Shcheglevatykh, Ivan Mikhailovich

Born on January 8, 1907 in the city of Odessa.

He graduated from the seven-year school and agricultural college in the village of Kon-Kolodez . In 1931-1933 served in the army, graduated from the Chita school of junior lieutenants, and after being fired on long-term leave, he worked in agriculture.

During the Great Patriotic War, he commanded a fire platoon and battery as part of the 130th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 58th Guards Rifle Division. He fought from February 1943 to May 1945 on the Southwest, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts.

The war is over. In November 1945, Senior Lieutenant I.M. Shcheglevatykh was transferred to the reserve. The military service is over. Now he took up his usual business as an agronomist I. M. Shcheglevatykh. In just over two years after the war, he raised to the highest level the work of the Krasny Oktyabr grain farm in the Alekseevsky District of the Stalingrad Region, where he worked as a senior agronomist, and in 1948 he was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor.

At the beginning of the 50s he supervised the work of the White Prudy state farm (Volgograd region) .

Work was begun to improve the fertility of the fields, increase crop yields and increase livestock production. The state farm operates a comprehensive expedition of the Institute of Soil Science named after P.P. Dokuchaev of Leningrad State University. The main task of the expedition is the development of scientific recommendations on field cultivation, forest reclamation and water management. To resume work on the Stalinist plan for the transformation of nature , a forest protection station is being created at the state farm, a nursery (New Nursery) is being laid, and an LZ village is being built. Planting of shelterbelts and reforestation in the forest surrounding the village begin. The beginning of mass development of the private residential sector. In the village, adobe barracks are demolished and new streets appear. The farm of Volkov Garden is being liquidated. The Beloprudsky orphanage closes, families of workers of the state farm settle in its buildings, and a kindergarten is located. Work is underway to restore the catchment and irrigation systems, and to overhaul pond dams. Active renewal of the machine-tractor fleet. About 100 families of farm workers are leaving for Kazakhstan to develop virgin lands with I. M. Shcheglevatykh at their own request.

In 1954, at a meeting of agricultural workers in the Kremlin, I.M.Scheglevatykh was offered the position of director of a new state farm in the virgin lands. Without hesitation, he took up a new business and until 1961 led the work of the state farm.

These years went down in the history of the Tselinniy state farm as years of a steep rise in the economy. Six times the state farm participated in agricultural exhibitions, received the Red Banner of the Council of Ministers and the Red Banner of the Komsomol Central Committee for eternal storage - twice. For success in the development of virgin lands, I. M. Shcheglevatykh was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Only for health reasons, he left this post and left for his homeland.

For courage and heroism shown during the years of World War II, for labor heroism shown during the first post-war years and during the development of virgin lands, Ivan Mikhailovich Shcheglevatykh was awarded two orders of Lenin, two orders of Alexander Nevsky, orders of the Patriotic War of the first degree, the Labor Red Banner and two orders of the Red Star. He was also awarded many medals, including the Gold Medal "Hammer and Sickle", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Development of the Virgin Lands" and others.

Before retiring in 1967, Ivan Mikhailovich worked as director of the Sebryakovsky state farm in the city of Mikhailovka . Shcheglevatykh Ivan Mikhailovich was honored to light an eternal flame on the street. The commune in the city of Mikhailovka (photo by Shcheglevatykh Ivan Mikhailovich lights the eternal flame )

• Order of the Red Star ( 1944 ) No. 454421

The commander of the 1st fire platoon is a senior on battery comrade. Goldfinch by hard work has achieved mastery of the specialty in gun calculations to automatism. In battles for a height of 146-4, the fire of his 3 machine guns and one mortar battery put down the fire of his battery, ensuring the advance of our infantry. Being with a gun on direct fire during an enemy counterattack to a height with the support of armored vehicles, comrade Two of the enemy’s armored vehicles knocked down the Scheglevatovs and destroyed up to 30 Nazis, which contributed to repelling a counterattack. Supporting the reconnaissance group, suppressed the fire of two machine guns, destroyed the enemy’s 105 mm battery in the area of ​​Krasno-Konstantinovka.

