Kovylin, Fedor Alekseevich

Fedor Alekseevich Kovylin was born into a peasant family in the village of Stezhki of the Kozlovsky district of the Tambov province (currently the Sosnovsky district of the Tambov region ). In 1936 he graduated from elementary school. He worked in Moscow in a building trust as a house painter.

In 1941, he was called up to the Red Army by the Degtyansky District Military Commissariat of the Tambov Region. Since November of that year on the fronts of World War II . Defended Leningrad .

By order of the 314th Infantry Regiment of July 4, 1944, he was awarded C for fulfilling the responsible task of the regiment's command in reconnaissance of enemy positions on the Karelian Isthmus, which contributed to the success of the regiment's actions.

By order of the 314th rifle regiment from he was awarded the second medal “For Courage” for the fact that in the battles of September 17–19, 1944, during the breakthrough of the enemy’s defense, Sergeant Kovylin with the detachment crossed the Pedya River near the city of Tartu and repelled two enemy counterattacks .

In a battle on January 15, 1945, in the area north of the city of Pultusk, the enemy, drawing fresh forces, launched a counterattack several times, the unit commander, senior sergeant Kovylin repelled them, after the next counterattack, he was the first to break into the enemy’s trenches and destroy 5 enemy soldiers. By order of the 46th division of January 30, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.

During the Vistula-Oder operation, with the expansion of the bridgehead on the left bank of the Vistula near the town of Graudenitz (currently Grudziadz ), on January 16-18, 1919, the commander of the submachine gun department, senior sergeant Kovylin, burst among the first to the outskirts of the village of Essenburg and met on his way an enemy soldier, firing at an advancing house from an attic with a light machine gun, burst into it and, throwing them with grenades and machine gun fire, destroyed them, which contributed to the success of the offensive actions of the regiment. By order of the 46th division of March 6, 1945, he was re-awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 27, 1958, he was re-awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.

In the battles south of Danzig for the town of Zabovitsy on March 10-11, 1945, Senior Sergeant Kovylin, commanding his squad, quickly occupied the dominant height. In hand-to-hand combat with grenades and from a machine gun, he destroyed 15 enemy soldiers and gained a foothold, which contributed to the success of the regiment's actions. By order of the 2nd shock army of May 14, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.

In November 1946, Senior Sergeant Kovylin was demobilized. He returned to his native village, worked in the village council as an accountant-cashier. In 1979 he moved to live in Ulyanovsk .

On April 6, 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree.

Fedor Alekseevich Kovylin died on October 11, 1993.

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

• Knights of the Order of Glory. - Voronezh, 1969. - S. 298-300.
• Knights of the Order of Glory of three degrees: Biographer. vocabulary. - M .: Military Publishing House, 2000.
• Full Knights of the Order of Glory: Biographical Dictionary (in 2 volumes). - M .: Military Publishing, 2010.