Mikhail Amosovich Vysogorets ( 1920 - 1996 ) - captain of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1944 ).
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| Date of Birth | December 2, 1920 | |||||||||
| Place of Birth | Dukovschina village , Beshenkovichi district , Vitebsk region | |||||||||
| Date of death | April 22, 1996 (aged 75) | |||||||||
| Place of death | pos. Shakhovskaya , Moscow region | |||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||
| Type of army | engineering troops | |||||||||
| Years of service | 1940 - 1945 | |||||||||
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| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||
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Biography
Mikhail Vysogorets was born on December 2, 1920 in the village of Dukovschina (now Strizhevo, Beshenkovichi district, Vitebsk region of Belarus ) into a peasant family. He graduated from ten classes of the school, then in 1940 - Vitebsk Teachers Institute . In November 1940, Vysokorets was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. In 1941, he graduated from the Moscow Military Engineering School in the village of Bolshevo . Since January 1942 - on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He was a cadet of an engineering company, then commanded a sapper and motor-engineering companies. He fought as part of the Primorsky Army , Voronezh , 1st Ukrainian , 1st Belorussian Fronts. He took part in special missions to undermine important facilities in the Kaluga Region , the defense of Sevastopol , the battles for Voronezh , the Voronezh-Kastornensky operation , the Battle of Kursk , the Kharkov operation , the Proskurovsky-Chernivtsi , Lviv-Sandomirsky , Vistula-Oder operations, and the storming of Berlin . By July 1944, Captain Mikhail Vysogorets commanded an engineering company of the 13th Guards Separate Motor-Engineering Battalion of the 17th Motor-Engineering Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. Distinguished during the liberation of Poland [1] .
In July-August 1944, Vysokorets supervised the construction of bridges across the Western Bug , San and Vistula . Despite the massive enemy fire, he personally directed the actions of his company on the front line [1] .
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 23, 1944, for the "exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the battle against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown" of the guard, Captain Mikhail Vysogorets was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Medal Star ” under number 4583 [1] .
In 1945, Vysokorets was sacked. In 1957 he graduated from the mining technical school, after which he worked in Novokuznetsk as the head of the production and technical department of the Mine Construction Department No. 8 of the Kuybyshevugol Trust. Since 1974, Vysogorets lived and worked in the village of Shakhovskaya, Moscow Region . He died on April 22, 1996, was buried in Shakhovskaya [1] .
He was also awarded the orders of the Red Banner , World War 1 degree, Red Star , as well as a number of medals [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Vysokorets, Mikhail Amosovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
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.