Prosvirnin, Mikhail Andreevich

Mikhail Andreevich Prosvirnin
Mikhail Andreevich Prosvirnin
Date of Birth	July 26, 1912
Place of Birth	with. Falcons Mountains, Kazan province , Russian Empire ; now Mamadyshsky district , Tatarstan , Russian Federation
Date of death	September 5, 1973 (61 years old)
A place of death	with. Sokolki, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , RSFSR , USSR
Affiliation	the USSR
Type of army	Engineering Troops (1941-1944), ; quartermaster service (1944-1946)
Years of service	1941-1946
Rank	Ensign
Part	• 219th separate combat engineer battalion; • 51st separate engineer battalion of the 7th army engineer; • 51st separate combat engineer company of the 36th mechanized brigade; • Engineering mine company of the 7th Guards Mechanized Brigade; • Yaroslavl quartermaster school (cadet); • 11th cannon artillery regiment of the 73rd Infantry Division
Battles / wars	The Great Patriotic War

Mikhail Andreevich Prosvirnin (1912-1973) - Soviet military. Member of World War II . Hero of the Soviet Union (1944). Guard Junior Lieutenant .

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Biography

Mikhail Andreevich Prosvirnin was born on July 26, 1912 in a peasant family in the village of Sokolly Gory, Mamadysh district, Kazan province of the Russian Empire (now the village of Sokolka, Mamadysh district, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation ). Russian He graduated from elementary school in 1924. First he was a peasant, then, in January 1931, he got a foreman in the Tatlesosplav office in Kazan . From April 1939, and before being drafted for military service, he worked as an assistant timber foreman for harvesting exports in Sokolsky forest station of Mamadyshsky district .

In the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, M. A. Prosvirnin was called up by the Mamadysh regional military registration and enlistment office of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on partial mobilization on April 4, 1941. He served in the Lviv region as an ordinary engineer in the 219th separate engineer battalion. In battles with the Nazi invaders, Mikhail Andreevich since June 1941. In the first months of the war, he fought on the Southwestern Front and Southern Fronts. Since October 1941, he participated in the construction of defensive lines near Stalingrad as part of the 51st separate combat engineer battalion of the 7th engineer army. In May 1942 he was sent to the 36th mechanized brigade, which was being formed in the Volga Military District, as the commander of the department of the 51st separate combat engineer company. Since October 1942 - on the Stalingrad Front . Participated in the Battle of Stalingrad . In December 1942, the mechanized brigade, in the composition of which the sergeant M.A. Prosvirnin, commander of the mine engineering department, fought, became the 7th Guards . Since the winter of 1943, the brigade as part of the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps operated on the Southern Front . Mikhail Andreevich took part in the Rostov offensive operation and battles on the German defense line Mius-front .

In May 1943, the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps was redeployed to the Stepnoy Military District ^[1] and on August 1, 1943 as part of the 47th Army was transferred to the Voronezh Front . Participated in Belgorod-Kharkov and Sumy-Pryluk operations. During the offensive, the commander of the sapper guard company, sergeant M.A. Prosvirnin, with his squad, was in infantry fighting formations and made German engineering barriers, made passages in minefields, eliminated traps left by the retreating enemy, and participated in the liberation of the cities of Romodan , Khorol and Zolotonosha . He particularly distinguished himself during the crossing of the Dnieper and in the battles for the bridgehead on the right bank of the river.

