Nikolai Yakovlevich Ignatenko - the commander of the 1130th Infantry Regiment (336th Infantry Division, 60th Army , first the 1st Ukrainian Front , then the 4th Ukrainian Front ), senior sergeant.
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| Date of Birth | July 18, 1925 | ||||
| Place of Birth | Tomsk province of the RSFSR | ||||
| Date of death | January 11, 1984 (58 years old) | ||||
| Place of death | Chisinau Moldova | ||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||
| Type of army | Infantry | ||||
| Years of service | 1943 - 1950 | ||||
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| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||
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Biography
Nikolai Yakovlevich Ignatenko was born into a peasant family in the village of Romanovo, Barnaul district of Tomsk province (currently the Romanovsky district of the Altai Territory ). In 1940 he graduated from the 7th grade of the school. He worked on a collective farm.
February 5, 1943 the Romanovsky district military enlistment office of the Altai Territory was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army . From that time on the fronts of World War II .
The squad leader, senior sergeant Ignatenko, in an offensive battle for the village of Shirinke, 18 km west of Ratibor ( Raciborz in Poland ), was the first to break into the village with his squad, engaging in a battle with the enemy. In battle, 12 enemy soldiers were destroyed and 1 captured. In the battle to take possession of Restnitz on April 2, 1945, Ignatenko took a light machine gun and burst into the house occupied by the enemy. In this battle, he destroyed 7 enemy soldiers. By order of the 336 rifle division of April 16, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.
In an offensive battle near the city of Troppau ( Opava ) on April 22, 1945, Sergeant Ignatenko, despite heavy machine-gun fire, crawled up to the machine-gun cell and destroyed the machine gunner with two grenades, which facilitated the success of the infantry. By order of the 336 rifle division of June 11, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 1, 1968, he was re-awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree.
By order of the 60th army of May 15, 1945, for 3 wounds received by senior sergeant Ignatenko in battles with the Nazi invaders, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.
Senior sergeant Ignatenko was demobilized in October 1950. He lived in the city of Chisinau . He worked at the Chisinau photo complex.
Nikolai Yakovlevich Ignatenko died on January 11, 1984.
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Literature
- Knights of the Order of Glory of three degrees. Biographer dictionary. M .: Military Publishing, 2000
- Full Knights of the Order of Glory. Biographical Dictionary. (in 2 volumes) M.: Military Publishing, 2010