Nikolai Grigorievich Posokhin (1915–1993) - Soviet military. Member of the Great Patriotic War . Hero of the Soviet Union (1943). Colonel
Nikolai G. Posokhin | ||||||||||
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Date of Birth | December 26, 1915 | |||||||||
Place of Birth | Shishikin Farm, Region of the Don Cossacks , Russian Empire | |||||||||
Date of death | April 15, 1993 (77 years) | |||||||||
Place of death | Volgograd , Russian Federation | |||||||||
Affiliation | the USSR | |||||||||
Type of army | artillery | |||||||||
Years of service | 1936-1947 | |||||||||
Rank | the colonel | |||||||||
Part | • South-Western Front | |||||||||
Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||
Awards and prizes |
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Biography
Nikolai Grigorievich Posokhin was born on December 26, 1915 on the Shishikin farm in the Kachalinsky yurt of the Second Don District of the Region of the Don Russian Empire (now the Krasnodonsky farm in the Ilovlinsky district of the Volgograd region of the Russian Federation ) in a peasant family. Russian . Secondary vocational education . He graduated from the veterinary college. In 1936, Nikolai Grigorievich enrolled in the 2nd Kiev Artillery School on the Komsomol permit, after which in 1939 he served as commander of an artillery platoon in the artillery part of the Kiev Special Military District .
In battles with the Nazi invaders, Lieutenant N. G. Posokhin from the first days of the war on the South-Western Front . Retreating with battles through the territory of Ukraine , he participated in Lviv-Lutsk and Kiev defensive operations. In September 1941, the unit in which Nikolai Grigorievich served was disbanded, and he was assigned to the position of commander of a battery of the 560th howitzer artillery regiment of the 76th Mountain Rifle Division of the 38th Army . In the fall of 1942, Lieutenant Posokhin participated in heavy defensive battles near Volchansk , during which units of the 76th Mountain Rifle Division managed to stop the German offensive at the Volochansk- Gnilushka - Bely Kolodets line . In the first half of 1942, Nikolai Grigorievich took part in the Barvenkovo-Lozovskaya and Kharkiv offensive operations. After the dismantling of the South-Western Front in July 1942, N. G. Posokhin, who had become the captain by that time, was sent to the 1107th cannon artillery regiment, which was formed as a reserve of the Supreme High Command , and was appointed commander of its 1st division . On August 22, 1942, the regiment was brought into battle during the Battle of Stalingrad southeast of the village of Kachalinskaya in the defense zone of the 62nd Army of the Stalingrad Front .
The 1st Division of the 152-mm howitzer captain NG Posokhin perfectly proved itself in the Battle of Stalingrad, becoming the best division of his regiment [1] . One of the characteristic episodes of the division’s combat work during the defense of Stalingrad was the destruction of an enemy armored train that cruised along the Gumrak - Samofalovka railway line along the front line and fired upon the positions of the Soviet troops with impunity, causing significant damage to infantry. The armored train consisted of an armored locomotive and four armored platforms for firing at ground and air targets, which housed 3-4 guns. Destroy it was assigned to the division Posokhin. After conducting reconnaissance of the area, Nikolai Grigorievich chose a place for an ambush and developed a detailed plan for the destruction of enemy equipment. Howitzer of his battalion he fanned along the railway track with the intention of simultaneously hitting the locomotive and the last platform. As soon as the German armored train once again moved into a combat position, the gunners slammed the trap. They immobilized the squad with exact shots, after which they shot the armored train for several minutes, turning it into a pile of metal. The destruction of a formidable fighting vehicle in just a few minutes caused an unusual upsurge of morale in the infantry units that were observing the course of the battle, and thanks to Nikolai Grigorievich the regiment commander was thanked.
At the end of October 1942, the 1107th cannon artillery regiment of the RGC was redeployed to the area of the stanitsa of Kletskaya, and on 5 November 1942 it was included in the 1st Artillery Division of the RGC . On November 19, 1942, Captain N. G. Posokhin's division participated in artillery preparation, announcing the beginning of the Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad. In the course of Operation Uran, Posokhin’s artillerymen supported the offensive of the 21st Army infantry units. After the formation of the Red Army in the area of Kalach, the division acted on the inner ring of the encirclement of the Don Front . In total, during the participation in the Battle of Stalingrad, the 1st Division of the 1107th cannon artillery regiment destroyed 5 105-mm and 75-mm batteries, a mortar battery, a six-barreled mortar and 5 cars, destroyed 3 SHEs , an enemy observation post and 10 infantry bombers, crashed 2 tanks. Captain NG Posokhin, personally leading the two batteries of his division, one of the first, along with rifle units, broke into the streets of Stalingrad. In street battles for the city, the artillerymen Posokhin, paving the way for the infantry, destroyed a large number of enemy firing points. For combat service in the battles for Stalingrad, the 1st Artillery Division of the Russian State Control Committee was renamed the 1st Guards Division , and the 1107th Gun Artillery Regiment became the 201st Guards Regiment.
