Svidinsky Vladimir Ivanovich (5/20/1923 (according to other sources, 09/19/1920)), Vitebsk - 03/25/1945, Germany ) - Guards junior lieutenant, commander of a rifle company of a motorized rifle battalion of the 24th Guards Mechanized Brigade ( 7th Guards Mechanized Corps , 60th Army , Central Front ), Hero of the Soviet Union .
| Vladimir Ivanovich Svidinsky | |||
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| Date of Birth | |||
| Place of Birth | Vitebsk | ||
| Date of death | March 25, 1945 | ||
| Place of death | Germany | ||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||
| Rank | Guard  | ||
| Part | 24th Guards Mechanized Brigade | ||
| Position | commander of a rifle company of the 2nd motorized rifle battalion | ||
| Battles / Wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||
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Biography
Born on May 20, 1923 in the city of Vitebsk. He worked as a mechanic at the Vitebsk needle factory (now Vitebsk instrument-making plant ). In 1941 he went to the front. He graduated from the course of junior lieutenants . He fought on the Bryansk Central , 3rd Byelorussian and 1st Ukrainian fronts. He was commander of a motorized rifle company of the 24th Guards Mechanized Brigade.
Feat
Guards Lieutenant Svidinsky V.I. distinguished himself on September 25, 1943 during the crossing of the Dnieper . Svidinsky was one of the first to cross the Dnieper near the village of Domantovo, the Chernobyl district , the Kiev region . A group of fighters under his command, under enemy fire, reached the opposite bank of the Dnieper, captured and held a bridgehead on the right bank of the river, covering the crossing of the entire battalion. For this feat, the commander of a company of a motorized rifle battalion of the 24th Guards Mehbrigade ( 7th Guards Mechanized Corps , 60th Army , Central Front ) junior lieutenant Svidinsky V.I. On October 17, 1943 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union .
March 25, 1945 V.I. Svidinsky died in battle in Germany. He was buried in the city of Lviv on the Hill of Glory , where the ashes of 26 Heroes of the Soviet Union rest.
Memory
- In Vitebsk, a street in the Oktyabrsky district is named after him
- In his honor, a memorial plaque at the entrance of the Vitebsk instrument-making plant and its bust on the plant's territory are installed.
Sources
Svidinsky, Vladimir Ivanovich . The site " Heroes of the country ."
- Materials archive Vitebsk instrument-making plant.
- Materials of the archive of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, Podolsk.
- Materials archive Vitebsk registry office.
- Materials of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine "Memorial Complex".
- Ukrainian State Museum of Great History of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 p. ”, Kiev.
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
- "Memory boards" Authors Arkady Podlipsky, Vera Rogach. “Vitsebskaya ablasnaya drukarnya”, 2006.
- Soviet Historical Encyclopedia.
- "Ray", the press body of the production association "Minsk Watch Plant", 1988.
- "Mashinostroitel", the organ of the Vitebsk plant "Evistor", 1988.