Vasily Semenovich Churyumov (March 3, 1918, Mikhailovka - May 5, 1945, in Czechoslovakia, was buried in Uhersk-Gradishte ) - Guard Senior Sergeant of the Red Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1944 ). Assistant platoon commander of the 221st Guards Rifle Regiment ( 77th Guards Rifle Division , 61st Army , Central Front ).
| Vasily Semenovich Churyumov | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of Birth | March 3, 1918 | ||
| Place of Birth | village (now a city) Mikhailovka ( Volgograd region , USSR ) | ||
| Date of death | May 5, 1945 (aged 27) | ||
| Place of death | Czech | ||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||
| Type of army | rifle troops | ||
| Years of service | 1938 - 1940 , 1941 - 1945 | ||
| Rank |  | ||
| Part | 77th Guards Rifle Division, 61st Army, Central Front | ||
| Position | assistant platoon commander of the 221st Guards Rifle Regiment | ||
| Battles / wars | Soviet-Finnish , The Great Patriotic War | ||
| Awards and prizes |
| ||
Biography
Born March 3, 1918 in the village of Mikhailovka, now a city in the Volgograd region , in a peasant family. Russian. He received secondary education, worked at the collective farm, then at the Leningrad Electrosila plant.
In the Red Army in 1938–40 and from June 1941. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.
At the front in World War II from September 1941. He distinguished himself on September 28, 1943 during the crossing of the Dnieper , the first of the infantry platoon led to cross the river in the vicinity of the village of Vyalye ( Braginsky district of the Gomel region ) and with battle occupied the first enemy trenches. The platoon repelled several enemy counterattacks, which contributed to the battalion boosting the Dnieper.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1944, Vasily Churyumov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the awarding of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.
He died on May 5, 1945 in the battles on the territory of Czechoslovakia. He was buried in the city of Uherske Hradiste. A street in Mikhailovka is named after the Hero [1] .
Notes
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 .
- Volgograd residents are Heroes of the Soviet Union. Volgograd, 1968. / p. 147.
- Forever in the heart of the people. 3rd ed., Ext. and rev. Minsk, 1984./p. 576.
- Bondarenko A.S. , Borodin A.M. (group leader), Loginov I.M. , Merinova L.N. , Naumenko T.N. , Novikov L.N. , Smirnov P.N. While the heart was beating // 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. 447-449. - 471 p. - 25,000 copies.
Links
Igor Serdyukov. Churyumov, Vasily Semenovich . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment July 31, 2016.