Biography of Vladimir Voronov

Bust in Khimki Voronov Vladimir Ulyanovich - commander of the Sivash Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division of the Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front, Lieutenant Colonel. Born on July 11 in the village of Podlinnoy now, Konotop district of the Sumy region, Ukraine in the family of a worker. He graduated from 8th grade and the FZO school at the Konotop steam -repair plant.

He worked as a locksmith at the same factory. In the year he graduated from the railway college. In the Red Army in the years and since June. In the year he graduated from the courses of junior lieutenants. A participant in the liberation campaign of the Soviet troops in Western Ukraine and the Western Belarus of the year, the Soviet-Finnish war. Member of the Great Patriotic War since June.

The commander of the Sivash Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Rifle Regiment I am a rifle division, I am the army, the 4th Ukrainian front Lieutenant Colonel V. Voronov distinguished himself in the Crimean operation. Having mastered a number of his iron-concrete fortifications, the advancing went to the internal defensive maintenance. Reflecting the enemy counterattacks, on May 9, the regiment broke through to the center of Sevastopol.

A participant in the historical parade of Victory on Red Square in Moscow and a government reception in the Kremlin in honor of the victory of the Soviet Army in the Great Patriotic War, which took place on June 25. In the year he graduated from the “Shot” courses, in the year - the highest academic courses at the Military Academy of the General Staff. Since the year, Colonel V.

Voronov is in stock. He lived in the city of Khimki, Moscow Region. He died on October 8th. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, 2 orders of the Red Banner, the orders of Suvorov of the 3rd degree, Kutuzov 3rd degree, Alexander Nevsky, 2 orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Red Star, medals.

In the city of Konotop, a memorial plaque was installed on the building of the Konotop car repair plant, in honor of the hero. In the city of Khimki, the Moscow Region, a bust of V. was installed in the early days of November of the year, units and the compounds of the Rifle Corps of the Army crossed Sivash and captured a bridgehead on its southern coast in the Hadji-Bulak area.

Voronov, along with other parts of the Rifle Division, overcame the water space of Sivash 2.8 kilometers wide on the night of November 3. The fighters crossed the ilist, viscous bottom to waist in ice water. The guides of I. Olenchuk, who in the year, helped to overcome Sivash for the troops of M. Frunze, and V. under the fire of the enemy, provided scouts through Sivash.

Having overcome the resistance of the Nazis, our warriors were fixed in the conquered area. The enemy was counterattacked, but could not succeed. For several months, Soviet warriors held the captured bridgehead in their hands for several months. In the spring of the year, from this bridgehead, the army successfully conducted an operation to defeat the enemy in the Crimea. The offensive began on the morning of April 8 after artillery training, which lasted two and a half hours.

Our units here managed to master only the first and places of the second trenches of the enemy. In this heavy battle, fighters and commanders of the Rifle Regiment were courageously fought. The high moral spirit and military skill of personnel, the confident and firm management of the battle, carried out by Lieutenant Colonel Voronov and his headquarters, allowed to capture the first trench with small losses.

Under the continuous fire of artillery and machine guns, assault groups continued to take pillboxes and armored poles, concrete trenches. With the entry into battle of the second echelon, the regiment took possession of the second trench. However, further advance became impossible. I had to gain a foothold and reflect the strong counterattacks of the enemy from the place.

On the left flank of the Army in the Karankinsky direction, where units of the rifle corps advanced, success was outlined. The compounds of the CG of the rifle corps were transferred here. As a result of the skillful actions of many parts, including the regiment of V. Voronov, by April 10 it was possible to break through the defense of the Germans. After the capture of Dzhankoy, our troops rushed to Simferopol and Bakhchisarai, pursuing and smashing the Nazis.

Now the Nazis laid all the hopes on the Sevastopol fortified area. On the morning of May 7, the attack of Sapun Mountains began. Bloody battles ensued. The first attack did not break enemy resistance. Only after a repeated strike of the troops of the Rifle Corps by the end of the day, a powerful supporting point fell. There was an opportunity to develop a blow directly to Sevastopol.

To this end, the rifle corps was introduced into battle, parts of which on the morning of May 8 on the left flank of the Rifle Corps went on the offensive. The offensive was carried out rapidly. Overcoming the resistance of the enemy, units of the regiment, one of the first in the division, burst into the southwestern outskirts of the city. On the night of May 12, the regiment fighters, like other parts of the corps, attacked the "emergency line".

The defense was broken. By morning, the entire coast of the Bays Streletskaya, Round, Kamyteva was liberated by our troops. The Order of Suvorov appeared on his banner. In the award sheet of Lieutenant Colonel V.Voronova says: “He successfully carried out battles when crossing Sivash, holding the Sivash bridgehead and the breakthrough of the enemy’s heavily fortified strip in the Tarkhan direction.

The assault detachments captured a number of reinforced concrete fortifications of the enemy. The rifle regiment, reflecting the numerous counterattacks of German tanks and machine gunners, burst into the round of Sevastopol. On the night of May 9, the rifle regiment moved to a decisive assault on the outskirts of the city, burst into the city center, which contributed to the success of the army.

” The heroic feat of Soviet troops in Crimea was highly appreciated by the homeland. Among them are seven natives of Sumyshchina: A. Barabash, I. Bondar, V. Voronov, I. Marchenko, A. Svidersky, V. Tsymbal, I. Regiment V. Voronov fought near Shaulya, in East Prussia, stormed Koenigsberg. Colonel Voronov was a member of the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow and a government reception in the Kremlin in honor of the victory of the Soviet Army in the Great Patriotic War, which took place on June 25.

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