Pshenitsin, Gennady Alexandrovich

Gennady Alexandrovich Pshenitsin was born in 1922 in the Yaroslavl province of the RSFSR according to some data in the village of Novinki, Lyubimsky district ^[1] (now the village of Lyubimsky district of the Yaroslavl region of the Russian Federation ), according to other sources ^[2] in the village of Ura of the Myshkinsky district (now the village of the Nekouz district of the Yaroslavl region region of the Russian Federation) in a peasant family. Russian He graduated from seven classes of junior high school and machine operator courses. Prior to being drafted for military service, he lived in the village of Zakobyakino, Lyubimsky district, Yaroslavl region, worked as a tractor driver at the Zakobyakino machine-tractor station .

G. A. Pshenitsin was drafted into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army on September 22, 1941 by the Lyubimsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Yaroslavl region. He was trained in a military camp, received a military specialty as a machine gunner. In the spring of 1942, the Red Army soldier G. A. Pshenitsin was sent to Kuznetsk , where the formation of the 76th field fortified area was under way. In battles with the Nazi invaders, Gennady Alexandrovich since September 1942 on the Stalingrad front . He was baptized in the Battle of Stalingrad in battles near Lake Barmantsak , where the 76th fortified district held the defense in the 51st Army . After exhausting the enemy in heavy bloody battles, the troops of the 76th fortified area launched a counterattack on November 20, 1942 as part of the Uranus operation , and breaking through the defenses of the German and Romanian forces at their own site, they ensured the entry of the 4th mechanized and 4th cavalry corps. On November 23, 1943, troops of the Stalingrad Front in the area of ​​the Sovetsky hamlet connected with units of the South-Western Front and closed an encirclement ring around the many-thousand-strong group of Nazi forces in Stalingrad . In December, Gennady Alexandrovich took part in repelling the counterattack of the Got strike group, which was trying to release the 6th Paulus Army that ended up in the Stalingrad boiler.

On January 1, 1943, the Stalingrad Front was renamed South and his troops launched an offensive in the Rostov direction. During the Rostov operation, the 76th fortified area was in the second echelon of the 51st army and was put into battle on the night of February 12, 1943. As part of his unit, the Red Army soldier G. A. Pshenitsin participated in the liberation of the city of Aksai and the defeat of the Nazi troops northwest of Rostov-on-Don . Then Gennady Alexandrovich fought on the German defense line Mius Front . For the courage of the personnel in the Battle of Stalingrad on May 1, 1943, the 76th fortified area was transformed into the 1st Guards , and the battalion, in which the machine gunner G.A. Pshenitsin served, became the 8th separate guards machine-gun and artillery battalion. In the summer and autumn of 1943, the guards in the 44th and 28th armies of the Southern (from October 20, 1943 - 4th Ukrainian ) front participated in the liberation of the areas of Donbass and Zaporizhzhya region ( Donbass and Melitopol operations). Gennady Alexandrovich participated in the liberation of Taganrog and Osipenko . After the liquidation of the enemy’s Nikopol bridgehead , the 28th Army, which at that time included the 1st Guards Fortified Area, was transferred to the 3rd Ukrainian Front on March 1, 1944. Red Army soldier G. A. Pshenitsin was especially distinguished during the crossing of the Dnieper estuary and in the battles for the bridgehead on its right bank.

On March 6, 1944, troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front went on the offensive as part of the Bereznegovato-Snigirev operation . The 28th army operating on the southern sector of the front crossed the Dnieper south of Kakhovka and on March 11 took control of the city of Berislav , a major stronghold of the enemy’s defense. Developing the offensive, the main forces of the army launched a strike along the right bank of the Dnieper in the direction of Kherson . On March 13, 1943, the troops of the 1st Guards Fortified Region, who occupied positions on the left bank of the Dnieper Estuary, were given the task of crossing the bay and occupying a bridgehead on its right bank, thereby creating a threat to the rear of the group of German and Romanian forces defending in the Kherson region. In the same on the instructions of the command of the guard, the Red Army soldier G.A. Pshenitsin, taking a machine gun and two fighters with him, secretly crossed the Dnieper estuary on a small boat, and, after reconnoitering the coast, outlined the most convenient place for landing. Leaving the soldiers with a machine gun on the shore to cover the crossing of his battalion, Gennady Alexandrovich single-handedly scouted the surrounding area and on one of the small coastal hills discovered a well-disguised firing point of the enemy, which could seriously complicate the capture of the bridgehead. Without hesitation, Pshenitsin went around her from the rear and unexpectedly for the enemy burst into the enemy trench. With an automatic burst, he killed three enemy soldiers and captured another one. The bold and decisive actions of the guard of the Red Army G.A. Pshenitsin allowed the assault group of the battalion to forcelessly cross the bay and gain a foothold on the bridgehead. The enemy threw large infantry forces to eliminate the Soviet landing. During March 16, guardsmen on the captured bridgehead repelled 6 violent attacks of superior enemy forces. Guards Red Army soldier G.A. Pshenitsin, as part of a small group of fighters, fought in complete encirclement for several hours and personally destroyed at least 13 enemy soldiers from the machine gun. The group pulled upon itself significant forces of the enemy, which did not allow him to dismember the forces of the landing. Only when the cartridges began to run out did the group make a breakthrough. Throwing grenades at the enemy, the guardsmen left the encirclement and joined the main forces of the landing group. The heroic actions of the landing of the 1st guards fortified area contributed to the successful offensive of the 28th army in the Nikolaev direction. The enemy was driven back over the Southern Bug . On the left bank of the rivers he managed to keep only a small bridgehead in the area of ​​the city of Nikolaev , which the 28th Army had to liquidate before the start of the Odessa operation . On March 22, 1944, when breaking through a heavily fortified enemy defensive line on the near approaches to the city of Nikolaev near the village of Shirokaya Balka ^{[3], the} advance of the 8th separate guards machine-gun and artillery battalion was stopped by heavy machine-gun fire. Having set up a firing point on a small hill, the enemy shot through the entire surrounding area. Having tied up grenades, the guards, the Red Army soldier G.A. Pshenitsin, advanced forward, and crawling closer to the enemy’s positions, with a well-aimed throw of a grenade destroyed the firing point, thereby ensuring the advancement of the battalion. In the battle near Shirokaya Balka, Gennady Aleksandrovich was seriously wounded, but while continuing to fire from the machine gun, he stubbornly advanced forward until an enemy bullet cut his life short ^[4] .

For the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 3, 1944, the Red Army soldier Pshenitsin Gennady Alexandrovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. G. A. Pshenitsin was buried in the mass grave of Soviet soldiers in the Park of Glory in the Ship District of the city ​​of Nikolaev, Ukraine .

• Medal "Golden Star" (06/03/1944, posthumous);
• Order of Lenin (06/03/1944, posthumously).

• The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union G. A. Pshenitsin is assigned to the Nikolaev comprehensive school of I — III steps No. 14 of the Nikolaev city council of the Nikolaev region of Ukraine. A memorial plaque is installed on the school building.
• A street in the village of Novinki, Lyubimsky district, Yaroslavl region, is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union G. A. Pshenitsin.
• A street in the city of Lyubim, Yaroslavl Region, is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union G. A. Pshenitsin.

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Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (neopr.) .

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Information from the disposal list Z380-22 (neopr.) .

Burial card Z380-22 (neopr.) .

Burial diagram of Z380-22 (neopr.) .

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