Belik, Vera Lukyanovna

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	Tombstone on the grave of V. Belik and T. Makarova in Ostroleka .
	Monument in the lobby of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.

Vera Lukyanovna Belik
Vera Lukyanovna Belik
	Ukrainian Vіra Luk'yanіvna Bіlik
Date of Birth	June 12, 1921
Place of Birth	Ohrimovka village ( Akimovsky district, Zaporizhzhya region, Ukrainian SSR )
Date of death	August 25, 1944 (23 years old)
A place of death	northwest of the city of Zambrow Podlaskie Voivodeship Poland
Affiliation	the USSR
Type of army	USSR Air Force
Years of service	1941 - 1944
Rank	Lieutenant
Part	46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Taman Red Banner Regiment
Battles / wars	The Great Patriotic War
Communications	Makarova, Tatyana Petrovna
Retired	died in battle

Vera Lukyanovna Belik ( June 12, 1921 - August 25, 1944 ) - navigator of the link of the 46th guards night bomber aviation regiment , guard lieutenant . Hero of the Soviet Union .

Envelope of the USSR : Makarova (left) and Belik (right)

Content

1 Biography
2 Awards
3 Memory
4 notes
5 Literature
6 References

Biography

Born on June 12, 1921 in the village of Ohrimovka, now Akimovsky District, Zaporizhia Region of Ukraine, in a working class family. Ukrainian .

Vera’s childhood passed near Kerch, in the working village of the Voikov plant, where her father worked. Mother was a housewife, raised six children.

She graduated from the 9th grade of school number 17 of the city of Kerch. She graduated from the 2nd year of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute .

In the Red Army since 1941 . She mastered the specialty of a navigator. In the army since May 1942 . Member of the CPSU (b) since 1942.

Navigator of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment ( 325th Night Bomber Aviation Division , 4th Air Army , 2nd Belorussian Front ) ^[1] .

Participated in the battle for the Caucasus , the liberation of the Kuban, Crimea and Belarus , inflicted bombing attacks on enemy military facilities in East Prussia . By August 1944, she made 813 night flights .

On the night of August 25, 1944, a plane in which V. Belik, together with the commander of the guard’s crew, Lieutenant Makarova T.P. was returning from a combat mission, was attacked and shot down by an enemy fighter, northwest of the city of Zambrow ( Poland ). The plane caught fire and fell to the ground burning, the crew died.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated February 23, 1945, to the lieutenant Belik Vera Lukyanovna ’s guard “for exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the battle against the German invaders and shown courage and heroism” , the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was posthumously awarded with the Order of Lenin and the medal “ The Golden Star ” ^[2] ^[3] .

She was buried in the Polish city of Ostroleka .

Rewards

Hero of the Soviet Union.
Order of Lenin .
Order of the Red Banner .
Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.
Order of the Red Star .

Memory

Monument to V. L. Belik in Kerch

Monument Belik V. L. installed in the hero city of Kerch .
Monument in the lobby of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (MGPI).
Bust in Ohrimovka.
A street in Ohrimovka, street and school number 17 in the hero city of Kerch, as well as a seiner are named after the heroine.
In honor of Vera Belik, the USSR postal envelope was issued.

Notes

↑ The regiment, which was exclusively female, was formed in October 1941 as the 588th night light bomber aviation regiment . In February 1943, it was transformed into the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment.
↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 23, 1945. P. 1, No. 10 Archived on September 27, 2017. .
↑ The Vera Belik award sheet said: “Comrade Belik has worked in the regiment since its organization. <...> During the period of hostilities in the struggle against the German invaders, it made 813 night combat sorties on a PO-2 aircraft with a combat raid of 1045 m per hour. It has a total flight time of 1287 hours. Dropped 106 kg of bomb cargo to destroy the motorized units, manpower and fortifications of the enemy. As a result of bombing strikes, the enemy suffered the following damage: 143 fires and 156 strong explosions were caused. 3 enemy crossings, 2 searchlights, 3 anti-aircraft points, 2 depots with ammunition and over 2 infantry platoons were destroyed and damaged. ”

Literature

Belik Vera Lukyanovna // Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1987.- T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - S. 139. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN comp., Reg. RCP No. 87-95382.
Litvinova L. Heroic crew // Heroes: essays on women - Heroes of the Soviet Union / ed. L. F. Toropov; foreword E. Kononenko . - Vol. 1. - M .: Politizdat , 1969 .-- 447 p.

Links

Belik, Vera Lukyanovna (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

[1] The regiment, which was exclusively female, was formed in October 1941 as the 588th night light bomber aviation regiment . In February 1943, it was transformed into the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment.

[2] Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 23, 1945. P. 1, No. 10 Archived on September 27, 2017. .

[3] The Vera Belik award sheet said: “Comrade Belik has worked in the regiment since its organization. <...> During the period of hostilities in the struggle against the German invaders, it made 813 night combat sorties on a PO-2 aircraft with a combat raid of 1045 m per hour. It has a total flight time of 1287 hours. Dropped 106 kg of bomb cargo to destroy the motorized units, manpower and fortifications of the enemy. As a result of bombing strikes, the enemy suffered the following damage: 143 fires and 156 strong explosions were caused. 3 enemy crossings, 2 searchlights, 3 anti-aircraft points, 2 depots with ammunition and over 2 infantry platoons were destroyed and damaged. ”