Prosyan, Ivan Evgenievich

Ivan Evgenievich Prosyanoy was born on September 29, 1924 in the village of Petropavlovka (now the administrative center of the Petropavlovsk district of the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation ) into a peasant family. Russian Education 8 classes. Before conscription, he worked on a collective farm .

In the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army I.E. Prosyan was called up by the Peter and Paul District Military Commissariat of the Voronezh Region on September 15, 1941. He graduated from the two-month course of a young fighter. In battles with the Nazi invaders, Ivan Evgenievich since January 1942 on the Southern Front . He fought in the 56th Army . Baptism of fire was adopted in the battles on the German defense line of the Mius Front . In March 1942, he participated in the Taganrog offensive operation , then with fights retreated to Rostov . July 16, 1942 in defensive battles on the Sambek River, Ivan Evgenievich was wounded. After being cured before the second wound in late October 1942, Red Army soldier I.E. Prosyan fought in the Battle of the Caucasus on the North Caucasus and Transcaucasian Fronts.

After the second wound and treatment in the hospital, I.E. Prosyany was sent to study at the artillery school. However, Ivan Evgenievich did not have time to complete the training program. In connection with the large-scale offensive of the Nazi troops on the Kursk Bulge , I.E. Prosyan in the rank of sergeant was sent to the Bryansk Front . July 17, 1943 he was enlisted as a machine gunner in the 5th separate reconnaissance battalion of the 15th Panzer Corps . Sergeant I.E. Prosyany distinguished himself in the first days of his stay in the battalion. During the Oryol operation , as part of a capture group with the task of taking control prisoners, Ivan Evgenievich in hand-to-hand combat near the village of Rzhavets, Zalegoschensky district, Oryol region disarmed two German soldiers and captured them, for which he was awarded the medal “For Courage” .

On August 15, 1943, the tank corps in which I. Ye. Prosyan served, which had become the 7th Guards ^[1] by that time, was put into the reserve of the Supreme High Command and on September 10 was subordinated to the Voronezh Front . As part of his unit, transformed into the 8th guards separate reconnaissance armored car battalion ^[2] , Ivan Evgenievich participated in the liberation of Left-Bank Ukraine . Throughout the Sumy-Pryluk operation, as part of the reconnaissance guard, Sergeant I.E. Prosyan acted in front of the main forces of the corps, identifying the concentration of German troops, opening ambushes and carrying out sabotage behind enemy lines. As part of the corps, he crossed the Dnieper and participated in battles at the Bukrinsky bridgehead . He distinguished himself during offensive operations to expand the bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper. On October 12, 1943, he plastunno approached the German trenches between the villages of Maly Bukrin and Chamomile , where he discovered a disguised enemy mortar. Destroying one German mortar and capturing the second, he captured the gun. The knowledge gained at the artillery school came in handy. Having opened fire on German positions, Ivan Evgenievich destroyed up to 10 enemy soldiers.

In November 1943, the 7th Guards Tank Corps as part of the 3rd Guards Tank Army was secretly transferred to the Lyutezhsky bridgehead , from where it went on the offensive during the Kiev offensive operation . Guard sergeant I.E. Prosyanoy participated in the battles for Kiev . On December 3, 1943, the 8th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Armored Battalion was disbanded, and Ivan Evgenievich was transferred automatically to the 4th Guards Separate Motorcycle Battalion of the 7th Guards Tank Corps. In the winter of 1943 - in the spring of 1944 of the Guard, Sergeant Prosyanoy fought for the liberation of Right-Bank Ukraine , taking part in the Zhytomyr-Berdychiv and Proskurov-Chernivtsi operations. During this time, Ivan Evgenievich repeatedly participated in combat reconnaissance, capturing control prisoners, conducted reconnaissance of enemy firing positions and carried out reconnaissance and sabotage raids on enemy rear lines about 20 times. Acting boldly, and sometimes boldly, the Guard Sergeant Prosyanaya always obtained valuable intelligence for the command. So, on March 6, 1944, being in the German rear, I. Ye. Prosyan as part of a group broke into the village of Lagodintsy, Kamenetz-Podolsk Region ^[3] and took an active part in the defeat of the German garrison. Throwing grenades at one of the houses where the Germans settled, he destroyed 12 enemy soldiers and captured 5 more. In the summer of 1944, Ivan Evgenievich was transferred to the position of machine gunner of an armored personnel carrier of his battalion. Particularly distinguished during the Lviv-Sandomierz operation .

After encircling and liquidating a large group of Nazi forces near Brody, Soviet forces disassembled the Northern Ukraine Army Group with a powerful blow and created a gap in its defense up to 100 kilometers wide along the front. An opportunity arose for the Red Army to enter the Vistula . In an effort to rectify the situation, the German command began to hastily transfer large reserves to the breakthrough area. In order to clarify the enemy’s forces, identify its reserves, open the defensive system and conduct sabotage operations, a reconnaissance group of seven scouts commanded by the Guard of the Second Lieutenant was sent to the rear of the GermansI.E. Churkina , which included the sergeant Prosyanoy. Late in the evening of July 27, 1944, the group advanced from the area of ​​Przemysl, and crossing the front line at about two in the morning, moved towards the Vistula. Going to the river in the area of ​​the settlement of Zadushniki ^[4] , the scouts assembled the raft and began the crossing. Already near the right bank, the fighters noticed glimmers of fire from the fire of the German guard, but after a difficult transition and struggle with the rapid flow of forces, there was no longer any way to row. To protect the group, the guard sergeant Prosyanoy with a machine gun jumped into the water, and climbed ashore, took a firing position. While the group was approaching the shore, Ivan Evgenievich scouted the nearby area and discovered a German secret in the coastal shrub, which they eliminated together with junior lieutenant Churkin. The next night of the guard, Sergeant I.E. Prosyan in the same area penetrated the depths of the German defense and carried out reconnaissance, establishing the strength and composition of the German troops and their location. Upon returning to its territory, the reconnaissance group encountered a detachment of German saboteurs. Despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, the scouts entered the battle, scattered and partially destroyed the enemy group. At the same time, the sergeant Millet fire killed 6 enemy soldiers from a machine gun.

