Tsymbal Vasya Biography
The memorial plate in Krovez Tsymbal Vasily Timofeevich - the shooter of the separate penal company of the Black Sea Fleet, the Red Navy. Born in January of the year in the county city of Krolevetz in the Chernihiv province of now Konotop district of the Sumy region, Ukraine. In the years, he studied at the school of the village of Prilovo now within the city of Krolevets, in the years - in Krolevts; Graduated from 5 classes.
A pupil of the children's labor community named after F. Dzerzhinsky near Kharkov, who led A. Makarenko, where he got to work after unsuccessful attempts to get a job. Until October, he served as a signalman in artillery. Then a retraining in the naval semi-eclipse of the Tuapse naval base was held. Member of the Great Patriotic War: in November - May - the combatant of the Marine Corps of the Black Sea Fleet, in May - June - the combatant of the separate battalion of the Marine Corps of the Black Sea Fleet, in June - September - a combat boat of a separate division of the smoke master and degassing of the Azov military flotilla.
He participated in the defense of the Caucasus and the Novorossiysk-Taman operation. In October, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, deprived of the military rank “main foreman” and sent to the penal company for three months. Since October - shooter of a separate penal company of the Black Sea Fleet. Participated in the Kerch-Eltigen operation.
On the night of November 1 of the year, the penal company, together with the units of the Seps of a separate Black Sea Fleet Marine Corps, was planted in the area of the village of Eltigen now the Heroevskoye village within the city of Kerch, Crimea. Having joined the martial arts with enemy tanks, V. Tsymbal undermined one of them with grenades. He died in this battle.
He was buried in the area of battles. He was awarded the Order of Lenin Tsymbal, memorial boards were installed. A memorial plate is installed at the memorable sign of the dead citizens in Krolevsa. A street and lane in Krolevts, a street in Kerch are named after him. The troops of the North Caucasus Front were given the task of carrying out a landing operation to capture the bridgehead near Kerch.
The enemy concentrated here 45 artillery brigades and 85 thousand soldiers. The Military Council of the Front turned to the Soviet soldiers with an appeal: “You won a big victory, freeing the Caucasus and the Kuban from the damned and hated enemy. In the fight against the Nazis, you showed miracles of courage, heroism and selflessness. For many years, your glory will not fade away, the glory of the heroes of the battle for the Caucasus and the Kuban.
You honestly and courageously completed this combat mission. You are facing a different, no less important and no less difficult task - to free the Crimea from the fascist invaders, regardless of a hurricane fire, the paratroopers boldly attacked the Nazis and at dawn on November 2 took possession of a bridge of two and two kilometers with a depth of two kilometers. One of the first on the Crimean peninsula landed a division of Vasily Tsymbal.
Fierce contractions flared up on the shore. The Nazis repeatedly rushed into the counterattacks, trying to return the lost positions, but our fighters stood to death. Then the Nazis used a bypass maneuver. Two enemy tanks with infantry began to enter the rear of Soviet soldiers. The position of the paratroopers became more complicated: one by one, fighters failed.
The foreman joined the martial arts with the tanks and infantry of the Nazis. A well -aimed fire from a machine gun, he shot enemy soldiers. The Nazis retreated. But the cars continued to move forward. When several tens of meters left before the German tank, Vasily Tsymbal rose to his full height and threw the anti -tank grenade. There was an explosion - the tank flashed.
Vasily Timofeevich did not return from a combat mission. The homeland praised the feat of Soviet soldiers. Tsymbal, were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The biography was prepared by:.