Gorbunov, Mikhail Ivanovich

Born in the village of Vasilyevka , now in the Undorovsky rural settlement of the Ulyanovsk region in the Ulyanovsk region , in a family of workers. Russian

Since July 1918, in the service of the Red Army . Member of the CPSU (b) since 1919.

From 1918 to 1920, he participated in the Civil War on the Eastern Front .

In 1920 he participated in the Soviet-Polish war .

After the war, he continued to serve in the Red Army.

With the outbreak of World War II, Colonel Gorbunov, took the post of chief of staff of artillery of the 38th Army .

January 19, 1943 Gorbunov was awarded the title of Major General of Artillery.

November 2, 1944 Gorbunov was awarded the title of Lieutenant General of Artillery.

At the final stage of the war, Gorbunov was the deputy commander of artillery of the 1st Belorussian Front .

USSR

• Order of Lenin (02.21.1945)
• three orders of the Red Banner (11/06/1941 ^[2] , 1942, 11/03/1944)
• Order of Kutuzov I degree ^[3] (04/06/1945)
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky I degree (05/31/1945)
• Order of Suvorov II degree (08/23/1944)
  • Medals incl.
  • "XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army"
  • "For the defense of the Caucasus"
  • “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”
  • “For the capture of Berlin”
  • “For the liberation of Warsaw”

Orders (thanks) of the Supreme Commander in which M. I. Gorbunov is noted ^[4]

• For the invasion of German Pomerania and the seizure of the cities of Schönlanck, Lucatz-Kreutz, Waldenberg and Driesen - important communication centers and powerful strongholds of the German defense. January 29, 1945. Number 265

• Order of the “Grunwald Cross” II degree Poland , (1945)
• Medal "For Warsaw 1939-1945" ( Poland , (1945)
• Medal "For the Oder, Neisse, Baltic" ( Poland , (1945)

• Public electronic document bank “Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”
• Pages of Russian history
• Immortal Regiment