Sukhorukov, Ivan Fedorovich

Ivan Sukhorukov was born in 1894 at the Melovsky farm (now the Nekhaevsky district of the Volgograd region ). He graduated from the teacher's college. He served in the tsarist army, participated in the battles of the First World War . In 1919, Sukhorukov went to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army . In 1924 he graduated from the Shot courses, in 1938 - the Higher Border School of the NKVD of the USSR. Since the beginning of World War II - on its fronts ^[1] .

By April 1945, Guard Colonel Ivan Sukhorukov commanded the 242nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 82nd Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front . Distinguished himself during the Berlin operation . On April 18, 1945, Sukhorukov’s regiment crossed the River Fliess in the vicinity of the German settlement Gerlsdorf and seized a bridgehead on its western shore, after which he successfully held and expanded it by storm taking the village of Vorin and reaching the approaches to the city of Munich ^[1] .

“The 242th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 82nd Guards Rifle Division, commanded by the Guard Colonel Ivan Fedorovich Sukhorukov, distinguished himself in the battles for Munich. A participant in the battle on the Volga, an experienced officer, he made a bold and deeply thought-out decision. The regiment approached Munich along the road going from the Oder. Here the enemy built many defensive structures. Leaving only one company in this section, Sukhorukov defiantly, in front of enemy observers, took the main forces of the regiment back, then burst into the forest to the north of Munich, and from there rushed into the city with a friendly attack from the flank and from the rear. The infantry acted in small groups with tanks and self-propelled guns. Sukhorukov himself came with a rifle unit in the center of the regiment. Street fighting lasted several hours. Carrying out the plan of the commander, the soldiers tried to cut off the escape route to the enemy. They made their way to the intersections of streets and opened sudden fire, thereby creating the appearance of an environment. Hitlerites rushed about in search of a way out. This was what Sukhorukov sought. With a friendly attack of the main forces of the regiment, he completed the rout of the enemy. The city was taken without great losses on our part.
After the end of the battle for Munich, it became known that Ivan Fedorovich Sukhorukov was seriously wounded in the chest and leg. Having learned from this from the regimental doctor, I ordered the colonel to be immediately sent to the hospital. On the proposal of the army command, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. ”

- Marshal of the Soviet Union V. I. Chuykov. End of the Third Reich. - M .: Publishing house "Soviet Russia", 1973. - S. 195.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 31, 1945, Colonel Ivan Sukhorukov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the awarding of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ^[1] .

In 1951, Sukhorukov was sacked. He lived in Yalta . He died on March 16, 1963 ^[1] .

He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, three Orders of the Red Banner , the Order of Alexander Nevsky and a number of medals ^[1] .

The name of the Hero is the street in the village of Melokletsky

• 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 .
• Volgograd residents are Heroes of the Soviet Union. Volgograd, 1968. / p. 122.
• Bondarenko A.S. , Borodin A.M. (group leader), Loginov I.M. , Merinova L.N. , Naumenko T.N. , Novikov L.N. , Smirnov P.N. Ivan Fedorovich Sukhorukov // Heroes of Volgograd / Literary editing of V. I. Efimov , V. I. Psurtsev , V. R. Slobozhanin , V. S. Smagorinsky ; introduction by A. S. Chuyanov . - Volgograd: Lower Volga Book Publishing House, 1967. - S. 385. - 471 p. - 25,000 copies.

Leonid Sheinman. Sukhorukov, Ivan Fedorovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment August 10, 2015.