Bayborodov, Ivan Petrovich

Ivan Petrovich Bayborodov was born on October 29, 1903 into a peasant family in a peasant family in the village of Sardan, Mozhginsky district, Vyatka province (currently the Mozhginsky district of Udmurtia). He graduated from the 4th grade of the school. During the civil war in 1918, he volunteered for the Red Army , participated in battles on the Eastern Front. In 1919 he returned home. He entered the railway technical school which he graduated in 1929 . He worked on the construction of the railway in the village of Bondyuzhsky (since 1967, the city ​​of Mendeleevsk in Tatarstan ).

In the Great Patriotic War, the Bondyuzhsky military enlistment office was drafted into the army in August 1941 . The first battle took place during the liberation of the city of Kalinin on December 13, 1941. Near Volokolamsk on May 9, 1942 he was wounded.

After being cured from the end of June 1942, Bayborodov served on the Don Front as part of the 27th Guards Rifle Division. From the beginning of July 1942, he fought in the division near Stalingrad Bayborodov was a gun commander. September 25, 1942 he was again wounded. He returned to his unit on October 14 after a cure. During the operation to destroy the encircled German group in the Stalingrad region from November 19 to December 1, 1942, the artillerymen of the regiment in which Baiborodov served destroyed 29 German tanks, and in the final battles - 16 more. January 13, 1943 in the area of ​​the Barrikady factory under with strong artillery and machine gun fire, with a risk to, he delivered food and ammunition to the soldiers of the unit. On January 30 and 31, he also delivered soldiers and ammunition in January to the frontier guard, Sergeant Bayborodov was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad . " May 8, 1943 he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit . "

Then the division fought already as part of the South-West , and from October 20, 1943 as part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front . Here he was appointed commander of a separate intelligence unit. He fought in Ukraine : liberated Barvenkovo , Donbass , Zaporozhye , New Bug , participated in the Nikopol-Kryvyi Rih operation .

On March 13, 1944, the senior sergeant Bayborodov, commanding a reconnaissance group, secretly penetrated the rear of the enemy near the village of New Ochakovo, Odessa region. In battle, scouts defeated the local garrison (up to 30 enemy soldiers), captured the "tongue". Bayborodov, together with the capture group, repulsing the enemy’s counterattack, on March 16, 1944, destroyed more than 10 soldiers in the same area and captured three officers. By order of the 27th Guards Rifle Division of March 23, 1944, for sergeance and courage shown in battles of the Guard, Senior Sergeant Ivan Bayborodov was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree (No. 397248).

Subsequently, the 27th Guards Rifle Division fought on the 1st Belorussian Front. The commander of the guard capture group, Sergeant Major Bayborodov, before the assault on the Polish city ​​of Poznan on February 15, 1945 , carrying out a combat mission of command, carried out reconnaissance of the location of the enemy forces and captured the “language”. On February 19, 1945, an enemy group of about 300 soldiers, supported by 2 self-propelled artillery units, broke through near the village of Popen, where the headquarters of the 27th Guards Rifle Division was supported. A group of 15 scouts under the command of the foreman Baiborodov’s guard entered into battle with them. Bayborodov defeated over 9 enemy soldiers in battle and captured 13 soldiers. By order of the 8th Guards Army dated March 17, 1945, for the courage and bravery shown in the battles, Guard Sergeant Major Ivan Baiborodov was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree (No. 26974).

On April 18, 1945, a group of intelligence officers under the command of Bayborodov, during reconnaissance operations behind enemy lines near the outskirts of Berlin, Friedrichshagen (now part of Berlin) obtained valuable information about the deployment of the enemy. On the night of April 19, Bayborodov led two battalions along the previously explored route through the forest into the enemy’s flank. When the assault on Friedrichshagen began, Baiborodov, with a group of scouts, was one of the first in the division to break into the city, in battle with scouts, destroyed up to 15 enemy soldiers and captured an assault gun. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, for the courage, bravery and fearlessness shown in the battles, of the Guard Sergeant Major Ivan Baiborodov was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree (No. 1456).

In August 1945 I.P. Bayborodov was demobilized.

He lived in the city of Mozhga, Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He worked as deputy director of the Mozhginsky timber industry enterprise.

Ivan Petrovich Bayborodov died on April 13, 1951

• His name is given to the street in the district center of Mozhga .

Ivan Petrovich Bayborodov (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment August 8, 2015.

• Documents on the site “Feat of the people”
• In the biographical dictionary

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