Ivan Voronkov Biography

Mass grave in the village of Dniproenokamenka, Voronkov, Ivan Yakovlevich, commander of the 1st battery of the 5th Guards Airborne Artillery Regiment, I am the Guards Airborne Division, I am the army, the steppe front, the guard senior sergeant. Born in the year in the village of Glukhonikolaevka now, the Nizhneomsky district of the Omsk region in the family of a peasant.

After graduating from 7 classes, he worked on the collective farm, then in the locomotive depot of the Barabinsk station. In the Red Army since the year. In the army since March 6. He fought on the north-western and steppe fronts as part of the 5th Guards Airborne Artillery Regiment as a gun commander. In August, he took part in fierce battles near Old Russa.

In September, the regiment as part of the division was relocated to the Kharkov area. After the march was performed, the soldiers began preparing the forcing of the Dnieper in the area of ​​the village of Perevlochna now the Svetlogorskoye Kobelyak region of the Poltava region, Ukraine. Having crossed the river on the night of October 1, the gunners immediately entered the fighting to expand the bridgehead.

The artillery guns of the regiment were distributed to support the rifle divisions and brought to open fire positions for directing fire with direct fire. In the first week of fighting at the bridgehead, reflecting the opponent’s counterattacks, the calculation of I. Voronkov destroyed up to 50 enemy soldiers and officers. The gun commander by order of the regiment commander was awarded the medal "For Military Merit".

In fierce battles at the bridgehead from October 2 to October 14, the calculation of I. Voronkov participated in the reflection of 6 counterattacks, while destroying 4 tanks, 2 armored vehicles, 6 cars and before the enemy’s manner. Voronkov died. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated December 20, for successful forcing of the Dnieper River, a strong fixing of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper River and the senior sergeant Voronkov, the hero of the Soviet Union posthumously manifested and heroism of the guard, was assigned to the senior sergeant Voronkov.

He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Dniproopenka of the Verkhnedneprovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region Ukraine. He was awarded the Order of Lenin in Omsk by the name of the hero named Street. From the award sheet on I. Voronkov: “Comrade. Voronkov in the battle formations of our infantry under the strong fire of the enemy forced the river. Dnieper in the area of ​​the Dnipropetrovsk region s.

Perevolny and with his fire ensured the promotion of our infantry. In the period from 1. His gun from 1. Voronkov did not miss the enemy tanks and infantry and, together with the gun, died the death of the hero.