Pavel Ivanovich Gonchar ( 1905 - 1943 ) - Red Army Worker and Peasant Red Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1943 ).
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| Place of Birth | Smolyanka village, Chernihiv province , Russian Empire [1] | ||
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||
| Type of army | engineering troops | ||
| Years of service | 1941 - 1943 | ||
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Biography
Pavel Gonchar was born in 1905 in the village of Smolyanka [1] . He graduated from four classes of an elementary school, after which he worked on a collective farm in the village of Semipolka in the Sergeevsky district of the North Kazakh region of the Kazakh SSR . In July 1941, Gonchar was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army and sent to the front of the Great Patriotic War. By April 1942, the Red Army Pavel Gonchar was the sapper of the 1074th Infantry Regiment of the 314th Infantry Division of the 7th Separate Army . He distinguished himself during the defense of Leningrad [2] .
On April 17, 1942, during the battle, Gonchar performed engineering work in the area of the Svir railway station in the Podporozhsky district of the Leningrad Region . Noticing that a group of enemy soldiers rushed to the wrecked Soviet tank, he fought with her, destroying several soldiers, which helped to save the tank and crew. On April 21 , when the enemy tried to capture the wrecked KV tank, Potter destroyed several dozen soldiers and officers with machine gun fire. On January 12, 1943, during the breaking of the siege of Leningrad, Gonchar died in battle. He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Sinyavino, Kirovsky District, Leningrad Region [2] .
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 22, 1943 for “courage and heroism shown in the defense of the city of Leningrad,” Red Army soldier Pavel Gonchar was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union . He was also posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin [2] .
A bust of Gonchar was installed in the village of Semipolka, in the same village a school was named after him [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Now - Kulikovsky district , Chernihiv region , Ukraine .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Gonchar, Pavel Ivanovich . 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.
- Young heroes of Vitebsk region. - Minsk, 1980.