Nikita Vasilievich Gomonenko ( 1914 - 1941 ) - lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1942 ).
| Nikita Vasilievich Gomonenko | |||
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| Date of Birth | April 16, 1914 | ||
| Place of Birth | Brigadirovka village, Russian empire (now Izyum district , Kharkov region ) | ||
| Date of death | August 28, 1941 (aged 27) | ||
| Place of death | Dnipropetrovsk region , Ukrainian SSR | ||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire the USSR | ||
| Type of army | aviation | ||
| Years of service | 1935 - 1941 | ||
| Rank |  | ||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||
| Awards and prizes |
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| Communications | Vdovenko, Ivan Timofeevich | ||
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Biography
Nikita Gomonenko was born on April 3 (in a new style - 16 ) in April 1914 in the village of Brigadirovka (now - Izyumsky district of the Kharkov region of Ukraine ).
One of the first in his village joined the collective farm . He graduated from evening school, then a veterinary college. In 1935, Gomonenko was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. According to the Komsomol ticket, he was sent to study at the Kharkov school of red elders, after which Gomonenko entered the Orenburg military navigators school. Since June 1941 - on the fronts of World War II. He was a junior observer pilot and navigator of a bomber of the 81st bomber air regiment of the 50th bomber air division [1] .
In addition to Gomonenko, the bomber’s crew also included commander junior lieutenant Ivan Vdovenko and two air gunners - Vladimir Karpov and Mirza Pulatov. By the end of August, the crew made 44 sorties on the bombardment of clusters of enemy military equipment and manpower. On August 28, 1941, the squadron, including the crew of Gomonenko, flew out to bombard the German crossing of the Dnieper in the Dnipropetrovsk region. On the approach to the target, the bomber was hit and caught fire, but continued to fly. Having reached the crossing, the pilots sent a burning plane to the crossing, destroying it at the cost of their own lives [1] .
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 20, 1942, for “exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the battle against the German invaders and shown exceptional heroism and self-sacrifice,” Lieutenant Nikita Gomonenko was posthumously awarded the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union . He was also posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin and forever enlisted in the lists of personnel of the squadron. Other crew members were also posthumously awarded: Pulatov - Order of the Red Banner , Karpov - Order of Lenin, Vdovenko, like Gomonenko, was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union [1] .
In the park of Dnepropetrovsk an obelisk is installed in memory of the feat of the crew. In honor of Gomonenko, a street in Kharkov and a school number 2 in Izyum are named. A monument to Gomonenko and a memorial plaque with a description of his feat [1] were erected in the Brigadirovka.
The name Gomonenko is Machulishchansky secondary school named after I. T. Vdovenko and N. V. Gomonenko (Minsk region, Republic of Belarus), a street in Kharkov .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Gomonenko, Nikita Vasilievich . 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.
- Year 1941. Southwestern Front. Memories. Essays. Documents. Lviv, 1975.
- Zaitsev A.D., Roshchin I.I., Solovyov V.N. Credited forever. Prince 1. M .: Politiz, 1990.
- Feats in the name of the Fatherland. - 2nd ed., - Kharkov: Prapor, 1985.