Biography of Ivan Flerov

In the Museum in Smolensk, Fleurov Ivan Andreevich is the commander of a separate experimental battery of the reactive artillery of the reserve of the main command, captain. Born on April 24 in the village of Dvurechki, now the Gryazinsky district of the Lipetsk region in the family of an employee. After graduating from a zemstvo school, he first worked in the village, then a locksmith at the Borin Sugar Plant.

In the year he graduated from the school of factory apprenticeship of the FZU at the Chugunolika Plant in the city of Lipetsk. Here, as one of the best graduates of the school, worked for some time a master of industrial training. In the years he served in the Red Army, in the artillery units, graduated from courses of one-time commanders at the 9th corps artillery regiment.

In the year he was called up for daytime courses of reserve officers and from that time remained in the army. Member of the War with Finland. The commander of the battery of the howitzer artillery regiment, the senior lieutenant Fleurov distinguished himself in the battles during the breakthrough of the Mannerheim Line. For the heroism in the battles by Lake Saunoyarvi, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

After the end of hostilities, he returned to study at the academy. He lived in the city of Balashikha, Moscow Region. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Captain Fleurov, at the suggestion of the head of the Academy of Major General L. Govorov, was appointed commander of the first in the Red Army of a separate experimental battery of reactive artillery on June 28.

The first volleys along the enemy of the battery Flerov made in under the city of Orsha. The batteries' fighting journal reports: "They struck the fascist echelons at the Orsha railway junction. The results are excellent. The continuous sea of ​​fire." A volley on the crossing of the fascist troops through the Orshitsa. Large losses of the enemy in manpower and military equipment, panic.

All the Nazis who survived on the eastern shore were captured by our units captured by this first blow so effective and crushing that the Nazis, according to Marshal Tymoshenko’s reports, “in three months of fighting, Flerov’s battery not only inflicted considerable material damage to the Germans, she also contributed to the raising of the fighting spirit among our soldiers and officers, exhausted by continuous digressions.

The Nazis made a real hunt for new weapons. As soon as they managed to detect her whereabouts, they immediately sent tanks and aviation there. But the battery did not linger for a long time in one place - giving a volley, immediately changed the position. Fleurov’s combat experience was taken into service. Tactical reception - a volley of position - was widely used by Katyush units during the war.

In early October, Fleerov’s battery, along with other parts, was surrounded by the Spas-Demensky boiler. Battery went through the enemy rear of more than kilometers. The captain did everything possible to save the battery and break through to his own. When the fuel came to an end, he ordered the installations to charge, and the remaining missiles and most of the transport vehicles to blow up.

On the night of October 7, a column of battery cars was ambushed near the village of Bogatyr Znamensky district of the Smolensk region. Once in a hopeless situation, the personnel of the battery took the battle. While some beat off the enemy attacks, others rushed to combat attitudes.

Under squall fire, they blew up cars. Many of them died. Being a seriously wounded, the commander blew himself up with the head launch installation. The survivors with the battle broke away from the Nazis. Only 46 soldiers managed to get out of the encirclement. The legendary battalion commander and the rest of the fighters, who had fully fulfilled their duty, were considered "missing." For many years, nothing was known about the fate of the commander of the first battery of Katyush.

There were ridiculous rumors that Flemov deliberately brought the battery into an ambush. And only when it was possible to find the documents of one of the army headquarters of the Wehrmacht, where with German scrupulousness it was reported about what actually happened on the night of October 6 to 7 at the Smolensk village of Bogatyr, doubts were dispelled.

It became known that none of the participants in the last battle was captured. Captain Fleurov was excluded from the lists of missing. In the year, he was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously, the performance was signed by the commander of the missile troops and artillery of the ground forces by Marshal of Artillery K. However, after long delay, I.

Flerov was posthumously awarded only the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. It took another 30 years to make the feat of the battalion commander worthy of appreciated. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 21, for courage and heroism, manifested in the fight against the Nazi invaders in the Great Patriotic War, Captain Fleorov Ivan Andreevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously.

Captain Fleurov and the dead batteries were buried at the battlefield by local residents back in the year. Until the middle of the x, they watched the grave in the field, looked after. Veterans, former colleagues came. Over time, the burial place was forgotten, the fence and the monument collapsed, and in the end the plot was plowed.Only in the year, after the president’s decree, a special search group found the place of the grave.

The remains of Captain Fleerov and six fighters were reburied in the village of Bogatyr, Smolensk region at Bolshak Vyazma - Yukhnov. He was awarded the orders of the Red Star in honor of the feat of the battery, monuments in the city of Orsha and the Obelisk in the city of Rudnya were built. The monuments are also erected in the city of Balashikha in the year and near the village of Bogatyr.

Fleurova, a museum of military glory was created at the school.