Sudeisky, Sergey Nikolaevich

Born on October 18, 1918 in the village of Dolmatovka, now in the Leninsky district of the Tula region, in a peasant family. Russian. He graduated from 7 classes of school number 1 of the city of Tula . He worked as a mechanic for the repair of precision mechanical devices at the Tula Stamp Engineering Plant .

Since 1939 he served in the naval units of the border troops on the Black Sea .

In the Navy of 1941. Participated in the defense of Sevastopol . In one of the battles in the Inkerman area in June 1942 he was wounded. After the hospital, he was assigned as an assault rifle to the 384th Separate Marine Battalion of the Black Sea Fleet. In 1943 he became the commander of the department.

Participated in the landing operation in the city of Osipenko (now Berdyansk ). Then there were fighting on the Kinburn Spit , the liberation of the villages of the Kherson region of the Epiphany (now October) and the Wide Beam. For landing operations he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit . "

In the second half of March 1944, the troops of the 28th Army began fighting to liberate the city of Nikolaev. To facilitate the frontal strike of the advancing, it was decided to land an assault in the port of Nikolaev. A group of paratroopers under the command of senior lieutenant Konstantin Olshansky was allocated from the 384th separate battalion of the marine corps. It included 55 sailors, 2 signalmen from the army headquarters and 10 sappers. The conductor went to the local fisherman Andreev . One of the paratroopers was the foreman of the 1st article of the Referee.

For two days, the detachment fought in bloody battles, repelled 18 fierce enemy attacks, destroying up to 700 enemy soldiers and officers. During the last attack, the Nazis used flamethrower tanks and toxic substances. But nothing could break the resistance of the paratroopers, force them to lay down their arms. They performed the combat mission with honor.

On March 28, 1944, Soviet troops liberated Nikolaev. When the attackers broke into the port, they got a picture of the battle that took place here: burnt buildings destroyed by shells, more than 700 corpses of fascist soldiers and officers were lying around, the fire was stinking. From the ruins of the port office there were 6 surviving paratroopers barely holding on their feet, another 2 were sent to the hospital. In the ruins of the office found four more living paratroopers who died of wounds on the same day. All officers, all foremen, sergeants and many Red Navy heroically fell. The foreman of the 1st article S. N. Sudeisky also died heroically.

He was buried in a mass grave in the city ​​of Nikolaev in the square of 68 paratroopers.

The news of their feat spread throughout the army, throughout the country. The Supreme Commander-in-Chief ordered all the participants in the landing to submit to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 20, 1945, for the exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the battle against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown to the foreman of the 1st article, Sergei Nikolaevich Judge was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous).

He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the medal "For Military Merit".

The street of the city is named after them, the National Museum of the Military Glory of Marines of the Paratroopers has been opened. In Nikolaev in a square of a name of 68 paratroopers a monument is established. In the village of Oktyabrsky on the banks of the Bug estuary , from where the paratroopers left for the mission, a memorial granite block with a commemorative inscription was erected.

Street and school number 59 in the city of Tula are named after the Hero.

By order of the KGB Chairman of October 17, 1975, the name of the Hero was assigned to the border patrol ship. Now the ship continues to serve in the Kamchatka department of the Federal Border Guard Service, there are reports in the press about the detention of poachers and violators.

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