The biography runs out

The memorial plaque in Zhitomir is drawn by Mikhail Iosifovich - the shooter of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division of the 1st Belorussian Front, corporal. Born on April 9 in the city of Zhytomyr Ukraine. At the beginning of the war, together with his family, he moved to the city of Pugachev, the Saratov region, where he graduated from high school. In the year he voluntarily entered the Red Army.

In the battles of the Great Patriotic War from the year. He fought on the 1st Belorussian Front. He went with the battles from the Dnieper to the Oder. Now he was fierce battle for the retention and expansion of the bridgehead. The enemy desperately counterattacked, trying to throw the battalion behind the river. After all, Oder is the last large water barrier on the outskirts of Berlin.

And our warriors overcome this barrier. Fatigue, frozen clothes constrained the movements of the fighters. Would warm up, dry the uniform and relax a little, but there was no such opportunity. The enemy was playing, and it was necessary to fight back. Only in the evening the stress of the battle slept a little. The platoon of the 7th company, in which the corporal M.

leans, was allocated to protect the headquarters of the battalion and settled in the village. The commander warned that the Nazis were preparing a new blow.

The enemy tanks approached, artillery, mortars pulled up. But the bridgehead must be kept. After all, our main forces in the morning will begin crossing. On the morning of February 8, artillery and mortar explosions broke the silence. A little rested fighters in a dense entrusted fog rested over the night. The department of M. Ochreta is located at the intersection of the streets.

From here it was convenient to conduct shelling and observation. And behind the outskirts the village was already flared up. Under the cover of the fog, the enemy attacked two infantry battalions with 15 tanks. After a powerful artillery-minute raid by the Nazis, on a narrow site, they managed to break through the defense of the battalion and break into the Carlsbiz. A deadly threat hung over the headquarters of the battalion.

The headquarters will die - the uncontrollable battalion is hardly restrained by the bridgehead. The fighters of the battalion from the encountered enemy were courageously fought back, but the forces were too unequal. Tanks, although slowly but steadily advanced along the village. The deafening breaks of shells and the mines became more frequent, in some places the buildings caught fire, pulled by smoke and burning.

The impulsive wind broke the veil of the fog and drove him to the river, into the ravines. It became light, and the corporal M. EXCEMEN SEED: the enemy tanks, leading continuous fire from guns and machine guns, are approaching his position. EXTENTEN ONCEED again checked the grenades, laid them out near him and lurked in anticipation of the head tank.

The enemy walked in a column, a narrow street of the village excluded overtaking and maneuver. It is enough to knock out the first tank - and the whole column will be detained. Here the fascist monster is almost nearby. EXTENTED FROM THE SUBSTURE OF GRUNATS TO THE POSITION OF THE CONNECTIVE TANCE. A deafening explosion shook the street. The tank froze for a short while, but then again, fired, he started to move forward right on M.

Really missed? But what about the bridgehead? His capture cost his grip of great blood. Comrades will be in a hopeless situation if the enemy defeats the headquarters of the battalion and breaks through to the river. No, this cannot be allowed! EXTENTAM grabbed grenades and rushed under the caterpillars of the enemy tank. The driven car blocked the street. The column of fascist tanks slowly backed back.

The battle was won. The bridgehead has been kept. Mikhail Iosifovich dies, by fully fulfilling his military duty. He was buried in the German village Noy-Levin. A significant part of the materials about the hero is kindly provided by Igor Serdyukov City Kyiv, Ukraine prepared:.