Portyanko, Andrey Antonovich

Andrei Antonovich Portyanko was born on February 23 ( February 10, old style ) in 1906 in a peasant family in the village of Dubrovka in the Sennensky district of the Mogilev province of the Russian Empire (now the village of Krupsky district of the Minsk region of the Republic of Belarus ). Belarus . Education is incomplete secondary. Before conscription, he worked on a collective farm . In 1939-1940 he served in the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army . He participated in the liberation campaign in Western Belarus and the Soviet-Finnish War. After demobilization in 1940, he moved to Siberia among the immigrants. He lived in the village of Korenovo ^[2] Vengerovsky district of the Novosibirsk region . He worked on the Trudovik collective farm.

Again A. A. Portyanko was drafted into the Red Army by the Hungarian District Military Commissariat of the Novosibirsk Region on July 20, 1941. He fought on the Western Front . In August 1941, in battles near Smolensk, the Red Army soldier A.A. Portyanko was wounded by a shell fragment and captured. Having recovered from his wounds, in the spring of 1942 he fled from a prisoner of war camp on the territory of Belarus . He hid for some time in the village of Dubrovka with his sister, then went to the partisans. He fought in the 1st Belorussian partisan brigade, which operated in the Surazh , Gorodok and Vitebsk regions of the Belorussian SSR . He was seriously wounded in his legs and evacuated to the "mainland". After prolonged treatment at the hospital in the city of Smolensk in August 1944, Andrei Antonovich was assigned to the 32nd Infantry Division of the 33rd Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front and was enlisted as a private in the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 113th Infantry Regiment. At the end of August 1944, the Red Army soldier A.A. Portyanko participated in the Kaunas operation , shortly after completion of which the 32nd Rifle Division was transferred to the 43rd Army of the 1st Baltic Front .

Red Armyman A. A. Portyanko twice distinguished himself during the liberation of the Soviet Baltic during Riga and Memel operations. September 22, 1944, Andrei Antonovich showed courage in carrying out the combat mission of the command to seize the Riga highway and repel several enemy counterattacks. During the breakthrough of the German defense northwest of Šiauliai in the memelo direction on October 5, 1944, the carrier of cartridges for calculating the machine gun, the Red Army soldier A.A. Portyanko replaced the wounded gunner. Acting skillfully and courageously, he destroyed the enemy firing points with an accurate fire from a machine gun, which ensured the advance of his battalion. The combat achievements of Andrei Antonovich were awarded with two medals “For Courage” and the assignment of the rank of junior sergeant.

Since January 1945, the 32nd Infantry Division participated in the East Prussian operation as part of the 43rd and 4th strike armies. At the end of January 1945, Junior Sergeant A.A. Portyanko participated in the battles for the city of Memel . The Nazi troops driven out of the city were forced to retreat to the Kurishe-Nerung spit , which was strategically important for the Germans. Scythe remained the only land transport highway connecting the Konigsberg, Memel and Kurland groups of the enemy. The Soviet command decided to cut the Memel- Kranz highway. For this purpose, a combined assault battalion was formed from the units of the 113th Infantry Regiment of the 32nd Infantry Division under the command of Captain I.V. Polozkov . The task of the landing was to seize the bridgehead on the Kurish-Nerung spit and hold it until the main forces arrived. On the night of January 29, 1945, an airborne assault battalion crossed the Curises Huff Bay north of Cairin Farm ^[3] on ice and, taking a small bridgehead from Erlenhorst Farm ^[1] , took up a circular defense . In the early morning of January 29, the Germans launched a powerful artillery and mortar strike at the positions of the paratroopers, after which they launched an attack, intending to encircle and destroy the Polozkov battalion. Junior sergeant A.A. Portyanko, having taken a successful position on the second floor of a stone forester’s house, helped to repel five enemy attacks with the help of an easel machine gun. However, the forces were too unequal. During the sixth attack, the Germans managed to squeeze the positions of the significantly thinned assault battalion of Soviet paratroopers. At a critical moment in the battle, Junior Sergeant A.A. Portyanko entered the flank of the advancing enemy and opened heavy fire at him from a machine gun. Before the enemy bullet cut short his life, he managed to destroy up to 100 German soldiers.

Despite the heavy losses, the combined battalion of the 113th regiment kept a small bridgehead on the Kurish-Nerung spit until the morning of January 30. On the morning of January 30, under the cover of a smoke screen, the bay was crossed by the main forces of the 113th Infantry Regiment. By the middle of the day, the entire 32nd Infantry Division concentrated on the scythe. On January 31, 1945, the village of Schwarzort was liberated, and on February 1, the enemy left Nyden . Kosa Kurishe-Nerung was completely cleared of Nazi troops. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, 1945, Junior Sergeant Portyanko Andrei Antonovich was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Initially, A.A. Portyanko was buried at Kairin Farm. Later, his ashes were reburied in the mass grave of Soviet soldiers in the military cemetery of Klaipeda , located on the corner of the park named after M. Mazhvidas and S. Daukantas Street.

• The Gold Star Medal (04/19/1945, posthumous);
• Order of Lenin (04/19/1945, posthumously);
• two medals “For Courage” (09/30/1944; 10/15/1944).

• The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union A. A. Portyanko is immortalized at the memorial at the battle site at the village of Alksnine of the Republic of Lithuania .
• The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union A. A. Portyanko is immortalized on the Alley of Heroes at the Glory monument in the city of Novosibirsk .
• The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union A. A. Portyanko is carried out by the Dubrovskaya Secondary School (the village of Dubrovka, Krupsky District, Minsk Region of the Republic of Belarus) and the Palovskaya Basic School (the village of Pavlovo, Vengerovsky District, Novosibirsk Region of the Russian Federation ).
• A street in the village of Vengerovo, Novosibirsk Region, is named after Hero of the Soviet Union A. A. Portyanko.

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Medal "For Courage" (award order dated 09/30/1944) (neopr.) . Date of treatment January 15, 2013. Archived January 28, 2013.

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