Boris Georgievich Komarov (1925, Dolgorukovo village - 1945, near the village of Vuden, Third Reich ) - a Soviet soldier, full cavalier of the Order of Glory , the Red Army guard . Member of the Great Patriotic War .
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| Place of death | at the village Wooden, Mark Brandenburg , Third Reich | |||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||
| Type of army | rifle troops | |||
| Years of service | 1942-1945 | |||
| Rank | Red Army man  | |||
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| Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||
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He was called up to the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army in November 1942. In the battles with the Nazi invaders since February 1943. He fought in the South-Western , 3rd Ukrainian and 1st Byelorussian fronts, participated in the battles in the Donbas , liberated Right-Bank Ukraine , Volyn and Poland , fought in Germany . For valor and courage shown in battles on the Magnushevsky and Kyustrinsky bridgeheads , the sniper of the 266th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 88th Guards Rifle Division of the Guards Red Army BG Komarov was awarded the Orders of Glory, III and II degrees. On April 16, 1945, at the breakthrough of enemy defenses on the west bank of the Oder River near the village of Podelzig, with their heroic actions, ensured the advancement of the rifle division. He was seriously injured and died of his injuries on the same day.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, he was awarded the Order of Glory I degree posthumously.
Buried in Germany.
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Biography
Before conscription
Boris Georgievich Komarov was born on March 6, 1925 [1] [2] in the village of Dolgorukovo, Nizhnelomovsky district of the Penza province of the RSFSR of the USSR (now the village of Mokshansky district of the Penza region of the Russian Federation ) [3] . Russian [1] [2] . In early childhood with his parents he moved to the Urals , to the city of Nevyansk [4] . He graduated from the seven-year school [1] [2] . Before conscription, he worked in the Byngovsky State Farm (the village of Byngi, Nevyansk District, Sverdlovsk Region ) [4] .
On the fronts of World War II
B.G. Komarov was drafted into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army by the Nevyansk District Military Commissariat [5] [6] in November 1942 [1] . After a short course of military training, he was sent to Stalingrad . Red Army Komarov began his combat career as a machine gunner on the South-Western Front [5] in February 1943 [1] [2] . He participated in the operation "Jump" . February 19 was seriously wounded [6] , was treated for some time in the hospital. After returning to service, he was enlisted as an ordinary soldier in the 266th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 88th Guards Rifle Division . Fighting on the 3rd Ukrainian Front [5] [6] , he took part in the liberation of Right-Bank Ukraine . After reaching the lower Dniester, the division consisting of the 8th Guards Army was redeployed under Kovel , to the 1st Belorussian Front . In the summer of 1944, during the Lublin-Brest operation of the strategic plan “Bagration”, advanced units of the army reached the Vistula south of Warsaw and captured the bridgehead on the left bank of the river near the village Magnuszew. Here, in the southern sector of the bridgehead defense, sniper Boris Komarov demonstrated his military skills for the first time [6] .
Order of Glory III degree
After fierce fighting by the beginning of September 1944, the Magnushevsky bridgehead was firmly established by Soviet troops. “In order to save our strength and keep our troops alert at a high level,” commander V.I. Chuikov recalled, “we periodically changed units at the front line. The first such change was made on the night of September 9. In the first echelon, four divisions out of nine remained, the rest were relegated to the second echelon, where they were manned, engaged in combat training and rested ” [7] . While the 88th Guards Division was in the army reserve, the Guards Red Army soldier B. G. Komarov mastered the military specialty sniper. By mid-October, the guardsmen, Major-General B. N. Pankov, returned to the front line. The 266th Guards Rifle Regiment took up positions in the area of the settlement of Cecylówka (Cecylówka Głowaczowska, now Kozienicki County , Masovian Voivodeship , Poland ).
The Germans did not take active offensive actions, but intensively shelled the positions of the Soviet troops from all types of weapons. Along the line of contact was an active sniper war. Both sides behaved very carefully on the front line, and even experienced shooters had a hard time replenishing the sniper account. But the guardsman Komarov already during his first “hunt” on October 15, 1944, managed to destroy two enemy soldiers. In the following days, refining sniper tactics and masking skills, he continued to destroy the enemy's living force and by November 29 he brought his personal account to 11 [1] [6] [8] . For their high military skill, the valor displayed in battles and the damage inflicted on the enemy by order of December 12, 1944, the sniper of the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 266th Guards Infantry Regiment, Boris Komarov, was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd Degree [6] .
Order of Glory II degree
On January 14, 1945, the troops of the 1st Byelorussian Front launched an offensive in the framework of the Warsaw-Poznan operation from the Magnushevsky bridgehead. Once again replacing the sniper rifle with a machine gun, the guard Red Army soldier BG Komarov fought across Poland from the Vistula to the borders of Germany . In early February, the advance units of the 8th Guards Army captured a bridgehead on the left bank of the Oder south of the city of Kustrin . Began hard fighting for his retention and expansion. The 266th Guards Rifle Regiment, reflecting the fierce counterattacks of the enemy, launched an attack on the northern outskirts of the settlement of Wuhden. The Germans, firmly entrenched at a height of 76.0 to the north of the village, put up stubborn resistance to the Soviet troops in the area and with powerful counterstrikes tried to push them beyond the Oder. On February 7, when a short pause arose during the battle, Boris Komarov, taking a sniper rifle, moved forward in the battle formations of his infantry and took up a well-disguised firing position. As soon as the Germans went to the next counterattack, he put four enemy officers in accurate shots, thereby confusing the plans of the German command. Taking advantage of the confusion in the camp of the enemy, the 2nd Rifle Battalion rushed to the attack. Together with his infantry, the sniper rushed to the height and personally destroyed three enemy soldiers in a fierce hand-to-hand combat [1] [2] [5] . During the storming of the mark of 76.0, Komarov was seriously wounded and evacuated to the hospital [5] . For distinction in battle by order of March 31, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree [5] .
