Kuznetsov Military biography

The tombstone of Kuznetsov Mikhail Arsentievich-deputy commander of the company of machine gunners of the Guards Rifle Regiment of the Guards Rifle Division of the 5th Panzer Army of the South-Western Front, Guard Senior Lieutenant. Born on October 10 in the village of Otlda Gorschechensky district of the Kursk region in the family of a peasant. From the year he lived in the city of Makeevka, Donetsk region.

He graduated from 7 classes in his village, and in the year - a metallurgical college in Makeevka. He worked as a distributor at the S. metallurgical plant in the Red Army since the year. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war-years. As part of the Rifle Division, he reached the state border to Vyborg. In June, he participated in the liberation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Until the Great Patriotic War, he served as deputy political instructor of a company in the Brest Fortress, received an excellent training under the command of Major P. Gavrilov, the organizer of the defense of the fortress. In the year he graduated from the Minsk Military-Political School. Member of the Great Patriotic War since June. He fought in the post of political instructor of a mortar company in the Rifle Division.

Since August, he fought in the Nazis by the political instructor of the mortar company of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division on the Western Front. He fought with the Nazi invaders near Rogachev, Zhlobin, on the Berezin River, near Smolensk and Yartsevo. He was wounded twice.

In November, after the reorganization of the parts allotted to the rear, Politruk Kuznetsov ended up in the Mr. Rifle Rifle Division on the Southwestern Front. The fulfillment of combat missions was facilitated by good knowledge of the German language, the ability to quickly master and apply trophy weapons in action. In December, when Kuznetsov delivered the sixth language to the headquarters, it was decided to appoint an officer as commander of a company of machine gunners.

In the year, with his machine gunners, Kuznetsov boldly penetrated the location of the Nazis, seized "languages" and documents, in impudent raids smashed headquarters and convoys. He received the first combat award in April of the year for a night battle with the Nazis at a height, 1. A sudden attack by the machine gunners knocked out the enemy from the prevailing height, while capturing several prisoners, two machine guns, four mortars, dozens of rifles and machine guns, a large number of ammunition.

Having fixed up on positions, several attacks of the Nazis rejected. By the summer of the year, the number of “languages” obtained by Kuznetsov already exceeded two dozen. In the battle in the area of ​​the Senutkino farm on October 3, an enemy bunker blocked the advancement of our troops with a group of machine gunners. The group destroyed the enemy garrison and captured the machine gun, from which it destroyed up to 30 enemy soldiers and officers.

At this time, shooting from the second bunker began. The ranks of the machine gunners were significantly thinned, Boyko was killed. Left alone, Mikhail continued to fire at the enemy and did not retreat to the reinforcement. At the attack on the Central Mid-Tsaritsynsky farm on November 20, with his group of machine gunners, he entered the rear of the moving column of the Nazis and brought down massive fire on them.

The machine gunners killed the entire personnel of the enemy artillery division in the amount of 56 people, captured the commander along with staff documents. They captured 16 working guns and 96 horses as trophies. The commander made a daring decision. Having sent two machine gunners with the prisoner and documents for the front line, he decided to capture the farm with the remaining fighters using trophy artillery.

The Nazis did not expect an attack from their own rear and our machine gunners burst into the farm, occupied it after 15 minutes. In total, during the raid, the enemy’s infantry was destroyed, 27 guns, horses, 27 light machine guns, 4 mortars, 7 machines, 7 vehicles and an ammunition warehouse were captured. By the time, as noted in the award sheet, ”Kuznetsov personally destroyed 88 Nazis, delivered 64“ language ”from the front line, and had 5 injuries.

The writer Ilya Ehrenburg dedicated to Mikhail Kuznetsov and his brave fighters an article: “At good time, guards! By that time, the brave officer had already commanded the battalion. In March, he received a severe wound and contusion. The wounds received did not allow him to take part in the final stage of the war. After several months of treatment, Kuznetsov was recognized as worthless to the drill service.

But he did not part with the army, returned to his original profession - political work. He was appointed deputy head of the political department for Komsomol, the Kyiv Military School of Communications evacuated to Siberia. I met Victory Day here. Member of the historical Victory Parade on June 24 in Moscow on Red Square. After the war, the brave hero continued to serve in the Soviet Army.

In the year he graduated from the highest military-political courses, and in the year-the Military-Political Academy. The service was held in the posts of the head of the political department of the howitzer artillery brigade, then at the Gorokhovets artillery center of the Moscow Military District. From a year before the resignation - the head of the political department of the Yaroslavl Regional Military Commissariat.

Since the year, Colonel M. Kuznetsov is retired.He lived in the city of Yaroslavl, then moved to the city of Moscow. He died on October 30. The plot of a. As part of the Rifle Division, Kuznetsov reached Stalingrad, participated in a grand battle on the Volga. The pages of the front -line chronicle will best tell how the pupil of the Komsomol fought at that time at that time by the pupil of the Komsomol.

At first, it was not possible to break through in one place. Then the machine gunners were advanced forward. Kuznetsov said: - This is the honor for us. We put the beginning of a large offensive, but one of them is worth remembering especially. It was the spring of the forty -second, near Kharkov. Kuznetsov with a company of machine gunners was ordered to capture the key height, 1 and hold it at all costs.

With a dark night, volunteers with their political instructions, groups in a person with short clicks secretly climbed to the fascist trenches. Behind me! The machine gunners rushed to the Nazis, wielding butt, grenades. The hand -to -hand combat ended with a height. The next morning, the Nazis took several counterattacks, but were discarded. Then the Nazis enraged by failure threw five tanks to a height.

The fighters Kuznetsov had no grenades, armor -piercing rifles - too. You can only hope for a machine gun. Behind moving tanks was German infantry. On it, Kuznetsov opened fire from a machine gun. The machine gunners took up the case. And the tanks all went. The turn of the enemy machine gun slashed at the very feet of the political instructor. The bullet dug into the body.

The wounded Kuznetsov did not tear his hands away from the machine gun. The tanks passed, and he continued to finish the German infantry with the fighters. The fighters delivered the wounded Kuznetsov to the medical unit. Healing wounds, he did not yet know that he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Red Banner. Vatutin recommended him as a courageous, fearless warrior.

Kuznetsov with the confession of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.