Pochtaryov, Nikolai Ivanovich

Nikolai Ivanovich Pochtaryov
Nikolai Ivanovich Pochtaryov
	Ukrainian Mikola Ivanovich Pochtarov
Date of Birth	November 23, 1923
Place of Birth	pos. Svatovo , Kharkov province , Ukrainian SSR , USSR
Date of death	November 16, 1990 (66 years old)
Place of death	Svatovo , Lugansk region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR
Affiliation	the USSR
Type of army	artillery
Years of service	1941-1946
Rank	captain
Part	during the war years:; • 569th Infantry Regiment of the 161st Infantry Division; • 3rd Ukrainian front; • 4th Ukrainian Front
Battles / wars	The Great Patriotic War
Communications	Presnyakov, Ivan Vasilievich - mortar crew commander

Nikolai Ivanovich Pochtaryov (1923-1990) - Soviet military. Member of World War II . Hero of the Soviet Union (1944). Captain

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Biography

Nikolai Ivanovich Pochtaryov was born on November 29, 1923 in a peasant family in the village of Svatovo in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkov province of the Ukrainian SSR of the USSR (now the city, the administrative center of the Svatovsky district of the Luhansk region of Ukraine ). Ukrainian . After graduating in 1938, seven classes of Swatovskaya incomplete school number 4, Nikolai Ivanovich got a job at the collective farm named after S. M. Budeny. In 1940, he moved to the city of Voroshilovgrad ^[1] , where he graduated from the school of factory training . Prior to conscription, he worked at the Voroshilovgrad plant named after the October Revolution .

N.I. Pochtaryov was called up to the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army in November 1941. While studying at the school of junior commanders, he mastered the military specialty of a mortar gunner. In battles with the Nazi invaders, Sergeant N.I. Pochtaryov from July 12, 1942 on the Voronezh Front as a gunner of the 82-mm mortar mortar company of the 569th Infantry Regiment of the 161st Infantry Division of the 60th Army . He was baptized in battle for the village of Podgornoye ^[2] north of the city of Voronezh . Until December 1942, the 161st Infantry Division fought on the left bank of the Don in the Ramonsky district of the Voronezh region . On December 27, 1942, the division as part of the 18th separate rifle corps was introduced to the Shchuchinsky bridgehead ^[3] . In January 1943, Nikolai Ivanovich participated in the Ostrogozh-Rossoshanskoy operation , during which the 2nd Hungarian and 8th Italian armies , the 24th Wehrmacht tank corps and the main forces of the German special forces were defeated. During the Kharkov offensive in February 1943, the 161st Infantry Division as part of the 69th Army participated in the liberation of the eastern outskirts of Kharkov . During the German counterattack near Kharkov, divisions of the division were surrounded, but managed to escape from the boiler, after which they were withdrawn to the reserve of the 40th army . The senior sergeant N.I. Pochtaryov was again at the forefront since July 7, 1943, when the 161st Infantry Division of the 52nd Infantry Corps of the 40th Army was brought into battle on the Sitnoye - Dmitriyevka Rakityansky District of the Belgorod Region during the Battle of Kursk , from where it went on the offensive during the Belgorod-Kharkov operation ^[4] .

