Perevoznikov Vasily Ivanovich - squad leader of the 215th separate engineer battalion (168th rifle division, 10th guards army, 2nd Baltic front), sergeant - at the time of presentation for awarding the Order of Glory 1st degree.
Born on March 25, 1909 in the village of Naumovskaya Rospash, Lyakhovsky volost, Solvychegodsky district, Vologda province (now the village of Alekseevskaya, Cherevkovskoye municipal formation, Krasnoborsky district, Arkhangelsk region) into a peasant family. Russian. Graduated 3 classes elementary school. At first he was a peasant, then he worked as a lumberjack in the timber industry of the Cherevkovsky district.
In 1939-1940 he served in the Red Army. He mastered the military specialty of a sapper. He took part in the war with Finland in 1939-1940. After leaving the reserve, he returned to his homeland.
In June 1941 he was again drafted into the army by the Cherevkovsky district military commissariat. From the same time at the front, he received his baptism of fire in the battles near Pskov. Member of the defense of Leningrad from the first days, in December 1941, was seriously wounded. For a long time he was treated in the hospital. After returning to service, he was enlisted as a sapper in the 215th separate sapper battalion of the 168th rifle division, which fought on the Oranienbaum bridgehead. He served with this division until the end of the war. Fought on the Leningrad and 2nd Baltic fronts.
He took part in the strengthening of defensive lines, mine warfare, repeatedly, as part of obstacle groups, made passages in enemy engineering barriers, led reconnaissance groups through minefields and rows of barbed wire to the front line of the Germans
In November 1943 he received his first military award. On October 31, 1943, during reconnaissance behind enemy lines, he broke into a German dugout, where he captured valuable documents and trophies. Then he mined and blew up this combined bunker, in which there were two machine guns, and destroyed it to the ground. Awarded with the medal "For Courage".
In January 1945, on the eve of the Krasnoselsko-Ropshinsky operation, the 215th separate engineer battalion did a great job of preparing a bridgehead for the upcoming offensive of its division.
On the night of January 14, 1944, near the village of Ropsha (Lomonosov district of the Leningrad region), the Red Army soldier Perevoznikov commanded a blocking group of 4 sappers, which, under enemy fire, in the immediate vicinity of the enemy’s positions, made 5 passes in 3 rows of wire obstacles. Two of them were personally carried out by the Red Army soldier Perevoznikov. The group returned to their positions without loss.
By order of units of the 168th Infantry Division dated January 18, 1944 (No. 3 / n), the Red Army soldier Vasily Ivanovich Perevoznikov awarded the order Glory 3rd degree.
In June 1944, the division was transferred to the Karelian Isthmus, where it took part in the Vyborg operation, the liberation of the city of Vyborg. In these battles, Corporal Perevoznik already commanded a sapper squad, which was devoted to the 124th separate tank regiment.
On June 30, 1944, 15 km north of the village of Roshchino (Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region), Corporal Perevoznikov with his subordinates under enemy fire made 3 passes in the enemy minefields, personally removed 56 anti-tank mines. Subsequently, the sappers eliminated the blockage on the road, and made 4 passes in the minefield behind the blockage. Was presented for the award Patriotic War 2nd degree.
By order of the troops of the 21st Army dated July 22, 1944 (No. 235 / n), Corporal Perevoznikov Vasily Ivanovich was awarded the Order of Glory 2nd degree.
Until August 1944, the division was in Karelia, then it was transferred to the 2nd Baltic Front, where it became part of the 42nd Army. Here she participated in the Madona and Riga offensive operations. Then, until March 1945, she fought to eliminate the Courland enemy grouping.
On March 19, 1945, 13 km southwest of the city of Saldus (Latvia), Sergeant Perevoznikov, with the fighters of the squad, made several passes in the minefields and barbed wire of the enemy, neutralized over 200 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines. Participating in the offensive together with the infantrymen, he disabled the machine gun with the calculation, he took 6 Nazis prisoner.
By May 1945, the 168th Rifle Division as part of the 22nd Army was withdrawn to the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command and no longer participated in the battles. In November 1945, Senior Sergeant Perevoznikov was demobilized.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, Sergeant Vasily Ivanovich Perevoznikov was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree. He became a full cavalier of the Order of Glory.
He lived in the city of Yegoryevsk, Moscow Region, where he came at the invitation of a fellow soldier. He worked as a carpenter-carpenter in the construction department No. 1. After his retirement, he continued to work for some time, passing on his experience and skills to young workers. He died April 15, 1978.
He was awarded the Order of Glory 1st (05/15/1946), 2nd (07/22/1944) and 3rd (01/18/1944) degrees, medals, including "For Courage" (11/05/1943).
His name is immortalized on a memorial in the village of Krasnoborsk, Arkhangelsk region.
Born in 1909 in the village of Naumovskaya, Arkhangelsk region. Before the Great Patriotic War, he worked in the timber industry.
