Grigorii Ivanovich Kramarenko ( August 22, 1925 , the village of Annovka, Kursk Province - December 5, 2012 , Stavropol ) - Soviet tank officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1943 ).
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| Date of Birth | August 22, 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | hut Annovka, Grayvoronsky County , Kursk Province , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | December 5, 2012 (87 years old) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Stavropol , Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | infantry (1943-1944), tank forces (1944-1979) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1943 - 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Born on August 22, 1925 on the farm of Annovka, Graivoronsky district, Kursk province (now in the Rakityan district of the Belgorod region ) in a peasant family. Russian . By the beginning of the war he had finished 9 graf school classes. The 10th grade was already finishing in Naro-Fominsk near Moscow.
Great Patriotic War
When in the autumn of 1941 the territory of the Kursk region was occupied by German troops, 16-year-old Gregory left for the partisan detachment. After being wounded in the leg, he was evacuated aboard the front line and was hospitalized due to a favorable coincidence of circumstances.
After recovery in early 1943, he was called to the Red Army by the Krasnoyaruzhsky District Military Commissariat of the Kursk Region. Since February, he took part in the combat operations of the troops of Voronezh , and subsequently the 1st Ukrainian Front .
Feat
On September 23, 1943, the 18-year-old machine gunner commander of the 569th Infantry Regiment of the 161th Infantry Division of the 40th Army of the Voronezh Front Sergeant Grigori Kramarenko, using improvised means, under enemy fire, crossed the group across the Dnieper . On the right bank of the river, near the village of Monastyrok (in the modern territory of the Ukrainian city of Rzhishchev ), during the day covered the crossing of the Soviet units with machine-gun fire, destroying several dozens of enemy manpower. For three more days, being on the front edge of the Bukrin base , the Kramarenko group beat back the Nazis. By September 28, the division almost completely crossed over to the right bank, and the Germans were pushed back several kilometers from the Dnieper.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of October 23, 1943, sergeant Kramarenko Grigory Ivanovich “for the exemplary performance of combat missions of command on the front of the struggle against the German fascist invaders and shown courage and heroism”, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Medal Star .
In February 1944, G. I. Kramarenko was sent to study at the 1st Guards Ulyanovsk Tank School . After graduating from him a year later in the rank of lieutenant , Kramarenko returned to the post of commander of a platoon of heavy tanks to the front. However, on the way to the location of his echelon was fired on the territory of Poland by Bandera . Having a heavy concussion , Lieutenant Kramarenko spent the rest of the war in the hospital.
Post-war years
June 24, 1945 G. I. Kramarenko took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square as part of the Kantemirovskaya division .
In 1949 he graduated from the postgraduate courses for officers, later - the Moscow Military Academy. In 1955, an experienced G. I. Kramarenko was sent to the Transcaucasian Military District , where he trained hundreds of tankers for the country's Armed Forces [1] . In 1957 he joined the CPSU .
In February 1979, GI Kramarenko was promoted to the rank of colonel of tank forces, but during the fighting in Afghanistan in the 1980s he was a military adviser there .
As a military pensioner, he lived in Tbilisi , where he worked for more than 10 years in the system of the Ministry of Light Industry of Georgia. After the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Stavropol in 1991 . He worked in the Stavropol regional committee of war veterans, was a member of the presidium of the Council, the first deputy chairman of the regional Council of veterans of tank forces. About twenty times he took part in the Victory Parades in Moscow . Actively performing work on the military-patriotic education of young people, he actively participated in meetings with cadets, schoolchildren and students.
He died on December 5, 2012 at the 88th year of life [2] .
Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union (1943);
- Order of Lenin (1943);
- Order of the Red Banner ;
- Order of the Patriotic War, I degree (1985);
- two orders of the Red Star (1943,?);
- Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree;
- medals
Notes
- ↑ Today, the Stavropol region has forgiven one of the last Heroes of the Soviet Union in the province, G. I. Kramarenko (Inaccessible link) . North Caucasus News: Republic of Adygea (December 7, 2012). The date of circulation is February 21, 2015. Archived February 21, 2015.
- ↑ Gregory Ivanovich Kramarenko died // Evening. - Publishing House "Evening Stavropol", 2012. - No. of December 6 . Archived March 4, 2013. (Checked February 21, 2015)
Links
- Kramarenko, Grigory Ivanovich . The site " Heroes of the country ."
- Kramarenko Grigory Ivanovich . Ulyanovsk Guards College. The appeal date is February 21, 2015.
- Ilyinov I. Grigory Kramarenko: I am very sick in my 85. For CSKA // Stavropol truth. - 2010. - № from August 21 . (Checked February 21, 2015)