Nikolai Nikolaevich Shilenkov (November 13, 1922, the village of Troitsky, now the city district of Troitsk as part of the Troitsk administrative district of Moscow - November 16, 1983, Naro-Fominsk ) - sergeant of the Soviet Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1943 ). Gunner of the 896th Infantry Regiment, 211st Infantry Division , 70th Army , Central Front .
| Nikolai Nikolaevich Shilenkov | |||||
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| Date of Birth | November 13, 1922 | ||||
| Place of Birth | pos. Troitsky, now the urban district of Troitsk as part of the Trinity administrative district of Moscow | ||||
| Date of death | November 16, 1983 (61 years old) | ||||
| Place of death | Naro-Fominsk | ||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||
| Years of service | 1941 - 1945 | ||||
| Rank |  | ||||
| Part | 211st Infantry Division, 70th Army, Central Front | ||||
| Position | Gunner of the 896th Infantry Regiment | ||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||
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Biography
Born in the village of Troitsky (now part of Moscow), in a peasant family. Russian. He graduated from grade 4. At first he worked on knocking together tare boxes, and then he mastered the profession of a turner and was engaged in turning business in one of the artels of the city of Naro-Fominsk. Member of the CPSU since 1943 [1] [2] .
September 1, 1941 he was drafted by the Naro-Fominsky district military enlistment office into the Red Army , 10 days later on the fronts of World War II . Participated:
- in 1941: in battles surrounded in the area of the district centers Yampol, Sevsk, in the defense of the cities of Kursk, Livny, Yelets;
- in 1942 - in the defense northwest of the city of Livny;
- in 1943 - in the Voronezh-Kastornensky operation, including the liberation of Dolgoe, Zolotukhino stations, the city of Fatezh, in battles on the Oryol-Kursk arc, in the Oryol and Chernihiv-Pripyat operations. July 19, 1943 distinguished himself in battle near the village of Troena (Kromsky district of the Orel region), destroying the head tank of a column of 16 enemy tanks, and then 3 more tanks, up to 70 enemy soldiers. On August 23, 1943, Sergeant Shilenkov was seriously wounded and evacuated to a hospital in the city of Ryazan. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 16, 1943, Nikolay Nikolayevich Shilenkov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. In December 1943, Sergeant Shilenkov was sent to the 110th Infantry Division of the 50th Army of the Belorussian Front, where he was appointed commander of the Intelligence Division of the 3rd Battery of the 2nd Division of the 971th Artillery Regiment;
- in 1944 - in the Rogachev-Zhlobin and Belorussian operations, including the liquidation of the Minsk “boiler”, battles for the cities of Grodno, Ostroleka with access to the Narev River. On July 5, 1944, in a region east of the village of Kotyagi, a group of scouts took part in a battle in which Shilenkov personally destroyed 21 enemy soldiers, capturing 12 soldiers and 1 officer, for which he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree;
- in 1945 - in the East Prussian operation, including the liberation of the cities of Likk (Elk), Wormditt (Orneta), the assault on Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ), in battles on the Zemland Peninsula and the coast of the Frishes-Huff Bay of the Baltic Sea.
Since 1945, after demobilization, he lived and worked as a mechanic at a silk factory in Naro-Fominsk. Only in 1947 did he learn that for the feat accomplished under Oryol, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. At the end of the same year in the Kremlin he was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal. He died and was buried in Naro-Fominsk, in the old cemetery [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Shilenkov Nikolay Nikolaevich, Hero of the Soviet Union .
- ↑ Shilenkov Nikolay Nikolaevich .
- ↑ Shilenkov, Nikolai Nikolaevich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
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 .
- V. A Zhilin. Battle of Kursk: chronicle, facts, people. Book 1 . - OLMA Media Group, 2003. - P. 414. - ISBN 5224044456 , 9785224044450. , p. 154.