On August 2, 1944, the guard sergeant I.E. Prosyanoy, as part of a reconnaissance group on an armored personnel carrier, advanced to the Stashuva region, where he penetrated deep into German defense and determined the number of enemy troops and the location of his fire weapons. On the way back, an armored personnel carrier with scouts met and defeated a German convoy. At the same time, Ivan Evgenievich personally destroyed 14 enemy soldiers with machine gun fire. Intelligence delivered to the corps headquarters on time contributed to the success of the battles at the Sandomierz bridgehead . In the period from August 10 to 17, 1944, the machine gunner of the 3rd company of the 4th Guards Separate Motorcycle Battalion of the Guard, Sergeant I.E. Prosyanoy was again in the rear of the enemy as part of the reconnaissance and sabotage group. Scouts collected information, ambushed on the roads, carried out subversive work on enemy communications. During this time, Ivan Evgenievich personally destroyed 16 enemy soldiers, 1 officer and 3 fuel truck with fuel. On August 12, 1944, while trying to mine a railway bridge in the Ostrovets area, the group was discovered by German military security. Covering the retreat of the comrades, the guard sergeant Prosyan with a machine gun at the ready advanced towards the enemy, and shooting him at point blank range, he stampeded, destroying 9 enemy soldiers. 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 September 23, 1944, the sergeant Prosyany Ivan Evgenievich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Sergeant I.E. Prosyanoy acted no less successfully during the liberation of the southern regions of Poland ( Sandomierz-Silesian operation ) and during the battles in Silesia ( Lower Silesian operation ). As commander of an armored personnel carrier, he was constantly in the reconnaissance group ahead of the advancing parts of the corps, providing his headquarters with operational intelligence, timely detecting enemy ambushes, sweeping away barriers and capturing crossings over water barriers. On April 16, 1945, during the beginning of the Berlin operation, Ivan Evgenievich was one of the first in the corps to go to the Neisse River and transported his armored personnel carrier to the west bank in the Bad Muskau area . On April 17, 1945, his crew helped to counter the enemy’s counterattack at Trebendorf with effective fire from a machine gun. On April 18, in the area of ​​the village of Dreshnits, the armored personnel carrier of Prosyany dispersed a large group of machine gunners. At the same time, 7 enemy soldiers were destroyed, and the non-commissioned officer was captured and later gave valuable information and numbers of German units opposing the corps. On the same day, Ivan Evgenievich went to the Spree River and scouted ford for the passage of tanks. Together with the tanks in tow, he transported an APC to the west coast and participated in repelling enemy counterattacks until the main corps forces arrived. Having broken the enemy’s resistance, on April 25, 1945, the advanced units of the 7th Guards Tank Corps reached the southwestern outskirts of Berlin . Ivan Evgenievich as part of his unit stormed the capital of Germany . In the last days of the war, he participated in battles for the city of Dresden during the Prague operation . He completed the battle path on May 9, 1945 in Prague .

After the end of World War II, I.E. Prosyanoy completed his studies at a military school and received an officer rank. In the armed forces of the USSR, he served until 1947. In reserve, Ivan Evgenievich resigned as a senior lieutenant. He lived in the city of Kalach, Voronezh region. He worked as an instructor in the Kalacheevsky district committee of the CPSU (b) - the CPSU , was also the first chairman of the regional branch of the All-Union Sports Society "Harvest". July 5, 1968, Ivan Evgenievich died. He was buried in Kalach in the Necropolis of the victims of war on Revolution Square.

• Medal "Golden Star" (09/23/1944);
• Order of Lenin (09/23/1944);
• Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (05/19/1945);
• Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (11/07/1943);
• Order of the Red Star (04/23/1944);
• Order of Glory 3rd degree (08/02/1943);
• medals, including:
  • Medal "For Courage" (08/02/1943).

• A bust of Hero of the Soviet Union I.E. Prosyany is installed in the village of Petropavlovka, Voronezh Region.
• A street in the village of Petropavlovka was named after the Hero of the Soviet Union I.E. Prosyany, a memorial plaque was erected on the site of the house where I.E. Prosyany lived.
• In memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union I.E. Prosyan, a football tournament is held in the Voronezh region.

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• Grinko A.I., Ulaev G.F. Heroes of the Voronezh land. - Voronezh: Central Black Earth book. Publishing House, 1965. - S. 368-370. - 607 p.
• Stars of battle valor: essays, memoirs / comp .: M.V. Verbinsky, B.V. Samarin. - Lviv: Kamenyar, 1968. - S. 379-380. - 451 p.

• Public electronic document bank “The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived March 13, 2012.

Presentation to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (Neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.

Reporting addressed to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.

Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (award sheet and award order) (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (award sheet and order for awarding) (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.

Order of the Red Star (award sheet and award order) (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.

Order of Glory 3rd degree (award sheet and award order) (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.

Medal "For Courage" (award sheet and order for awarding) (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.

• Prosyan, Ivan Evgenievich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Prosyan Ivan Evgenievich on www.az-libr.ru (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.
• Beyond the front line (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.
• Prosyanoy Ivan Evgenievich on the website of the Voronezh Regional Sports Club of Trade Unions (Neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.
• Necropolis of the victims of war (neopr.) . Date of treatment June 4, 2013. Archived June 5, 2013.