Nine hundred days and nights was in a cruel enemy blockade of Leningrad. All this difficult time, sapper Vasily Perevoznikov, like his fighting friends, like the inhabitants of the city, experienced barbaric bombardments, artillery shelling, hunger and cold. But nothing could break the fighting spirit of the brave soldier.
Vasily Ivanovich received the specialty of a sapper while still in active military service. And now, together with his comrades-in-arms, Sergeant Perevoznikov daily, hourly, made the defensive lines of the city impregnable, destroyed the enemy's fortifications.
The sappers had to work especially hard when our troops were preparing to break through the enemy blockade. Prepared in advance, for a long time. The command needed to know exactly what kind of engineering fortifications the enemy had, what obstacles they would have to face in the offensive. To extract such data was entrusted mainly to sappers.
It was a damp November 1943. A group of reconnaissance sappers, which included Vasily Perevoznikov, had to penetrate behind enemy lines and scout in detail the engineering fortifications in one area. The situation was difficult. The Nazis vigilantly followed the front line.
At noon, the sappers bypassed the swamp, which had not yet had time to freeze, and slipped unnoticed into the enemy position. At dawn, they chose a convenient place where they could take cover and watch. They mapped the location of trenches and dugouts, barbed wire, memorized approaches to them, marked firing points, artillery and mortar positions.
It was getting dark. Through a dense forest, the sappers decided to go to the front line, to the place where they crossed the front line of the enemy. The fighters were already close to the target, as machine-gun shots were heard almost nearby. After giving a few short bursts, the machine gun fell silent. The sappers looked around: on a high-rise overgrown with small bushes - traces of fresh earth. It was a recently built bunker. He was much to the left of the place where the front line was to be crossed, so the sappers decided to attack him, distract the Nazis. Perevoznikov and his comrade approached the embrasure and threw an anti-tank grenade into it. The sappers, taking advantage of the confusion of the Germans, headed over the front line in their direction.
Many times Sergeant Perevoznikov had to take part in sorties behind enemy lines. And when on January 27, 1944, the Soviet radio informed the whole world about the complete liberation of Leningrad from the enemy blockade, Vasily Perevoznikov was sincerely glad that a considerable share of his work was in this heroic victory. In those days, a small group of reconnaissance sappers led by Perevoznikov was always ahead of the advancing units. They took part in the liberation of the cities of Gatchina, Uritsk, Pushkin. They often had to break away from their units in order to find out what engineering obstacles the Nazis were erecting against the advancing Soviet troops, they often had to deal with small groups enemy.
Once, while conducting reconnaissance on the outskirts of the village of Kipen, sappers (and there were only six of them) came across an enemy convoy with food and ammunition.
Perevoznikov made a bold decision to attack the convoy.
The wagons moved slowly. The horses were up to their belly in the snow. As soon as the Germans caught up with the Soviet soldiers, grenades and automatic bursts fell on them. Panic arose among the Nazis, they began to scatter. But not one managed to leave. About twenty teams were captured by sappers and handed over to their units.
The second half of 1944 began. Parts of the division were on the territory of Soviet Latvia. The division was preparing to strike at the Nazis near the village of Alashi. It was necessary to urgently clear the approaches to it. In one night, Vasily Perevoznikov's squad of sappers removed and defused more than 200 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, made several passes in the wire fence. Then, together with the advancing units, the sappers broke into the settlement.
The end of the war caught Vasily Ivanovich in Finland. There, too, it was necessary to clear minefields, remove barbed wire from stakes, and undermine gouges. We also had to face the retreating invaders. In one of the battles, Vasily Perevoznikov destroyed several enemy soldiers and blew up a self-propelled gun.
The Order of Glory of three degrees marked the front-line merits of Vasily Ivanovich Perevoznikov. He currently works as a carpenter in the city of Yegorievsk, Moscow region.
From the book: Soldier's Glory. Book 2. M., Military publishing house of the USSR Ministry of Defense, 1967.
Vasily Ivanovich Perevoznikov(1909-1978) - Soviet soldier. He served in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army from 1939 to 1940 and from 1941 to 1945. Member of the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars. Full Cavalier of the Order of Glory. Military rank - senior sergeant.
Biography
Before the Great Patriotic War
Vasily Ivanovich Perevoznikov was born on March 25, 1909 in the village of Naumovskaya Rospash, Lyakhovsky volost, Solvychegodsky district, Vologda province Russian Empire(now the village of Alekseevskaya of the municipal formation "Cherevkovskoye" of the Krasnoborsky district of the Arkhangelsk region Russian Federation) in a peasant family. Russian. Graduated from the 3rd grade of elementary school. At first he was a peasant, then he worked as a lumberjack in the timber industry of the Cherevkovsky district. In 1939-1940 he served in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. He mastered the military specialty of a sapper. He took part in the Soviet-Finnish war. After demobilization he returned to his homeland. Back on military service was mobilized by the Cherevkovsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Arkhangelsk region on the second day of the war, June 23, 1941, and immediately sent to the army.
