CITY: city of Ishim DATE OF BIRTH: 11/07/1913 DATE OF DEATH: 09/11/1982 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant. Type of troops: artillery. Subdivision: 12th Artillery Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Breakthrough Division. 12th Artillery Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degree breakthrough division (Reserve of the Supreme High Command). It was formed in January - July 1943 in Zlatoust, Kuvashi, Medvedevka, Chebarkul. The division consisted of the following brigades: - 11th mortar, - 41st cannon artillery, - 46th light artillery, - 89th heavy howitzer, - 32nd howitzer, - 104th howitzer of high power; The 41st Guards were included in the Berlin operation. mortar brigade. The division was commanded by Major General M.N. Kurkovsky and (in the Berlin operation) a regiment. K.P. Pecherin. The division entered the battles on the Kursk Bulge, held the defenses on the Central Front, and provided fire support for the actions of the 13th, 70th, 61st armies. She conducted offensive battles in the Bryansk, Chernigov and Gomel regions; Forced the Dnieper near the town of Rechitsa. As part of the Belorussian, then the 1st Belorussian fronts, she participated in the liberation of Belarus and Poland, in the Lublin-Brest operation. For the liberation of Lublin, the 11th mortar brigade was awarded a hiring. Lublin; for the release on September 14, 1944, got stronger. Prague (on the outskirts of Warsaw) 104th Howitzer Brigade - hire. Prague. During the Warsaw-Poznan operation (January 14 - February 3, 1945), the division took part in the liberation of the cities of Zvolen, Radom, Poznan; 46th light art. the brigade is awarded the hiring. Radomskaya, 41st cannon - Poznanskaya. The division completed hostilities in the Berlin operation, while taking Berlin, it supported the units of the 3rd shock army with fire. Awarded: - the Order of the Red Banner, - Kutuzov, - Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd degree. Thousands of soldiers of the division were awarded government awards, 15 soldiers were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (N. G. Baryshev, M. Vanahun, A. G. Gubar, V. S. Zherebtsov, G. T. Zorin, N. P. Ivanov, L. A. Kolotilov, A. D. Levchenko, N. S. Pavlov, F. P. Purtov, V. M. Sidelnikov, F. A. Trifonov, D. Turaev, F. M. Khludnev, G. E. Shumakov ). Sergeant A. T. Bombizov and Private P. I. Pospelov were awarded 3 Orders of Glory.