On February 2, 1943, before the suppression of the last centers of resistance of the enemy in Stalingrad, the 1st Guards Artillery Division of the RGC was loaded into railway cars and sent to the Central Front . On February 28, 1943, she took up positions on the northern front of the Oryol-Kursk arc near the village of Trosna, Oryol Region, as part of the 70th Army . After arriving on the Central Front, the division was reformed structurally: a three-brigade staff was introduced, and the 201st Guards cannon artillery regiment was included in the 1st Guards cannon artillery brigade. In the first days of the Battle of Kursk, the gunners held back violent attacks of the enemy. The 1st Division of the Guard Captain Posokhin from July 5 to 8, 1943, helping to repel the onslaught of superior forces of enemy infantry and tanks, destroyed up to 300 enemy soldiers, smashed two T-6 tanks and suppressed the fire of two 105-mm artillery batteries. On July 9, the Germans broke through to the heights to the north of Molotich , but the Posokhin Division, which was promptly transferred to the aid of rifle units, stopped further advance of the enemy, destroying more than 40 Wehrmacht soldiers. On July 10, the Germans made several more attacks on the dominant heights occupied by Posokhin’s battalion, but each time they were forced to retreat, having lost a total of 200 soldiers and officers from the division’s fire. The German offensive was exhausted, and on July 12, 1943, the forces of the Central Front went over to the offensive. In the course of the Oryol operation , the 1st Guards Artillery Division supported the offensive of the 102nd Rifle Division of the 70th Army and the 18th Rifle Corps of the 65th Army at Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky .
After the end of the Kutuzov operation, the 1st Guards Artillery Division was transferred to the 60th Army and participated in the Chernigov-Pripyat operation . On September 26, 1943, the guard division of Captain Posokhin, under continuous bombardment without loss, was the first of the heavy artillery units to force the Desna near the city of Oster and, after a 50-kilometer march, took firing positions on the left bank of the Dnieper near the village of Old Glybov [2] . The division suppressed the enemy firing points on the right bank with his guns, which supported the units of the 280th rifle division when crossing the Dnieper and seizing the bridgehead at the village of Strakholesye . Following the rifle units, Nikolai Grigorievich crossed over to the other side of the river and personally followed the laying of the telephone cable. Having established contact with his division, he settled down at an observation point in the battle formations of infantry, from where he corrected the fire of heavy howitzers. As a result of the dedication of the division commander and the skillful actions of his gunners, 6 German counterattacks were repulsed. In areas of strategically important heights of 103.9 and 104.3, the villages of Rotichi , Strakholesye, Grebylya, and Zatonsk [3] , up to three companies of German infantry were destroyed by fire of the division. On October 3, 1943, Captain N. G. Posokhin, along with his division, again forced the Dnieper, and taking up positions on the bridgehead , provided the capture units of Gubin , Medvin and Rotiichi with fire units. During the battles on the bridgehead, the gunners destroyed and destroyed 16 tanks, suppressed the fire of 14 enemy artillery batteries. October 17, 1943 Guard Captain Posokhinin Nikolai Grigoryevich decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was awarded the title Hero of the Secular Union.
On October 6, 1943, the 60th Army was transferred to the Voronezh Front (from October 20, 1943 - the 1st Ukrainian Front ). Guard Captain NG Posokhin, commanding the 3rd Battalion 201 th Guards cannon artillery regiment of the 1st Guards cannon artillery brigade of the 1st Guards cannon artillery breakthrough divisions, participated in the liberation of the Right-Bank Ukraine ( Kiev offensive , Kiev defense , Zhitomirsko- Berdichevsk , Rivne-Lutsk and Proskurov-Chernivtsi operations). In the course of the fighting, the calculations of the Posokhin Division were constantly in the combat formations of the infantry, providing fire support to the infantry units of the 60th Army. April 14, 1944 during the liberation of the city of Tarnopol, they played a major role in the elimination of the major centers of resistance of the enemy in the area of the elevator and railway depot. After the capture of the city, the gunners moved to the area of the village of Velikiy Khodachkov , where they were counterattacked by large forces of enemy motorized infantry and tanks. For 5 days they held back the onslaught of the enemy, repelling 4 tank attacks. The worst situation was on April 16, 1944. The Germans threw into battle up to 16 tanks, under pressure from which the infantry units retreated, leaving the artillery division without cover. But Posokhin’s fighters did not flinch: skillfully maneuvering on the battlefield, they were able to hold their positions until dark. In total, the 3rd Division destroyed and destroyed 7 T-6 Tiger tanks and 10 armored personnel carriers in the battles of the Great Khodachkov. Losses of the enemy in manpower amounted to 300 people killed. In the summer of 1944, the 1st Guards Artillery Division of the breakthrough participated in the Lvov-Sandomir operation , during which its divisions supported the actions of the 106th infantry corps. By the end of August, the division reached the Visloka River south of the city of Debica , where it passed to the defense.
