Nikolai Fedorovich Makhov ( March 3, 1921 - October 18, 1943 ) - Guard sergeant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1944 ).
| Nikolai Fedorovich Makhov | |||
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| Date of Birth | March 3, 1921 | ||
| Place of Birth | Kargapolye settlement, Kargapolsky volost, Shadrinsky district , Yekaterinburg province , RSFSR , USSR (now Kargapolsky district , Kurgan region ) | ||
| Date of death | October 18, 1943 (22 years old) | ||
| A place of death | Bragin district , Gomel region , Belorussian SSR , USSR | ||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||
| Type of army | infantry | ||
| Years of service | 1943 | ||
| Rank | guard sergeant  | ||
| Part | 237th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 76th Guards Rifle Division of the 61st Army | ||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 memory
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Biography
Nikolai Fedorovich Makhov was born on March 3, 1921 in a peasant family in the village of Kargapolye of the Kargapolsky volost of the Shadrinsky district of the Yekaterinburg province (now Kurgan region ).
He graduated from the Kargapol elementary school and Voronov ShKM, continued his studies at the nine-year-old school of Mekhon. In 1936 he entered the Chashinsky Dairy Technological College.
In 1939, after graduating from a technical school, Nikolai Fedorovich got a job as a buttermaker at the Sorokinsky butter factory in the Omsk oil industry (now Sorokinsky district, Tyumen region ).
Since 1942, a member of the Komsomol .
On August 15, 1942, Makhov was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army with the Kargapol RVC of the Chelyabinsk Region. Since May 1943 - on the fronts of World War II, he commanded the rifle division of the 9th Rifle Company of the 237th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 76th Guards Rifle Division of the 61st Army of the Central Front . He distinguished himself during the liberation of the Chernihiv region of the Ukrainian SSR [1] .
On September 21, 1943, a platoon of Makhov bypassed Chernigov from the north and attacked enemy lines near the road to Gomel . In that battle, Makhov personally destroyed 4 German soldiers. The enemy launched several counterattacks, but all of them were successfully repulsed. On the night of September 27-28, 1943, Makhov’s branch crossed the Dnieper in the vicinity of the village of Mysy in the Repkinsky district and took an active part in the battles for the capture and retention of the bridgehead on its western shore.
October 18, 1943 during the battle for the expansion of the bridgehead, Makhov was surrounded by enemy soldiers and was forced to fight hand-to-hand. He managed to kill three German soldiers, but he died in that battle. He was buried 300 meters south-east of the village of Zhilichi, Bragin district of the Gomel region of the Belorussian SSR [1] . He was reburied in the village of Bragin of the Bragin district of the Gomel region of Belarus .
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1944, for sergeant Nikolai Makhov posthumously awarded the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union for the “courage and heroism shown when crossing the Dnieper and holding the bridgehead on its right bank” of the guard. He was also posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin [2] [3] [4] [5] .
Memory
- A street was named in honor of Makhov in his native village of Kargapolye [1] .
- On May 8, 1965, by a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, the Kargapol Secondary School was named after Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Fedorovich Makhov.
- The name of the Hero is assigned to a secondary school in the village of Bragin .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Makhov, Nikolai Fedorovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
- ↑ Archive props on the website “ Feat of the People ” No. 15041610 .
- ↑ Archive props on the website “ Feat of the People ” No. 19984945 .
- ↑ Archive props on the website “ Feat of the People ” No. 27987177 .
- ↑ Archive requisites on the site “ Feat of the People ” No. 27987434 .
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 .
- Young heroes of Vitebsk region. Minsk, 1980.