Shilin Biography

Information board in Kostroma Shilin Afanasy Petrovich - commander of the Battery of the Battery of the Guards Artillery Regiment, I am the Guards Rifle Division, I am the army, guard lieutenant; The head of the intelligence of the Division of the Guards Artillery Regiment I am the Guards Rifle Division, the Rifle Corps, the 5th Shock Army, the Guard Senior Lieutenant. Born on September 1 in the village of Petropavlovka, Petropavlovsk volost, Novouzensky district of the Saratov province of now Novouzensky district of the Saratov region.

Since the year, he lived in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetskoy now, Kemerovo region, where he graduated from 10 classes of the school. In September-August, he worked as a foreman in the forest warehouse of the mine named after November 7 in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetskiy. In the army since August. In May, he graduated from the 2nd Tomsk Artillery School. Member of the Great Patriotic War: in June - January - the commander of the fire platoon, the commander of the Battery Mountain Board and the intelligence chief of the division of the Guards Artillery Regiment.

He fought in the southwest of June-October, 3rd Ukrainian October-September and 1st Belarusian October-January fronts. Particularly distinguished when crossing the Dnieper. After the crossing, he equipped the observation post, called artillery fire and corrected it. The enemy undertook a fierce counterattack, a radio station was destroyed. Shilin, along with the infantrymen, went on the attack.

With automatic fire and hand grenades, he destroyed the seven fascists and was the first to burst into the enemy trench. During the short pause followed after this, he crossed the eastern bank of the river and soon returned to the bridgehead with a new radio station, extending through the Dnieper also a telephone connection. During the next attack of German troops, A. Shilin led scouts and signalmen into a counterattack.

He personally destroyed two machine guns and four Nazis with hand grenades. In a short hand -to -hand combat, the enemy was defeated. During the day, Soviet fighters repelled 11 enemy counterattacks, holding the bridgehead until the reinforcements approach. He distinguished himself again during the Warsaw-Causarian operation. During the preparation of the offensive from the Magnushevsky bridgehead, he conducted increased reconnaissance of enemy firing funds at his forefront.

As a result of the work, all the enemy firing points during the period of artillery training and the fire shaft were suppressed and destroyed, which ensured the successful promotion of the Soviet infantry. Following the battle formations of the infantry and identifying the enemy firing points that prevent the advance of the infantry, A. Shilin quickly caused the fire of the artillery division and suppressed these fire points.

Shilin immediately caused the fire of the artillery division, and with a machine gun in his hands, along with the infantry, he went to reflect an enemy counterattack. At the height of the battle, he took command of a group of infantrymen and scouts of artillerymen, destroyed a machine gun, and destroyed the bunker with the artillery division with the artillery division, a machine-gun fire from which blocked the path of the Soviet infantry.

The enemy counterattack was reflected and the infantry continued the offensive. On the way to the Pilitsa River, the enemy turned the village of Budy-Brankovsk Gmin Byalobzhegi, Byalobzhegsky, Masovetsky Voivodeship, Poland in a powerful supporting point, from where a strong barrage fire led. Shilin with the scouts of the artillerys went to the storm of the bunker.

He destroyed the machine gunner with a bunch of grenades, while receiving a severe wound. Despite the wound, he continued to fight with the garrison of the bunker until its complete destruction, thereby ensuring the advance of Soviet infantry and crossing the saw. Until March, he was at a cure for a hospital in the city of Kamenetz-Podolsky Khmelnitsky region, Ukraine. In April, he graduated from the Higher Officer Artillery School in Leningrad now St.

Petersburg. In April, he graduated from the F. artillery Academy in July - November - the commander of the Division of the Guards Artillery Regiment, in November - - deputy commander of the Guards Artillery Regiment for the drill, in December - Deputy Commander of the Guards Artillery Regiment in the Moscow Military District; The village of Kalininets Naro-Fominsky district of the Moscow region.

In April - September - commander of the artillery regiment in the Moscow Military District; The city of Dzerzhinsk is now the Nizhny Novgorod region. In May, he graduated from the highest academic artillery team courses at the military artillery team academy in Leningrad now St. Petersburg. In June - July - commander of the army missile brigade, the village of Dolgorukovo Bagrationovsky district of the Kaliningrad region.

In July - September - commander of the Guards Rocket Division, the city of Kostroma. In June, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. Since August-Deputy commander of the 3rd Guards Rocket Corps, the city of Vladimir, in June-December-1st deputy commander of the guards missile army, the city of Vladimir. He lived in Moscow. He died on May 22. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevsky cemetery.

The bronze bust A. was awarded the Orders of LeninShilina was installed in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsk, where his name is worn by a street and lane. His name also named the street in the city of Novouzensk and Lane in the village of Petropavlovka. The name of A. Bust is also installed on the Heroes Alley in Saratov. Note: 1 A. Shilin - The youngest twice Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded the second medal "Golden Star" at 20 and a half years old.

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