Subdivision: 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Taganrog Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ Stepan Yakovlevich Svyatenko was born on December 17, 1918 in the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev Region, Babanovsky district, the village of Olshanskaya Sloboda. In military service since 1038, place of conscription: Stalinist Comissariat, Georgian SSR, Tbilisi, Stalin district. _x000D_ From the first day of the Great Patriotic War, from June 22, 1941, Stepan Yakovlevich took part in combat operations as a Sergeant Radio Operator on PE-2 aircraft as part of the 33rd Aviation Regiment of the 19th Aviation Division of the Southwestern Front. Defensive operation in Western Ukraine. 22.6-11.7.41, perhaps the most hard time for our then not so experienced soldiers (unlike the Germans). _x000D_ On July 7, 1941 the PE-2 aircraft, as part of the crew of which was already performing its 4th combat departure that day, Sergeant Svyatenko, was attacked by 4 fascist fighters Messerschmitts ME-109. In an unequal battle with 4 enemy fighters, the fire of the gunner-radio operator Svyatenko knocked out one of the messengers, but our plane was set on fire by the 3 remaining vultures. The plane and the crew were on fire. The navigator was killed, the pilot and radio operator escaped by parachute, miraculously surviving. Stepan Yakovlevich's face and hands were badly burned, the scars from these burns after many years I saw myself, they remained with him as well as the memory of past battles for life. _x000D_ Being sent to the hospital, Sergeant Svyatenko was discharged ahead of schedule and returned to the unit, he was eager to fight every day, despite his serious injury. According to the results of this combat operation, for the fascist Messerschmitt ME-109 personally shot down in an unequal battle, for special courage, dedication and courage, the gunner-radio operator Svyatenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. _x000D_ Defense in Korostensky and Kiev fortified areas. 11.7-9.9.41, the withdrawal of the troops of the South-Western Front from the Kiev area. 10.9-29.9.41, defensive operation in the Voronezh direction. 30.10-6.12.41, Yelets offensive operation. 6.12-16.12.41, Kursk-Oboyan offensive operation. 3.1-26.1.42, Barvenkovo-Lozovskaya offensive operation. 18.1-31.1.42, the offensive operation in the Kharkov direction and the counter-attack of the Germans. 12.5-29.5.42, Defensive operations in the Volchansk and Kupyansk areas. 10.6-26.6.42, defensive operation in the Voronezh and Valuisko-Rossosh directions. 28.6-16.8.42, the November offensive operation to encircle the 4th tank and 6th German armies at Stalingrad. 19.11-30.11.42, Soviet army counteroffensive at Stalingrad. 19.11-30.12.42, The defeat of the Italian-German troops in the Middle Don. 16.12-30.12.42, January and February offensive operations. 1.1-22.2.43, Ostrogozh-Rossoshan offensive operation. 12.1-24.1.43, defensive battle of the left wing of the Voronezh front and the right wing of the South-Western front in the Kharkov direction. 22.2-23.3.43, Offensive operation in the Izyum-Barvenkovo direction. 17.7-27.7.43, Liberation of Donbass. 18.8-22.9.43, Liquidation of the Zaporozhye footstrong of the Germans. 10.10-14.10.43, the Melitopol operation. 23.10-5.11.43, Nikopol-Kryvyi Rih operation. 30.1-29.2.44, Crimean operation. _x000D_ April 8-12.5.44, as a result of which a number of previous military operations of the Guard Senior Sergeant Svyatenko, a gunner-radio operator as part of the 10th Guards Bomber Aviation Kiev Regiment of the 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Taganrog Red Banner Order of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov of the 8th Division Air Army of the Ukrainian Front for successful aerial photo reconnaissance, destruction of enemy ground targets and the performance of a number of combat missions on 11/05/1942, 11/16/1942, 05/11/1943, 06/06/1943, 08/31/1943 - 09/01/1943, 09/07/1943-08.09.1943, 20/12 .1943, 04/09/1944, as well as for special bravery, dedication and courage was awarded the Order of the Red Star._x000D_ Belarusian operation "Bagration". 23.6-29.8.44, Vitebsk-Orsha operation. 23.6-28.6.44, Minsk operation. 29.6-4.7.44, Vilnius operation. 5.7-20.7.44, Kaunas operation. 28.7-28.8.44, Gumbinnen operation. 16.10-27.10.44, East Prussian operation. 13.1-25.4.45, during which for the successful completion of a number of combat missions 01/15/1945, 01/27/1945, 02/22/1945, 03/18/1945, special courage, dedication and courage, as well as for personal merits in battles Great Patriotic War, Guard Sergeant Major Svyatenko, a radio operator in the 10th Guards Bomber Aviation Kiev Red Banner Order of Suvorov Regiment of the 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Taganrog Red Banner Order of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov of the 3rd Order of the Belorussian Army of the 1st Order of the Belorussian Army Glory III degree. _x000D_ Insterburg-Königsberg operation. 13.1-27.1.45, Königsberg operation. 6.4-9.4.45, the Zemland operation. 13.4-25.4.45, completed by the complete defeat of the operational group of the German-fascist troops "Zemland", in which 25 divisions and three brigades were defeated and destroyed. Stepan Yakovlevich celebrated Victory Day in East Prussia (now the Kaliningrad Region).