Biography of Andrey Chumakov

The plate on the fraternal burial in the village of Sintautai Chumakov Andrei Petrovich-the gunner of the anti-tank rifle of the rifle regiment I am the Roslavl Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division, the 5th Army, the 3rd Belarusian Front, the junior sergeant. He was born on October 10 in the village of Bolshaya Yerma, now the Alar district of the Ust-Ordynsky Buryat district of the Irkutsk region in a peasant family.

He graduated from 5 classes in his native village. He worked on the Kirov collective farm. Drafted into the army in June. In the army - since June. He fought in the Rifle Division on the Western and 3rd Belarusian fronts. Participated in the Army in the Smolensk-Slavl operation and the liberation of the city of Roslavl; The liberation of the Mogilev region of Belarus north of the city of Chaus.

As part of the 5th Army of the Western Front, he participated in Orshanskaya on October 12-December 2 and Vitebsk on December 23-January 6 of the year of front-line offensive operations-attempts to the command of the Western Front to break through to Orsha and Vitebsk; The Belarusian strategic offensive operation "Bagration"-in the Vitebsk-Orsansky, Minsk, Vilnius and Kaunas operations, including the liberation of the capital of Lithuania Vilnius.

For the difference in battles in December, he was awarded the medal "For Courage". In the same battle he knocked out a car and two machine guns. By order of January 23, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. When crossing the Berezin River on June 29, the enemy inflicted heavy infantry with machine gun fire, which was overwhelmed by swampy terrain.

On his own initiative, Chumakov got close to the enemy’s firing points and destroyed the flanking enemy machine gun, which saved the life of many of his comrades and contributed to the fulfillment of a combat mission. Since July 8, A. Chumakov, as part of the division, participated in street battles during the liberation of Vilnius, destroying the firing points and military equipment of the enemy.

A few days later, on July 16, in a battle near the village of Antokoltsi on the approaches to the city of Kaunas, the Nazis made a counterattack with the support of tanks. Chumakov ended armor -piercing cartridges. Armed with a machine gun and one grenade, he crept up to the tiger tank and climbed his armor. Seeing that the tank hatch was open, Chumakov threw a grenade at him.

There was an explosion. An officer jumped out of the tank, whom Chumakov defeated with an automatic burst. By order of August 14, A. Chumakov was awarded the second order of the Red Star. Chumakov received the task of exploring the defensive position of the enemy. Fulfilling this task, he captured and brought to part of the two “languages”. The enemy’s infantry was cut off from the tanks and did not pass after them.

In this battle, A. Chumakov died. He was buried at the village of Sintautai. 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 the heroism shown to Chumakov Andrei Petrovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin in the village of Sintautai on the fraternal burial of the Soviet soldiers - the heroes of the Soviet Union, a stove was established, where the name A. was carved in his homeland, in the village of Bolshaya Yerm, a monument was erected. In the name of A. Chumakov, the streets are named in the village of Kutulik-the administrative center of the Alar region, as well as in the urban-type village of Ust-Ordynsky-the administrative center of the Ust-Ordynsky Buryat District.

The name of A. Chumakov was awarded an eight -year school in the village of Bolshaya Erma.