Alexandrov Ivan Pavlovich
CITY: s. Borovskoye, Kostanay region Kazakhstan DATE OF BIRTH: 11/10/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 06/06/1956 HISTORY: Title: Major Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops Born in 1910 in the village. Borovskoe, Kostanay region Kazakhstan. In 1928 he graduated from the pedagogical college, worked as a teacher in the villages of Borovsky, Presnogorkovsky in the department of public education in Kustanai. In 1934 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, served in the OKDVA, took part in the battles for the lake. Hasan. Since 1940, a member of the CPSU (b). Since August 1941 he has served as a political instructor in the 125 joint venture. In 1943 he took part in the battles in the Kursk direction as part of the 187th tank regiment, which in February 1944 became the 1289th self-propelled artillery regiment of the 7th Mechanized Corps (commander of the GSS regiment, Colonel E.P. Lysenko). The regiment actively participates in the battles for the liberation of the South of Ukraine (Yassy-Kishinev operation), Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia. Particularly distinguished himself in battles at the lake. Balaton. In the battle for the town of Oradea-Mare (Transylvania), the regiment commander Lysenko was killed, in the battle for the town of Miskolts Ivan Pavlovich Alexandrov was wounded. April and May 1945 the regiment as part of the 1st KMG of General Pliev takes part in battles in Czechoslovakia (Debrecen, Brno), and on May 9, 1945 ends the war in Prague. In August 1945, the Red Banner 1289th Composite Air Regiment took part in the battles in Manchuria to defeat the Japanese. The regiment received the honorary name "Khingansky", but in the fall of 1945 it was disbanded. Ivan Pavlovich serves in the 75th tank regiment (the village of Zanadvorovka, Primorsky Territory), is transferred as a teacher to the Kiev Tank Technical School, from where in 1955 he was sent to the 3rd Tank Division (Murmansk), where he takes part in atomic weapons tests on Novaya Earth. Having received a large dose of radiation, in 1956 he died and was buried in Kiev. Raised 2 sons (both became military men - a sailor and a tankman), 2 daughters. Wife - Milyaeva Maria Ivanovna, Honored Teacher of the Ukrainian SSR