Rank: Corporal. Type of Army: Army, Air Force (except marine aviation), the Coast Guard, the NKVD troops, Border Guards. Semyon Gaidukov was born in 1925 in the Machekhavillage, Hopersky district of the Stalingrad province, RSFSR, USSR (now the village of Kikvidzensky area of the Volgograd region of the Russian Federation) in the family of peasant Vasily Andreevich Gaidukov. Ukrainian. Graduated from seven classes of a rural school. On February 7, 1943 he was drafted into the ranks of the ""Workers and peasants"" Red Army, by the Macheshansky district military Ye served as a Private Rifleman of the 1st Machine-gun Company of the 349th Rifle Regiment of the 26th Rifle Division as part of the 11th and 34th Armies of the North-Western Front (from July 1943, the 26th Rifle Division in front-line subordination). He was militarry ""baptized' in the battle of Staraya Russa. In August 1943, Semyon Vasilyevich was wounded, but quickly returned to service.Due to the disbanding of the North-Western front in November 1943, the 26th Rifle Division was transferred to the 1st Shock Army of the 2nd Baltic Front. In February -early March 1944, Semyon Vasilyevich participated in the old Russian-Novorzhevskaya offensive operation as part of the Leningrad-Novgorod strategic operation. In March, his division was transferred to the 22nd Army and fought positional battles along the German Tank defense line until the summer of 1944.In June 1944, the 26th Rifle Division returned to the 1st Shock Army. C. V. Gaidukov participated in Reicko Dvinskoy, Madona and Riga operations. During the Riga operation, the 26th Rifle Division was transferred to the 46th Army and took part in the Memel operation of the 1st Baltic Front. From October 1944 to mid-January 1945, Semyon Vasilyevich participated in the blockade of the enemy's Kurland group.On January 13, 1945, the East Prussian operation began. Haidukov took part in the Insterburg-Konigsberg operation of the 3rd Belorussian Front, later - in the liquidation of the enemy's Zemland group as part of the 1st Baltic Front, for which he was awarded the Medal ""For bravery"" and promoted to Corporal. On 24 February 1945, the 1st Baltic Front was transformed into the Zemland Task Force and was incorporated into the 3rd Belorussian Front. In April 1945, Corporal S. V. Gaidukov took part in the Konigsberg operation. Semyon Vasilyevich especially distinguished himself during the storming of Konigsberg. The 349th Rifle Regiment was to storm the city from the South on April 6, 1945. When breaking through the enemy's defenses South-East of the village of Medgeten, Corporal Gaidukov with his machine gun climbed to the dominant height of 30.6 and opened heavy fire on German positions from it, destroying more than 60 German soldiers and officers. When breaking through the second line of German trenches on the southern outskirts of the village of Medgeten, Semyon Vasilyevich destroyed 8 enemy soldiers and took 6 more prisoners, after which he captured the headquarters of a mortar battery, where valuable documents were found. In the subsequent battles for Konigsberg, corporal Haidukov was seriously injured and evacuated to a hospital. He did not return to the front. Semyon Vasilyevich met the Victory in the hospital. On April 19, 1945, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Corporal Semyon Vasilyevich Gaidukov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After recovery, Semyon Vasilyevich was demobilized and returned to his native places. He lived in the village of Ilovlya, Volgograd region, and worked as an inspector of the state insurance of the RSFSR. On June 6, 1996, he died. He was buried in the urban-type settlement of Ilovlya."