Alyoshin Nikolay Sergeevich
CITY: s. Evpraksino, Privolzhsky district, Astrakhan region DATE OF BIRTH: 09/14/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 02/17/1944 HISTORY: Nikolai Sergeevich Alyoshin (September 1 [14], 1910 - February 17, 1944) - Soviet officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War, deputy commander of the 2nd rifle battalion for combat units 724th Infantry Regiment, 315th Infantry Division, 51st Army of the Southern Front. Hero of the Soviet Union (11/01/1943), captain. Born in 1910 in the Astrakhan province, in the village of Evpraksino (now the Volga region of the Astrakhan region). Russian by nationality. He served in the Red Army from 1932 to 1934. In the summer of 1940, on the basis of the SNK decree of July 4, 1940 and the National Coordinating bodies order No. 196 of July 10, on the re-registration of private and junior commanding personnel of the reserve, he was again drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. Completed training courses for junior lieutenants. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War from the end of June 1941. He took part in the battles for the liberation of Kerch and the Kerch Peninsula. He was seriously wounded. Upon recovery, he took a direct part in the battles at Stalingrad. In the offensive battles for the capture of the city of Melitopol from October 13, 1943, Captain N.S. Aleshin, deputy commander of the 2nd rifle battalion for combat units (724th rifle regiment, 315th rifle division, 51st army), was in the infantry battle formations. He personally knocked out two enemy tanks with grenades, and in total during the fighting in the city of Melitopol, the fighters of Captain Alyoshin's unit repulsed more than twenty counterattacks by Nazi tanks and infantry, destroyed a large number of enemy manpower and four medium tanks. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 1, 1943, Captain Nikolai Sergeevich Alyoshin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal "Golden Star". On the southern front (renamed the 4th Ukrainian), the enemy began to retreat. In the course of the pursuit of the Nazis, Soviet troops reached the Sivash coast, and by November 1, 1943, they broke into the Perekop Isthmus. In November 1943, during the breakthrough of the Turkish Wall on the Perekop Isthmus, the battalion commander of the 724th Infantry Regiment of the 315th Melitopol Red Banner Infantry Division, Major Alyoshin was seriously wounded and on February 17, 1944, he died in hospital No. 2347. Buried in the village of Askania-Nova, Kherson region. Awards: Hero of the Soviet Union (November 1, 1943, Gold Star medal No. 1294); Order of Lenin (November 1, 1943). Memory: In the botanical garden of Askania-Nova, a bas-relief of N. S. Alyoshin was installed, on which his name was engraved. By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union Alyoshin was forever enlisted in the lists of the personnel of the military unit.