After the defeat of the Nazi forces on the Kursk Bulge, the Red Army troops almost without a pause began the Battle of the Dnieper . Senior sergeant N.I. Pochtaryov took part in the Sumy-Pryluky operation of the Voronezh Front. In the battle for the village of Rymarovka in the Gadyachsky district of the Poltava region, he promptly noticed a group of German soldiers trying to gain a foothold at the heights near the village. Opening aimed fire from a mortar, he scattered the enemy unit, destroying four German soldiers. Chasing the retreating German troops, sweeping away enemy barriers and liberating the settlements of Left-Bank Ukraine , the 161st Infantry Division marched about 350 kilometers with fights and on September 22, 1943 reached the Dnieper in the Andrusha area ^[5] - Tsibli ^[6] . On the night of September 23, 1943, an assault detachment of thirty soldiers of the 569th Infantry Regiment, under enemy fire, crossed the Dnieper in two boats near the village of Zarubintsy . Together with them, mortar men of the 2nd infantry battalion, senior sergeants IV V. Presnyakov and N. I. Pochtaryov, crossed the river on a makeshift raft. The enemy forces, thrown to eliminate the bridgehead , several times exceeded the strength of the assault detachment. At a difficult moment of the battle, the mortar men, demonstrating "examples of courage, courage, heroism and a willingness to sacrifice themselves", set their mortar in an open position, inflicted great damage on the Germans with fire and forced them to retreat. Reflecting the subsequent counterattacks, Pochtaryov and Presnyakov, tirelessly transferring their seventy-kilogram mortar on their shoulders from one position to another, effectively destroyed the enemy’s manpower. The selfless work of the mortars did not allow the Germans to use numerical superiority and helped to keep the captured bridgehead, to which the main forces of the regiment were transported. For the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 10, 1944, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Ivanovich Pochtarev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Until the end of October 1943, N. I. Pochtaryov participated in the battles for the expansion of the bridgehead, called Bukrinsky . Then, among the soldiers who particularly distinguished themselves during the crossing of the Dnieper, Nikolai Ivanovich was sent to junior lieutenant courses. Upon completion of training in 1944, N. I. Pochtaryov fought as commander of a mortar platoon on the 3rd and 4th Ukrainian fronts. He completed the military journey in Czechoslovakia . After the war, Nikolai Ivanovich served the Soviet army until 1949. In reserve, he retired with the rank of captain. He lived in the city of Svatovo. From 1949 to 1952 he worked as an inspector of the personnel department at the Svatov State Oil Plant, then until 1983 he worked at the Svatovsk Oil Extraction Plant, having gone from the head of the raw materials shop to the deputy director of the plant. After retiring, Nikolai Ivanovich led an active public life: he participated in various city events, was engaged in patriotic education of youth, performed in labor collectives and schools. November 16 ^[7] 1990, Nikolai Ivanovich died. He was buried in the Western cemetery of the city of Svatovo, Lugansk region of Ukraine.

Awards and titles

Medal "Golden Star" (01/10/1944);
Order of Lenin (01/10/1944);
Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (03/11/1985);
medals, including:

Medal "For Courage" (09.24.1943);

Honorary citizen of the city of Svatovo, Lugansk region of Ukraine.

Memory

A street in the city of Svatovo is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union N. I. Pochtaryov.
Plaques in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union N.I. Pochtaryov were installed in the city of Svatovo on the building of school No. 4 and the administrative building of the Svatovo oil extraction plant.

Notes

↑ Name of the city of Lugansk in 1935-1958 and 1970-1990.
↑ Now a housing estate in the Comintern district of the city of Voronezh.
↑ Shchuchinsky bridgehead - the territory held by the troops of the Voronezh Front on the left bank of the Don near the village of Shchuchye, Liskinsky district, Voronezh region, along the bank of the Prorva channel, 10 kilometers southeast of the city of Liski.
↑ During the Belgorod-Kharkov operation, the 161st Infantry Division was temporarily transferred to the operational control of the Bryansk Front, and, occupying the defense at the Gertsovka-Soldatskoye line, ensured the entry of right-flank formations of the 27th Army into battle.
↑ Now within the city limits Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, Kiev region of Ukraine.
↑ The village of Tsibli was on the banks of the Dnieper west of the modern village of the same name. It was flooded by the Kanevsky reservoir after commissioning of the Kanevskaya hydroelectric station. Residents of the flooded villages of Vyunishche, Kozintsy, Gorodishche and Komarovka, Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district, Kiev region, also became residents of the modern village of Tsibli.
↑ According to the Heroes of the Country website, November 15th.

Literature

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