Butenko Ivan Kuzmich was born in 1915 in the village of Upornaya, Krasnodar Territory. Before the war he served in the Navy, worked on a collective farm. In 1941, in the early days of the Great Patriotic War, he was mobilized to the front. The squad leader of the 8th Separate Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet Butenko I.K. disappeared in 7 November 1941