Name: last NAME: Perruchet NAME: Andrew middle name: Dmitrievich CITY: Tula region, village Dubovka-Zlydnya date of BIRTH: 16.10.1926 DATE of DEATH: 19.12.2010 HISTORY: Rank: Colonel Type of troops: Technical troops (KHV, zhdv, AB, RTV, DV, topographic) Division: 269th rifle Rogachev red banner order of Kutuzov division. As a seventeen-year-old boy in 1943, he was sent to the Bryansk front, where he participated in the liberation of the city of Orel. In 1944, as part of the 2nd Belorussian front of the third shock army, the 269th Rogachev red banner rifle division liberated Western Belarus, then Poland. He was wounded at the Narev bridgehead. On April 6, 1945, he participated in the capture of Konigsberg. The war ended in the city of Steten. For military actions and heroism, he was awarded the order of the red star, the order of the Patriotic war of the 1st and 2nd degrees, as well as eighteen medals. Among them, such as " for the Victory over Germany in 1941-45, for the capture of Konigsberg, for military merit, for labor distinction, and others. Award lists: "In the battle for the village of Drondzhevo on January 18, 1945, Sergeant Pererushev was the first with his squad to break into the outskirts of the village. In hand-to-hand street combat, he destroyed 6 German soldiers and officers, which contributed to the successful clearing of the village of Drondzhevo from the Germans. For which he was awarded a Government award-the order of the Red Star." "The battles for the Soviet Motherland, comrade Perruchet showed courage, fortitude and bravery. As part of the 269th rifle division, the 1018th rifle regiment near Ruzhany, in a battle with the enemy, destroyed 4 Germans and captured an enemy light machine gun. In this battle 10.11.44 g. he was injured. As part of the same unit, in January-may 1945 on the territory of East Prussia in the area of a large locality (does not remember the name) comrade. Pererushev with a group of 4 men received a task from the company commander to reconnoiter the approaches from the flank to the locality. Performing the task Pererushev with a group of soldiers found the enemy 57-mm. gun. Anti-tank grenade Perruchet destroyed this gun. During the retreat, he was wounded by an enemy sniper. Pererushev is worthy of the government award of the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd degree.»