Ivan Ivanovich Morozov - platoon commander of the 209th separate combat engineer battalion (143rd Infantry Division, 13th Army , 1st Belorussian Front ), foreman.
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| Place of Birth | Sloboda Georgievskaya , Livensky district , Oryol province , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||||
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||
| Type of army | Sapper | ||||||||
| Years of service | 1942-1948 | ||||||||
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| Part | 209th Separate Engineer Battalion | ||||||||
| Commanded | platoon | ||||||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||
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Biography
Ivan Ivanovich Morozov was born into a working class family in the village of Sloboda Georgievskaya of the Livensky district of the Orel province (currently the village of Kalinino in the Livensky district of the Oryol region ). He graduated from 7 classes of the school. He worked on a collective farm.
February 19, 1942 by the Libyan district military enlistment office was called up to the ranks of the Red Army . Since May 5, 1942 on the fronts of World War II .
On the night of December 15, 1943, Corporal Morozov with two sappers in the vicinity of the village of Pleshchevka in the Zhytomyr Region, on the Ovruch - Shepetovka highway, on the orders of the command, under heavy machine-gun fire laid explosive charges under the bridge and blew it up. With the fire of his machine gun he covered the actions of the group and its withdrawal to their battle formations. By order of the 143rd Infantry Division of January 19, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.
By order of the 77th Rifle Corps of April 20, 1944 for courage and heroism in the battles against Nazi invaders, as well as for the installation of minefields on March 27, 1944, on one of which an enemy tank was blown up, in the area of the village of Stary Koshary, Volyn Region, Sergeant Morozov He was awarded the medal "For Courage" .
On June 18, 1944, Sergeant Morozov, together with another sapper, under heavy machine-gun fire and under cover of tank fire, cleared a bridge across the Vyzhevka River northwest of the village of Chernoplesy , which ensured the successful crossing of tanks and military equipment attached to the division. By order of the 47th Army of August 22, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree.
When breaking through enemy fortifications on January 15, 1945, Sergeant Morozov, under strong enemy machine-gun and artillery fire near the city of Nowy Dvur Mazowiecki, with his platoon, made passages in minefields. Cut through 3-wire barbed wire and Bruno spiral . He missed the infantry, artillery, and military convoys, ensuring their advancement without loss on minefields. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 31, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree.
On April 26, 1945, in command of the assault group in Spandau , Elder Morozov and his men crept up to the house where the enemy soldiers were seated and threw grenades at the doors and windows. As a result, 13 enemy soldiers surrendered.
On April 27, escorting self-propelled artillery installations, it blew up a barrier impeding the movement of self-propelled guns, thereby giving them the opportunity to go to the west coast of Spree and capture the bridge. By order of the 47th Army of May 24, 1945, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner .
After the war he was sent to serve at the Moscow Higher Engineering School. In 1948, Junior Lieutenant Morozov was demobilized for health reasons. He lived in the city of Livny, Oryol region, then in the Crimea in the city of Saki . He worked at a chemical plant.
Ivan Ivanovich Morozov died on July 20, 1987.
Memory
Notes
Literature
- Dubrov B.N. Soldier Glory. - 3rd ed. - Kiev, 1987 .-- S. 318.
- Knights of the Order of Glory. - Simferopol, 1968. - S. 41-50.
- Cavaliers of the Order of Glory of three degrees: Biography dictionary. - M .: Military Publishing House, 2000.
- Full Knights of the Order of Glory: Biographical Dictionary (in 2 volumes). - M .: Military Publishing, 2010.
Links
- Anton Bocharov. Morozov, Ivan Ivanovich (full holder of the Order of Glory) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment December 31, 2017.
- Documents on the site “Feat of the people”
- In the biographical dictionary