Mikhail Aleksandrovich Volik ( 1921 - 1945 ) - Lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).
| Mikhail Aleksandrovich Volik | ||||
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| Date of Birth | September 4, 1921 | |||
| Place of Birth | Bolshoy Bolgrad village, Genichesky district , Kherson region | |||
| Date of death | February 21, 1945 (23 years) | |||
| Place of death | Schönbrunn, Third Reich | |||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||
| Type of army | infantry | |||
| Years of service | 1941 - 1945 | |||
| Rank |  | |||
| Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||
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Biography
Mikhail Volik was born on September 4, 1921 in the village of Bolshoy Bolgrad (now - Ozeriany, Genichesky District, Kherson Oblast of Ukraine ) into a peasant family. During the years of collectivization , the Volikov family was declared “ fists ” and sent to the Urals. Volik's father became a logging worker, his mother - a laundress. Due to the poor living conditions, Anna Volik proposed to her husband to flee, but he refused, because the like was threatened with execution , and then she herself, along with Mikhail and his brother Eugene, fled through the taiga. After long wanderings, they reached the city of Mir , where the locals helped Anne Volik to get a job and get documents. After some time, Anna and her sons moved to Donbass, and then to Melitopol to visit relatives [1] .
Mikhail Volik graduated from junior high school, then enrolled in a factory apprenticeship school . In 1941 , shortly before the start of World War II, he was called up to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, served in Bukovina .
Great Patriotic War
From the first days of the war, he was in the army. Part of Volik took an active part in the defense of Kiev . In one of the battles he was wounded and captured, held in one of the Kiev prisoner of war camps. While there, he met a young teacher, Galina, who brought food to the prisoners. Thanks to her efforts, Volik was released on August 25, 1942 [1] .
Having established ties with the Kiev underground workers, Volik went to the partisans . After the liberation of the Kiev region in 1943, he was again drafted into the army. He fought on the 1st Ukrainian front , in the rank of lieutenant commanded a company of the 340th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 121st Guards Rifle Division of the 13th Army . On July 13, 1944, in the battle for the Goroków station ( Warsaw Voivodeship , Poland ), Volik's company fell into an enemy tank ambush. Thanks to his skillful actions, the company emerged from the ambush with minor losses, while causing significant damage to the enemy. In the battle, Volik was wounded. By order of the 121st Guards Rifle Division of July 23, 1944 No. 39 / n, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star [2] .
He was treated in a hospital in Kharkov . After recovery, he returned to the army in the field [1] . Particularly distinguished during the liberation of Poland and the crossing of the Oder .
In the period from January 14 to 28, 1945, at the approaches to the city of Kielce and during the battles for a number of other settlements, the Volik company was in the front ranks of the advancing Soviet units. One of the first to cross the Oder on the night of January 25 to January 26 in the area of the town of Köben (now Hoheng , Poland), the company repulsed several enemy counterattacks, destroying more than 100 enemy soldiers and officers. In the battles Volik personally destroyed 12 enemy soldiers. For the difference in those battles, on January 29, 1945, the commander of the regiment of the guard, Major Gerasimchuk, presented Volik to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union [2] .
In one of the subsequent battles, Volik was wounded, from which he died on February 21, 1945 in a hospital in the village of Schönbrunn ( Third Reich , now the territory of Poland ) [3] .
Awards
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 10, 1945, for “successfully crossing the Oder River and displaying valor and courage at the same time,” Lieutenant Mikhail Volik was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union . He was also posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 N. Shumak. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Volik - Hero of the Soviet Union from the Genichesky District . [1] . The appeal date was August 29, 2012. Archived October 29, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Materials site " feat of the people ."
- ↑ Materials OBD "Memorial".
Literature
Volik, Mikhail Aleksandrovich . The site " Heroes of the country ."
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. College I. BC Shkadov . - Moscow : Military Publishing , 1987. - T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 s. - 100 000 copies - ISBN SEC., Reg. Number in the PSC 87-95382.
- Nikolay Shumak. Holders of gold stars. Heroes of the Soviet Union and the Socialist Labor of Genichesky district.