Kalashnikov, Yury Vasilyevich

Born on May 30, 1924 in the city of Buguruslan, Orenburg Region, in the family of an employee. Russian. Member of the CPSU / CPSU since 1951. He graduated from 7 classes of Allah-Yun school of Yakutia. He worked as an accountant at the Ust-Allah food supply base "Dzhugdzhurzolototrans."

In August 1942, he was called up to the Red Army by the Allah-Yun district war enlistment office of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On the front in the Great Patriotic War since June 1944.

A sapper of the 114th Separate Guards Sapper Battalion of the Guard, Red Army soldier Yuri Kalashnikov, when crossing the Svir River near the town of Lodeynoye Pole, Leningrad Region, near the settlement Miroshkinichi on 21 June 1944, under heavy fire of the enemy, being the elder of the boat, ferried two rifle squads to the right bank of the river.

On July 3, 1944, under enemy fire, he cleared the bridge on the Pucheilo-Palahta road, which ensured the advancement of the advancing Soviet troops. On July 8, 1944, in the course of reconnaissance in the area of ​​Lake Püsreya-Lapshi, he carried out a seriously wounded intelligence officer from under the fire. Order of July 31, 1944 "for the exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with the Nazi invaders" Guards Red Army man Kalashnikov Yuri Vasilyevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.

Sergeant Kalashnikov Yu.V., commander of the sapper detachment of the 114th separate guards sapper battalion, April 5, 1945 south of the city of Mödling, located 10 kilometers south-west of the capital of Austria - the city of Vienna, operating in combat formations of infantry, six soldiers under fire bridges. Personally neutralized over 50 anti-tank mines and 15 mines - “surprises”. Commanding the detachment, the guard Sergeant Kalashnikov on the Gumpoldskirchen Highway - Mödling under fire dismantled six barricades, which were reinforced with land mines, and one of the first to break into the Austrian city of Mödling. By order of April 18, 1945 "for the exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with the German fascist invaders" Guards Sergeant Kalashnikov Yuri Vasilyevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.

From 6 to 13 April 1945, acting in battles, infantry orders on the outskirts of the Austrian capital - the city of Vienna, guards senior sergeant Yuri Kalashnikov with the separation of 197 anti-tank and 117 anti-personnel mines, 17 land mines. On April 11, 1945, he was the first to force the Donau Canal in Vienna and made a passage through a minefield, while it cleared 37 anti-personnel mines. On April 13, 1945, the senior sergeant Kalashnikov with the soldiers made a pass through 17 barricades of the guard, removed 65 anti-tank and 32 anti-personnel mines of the enemy. In street battles in the city of Vienna, the commander of the demining unit, Yuri Kalashnikov, destroyed three enemy soldiers. "For exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with Nazi invaders," when Sergeant captured Vienna on April 30, 1945, senior sergeant Kalashnikov was again awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 19, 1955, “for exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with fascist invaders”, Kalashnikov Yuriy Vasilyevich was rewarded with the Order of Glory of the 1st degree, becoming a full holder of the Order of Glory.

In 1945, the guard foreman Kalashnikov Yu. V. was demobilized. He graduated from the Chimkent Polytechnic College. In 1949-1954 he worked as an operative officer of the Timpton district police station in the village of Chulman, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In subsequent years, he worked on the construction, then the chief specialist of the design institute "Dalgiprorybprom." In the 1980s he lived in the city of Kaluga, then he moved in with the children in the capital, the city of Moscow . He died in 1992. Buried in Moscow .

He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, the Order of Glory, 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree, medals.

Participant of the 1985 Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow .

In the town of Ramenskoye, Moscow Region , a street is named after the Heroes of the Airborne Troops. The name of Yu. V. Kalashnikov was assigned to one of the lanes of Yakutsk.

Yury Vasilievich Kalashnikov (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ." The appeal date is June 8, 2014.

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