Rank: colonel. Service branch: Army, Air Force (except Navy Aviation), Coast Guard, the troops of the border troops of the NKWD. Division: 94th Guard Rifle Zvenigorod-Berlin command of the Suvorov Division. Andrey Kravchenko . Born on 23.12.1912 in the village Malinino Timashevsky district of Krasnodar region. In the Red Army since 1931, 220 p. p. 74 of the Taman Rifle Division, in 1933 he was awarded the rank of junior commander. Long service 1933-1938 with the rank of a non-commissioned officer of a machine-gun company. 1938 refresher courses for Junior Reserve Lieutenants in Millerovo, Rostov region. In 1938 he was appointed platoon commander after the squaw in / h 5399. From 1939 to 1940 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of Military Unit 5399 for mobilization work. In 1940 he was transferred as deputy chief of staff of the 5th division of the 171st rifle division. Division. In 1941, within the framework of this division, he met with the fascist invaders who traitorously invaded the territory of our motherland. In August 1941 he was wounded between Bila Tserkva and the Vasylkiv district in the Kiev area. After the hospital he was appointed deputy chief of staff of the secret service of the 220th rifle regiment of the 74th rifle division. In January 1942. he was sent to study at Military Academy for daring and combat successes. Frunze. In August 1942, after finishing his studies, he was appointed head of the operational department of the 43rd Ski Brigade of the S-Z Front of the 53rd Army. After the defeat of the German Army in the Demyansk pocket in March 1943, the 43rd Ski Brigade was disbanded and A. I. Kravchenko was appointed deputy chief of staff of the 53rd Army for the VPU. In May 1944 he took part in the breakthrough of the Kursk bulge near Belgorod and in the defeat of the group Korsun-Shevchenko. In May 1944 he became the commander of the rifle regiment of the 286 Guard of the 94th Guard of the rifle division of the 53rd Army. On September 3, 1944 the advanced rifle regiment of the 286 Guard was the first to reach the Odra River in the town of Amkinets, where it captured a bridgehead and kept it until the arrival of the main forces of the 5th Army. A. I. Kravchenko was awarded for this achievement - Hero of Soviet Union. As part of the 5th Shock Army, the regiment stormed the city of Berlin. Later, the 286th Guard Rifle Regiment was renamed the 286th Guard Rifle Regiment with Red Banner Branderburg, and the 94th Guard Rifle Division was renamed the 94th Guard Rifle Division Zvenigorod-Berlin with Red Banner Order of Suvorov II Grad Gewehrdivision After the victory A. I. Kravchenko was appointed military commander of the district and town of Nordhausen in the state of Thuringia. Since January 1956 Colonel A. I. Kravchenko - in reserve. Since 1956 he lived in Timoshevsk. Worked as chairman of the city council. In 1971 he moved to the city of Volgograd. Died on 02.01.1976. He was buried at the Voroshilovsky cemetery in Volgograd.