Sinitsyn, Mikhail Nikolaevich

Born on December 6, 1925 in the village of Belavka, Vorotynsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region . He graduated from 7 classes. He worked on a collective farm. In August 1943 he was drafted into the Red Army by the Vorotynsky District Military Commissariat of the Gorky Region. Since October of that year at the front. He took part in the Korsun-Shevchenkovskaya, Uman-Botashanskaya, Iasi-Kishinev operations, in the liberation of Romania, Hungary , Austria and Czechoslovakia . By the summer of 1944, Sergeant Sinitsyn had already commanded the detachment of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 521st Infantry Regiment of the 133rd Infantry Division.

On August 27-28, 1944, Sergeant Sinitsyn went to reconnaissance twice to establish the location of enemy firing points, and captured the “tongue”. On August 28, he destroyed 4 opponents in battle, when scouts were discovered and attacked by the enemy.

By order of the 133rd Infantry Division of September 5, 1944, Sergeant Sinitsyn Mikhail Nikolaevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree. On October 8, 1944, in the battles for heights on the Romanian-Hungarian border, Sergeant Sinitsyn was the first to raise the squad into the attack and, bursting into the enemy’s trench, killed 5 infantrymen with machine gun fire. On the night of November 7, having forced the Tisza river west of the city of Polgar with the squad fighters, he gained a foothold on its right bank and started a battle to expand the bridgehead.

By order of the 27th Army on December 20, 1944, Sergeant Sinitsyn Mikhail Nikolaevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.

In early December 1944, in a battle near the Tisza River, Sergeant Sinitsyn raised his squad to the attack, boldly acting in the enemy’s position, destroyed 3 officers, 4 soldiers, captured a machine gun, and captured 3 infantrymen.

By an order of December 30, 1944, Sergeant Sinitsyn Mikhail Nikolaevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.

During the years of the war, he was wounded in September 1944 in the Carpathians, and shell-shocked in Hungary . Participant of the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 on Red Square.

After the war, he served in the army for several more years. In 1952, with the rank of foreman, he was transferred to the reserve. In 1970 he graduated from the Moscow Cooperative Institute. He lived in the village of Yurino, Yurinsky district of the Republic of Mari El . He worked as the director of the boarding house "Castle Sheremetev."

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 19, 1955, Mikhail Nikolaevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree by re-ordering. He became the full holder of the Order of Glory.

Since 2002 he lived in the city of Surgut. Died June 8, 2007. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Yurino, Mari El Republic.

He was awarded the orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degree, Glories of 3 degrees, medals.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Sinitsyn (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment August 30, 2014.

• Cavaliers of the Order of Glory of three degrees: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium D. S. Sukhorukov . - M .: Military Publishing House , 2000 .-- 703 p. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-01883-9 .