In the late autumn of 1944, the 1st Guards Artillery Division of the breakthrough was introduced into the Sandomierz bridgehead and began preparations for the forthcoming offensive in Poland as part of the 13th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. NG Posokhin, who received the rank of major, was appointed commander of the 200th Guards cannon artillery regiment of the 1st Guards cannon artillery brigade. In the course of the Sandomierz-Silesian front-line operation, which began on January 12, 1945, the battery of the 200th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment supported the offensive operations of the 172nd Infantry Division . On January 15, 1945, on the outskirts of the city of Kielce, Nikolai Grigorievich was seriously wounded and evacuated to the hospital.
After the end of the Great Patriotic War, N. G. Posokhin continued service in the armed forces of the USSR until 1947. In stock, he retired with the rank of colonel. He lived in the hero-city of Volgograd [4] . From 1949 to 1952 he headed the party organization on the construction of the Volga-Don Canal . After its construction was completed, he was appointed secretary of the Voroshilovsky District Party Committee. Then, before retirement, he worked as a director of the Gazoapparat plant. April 15, 1993 Nikolai Grigorevich died. He was buried at the Dimitriev cemetery in Volgograd.
Ratings and opinions
Captain Posokhin caused universal sympathy. He was a very active, cheerful person with a sense of humor. Openness, goodwill towards people were combined in it with exactingness. Nikolai Grigorievich reacted literally to everything that was happening around him, and he considered himself responsible for everything. And what I liked most about him was the love of a soldier. He knew all his fighters by name and patronymic, rejoiced when they themselves came to him for advice or with some suggestion. And this joy was manifested somehow very directly and openly.
- V.M. Zhagala. Clearing the way for infantry.
Awards
- Gold Star Medal (10/17/1943);
- Order of Lenin (10/17/1943);
- Order of the Red Banner (03/20/1943);
- Order of Alexander Nevsky (06/21/1944);
- two orders of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (08/25/1943; 11.03.1985)
- Order of the Red Star (01/01/1942);
- Order "Badge of Honor" ;
- medals, including:
- Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad . "
Memory
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Memorial sign in Victory Park. Ilovlya village of the Volgograd region. |
- A memorial sign in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union NG Posokhin is installed on the memorial in Victory Park in the urban-type settlement Ilovlya of the Volgograd region.
- A plaque in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union NG Posokhin was installed in the city of Volgograd at the address: Alley of Heroes, 1.
Literature
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. College I. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Lyubov - Yashchuk /. - 863 s. - 100 000 copies - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
- Zhagala V.M. Clearing the way for the infantry . - M: Military Publishing, 1985. - 222 p.
- Volgograd - Heroes of the Soviet Union. - Volgograd: Nizhne-Volzhnoe book publishing house, 1968.
- Bondarenko A.S. , Borodin A.M. (group leader), Loginov I.M. , Merinova L.N. , Naumenko T.N. , Novikov L.N. , Smirnov P.N. Nikolay G. Postokhin // Heroes of Volgograd / Literary processing by V.I. Efimov , V.I. Psurtsev , V.R. Slobozhanin , V.S. Smagorinsky ; introduction A.S. Chuyanov . - Volgograd: Lower Volga book publishing house, 1967. - p. 314. - 471 p. - 25 000 copies
Notes
- ↑ TsAMO, f. 33, op. 686044, d. 2257.
- The village was located on the left bank of the Dnieper in Kozeletsky district of the Chernihiv region of Ukraine. Flooded by the Kiev reservoir.
- ↑ The villages Rotichi, Hreblya and Zatonsk are now flooded by the Kiev reservoir.
- ↑ Until 1961 - Stalingrad.
Documents
- The publicly available electronic bank of documents "The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." . The appeal date is January 22, 2013. Archived on March 13, 2012.
- Submission to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 5, 2013.
- Order of the Red Banner (award list and award order) . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 5, 2013.
- Order of Alexander Nevsky (award list and award order) . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 5, 2013.
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (award list and award order) . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 5, 2013.
- Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (information from the card awarded to the 40th anniversary of the Victory) . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 5, 2013.
- Order of the Red Star (award list and award order) . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 5, 2013.
- Order of the Red Banner (award list and award order) . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 5, 2013.
Links
- Posokhin, Nikolai Grigorievich . The site " Heroes of the country ."
- Nikolay G. Posokhin on www.az-libr.ru Neopr . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 5, 2013.
- Heroes of the 1st gun artillery brigade . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived December 13, 2012.
- Our countrymen are Heroes of the Soviet Union. Don Herald. 10/23/2012 . The date of circulation is January 22, 2013. Archived on February 5, 2013.