Sobolev, Ivan Vasilyevich

Ivan Vasilyevich Sobolev was born on October 23, 1923 in the family of a peasant Vasily Dmitrievich Sobolev in the village of Pershinsky, the Pershinsky Village Council of the Pershinsky Volost, Shadrinsky district, Yekaterinburg province , and now the village council is part of the Dalmatovo district of the Kurgan region . Russian .

He graduated from 7 classes. Then he lived in the city of Sverdlovsk . After graduating from a vocational school, he worked as an electric welder at the Uralmash plant.

In the Red Army was called on March 16, 1943 to the Ordzhonikidze RVK of Sverdlovsk. Baptism of fire took on the Kursk Bulge, liberated Ukraine , Poland . Was injured. He fought in the Urals Volunteer Tank Corps.

In early March 1944, Guard Private Sobolev as part of the reconnaissance group carried out missions in the rear of the enemy in the area of ​​the Ukrainian city of Kamenets-Podolsk. On March 3, the scouts made their way to the village of Martyanovka and unexpectedly met the Nazi assault platoon. Sobolev first joined the battle and drew the scouts. In a battle with superior forces, 15 Nazis were destroyed and 35 captured. The next day, Sobolev with tanks fighters in tanks broke into the station Fridrihovka. The guardsmen were the first to cut the Proskurov-Ternopil railway line and took up defenses near the station. During the day, the scouts repulsed seven enemy attacks. Sobolev personally destroyed 5 enemy infantry, being wounded, did not leave the battlefield. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 29, 1944, for the exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with the German fascist invaders of the guard, private soldier Ivan Vasilyevich Sobolev was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.

Our troops were preparing to break through the enemy defenses near the village of Bzovitsa in the Ternopil region . Ivan Sobolev unnoticed penetrated to the front edge of the enemy, disguised. During the day he was able to identify the Nazi firepower, the concentration of enemy infantry and equipment. The command received the necessary information in time. On July 18, 1944, in battles on the outskirts of the city of Zolochiv, the reconnaissance group, in which the corporation Sobolev acted as a guard, infiltrated the enemy’s location for reconnaissance. The group with valuable intelligence was already returning to its own when it was discovered by the Nazis and surrounded by the village of Olshanitsy, not far from Lvov. Sobolev showed courage and first rushed to the enemy. As a result of the fleeting battle, more than 10 Nazis were destroyed. The next day, July 19, the enemy began to retreat from the village of Olshanitsy. Sobolev with a group of scouts entered the flank of the retreating Nazis and started a battle. As a result, it was destroyed near the platoon of enemy soldiers. In one of the battles, he noticed an enemy machine gun disguised in rye, secretly crawled over to him and threw grenades at the Nazis. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 23, 1944, for exemplary performance of the tasks of the command in battles with the German fascist invaders of the guard, the corporal Ivan Vasilyevich Sobolev was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.

Since 1944 member of the CPSU (b) .

On January 14, 1945, during the general offensive of the Soviet units in Poland, the guard junior sergeant Sobolev under heavy fire as a member of the group made his way to the enemy, in the village of Pekoszów. Grenades and a machine gun destroyed 4 of the Nazis. After that, he blew up the railway line, cutting off the enemy’s retreat. On the night of January 17, a group of scouts broke into the railway station, destroyed three Nazi guards and seized several wagons with military cargo. Pursuing the enemy, the scouts entered the village, where the headquarters of the German unit was located. Throwing grenades at him, they broke into the building and destroyed 4 enemy soldiers and 4 captured them, also seized the banner of the unit. For these fights, the guard junior sergeant Sobolev was presented to the Order of Glory of the 1st degree. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 10, 1945, for exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with the German fascist invaders of the Guard, Junior Sergeant Sobolev Ivan Vasilyevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree.

But the intelligence officer did not manage to get a high reward. He died in battle on March 26, 1945 during the destruction of the Oppeln-Ratibor German group during the Upper Silesian offensive operation . He was killed in a forest 2 km south of the village of of the Branitz district of the Leobschütz land district ( German: Landkreis Leobschütz ) of the Oppeln administrative district of the Upper Silesian province of the Free State of Prussia , now the village of Dzbance ( Polish. Dzbańce ) is a part of the Grubachy region . .

Reburied in a mass grave number 322 of the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in the city of Kendzejin-Kozle Kendzierzha-Kozelsky county of the Opole Voivodeship Poland .

• Order of the Patriotic War, I degree, May 25, 1945 ^[1]
• Order of Glory, I degree, April 10, 1945 ^[2]
• Order of Glory II degree № 3488, September 23, 1944 ^[3]
• Order of Glory III degree № 27223, March 29, 1944 ^[4]

• In March 1983, the Bolshaya Verkh-Isetsky District of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) was renamed Sobolev Street, on the building of the hospital of war veterans, which is located on this street, a memorial plaque was installed.
• The street in the village of Pershino was named after I. V. Sobolev ^[5] .

Ivan Vasilievich Sobolev (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ." The appeal date is June 9, 2014.

• Golden constellation Zauralye. Prince 3, Kurgan, ParusM, 2003
• Holders of the Order of Glory of three degrees: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. College D.S. Sukhorukov . - M .: Military Publishing , 2000. - 703 p. - 10 000 copies - ISBN 5-203-01883-9 .