Pintelin, Ivan Vasilievich

Before the war

Ivan Vasilievich Pintelin was born on March 26, 1921 ^{[1] [2] [3]} in the village of Dymovsky Khutor ^{[4] of the} Skopinsky district of the Ryazan province of the RSFSR ^{[3] [4]} (now the territory of the Miloslavsky district of the Ryazan region of the Russian Federation ^{[3] [4]} ) in a peasant family. Russian ^{[1] [2]} . In 1932, the Pintelins moved to Moscow ^{[1] [2] [3]} . Here, Ivan Vasilievich completed a seven-year education in 1935 ^[2] . Then he received a working profession at the factory apprenticeship school ^{[1] [2]} , after which he worked as a mechanic at a brick factory in the village of Vnukovo, Kuntsevsky District ^{[2] [5]} . In May 1941 ^[2] Kuntsevsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Moscow region I.V. Pintelin was drafted into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army ^[6] . He served in the Kola Peninsula in the 205th Infantry Regiment of the 52nd Infantry Division , stationed near Monchegorsk . Here he was caught by the beginning of World War II .

In the Arctic

With the outbreak of war, parts of the 52nd Infantry Division were transported by rail to Murmansk , and from there, crossing the Kola Bay , moved along the Mishukovskaya Road to the Zapadnaya Litsa River . Here, on July 2, 1941, Red Army soldier I.V. Pintelin accepted his first battle with the enemy. At this line, later called the “ Valley of Glory ”, the division stopped the advance of German and Finnish troops, frustrating the plans of the Wehrmacht command to capture Murmansk and the Arctic . In contrast to the battles on December 26, 1941, it was transformed into the 10th Guards , and its 205th Rifle Regiment became the 24th Guards.

The front line formed on the basis of the September battles of 1941 on the Kola Peninsula remained stable until October 1944. Until February 1942, the 10th Guards Rifle Division took up positions on the eastern shore of the Western Face. Then she was withdrawn to the second echelon of the 14th Army and, after a short rest and replenishment, was transferred to the western bank of the river south of Lake Chapr , where she fought positional battles before the start of the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation , periodically trying to break through to the border of the Titovka River. By the spring of 1944, the Red Army guard I.V. Pintelin, who was not afraid of enemy bullets, or severe frosts, or scurvy , had been a gunner in a platoon of foot reconnaissance for two years ^[5] . He repeatedly went with his comrades in the night search, conducted reconnaissance of enemy positions, captured languages, participated in fierce hand-to-hand fights for rocky hills towering above the tundra, personally destroying up to 13 enemy soldiers ^{[5] [7]} . In one of the private operations of the division, on April 26, 1944, in the battle for the height, Kurdyuk, the guardsman Pintelin, was the first to attack and, with a personal example of courage and bravery, carried away the rest of the fighters. Being wounded, Ivan Vasilievich remained in service. By dressing himself, he helped the orderlies to evacuate the seriously wounded from the battlefield ^{[1] [2] [7]} .

In the summer of 1944, Finnish troops suffered a heavy defeat on the Karelian Isthmus , and in September, after separate negotiations with the USSR, Finland left the war. This radically changed the balance of forces in the Arctic , and the command of the Karelian Front began the development of an offensive operation to defeat German troops in the Petsamo sector . 24th Guards Regiment, Lieutenant ColonelV.F. Lazarev was to break through the enemy’s long-term defense in the direction of the front’s main attack in the Chapr- Small Carikyavr intergranular defile. The key knot of the German defense in this sector was the strongly fortified height of Small Karikayvish. An assault on the forehead threatened to turn into big losses. Based on this, the regiment headquarters developed a plan according to which, with the beginning of the offensive, part of the regiment's forces was to imitate a frontal attack, while the other part was to attack German fortifications from the rear. But for the successful implementation of the plan, it was necessary to withdraw at least an infantry battalion into the enemy rear. This task was entrusted to a platoon of foot reconnaissance and a platoon of a company of submachine gunners of the regiment, which were supposed to previously clear the path through the neighboring Kamenistaya hill. On the night of October 3–4, 1944, while combing the heights, the guards discovered German positions and boldly attacked them. Guard Red Armyman I.V. Pintelin was one of the first to break into the enemy’s position. During a short hand-to-hand combat, the enemy was defeated, but the German machine gunners prevented the completely control of the hill of the guards. Having taken an advantageous position, they pressed Soviet fighters to the ground with heavy machine-gun fire. In a difficult combat situation, the Red Army I.V. Pintelin and D. S. Sovetny were able to get to the firing point and destroyed it with grenades along with the calculation. Thanks to the bold actions of the scouts, the combat mission of the group was completed ^{[1] [3] [7]} . On October 7, 1944, during the outbreak of the Petsamo-Kirkines operation, the 24th Guards Rifle Regiment, by skillful bypass maneuver and attack from two sides, took control of the stronghold on Maly Karikaivish. For courage and heroism shown during the capture of the Kamenistaya hill, by an order of October 16, 1944, Ivan Vasilievich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree ^[7] .

Meanwhile, breaking through the enemy’s defenses, the 24th Guards Rifle Regiment developed a swift offensive in the general direction of Luostari , with the improvised means crossed the Titovka River and, having defeated part of the enemy’s cover together with the 28th Guards Rifle Regiment, reached the border of the Petsamoyoki River. The Germans tried to delay the further advancement of the Soviet troops here, but the Red Army guard I.V. Pintelin, having made reconnaissance of the area, found a ford and on October 14 was the first to cross the water barrier. Together with a group of scouts, Ivan Vasilyevich secretly led one infantry battalion behind enemy lines. Having defeated a battalion of mountain rangers from the 6th Mountain Division , the guards occupied a strategically important intersection of roads south of Petsamo and kept it until the main forces of the division arrived ^{[1] [8] [9]} . At 2 a.m. on October 15, Pintelin, as part of his unit, broke into the southern quarters of Petsamo and participated in the liberation of the village. After the capture of Petsamo, the 10th Guards Rifle Division was transferred to northern Norway and participated in the battles for Kirkenes . In total, during the period of the onset of the guard, the Red Armyman I.V. Pintelin destroyed 1 machine gun, destroyed 9 enemy soldiers and captured 3 more ^[8] . For the exemplary performance of combat missions of command by order of November 24, 1944, the scout was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree ^[8] .