On September 21, 1943, the 47th Army advanced units reached the Dnieper in the area of the Bukrinsky bend. There was an acute shortage of ferry facilities in the units, and the Guard Sergeant M. A. Prosvirnin, who had vast experience in the formation of rafts, quickly set up their production. On September 28, 1943, on the instructions of the command with the first units of the 7th Guards Mechanized Brigade, under enemy artillery fire, he and his squad crossed the Dnieper near the village of Selishche ^{[2] of the} Kanevsky District of the Kiev Region ^[3] . Under the fierce fire of the enemy, the sappers of Prosvirnin mined tank-dangerous directions . When at one of the battle sites the enemy launched a counterattack by large infantry forces with the support of 25 tanks, Mikhail Andreevich and his men advanced to meet them and installed anti-tank mines in which at least 5 enemy vehicles were blown up. By the joint efforts of sappers and armor-piercing brigades, the enemy counterattack was repelled. In subsequent battles for the expansion of the guard's bridgehead, Sergeant M. A. Prosvirnin acted no less bravely. Under the constant shelling of the enemy, he and his fighters carried out the removal of German mines in the area of the village of Selishche, ensuring the advance of the tanks and motorized infantry of his brigade. In the battle near the village of Bobritsa, the Prosvirin branch again received the task of mining a tank-dangerous direction. Mining had to be done in the immediate vicinity of the German trenches. The enemy threw sappers with grenades, but despite mortal danger, Mikhail Andreevich and his soldiers completed a combat mission, closing the aisles for enemy tanks. For courage and heroism shown in the battles at the Bukrinsky bridgehead , on October 28, 1943, the commander of the 7th Guards Mechanized Brigade of the Guard, Lieutenant Colonel A.M. Pakhomov introduced the Guard Sergeant Prosvirnin Mikhail Andreevich to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union. The decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was signed on June 3, 1944.

At the end of October 1943, the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps was withdrawn to the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command , where it remained until the summer of 1944. Mikhail Andreevich during this period was transferred to the rear service. In January 1945, he was recalled from the front and sent to study at the Yaroslavl quartermaster school evacuated to Omsk , the accelerated course of which he graduated in January 1946. Since February, he served as chief of the supply and clothing supply of the 11th cannon artillery regiment of the 73rd Infantry Division (city of Krasnodar ). Since July 1946, junior lieutenant of the quartermaster service M. A. Prosvirnin in reserve.

Returning to his native village, from December 1946, Mikhail Andreyevich was chairman of the Sokolsky Village Council (until January 1948). Since June 1948, he held the post of chief of the military registration desk under the Sokolsky Village Council, and in March 1949 he transferred to the post of agent of the Sokolsky section of the Mamadyshsky district department of the USSR Ministry of Procurement.

In the first half of the 1950s, M. A. Prosvirnin often moved from place to place, changing several positions and professions: from October 1950, he worked as commander of a security platoon at the Kazan Aviation Plant No. 22 named after S.P. Gorbunov, from March 1952 of the year - the master of the Nyuba timber industry enterprise in Solvychegodsky district of the Arkhangelsk region , from April 1954 - the storekeeper at the fireclay factory in the Semiluksky district of the Voronezh region , from April 1955 - the machinist for wooden products of the Semiluksky refractory plant. Since May 1956, Mikhail Andreevich worked as an ordinary collective farmer on the collective farm named after V.I. Lenin ( Sovetsky district of the Saratov region ), and in July 1957 he returned to Sokolki, where he worked until the end of his life on the Sokolsky raid raid of the Nizhne-Vyatka rafting office of the logging trust “ Vyatpolyanles ”agent, worker (since July 1958) and skipper of the barge (since April 1960). September 5, 1973, Mikhail Andreevich died. He was buried in the new cemetery of the village of Sokolka, Mamadyshsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Rewards

Medal "Golden Star" (06/03/1944);
Order of Lenin (06/03/1944);
medals, including:
- Medal "For Courage" (10/31/1943);
- Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" (12/22/1942).

Memory

Busts of Hero of the Soviet Union M.A. Prosvirnin are installed on Heroes Square in the city of Mamadysh and in the village of Sokolka, Mamadyshsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan.
A street in the village of Sokolka is named after M. A. Prosvirnin.

Notes

↑ July 9, 1943 - Steppe Front.
↑ The village of Selishche was located on the right bank of the Dnieper north of Kanev. In 1964 it was flooded by the Kanevsky reservoir.
↑ Until 1954, the Kanevsky district was part of the Kiev region. Now part of the Cherkasy region.

Literature

Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - 863 s. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
Heroes of the Soviet Union - our countrymen: a collection of documentary essays and sketches: in 3 books. / comp .: Z. I. Gilmanov, A.K. Ainutdinov. - Kazan: Tatar Book Publishing House, 1984. - T. 2. - S. 213-214. - 232 p.
The great test // There is a town on Vyatka: Historical and local history essays about the Mamadysh region. - Kazan: Tatar book publishing house, 1981. - S. 112-118. - 168 p.