Bionosenko, Andrey Kupriyanovich

Andrey Nikolaevich Bionosenko was born in the village of Ostrovskoye in the Odessa province (currently the Novoodesk district of the Nikolaev region ) in a working class family. In 1937 he graduated from a seven-year school, in 1939, 1 course of a pedagogical school, and in 1940, a factory school at the Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant. He worked as a locksmith.

In August 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army by the Red Army District Military Commissariat of the Zaporizhzhya Region and since August on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.

The tank commander of the Separate Maritime Guard Army, senior sergeant Bionosenko, during the liberation of the Crimea during the fighting on the outskirts of Kerch on January 24 - 26, 1944, put out of operation a cannon fire 2 anti-tank guns, put down a mortar battery, and destroyed up to 20 enemy soldiers and officers. During the battle, a shell hit the tank and it caught fire. The crew left the car, but enemy soldiers surrounded a burning tank, hoping to capture the crew. Then Bionosenko returned to the burning tank and began firing at the enemy, giving the crew the opportunity to get to their infantry. He fired to the last shell. By order of the division on February 29, 1944 he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.

In the battles for the liberation of Crimea from April 10 to 20, 1944, the tank crew, Near the village of Sultanovka (renamed Chernyakovo , and then included in Gornostaevka ) destroyed more than 15 enemy soldiers, suppressed the fire of 2 anti-tank guns, burned 3 cars with ammunition and enemy infantry , crushed 4 firing points. When the tank was hit, he left the car with the surviving crew and continued to fire from machine guns. By order of the Primorsky Army of May 14, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.

In Poland, in battles for the city of Radom on January 16, 1945, the tank commander of the same regiment (33rd Army, 1st Belorussian Front) Bionosenko was the first to reach the enemy’s position and destroyed more than an infantry platoon. Together with other crews, he crushed a battery of 105-mm guns from 4 guns, a battery of anti-tank guns, and 5 machine-gun points. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree.

In 1985, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the Victory in mass rewarding. he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree .

After demobilization, Bionosenko returned to Nikolaev. He worked as a fire truck driver, in a bus depot, as a site mechanic in the Design and Installation Department.

Andrei Kupriyanovich Bionosenko died on April 20, 2004 .

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

• Dubrov B.I. Soldier Glory. 3rd ed. Kiev, 1987.S. 238.
• Full Knights of the Order of Glory. Biographical Dictionary. T. 1. M.: Military Publishing, 2010