In Pomerania

After the completion of the Petsamo-Kirkines operation, the 10th Guards Rifle Division was withdrawn to the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command , and then transferred to Pomerania , on the 2nd Belorussian Front , where in February 1945, as part of the 19th Army, it took part in the East Pomeranian operations . On February 24, the 24th Guards Rifle Regiment of the Guard Lieutenant Colonel V. F. Lazarev broke through the German defenses at the Bukhholz station ^[10] and developed a swift attack on Rummelsburg . From that moment until the complete defeat of the Gdynian group of the enemy’s guards, the Red Armyman I. V. Pintelin, as part of the reconnaissance group, went ahead of the advancing units of the regiment, continuously conducted reconnaissance and more than once obtained valuable information about the enemy ^{[1] [6] [9]} . Thanks to the information received from the scout, the regiment successfully solved combat missions, having mastered the cities of Bischofswalde ^[11] , Stegers ^[12] , Baldenberg and a number of other settlements. On March 3, during a battle for the city of Rummelsburg, Ivan Vasilievich discovered a German ambush and, boldly entering into battle with the enemy, destroyed a machine gun and three enemy soldiers ^[6] .

From Rummelsburg, the guardsmen of Major General Kh. A. Khudalov turned to Gdynia (Gdingen) and on March 11 took possession of the large settlement of Reda , leaving the north to the outer contour of the German defense on the outskirts of the port city. In his memoirs, Khariton Alekseevich noted:

Gdynia is the last major port from where the Hitlerite command could evacuate by sea the remnants of military units, military equipment and civilians to German territory. Naturally, special attention was paid to the defense of Gdynia. Here was a powerful fortified area, which, as evidenced in his memoirs by Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky, was defended by a total of almost two dozen enemy divisions. The rugged terrain with forests, skillfully inscribed strongholds with long-term and field engineering structures, with a developed system of trenches, a dense network of paved roads and communication lines - all this gave the enemy great advantages. In connection with the reduction of the front line, which occurred as a result of the retreat of the enemy, his defense turned out to be densely saturated with troops and military equipment. Coastal and naval artillery was also used in the interests of the ground forces.

- H. A. Khudalov. At the edge of the continent ^[13] .

On March 18, the 24th Guards Rifle Regiment, using the forces of the 1st Rifle Company, conducted reconnaissance in battle near the Gdynia suburb of the village of Ramel . Together with the infantry, a foot reconnaissance platoon also participated in power intelligence. Suddenly, an enemy machine gun opened destructive fire from the flank of the Soviet infantry. The company lay almost in an open area, devoid of any natural shelters. It was necessary to save the situation, and the scout Pintelin, armed with a grenade, crawled in the direction from which the sounds of gunfire were heard. Two hundred meters to the goal, he managed to find a machine gun nest, which the Germans equipped under a fallen tree. Neglecting mortal danger, Ivan Vasilyevich approached the target with a swift throw and a well-aimed throw of a grenade destroyed the firing point of the enemy along with the calculation, which saved the lives of many Soviet soldiers ^{[6] [14]} .

The general assault on Gdynia began on March 23, 1945. After fierce battles on the morning of March 28, units of the 10th Guards Rifle Division took the last heavily fortified strong point of the Germans Killau ^[15] and broke into the city outskirts. On the same day, Gdynia was liberated, and on April 5 the remnants of German troops were crushed, pressed to the Baltic Sea to the north-east of the city. On April 12, the regiment commander introduced the scout Pintelin to the Order of Glory of the 1st degree ^[6] . A high award was awarded to Ivan Vasilyevich by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 29, 1945 ^[16] .

In the last days of the war, the 10th Guards Rifle Division was transferred to the area of ​​the village of Cummin, from where, on May 3, 1945, it went on the offensive as part of the Stettinsky-Rostock Battle of Berlin . I.V. Pintelin completed the battle path on May 5, 1945 on the island of Usedom near the naval base of the Kriegsmarine Swineemunde .

After the war

After the end of World War II, I. V. Pintelin remained in military service until March 1946 ^[2] . Having been discharged with the rank of elder guard, Ivan Vasilievich returned to Moscow ^{[1] [2]} . Until 1982, he worked as a mechanic at the PN Lebedev Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences , then in the same position he worked at the Institute of General Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences ^[17] . Since 1990, I. V. Pintelin retired ^[17] .

He died on May 20, 2002. The Vagankovskoye cemetery was buried ^[18] .

• Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (04/06/1985) ^[19] ;
• Order of Glory of the 1st degree (06/29/1945) ^[16] ;
• Order of Glory of the 2nd degree (11.24.1944) ^[8] ;
• Order of Glory 3rd degree (10.16.1944) ^[7] .
• Medals , including:

medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" ;

medal "For the defense of the Soviet Arctic" ;

medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

• Breastplate "Excellent Scout" ^[14] .

• Public electronic document bank “The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (neopr.) .

Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (neopr.) .

Presentation to the Order of Glory of the 1st degree (neopr.) .

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 26, 1945 (neopr.) .

Order of Glory 2nd degree (neopr.) .

Order of Glory 3rd degree (neopr.) .

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