Ivan Nazarov Biography

The tombstone of Nazarov Ivan Mikhailovich-commander of the machine gun platoon of the Rifle regiment I am a rifle Sivash Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division, 1st Guards Rifle Corps, I am an army, 1st Baltic Front, junior lieutenant. Born on September 16 in the village of Nizhnyaya Biskuzha Orsky district of the Orenburg province, now - the village of Biskuzha Kuvandyk city district of the Orenburg region.

From the family of a peasant. He graduated from 5 classes of a rural school, a seven -year school, tractor drive courses. He worked on a collective farm in his native village. Military training took place in a reserve rifle regiment of the reserve rifle division of the South Ural Military District. Since April 29 - in the army, he fought on the Western Front. The Red Army soldier, then the foreman, recorded 39 killed fascists to his personal sniper account.

In the battle of February 22, he was wounded. After the cure for the hospital, an experienced fighter was aimed at studying and in May graduated from the school of younger lieutenants. Since June 18 - again in the army. He fought as the commander of the machine gun platoon of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division. Junior Lieutenant I. Nazarov performed an outstanding feat during the Belarusian strategic offensive operation.

After the liberation of the Vitebsk and Polotsk regions of the Belarusian SSR, the Army in July advanced on Lithuanian land, with the task of entering the Baltic Sea. In an effort to prevent this, on August 18, the German command inflicted strong counterattacks using tanks. At the tip of one of these blows at a height with a mark of anti -tank artillery. At the command of the commander, the fighters let the tanks through themselves, and then the fascist infantry was cut off with a rifle-machine-gun fire and forced it to heal.

Left without the support of the infantry and having suffered losses, the German tanks were forced to go back and began to iron the trenches. However, the platoon continued to conduct an unequal battle, fighting off the grenades. When the German infantry tried to attack the attack a second time, the soldiers of the platoon of I. Nazarov again met her with friendly fire and forced to heal.

The platoon commander himself showed the fighters an example of resistance, and when the calculation of the machine gun died, he took the place of the dead fighters and repelled the next attack.

At the same time, they were exterminated to 40 Nazis. Noticing the position of the machine gunner, one enemy tank moved on him in order to alive to roll into the ground with caterpillars. Nazarov and grenades rushed towards him and destroyed this tank. This feat was seen by the regiment commander from his NP. The fighters considered the officer to death in the explosion.

The battle for a height of 97.5 went several days with varying success. Only on the third day, the pressure of the Nazis came to naught and it was possible to bury the dead. The “funeral” went home, and in the instances - a performance to the high title of the hero. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, for the exemplary implementation of the command missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and at the same time the courage and heroism, the younger lieutenant Nazarov Ivan Mikhailovich is posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

However, I. Nazarov remained alive. On the same day in the evening, the wounded in an unconscious state was selected by the Germans and after the interrogation the camp was sent. Here, the captive military doctor took an operation on the wounded legs, which saved his life. Passed after a few camps. At the very end of the war, he was released from the camp of prisoners of war with allied forces.

In December, Lieutenant I. Nazarov was dismissed. He returned to his native village. Soon, at the local military registration and enlistment office, he was solemnly awarded the highest awards of the Motherland: the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal. In the Book of Memory of the Orenburg Region, it still appears to be dead. At first he worked as a land management in his native village.

In the year with his family, he moved to the city of Mednogorsk, Orenburg region. He settled down a locksmith at the Electromechanical Plant "Electromotor", where his younger brother was already working. In the year, he came to the development of virgin lands in the village of Moskovka now a tract in the Kuvandyk district of the Orenburg region, there he worked as a tractor driver and machine operator on the local collective farm “Red Banner”.

In the year, the red trackers from the second school of the city of Vilnius found the hero. At their invitation, he came to the place of his last battle, where his surname was carved at the mass grave of the Soviet soldiers of the first. Member of the CPSU from the year. From the year he lived in the city of Orenburg. He died on July 16. He was buried in the old cemetery along the street of the city of Orenburg.

The lieutenant was awarded the Order of Lenin Granite Star with a portrait of I. Nazarov was installed on the Heroes Alley in Mednogorsk. The name of the hero was carved on the stele on the Heroes Alley in Orenburg and on a commemorative board in honor of the Mednitsk heroes at the building of the Mednogorsk Industrial College.