On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War
On the way to the front at the crossing over the Volkhov, Vasily Ivanovich came under heavy bombardment, but still reached his destination. Participated in the defense of Pskov, then withdrew with battles to Leningrad. Member of the defense of Leningrad from the first day. In December 1941 he was seriously wounded. For a long time he was treated in the hospital. After returning to duty, he was sent as a sapper to the 215th separate sapper battalion of the 168th rifle division, which fought on the Oranienbaum bridgehead. The Red Army soldier Perevoznikov took part in strengthening defensive lines, mine warfare, repeatedly, as part of obstacle groups, made passages in the enemy’s engineering barriers, led reconnaissance groups through minefields and rows of barbed wire to the front line of the Germans. Especially a lot of work for the sappers of the battalion of Major Plaksin was in the fall of 1943, when the troops of the Leningrad Front began preparations for the operation to finally lift the blockade of Leningrad. When preparing the offensive plan, the headquarters of the 168th Infantry Division needed fresh intelligence about the organization of the enemy defense in the Ropsha area, which the enemy had been equipping for about two years. During one of the attacks on the German positions on the night of October 31, 1943, Vasily Ivanovich, acting boldly and boldly, broke into the German dugout, where he captured valuable documents of the enemy. On the same day, shortly after noon, he again led a group of scouts deep into the enemy defenses through the swamp. Having taken a convenient position, they monitored the enemy until dawn, marking on the diagram the location of his trenches, dugouts, barbed wire and firing points. When it was time to head back, their attention was drawn to the chaotic bursts of machine-gun fire. It turned out that the Germans had recently equipped a combined bunker on a small high-rise and were now firing machine guns. The scouts had some explosives with them, and they decided to destroy the firing point. Having quickly laid charges, the scouts ignited the fuses, and the Red Army soldier Perevoznikov still managed to put an anti-tank grenade into the embrasure. As a result of a powerful explosion, the bunker, which contained two light machine guns and several enemy soldiers, was destroyed to the ground.
Before the onset of cold weather, the Red Army soldier Perevoznikov, with divisional and regimental scouts, penetrated the positions of the Germans and their near rear several times. The information collected by scouts and sappers during the autumn of 1943 contributed to the successful offensive of the division as part of the Krasnoselsko-Ropsha operation. In these battles, Vasily Ivanovich again demonstrated high military skill, personal courage and courage.
Order of Glory III degree
On the eve of Operation January Thunder, the 215th Separate Engineer Battalion under the command of Captain K.P. Dalmatov did a great job of preparing a bridgehead for the upcoming offensive of his division. In the period from January 10 to 13, sappers, including the Red Army soldier V.I. Perevoznikov, made 6 passes in the minefields for tanks and infantry near the village of Porozhki. Wire fences were not touched, so as not to alert the enemy ahead of time. In order to ensure the passage for rifle units to the German trenches through three rows of barbed wire, immediately before the start of the offensive, special obstacle groups were created, one of which was headed by an experienced Red Army sapper Perevoznikov. January 14, 1944 Vasily Ivanovich with four fighters quickly advanced to the front line of the enemy. The Germans intensively shot through the dividing line, but the sappers knew their route well and quickly reached their intended goal. Working quickly and silently in close proximity to the German positions, the sappers made 5 through passages in the barbed wire, and two of them were made personally by the group commander. Having completed the combat mission, Vasily Ivanovich also secretly and without loss brought the group to his territory.
Perevoznikov Vasily Ivanovich
Perevoznikov Vasily Ivanovich(March 25, 1909, the village of Naumovskaya Rospash, now the Krasnoborsky district of the Arkhangelsk region - October 6, 1966).
Graduated from the 3rd grade of the school. He worked as a lumberjack. In the army from 1939 to 1940 and since 1941. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939 - 1940.
At the front in the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. On January 14, 1944, a sapper of the 215th separate sapper battalion (Leningrad Front), Private Perevoznikov, near the village of Ropsha (Lomonosov District, Leningrad Region), led a blocking group, which, under enemy fire, made 5 passes in 3 rows of wire obstacles. On January 18, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree.
The squad leader of the same battalion (21st Army), Corporal V.I. On June 30, 1944, Perevoznikov and his subordinates, 15 km north of the Roshchino point (Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region), under enemy fire, made 7 passes in the minefields of the enemy, removed 56 anti-tank mines. 07/27/1944 was awarded the Order of Glory 2nd degree.
Sergeant of the same battalion (2nd Baltic Front) V.I. Perevoznikov with fighters on March 19, 1945, 13 km southwest of the city of Saldus (Latvia), made several passes in minefields and wire obstacles of the enemy, neutralized over 200 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, disabled a machine gun with a crew, captured 6 Nazis . On May 15, 1946, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree.
In 1945, senior sergeant V.I. Perevoznikov was demobilized from the army. Lived in the city. Yegorievsk, Moscow Region, worked as a carpenter.
Evgeny OVSYANKIN,
Honorary Doctor of Pomerania
State University
named after M.V. Lomonosov,
Candidate of Historical Sciences,
honorary citizen of the city of Arkhangelsk.
A source of information:
"In the name of victory", Arkhangelsk, 2005