LAST name: Pakhomov FIRST name: Dmitry PATRONYMIC: Fedorovich CITY: village of konevo, Novosibirsk region. Date of BIRTH: 11.03.1920 date of DEATH: 11.03.1945 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized Troops. I want to tell you about my great-grandfather, Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitry Pakhomov. He was born in 1920 in the village of konevo, Novosibirsk region. In October 1942, he was drafted into the Red Army. A young wife with a small daughter stayed at home. My great-grandfather fought on the Central, 1st and 2nd Ukrainian, 1st Belorussian fronts as part of the 16th tank corps . Liberated Ukraine and Poland. Passed with fights on the self-propelled gun about 1500 kilometers. You can read about how my great-grandfather fought on the website dedicated to the Heroes of the Soviet Union. The driver self-propelled artillery 393-guards self-propelled artillery regiment 12th guards tank corps 2nd guards tank army 1 St Belorussian front guard Sergeant D. F. Pakhomov has shown exceptional courage and heroism during the Vistula-Oder offensive. By the evening of January 16, 1945, with a swift cutting blow, two Soviet tank brigades broke into the depth of the enemy's defenses and reached the near approaches to the city of sokhachev. The captured prisoner showed that a German train with weapons and ammunition for the defenders of the city should soon arrive at the still-held railway station of Sokhachev. To destroy the echelon, a small tank detachment was allocated, which included the self-propelled gun D.Pakhomova. However, when the detachment broke through to the railway, the train was already moving along it. Sergeant Pakhomov at top speed led his self-propelled gun across the echelon through the enemy's location. He managed to bring it to the range of fire, several shots from the gun crew smashed the locomotive. The tanks came to the rescue and destroyed all the cars with weapons. That night the enemy tried to bring in Sochaczew another echelon. But Pakhomov confidently brought his self-propelled gun through difficult terrain directly to the railway track. The first shot damaged the engine, and German soldiers jumping out of the cars came under cannon and machine-gun fire. No one kilogram of military goods did not get to the defenders in Sochaczew German troops. On January 18, the city was finally cleared of the enemy. For the courage and heroism shown at the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders, the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated February 27, 1945, Sergeant Dmitry Pakhomov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. But the Hero did not have long to fight. D. Pakhomov was seriously wounded in the battles for the liberation of the city of Stargard (now the city of Stargard-Szczecinski, Poland), and died on March 11 in a hospital in this city. He was buried at the fraternal military cemetery in Stargard-Szczecinski. Awarded the order of Lenin, world war I 1st class. The bust of the Hero is installed in the working village of Krasnozerskoye in the Novosibirsk region. Streets in the village of konevo in the Novosibirsk region and the village of Shakpak in the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan are named after him. My great-grandfather was such a hero!