Rank: Petty Officer Branch od Service: Land Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guars Unit: 183rd Kharkov Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division Date of birth: 1920 Place of conscription Srednekamsky District Military Commissariat, Sverdlovsk Region, Srednekamsky District. Unit: 227th Rifle Regiment, 183rd Rifle Division Date of enlistment: October 1941 Name of the award: the Hero of the Soviet Union (the Order of Lenin and Gold Star Medal) Operation: The Moravian-Ostrovskaya offensive operation Dates of the feat 01.07.1943-31.07.1943, 10.02.1945, 21.03.1945 Number of the historical information Fund 33, Inventory and information number 793756, Case number 5 TSAMO archive Vitaly Bezgolosov - sniper of the 227th Rifle Regiment (183rd Kharkov Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division, 38th Army, 4th Ukrainian Front), Petty Officer. Born on May 20, 1920 in the village of Kamenka now the Tavricheskiy District of the East Kazakhstan Region. He moved with his family to the city of Ridder (Leninogorsk) East Kazakhstan Region in 1931. He graduated from seven-year school. He worked for a carpenter's shop and at the same time studied at evening school. Then he graduated from the technical school. He worked as a Metallurgist for the Leninogorsk Lead Plant. He was drafted into the army in October 1941. In the active army during the Great Patriotic War - since 1942. He fought on the Kalinin, Voronezh, Steppe, 1st and 4th Ukrainian Fronts. Four times wounded. He received his baptism of fire in the summer of 1943 on the Voronezh Front near Kharkov during the Belgorod-Kharkov operation, participated in the liberation of Kharkov. He also became a sniper there. Later participated in the liberation of the left- and right-bank Ukraine, including the Zhytomyr-Berdichev operation and the liberation of Berdichev, the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation and the liberation of Vinnytsia, the Lvov-Sandomierz operation and the liberation of Lvov. Then his division left the territory of Poland in the Eastern Carpathians and took part in the Carpathian-Duklinsky (1st Ukrainian Front) and Yaslo-Gorlinsky (4th Ukrainian Front) operations. During the last operation, the division crossed the Vistula River. In January-March 1945, V. Bezgolosov destroyed 69 Hitlerites, more than once showing skill and resourcefulness. In street battles in the city of Czechowice Dziedzice (Silesian Voivodeship, Poland), German snipers delayed the advance of our infantry. V. Bezgolosov destroyed four enemy snipers, after which the infantry successfully completed its combat mission. In the battles for the bridgehead on the Vistula River, V. Bezgolosov again showed his skill. Only near the village of Pavlovice on March 21, 1945, he killed more than a dozen fascists. V. Bezgolosov participated in the Moravian-Ostrava operation from March 24, 1945. His division was the part of the 38th Army. By this time, since the summer of 1943, he had destroyed 279 German soldiers and officers. During this time, he trained 67 soldiers in sniper skills. They together killed more than 600 fascists. In the battles for the city of Moravska Ostrava (now the Czech Republic) and during the crossing of the Odra River on April 30, 1945, Sergeant V. Bezgolosov destroyed 8 Hitlerites. When he saw that the Major was seriously wounded, he under the intense him on himself to carried him to cover, but was hit by an enemy bullet. By Decree of the Presidium of The Supreme Soviet on May 15, 1946, Vitaly Bezgolosov was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) for his courage and heroism in the battles with the Nazi invaders. He was buried in Glucin in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.