where he was assigned to a mortar company. Due to the difficult situation at the front, the cadets of the school, together with the cadets of the 2nd Ordzhonikidze Infantry and Zhytomyr Infantry Schools, took up positions on the left bank of the Don in the defense zone of the 51st Army in the area of ​​the Pirozhok farm ^[3] . But they did not have to participate in the hostilities. According to the directive of the Supreme High Command Headquarters on July 13, 1942, all cadets with full armament were sent to the disposal of the Stalingrad Front , where they were distributed in different parts. Ivan Kuzmich was in the 128th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division of the 64th Army . He received baptism of fire on July 21, 1942 under the village of Tsimlyanskaya ^[4] . In the early days of August 1942, Private I.K. Polyakov, as part of the operational group of the 64th Army, participated in a counterattack on the Aksay River, where he was seriously wounded and evacuated to the hospital.

Ivan Kuzmich returned to his unit in November 1942 and participated in the counterattack of the Soviet troops near Stalingrad , surrounded by the Stalingrad enemy group. Since the end of November, the 29th Infantry Division has been fighting on the internal front of the Stalingrad boiler. On January 1, 1943, the 64th Army was included in the Don Front . Its units participated in the liquidation of the surrounded group of Field Marshal Paulus . After the Battle of Stalingrad ended on February 6, 1943, the 64th Army entered the group of forces under the command of Lieutenant General K.P. Trubnikov (the Stalingrad Group of Forces was from February 27), which was in the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command . Ivan Kuzmich during this time graduated from short-term courses of signalmen and received the rank of corporal . On March 1, 1943, the 29th Rifle Division was transformed into the 72nd Guards Rifle Division , and the 128th Rifle Regiment - into the 224th Guards Rifle Division . On the same day, as part of the 64th Army (from May 1, 1943 - the 7th Guards Army ) the division was transferred to the Voronezh Front . Until the summer of 1943, the communications company communications guard guard corporal I.K. Polyakov participated in defensive battles on the Seversky Donets River in the Belgorod region.

During the Battle of Kursk, the 72nd Guards Division held defenses near the city of Shebekino . During the period from July 5 to 13, during fierce battles under enemy fire, Corporal Polyakov, providing the company with a command post, eliminated communications line breaks more than 20 times, and also removed several wounded from the battlefield, for which he was twice awarded the medal “For courage . " On August 18, 1943, the 7th Guards Army was transferred to the Steppe Front . In August 1943, Ivan Kuzmich participated in the Belgorod-Kharkov operation , the liberation of the village of Merefa . During the Poltava-Kremenchug front-line operation I.K. Polyakov participated in the liberation of the city of Krasnograd . Particularly distinguished himself in the Battle of the Dnieper .

At the end of September 1943, the advanced units of the 7th Guards Army reached the Dnieper . On the night of September 25–26, with the first airborne detachment, he crossed the water line near the village of Borodaevka and the signalman of the platoon of the Guard liaison corporal I.K. Polyakov. Having landed on the right bank, Polyakov immediately joined the battle with the German submachine gunners, diverting the fire from the crossing on itself. In the battles for the bridgehead, he destroyed 6 German soldiers. In the battles for holding the bridgehead of the guard, Corporal Polyakov participated in repulsing eight enemy counterattacks, during which he destroyed 15 troops and blew one tank with a grenade. During the assault on the prevailing heights, Ivan Kuzmich replaced the deceased company commander and completed the mission. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 26, 1943, for successfully crossing the Dnieper, firmly securing the bridgehead on its western shore, and showing courage and heroism to the guard, Corporal Polyakov Ivan Kuzmich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

In November 1943, Ivan Kuzmich was again seriously wounded. After recovery, he was sent to another unit, who fought on the 1st Ukrainian Front . I.K. Polyakov participated in the liberation of Western Ukraine , the southern regions of Poland , battles in Germany . He ended the battle path in Czechoslovakia . After the end of World War II, Ivan Kuzmich continued to serve in the army. In 1958, he graduated from the Poltava Military Infantry School. In reserve I.K. Polyakov resigned as captain in 1964. He lived in the city of Kiev . He worked at the Khimvolokno production association. August 2, 1993, Ivan Kuzmich died. He was buried in Ukraine in the hero city of Kiev.

• Medal "Golden Star" (10.26.1943);
• Order of Lenin (10.26.1943);
• Order of the Red Star (1957);
• Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree (1985);
• medals, including:
• medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" (1943);

two medals “For Courage” (07/10/1943; 07/20/1943);

medal "For Military Merit" (1952).

The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union is the Municipal Educational Institution “Nizhnekumashkinskaya Secondary School” of the village of Nizhnyaya Kumashka, Shumerlinsky District, Chuvash Republic.

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• Our countrymen are Heroes of the Soviet Union. - 3rd ed., Rev. and add. - Cheboksary: ​​Chuvash book publishing house, 1980.
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• Public electronic document bank “The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived March 13, 2012.

Presentation to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (Neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.

Submission to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the decree of the USSR PVS on conferring the title (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.

Medal "For Courage" (award order of 07/10/1943) (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.

Medal "For Courage" (award order dated 07.20.1943) (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.

• Decree of the head of the Shumerlinsky district of the Chuvash Republic dated 02.05.2006 No. 181 "On the municipal educational institution" Nizhnekumashkinskaya secondary school named after Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Kuzmich Polyakov of the Shumerlinsky district of the Chuvash Republic " (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.

• Polyakov, Ivan Kuzmich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
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• Hero of the Dnieper battle (to the 85th birthday of the Hero of the Soviet Union I.K. Polyakov). Archives of Chuvashia (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.
• Submachine gunner Ivan Polyakov (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.
• Polyakov Ivan Kuzmich at www.az-libr.ru (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.
• Our pride. State Unitary Enterprise "Shumerlinsky Publishing House" Forward " (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 23, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.