Biography Kirichenko Petra

The tombstone of Kirichenko Pyotr Antonovich is a platoon commander of an engineering-mini company of the mechanized brigade of the 1st Krasnograd Mechanized Corps of the Army of the Steppe Front, senior sergeant. Born on August 15 on August 15 in the village of Turya, now the Krasnopolsky district of the Sumy region, Ukraine in the family of a peasant. Graduated 7 classes.

He worked as an accountant at the Belovsky state farm of the Kursk region. In the Red Army since the year. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war. Was wounded. Member of the Great Patriotic War since June. He fought in the West, Kalinin, steppe, 2nd Ukrainian fronts. He was wounded three times. The platoon commander of the engineering company of the mechanized brigade of the 1st Krasnograd Mechanized Corps, I am the army, the steppe front Komsomolets Senior Sergeant Pyotr Kirichenko distinguished himself in the battle for the Dnieper.

When forcing the Dnieper in the area of ​​the village of Mishurin Rog Verkhnedneprovsky district, the Dnipropetrovsk region with 2 fighters crossed the island at night, found fishing boats, overtook them to the left bank and made up the artillery from them, which then contributed to the seizure of a bridgehead on the right bank of the river. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated December 20, for the successful forcing of the Dnieper River, a strong fixing of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper River and the senior sergeant Kirichenko Peter Antonovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star Honey.

In the year he graduated from the accelerated course of the military artillery school in Ryazan. Since the year, junior lieutenant P. Kirichenko is retired. He lived in the village of Perelevshinsky, Paninsky district of the Voronezh region. He worked as an engineer at a sugar factory. From the year he was elected a deputy of the village council. He died on April 24th.

He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Novoaleksandrovka of the Paninsky district. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin in the urban -type village of Panino on the Heroes Alley.

A bust of P. was also installed a commemorative board on the Heroi Alley in the village of urban type of Krasnopolia. The photo was provided by A. Commander of the platoon of engineering-minute company, senior sergeant Kirichenko received an order to establish a crossing in one of the sections of the water line. On a fishing boat, with two fighters, unnoticed by the enemy, he crossed the island located in the middle of the river.

There, according to local residents, there should have been boats hidden by the Nazis during a retreat. The daredevils found them and delivered them ashore. Having built several ferries, they crossed the entire military unit across the river. This happened on September 23. In the area of ​​the new Sanjar in the Poltava region, the Nazis prepared for the explosion a bridge over Vorsklu and artillery warehouses with ammunition, which were located on both sides of the highway for eight kilometers.

The platoon of Peter Kirichenko approached the bridge just left by the invaders. Having carefully examined the structure, the senior sergeant noticed a detonating cord stretched from the bridge to artillery warehouses. The fighters immediately eliminated the danger, warning an explosion of warehouses with ammunition. The award sheet on a brave warrior said: “Kirichenko is an exceptionally brave and competent engineering commander, capable of under any conditions, not afraid of death, to fulfill the task set before him.

With his example, he inspired the fighters for exploits. The entire personnel of the platoon was awarded orders and medals. For courage and courage, manifested in battles against the fascist invaders, deserves the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. ” The brave communist warrior went through the front-line roads for more than one hundred kilometers, participated in battles until the last day of the war.

And two years after the victorious salutes, the sapper remained in the ranks, neutralizing the mined objects. The biography was prepared by:.