Lozanenko, Konstantin Frolovich

Konstantin Frolovich Lozanenko
Konstantin Frolovich Lozanenko
Date of Birth	December 4, 1923
Place of Birth	village Stepanovo, Dukhovschinsky district , Smolensk province , RSFSR , USSR
Date of death	October 10, 2013 (89 years old)
Place of death	Brest , Belarus
Affiliation	the USSR
Type of army	Signal Corps
Years of service	1942 - 1965
Rank
Battles / wars	The Great Patriotic War

Konstantin Frolovich Lozanenko ( December 4, 1923 - October 10, 2013 ) - Soviet military leader, signalman , participant in the Great Patriotic War , retired major . Hero of the Soviet Union ( October 26, 1943 , medal No. 1352) ^[1] .

He was the last Hero of the Soviet Union, who lived on the territory of the Brest region ^[2] .

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Biography

Born on December 4, 1923 in the village of Stepanovo, Dukhovschinsky district, Smolensk province (now Dukhovschinsky district , Smolensk region ). In 1930, the family moved to the city of Yartsevo, Smolensk region. In 1940 he graduated from eight classes of secondary school No. 6 of Yartsevo.

With the outbreak of war, he was mobilized for trench work near the city of Smolensk . After evacuation to the Penza region , Ternovsky district , the village of Konstantinovka worked on a collective farm. He was drafted into the Red Army on May 1, 1942 by the Ternovsky regional military enlistment office. He took the military oath on June 16, 1942. From May 1942 to February 1944, line supervisor 76 of the UR, the city of Kuznetsk , Penza Oblast , 133 separate Guards Communication Battalion (25th Guards Rifle Corps, 7th Guards Army).

Line supervisor Red Army soldier K. Lozanenko, with advanced infantry units , crossed the Dnieper River on September 25, 1943 and, in conditions of enemy fire resistance, at the risk of life, provided stable wired communications to the command of the 25th Guards Corps. For exemplary performance of a combat mission of the guard, Red Army soldier K. Lozanenko on October 26, 1943 was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. ^[2]

From February to April 1944, the line supervisor of the Main Directorate of Communications of the Red Army (Moscow). From April 1944 to April 1945, a cadet of the Murom , and then the Leningrad military schools of communications . He was promoted to junior lieutenant on July 11, 1945. After completing advanced training courses for officers in the communications of the Red Army ( Kiev ), he was promoted to lieutenant on March 1, 1948 , senior lieutenant on January 23, 1952, and captain on July 31, 1963 . He served as commander of a communications platoon, chief of communications in parts of the Kiev and Belarus military districts, and the Northern Group of Forces. Dismissed to the reserve in 1965 .

From 1966 to 1989, he served as a technician in a number of divisions of the Brest Order of the Red Banner of Labor at the Electromechanical Plant .

He died on October 10, 2013 at the 90th year of his life ^[3] ^[4] .

June 20, 2019 at the house where K.F. Lozanenko lived in Brest (Sovetskaya St., 58), a memorial plaque was installed ^[5] .

Rewards

Hero of the Soviet Union ( October 26, 1943 );
Order of Lenin ( October 26, 1943 );
Order of the Patriotic War I degree ( March 11, 1985 );
Order of the Patriotic War II degree ^[6] ;
Medal "For Courage" ( July 10, 1943 );
medal "For Military Merit" ;
other medals;
Order “For Service to the Motherland”, III degree ( April 15, 1999 , Belarus ) ^[7] ;
Order of Merit, III degree ( May 5, 2010 , Ukraine ) ^[8] ^[9] .

Literature

Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1987.- T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN comp., Reg. RCP No. 87-95382.
Aleschenko N. M. Duty and feat. - M., 1981. - S. 115—124.
Vorobyov M.V., Titov V.E., Khrapchenkov A.K. Smolyan - Heroes of the Soviet Union: 3rd additional. ed. —M., 1982. - S. 303-304.
The Dnieper is a river of heroes. Kiev, 1983 .-- S. 321.
Signalers - Heroes of the Soviet Union: Prince. 1. - L., 1982. - S. 447-448.
He went to the boy at that time ...: Komsomol heroes in the battles for Soviet Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. / autostat V.N. Nemyaty et al. - Kiev: Young, 1985. - P. 178. - 367 p.
Personal file Lozanenko K.F. Archive of the Brest Electromechanical Plant.

Notes

Links

[1] Konstantin Frolovich Lozanenko // Center for Genealogical Research .

[:0-2] ¹ ² According to the site “Heroes of the Country” .

[3] Died K.F. Lozanenko, the last Hero of the Soviet Union, who lived in the Brest region // Regional newspaper "Dawn". - 10/10/2013 .

[4] Brest region carried on the last journey of the Hero of the Soviet Union Konstantin Lozanenko // information portal "Young Russia" Archive copy of October 23, 2013 on the Wayback Machine .

[5] How Konstantin Lozanenko became a Hero, a memorial plaque in honor of which was opened in Brest - the Brest Bulletin newspaper | Brest news, Belarus (neopr.) . bvn.by. Date of treatment June 20, 2019.

[6] Lozanenko Konstantin Frolovich, Order of the Patriotic War II degree // documents on the portal “Feat of the people” .

[7] Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of April 15, 1999 No. 217 “On awarding the Heroes of the Soviet Union and full knights of the Order of Glory with the Order“ For Serving the Motherland “II and III Degree” ”// News of Belarus .

[8] Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 592/2010 dated 5 May 2010 to the Rock “On the Valued State Powers of Ukraine of the Enormous Powers of the World”

[9] V. Yanukovych presented state awards of Ukraine on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Victory in World War II to citizens of foreign countries // RBC-Ukraine .