• Order of the Red Star ( 1944 ) No. 816109

04/28/44, in a battle near the village of Varnitsa, the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, reflecting the counterattack of the pr-ka, destroyed 3 machine-gun points and up to 15 soldiers of the pr-ka. Reflecting the counterattack on high. 135.0 with the fire of his platoon destroyed 4 machine-gun points, 1 gun and suppressed the fire with a mortar battery, thereby ensuring the successful reflection of the enemy’s counterattack.

• Order of the Patriotic War I degree ( 1944 ) No. 98802

Guard Lieutenant Shcheglevatykh in the battles to eliminate the bridgehead ave on the left bank of the river. Hanging in the vicinity of St Ratai on 08/11/44, the fire of its mortar and artillery battery suppressed the fire of its battery, which enabled our infantry to move forward. During the fierce counterattack of 12.08.44, Comrade Shcheglevatykh, being with a gun on an open station. He kept the bridge under his control, blocking the path of the avenue for the transfer of reserves. More than 150 shells were fired by the enemy on the gun, but it did not cease fire. Working himself personally under fierce shelling of Comrade Shcheglevatykh destroyed in this battle up to 70 soldiers and officers of the Ave., crashed two armored vehicles than contributed to the display of counterattacks Ave.

• Order of Alexander Nevsky (USSR) ( 1945 ) No. 38174

On 16.4.45, during the breakthrough of the enemy’s defenses and the crossing of the Neisse river, the cities of Maskau advanced forward the battle formations of the infantry and adjusting the battery fire on the radio destroyed 6 machine-gun points, 2 dugouts, 3 anti-aircraft guns, and 1 minbattery. having sent his battery to the western bank of the river after the first rifle units and repelling the enemy’s counterattack with direct fire, he destroyed 3 machine guns and 65 enemy soldiers. In battles, the city of Weisswasser Goyeroverda and while forcing the Spree River suppressed the fire of 2 mortar batteries, crashed 3 cars, an armored personnel carrier, 4 houses with submachine gunners and Faust patrons. Nonstop following the batteries in battle formations the infantry ensured the suppression of enemy firepower, contributing to the unimpeded advancement of the supported unit.

• Order of Alexander Nevsky (USSR) ( 1945 ) No. 38173

In offensive battles from 15 to 23.3.45 of the Shcheglevaty, being in the battle formations of the rifle regiment, skillfully adjusting the fire of the battery, paved the way for the infantry, providing it with advancement. while repelling a counterattack on 23.3.45, inspiring his subordinates by personal example, he himself stood at the gun, shooting Germans at point-blank range. During the offensive battles to seize the settlements: Zyuldkof, Guchen, Mankensdorf, Frieersdorf Comrade Shcheglevatyh with fire of his battery repelled 3 counterattacks, destroyed, destroyed: 7 machine guns, 125 soldiers and officers. Suppressed the fire of 13 machine gun points, 1 - artillery batteries and 3 mortar batteries. Destroyed 1 observation post and 2 vehicles with ammunition.

• Hero of Socialist Labor , Order of Lenin ( 1948 ). No. 1392, No. 69737.

For your exceptional services to the state, expressed in obtaining in 1947 a rye crop of 30.9 centners per hectare on an area of ​​135 hectares.

• Order of Lenin ( 1961 ) No. 299466.
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor ( 1966 ) No. 428493.

photo 1944 , Shcheglevatykh Ivan Mikhailovich in the center, left Abramov Peter Alexandrovich

photo 1944 2nd Ukrainian Front

photo 1945 , Germany

photo 1947 , Red October (Alekseevsky district)

photo 1981 , With wife Elena Ivanovna (Loseva) and great-granddaughter Eleanor Evangelista

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• - twice Knight of the Order of Alexander Nevsky
• - A chronological reference to the history of the village of White Ponds. (1949-1954)
• - the history of the development of the village "Tselinnoe" district named after G. Musrepov of the North Kazakhstan region