Nikolai Petrovich Sednenkov ( 1919 - 1944 ) - Guard Lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1944 ).
| Nikolai Petrovich Sednenkov | ||||||||
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| Date of Birth | April 21, 1919 | |||||||
| Place of Birth | village Trutnevo, Krasninsky district , Smolensk province , RSFSR | |||||||
| Date of death | September 3, 1944 (25 years old) | |||||||
| A place of death | 18 km east of Ostroleki , , Governor General , Third Reich | |||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||
| Type of army | aviation | |||||||
| Years of service | 1938 - 1944 | |||||||
| Rank | Guard  | |||||||
| Part | 7th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment ( 230th Assault Aviation Division ) | |||||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 memory
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Biography
Nikolai Sednenkov was born on April 21, 1919 in the village of Trutnevo, Krasninsky district [1] . After graduating from a junior high school and a factory apprenticeship school in Smolensk, he worked at the Yartsevsky Electromechanical Plant, studied at the flying club. In 1938, Sednenkov was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. In 1940, he graduated from the Odessa Military Aviation Pilot School . Since May 1942 - on the fronts of World War II [2] .
By July 1944, the Guard Lieutenant Nikolai Sednenkov commanded the link of the 7th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment of the 230th Assault Air Division of the 4th Air Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front . By that time, he had made 115 sorties to attack clusters of military equipment and manpower of the enemy, his important objects, inflicting heavy losses on him. On September 3, 1944, in the vicinity of the city of Ostroleka in Poland, Sednenkov’s plane was shot down during a sortie (it fell 18 km east of Ostroleka [3] ), and the entire crew died. He was buried in Ostroleka [2] .
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 26, 1944, for “exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the battle against the German invaders and shown courage and heroism” of the guard, Lieutenant Nikolai Sednenkov was posthumously awarded the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union . He was also awarded the Order of Lenin , two orders of the Red Banner , orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and the Red Star , a number of medals [2] .
Memory
On September 22, 2016, a memorial plaque to N. P. Sednenkov [4] [5] was installed on the building of the Trostyansk Basic School.
Notes
- ↑ The village of Trutnevo was not preserved; Now the territory belongs to the Knyazhinsky rural settlement , Pochinkovsky district , Smolensk region .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Sednenkov, Nikolai Petrovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
- ↑ We remember ... . Pochinki schools - the names of the Heroes . County News - Smolensk Regional News Portal (October 4, 2016). Date of treatment October 18, 2016.
- ↑ In honor of the Hero . News of the regional Duma . Smolensk - Our city: city information portal (September 22, 2016). Date of treatment October 18, 2016.
- ↑ This is necessary - not dead! This is necessary - alive! . Administration of the municipality "Pochinkovsky District" (September 22, 2016). Date of treatment October 18, 2016.
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 .
- Vorobyov M.V. et al. Smolyan - Heroes of the Soviet Union. - M., 1982.
- Emelianenko V. B. In the harsh air of war ... - M., 1976.