Order of Glory I Class
After healing, B. G. Komarov returned to his unit. The 88th Guards Rifle Division at that time was fighting in the same area, only marginally advancing. As part of the Berlin operation, she had to destroy the enemy in the area of Neu-Poelzig, Alt-Poelzig and, covering the left flank of the 28th Guards Rifle Corps and the 8th Guards Army as a whole, to develop an offensive against Libbenichen [9] .
April 16, 1945 at the appointed time "H" began artillery preparation . As soon as the Soviet gunners moved the fire deep into the German defense, the guardsmen of Pankov rushed to the attack. In the offensive zone of the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 266th Guards Infantry Regiment there was a small but strongly fortified folwark . The enemy had girded him with full profile trenches , and in the stone buildings of the manor’s yard he had equipped firing points. The enemy was only 300 meters from the front edge, but the Guardsmen needed to cover this distance in less than half a minute, until the Germans, hiding from artillery fire, did not return to their seats. One of the first German fortifications reached the guard Red Army soldier B. G. Komarov. Having jumped into the trench, he saw how German machine-gunners occupied a firing position just a few meters away. With an accurate throw of a grenade, he destroyed the machine gun together with the calculation, thus saving the lives of many comrades [1] [10] .
The battle in the trenches was brutal, but short. Unable to withstand the onslaught of Soviet soldiers, the Germans began to drop their weapons and surrender. Komarov personally disarmed and captured three Wehrmacht soldiers. After escorting them to the assembly point of prisoners, who were equipped in a spacious German dugout , he returned to the thick of the battle, which was already going directly to the manor house. Sowing in the attic of the house, a German machine gunner with heavy fire did not allow the guards to raise their heads. Boris Komarov volunteered to suppress the firing point. The captured grenades on long wooden handles , which he picked up along the road, were useful. Throwing a few shells into the attic door, he silenced the enemy's machine gun [1] [11] .
The battle continued, but Boris Komarov did not see its results. Seriously wounded, he was taken to the regimental medical unit, which was located near the village of Wooden, but the doctors could not save his life. On the same day, Komarov died from his wounds [1] [4] [12] . Initially, he was buried two kilometers south of Wooden [12] . In 1947, the remains of the guards were reburied at the memorial cemetery in the German village of Reitwein (now the Merkisch-Oderland region , Brandenburg ) [13] .
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, the Red Army man Boris Georgievich Komarov was posthumously awarded the Order of Glory of the 1 st degree for the exemplary performance of the combat tasks of the command on the front of the struggle against the German invaders and the valor of the guard displayed at the same time [1] .
Awards
- Order of Glory 1st degree (05/15/1946);
- Order of Glory of the 2nd degree (03/31/1945);
- Order of Glory 3rd degree (12/12/1944).
Documents
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Cavaliers of the Order of Glory of three degrees: Concise Biographical Dictionary, 2000 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Encyclopedia of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Komarov Boris Georgievich .
- ↑ Author portal of Mikhail Poluboyarov. Moksha district. Village Dolgorukovo .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Kondratenko, 1975 , p. 172.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 TsAMO, f. 33, op. 686196, d. 2789 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 TsAMO, f. 33, op. 690155, d. 3954 .
- ↑ Chuikov V.I. From Stalingrad to Berlin. - Moscow : Soviet Russia, 1985. - p. 515-516. - 704 s.
- ↑ Kondratenko, 1975 , p. 173-174.
- Collection of combat documents of the Great Patriotic War. - M .: Military Publishing, 1955. - T. 25. - P. 114. - 195 p.
- ↑ Kondratenko, 1975 , p. 174-175.
- ↑ Kondratenko, 1975 , p. 175-176.
- ↑ 1 2 TsAMO, f. 58, op. 18003, d. 725 .
- ↑ According to the information of the “Derzhava” search party (Nevyansk city). The text of the letter is posted on the forum of the National Book of Memory of the Penza Region .
Literature
- Komarov Boris Georgievich // Holders of the Order of Glory of three degrees: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. College D.S. Sukhorukov . - M .: Military Publishing , 2000. - 703 p. - 10 000 copies - ISBN 5-203-01883-9 .
- Kondratenko P. Thirteenth, but not the last // Constellations of Glory: essays on the exploits of Sverdlovsk people - full holders of the Order of Glory / comp .: PM Kondratenko, LM M. Ladeyshchikov, P. V. Yablonskikh. - Sverdlovsk: Middle Ural Prince. publishing house, 1975. - p. 172-176. - 279 s.
- Soldier's Glory: brief essays on the exploits of Sverdlovsk - full gentlemen of the Order of Glory / comp. V.M. Demidov. - Sverdlovsk: Middle Ural Prince. publishing house, 1985. - p. 103. - 176 p.