CITY: Kurakovo village, Belevsky district, Tula region DATE OF BIRTH: 12/01/1925 DATE OF DEATH: 09/30/1943 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 75th Guards Rifle Bakhmachskaya twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Born in December 1925 in the village of Kurakovo, Belevsky District, Tula Region, into a peasant family. At the end of the seven-year period in 1940, he entered the Ivankovo ​​Agricultural College. But the war disrupted plans, they had to leave their studies. In October 1941, when the Nazis approached the village of Kurakovo, Volodya, together with his father and several collective farmers, were instructed to evacuate the collective farm cattle to the rear. In January 1943 (December 1942) Vladimir Anisenkov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and enrolled as a cadet at the Kemerovo Infantry School. As you know, in the most tense and crucial moments of the Great Patriotic War, the entire variable composition of schools, without taking into account any training time, was sent to the front as privates by order. In August 1943, as a part of 12 marching companies (1384 people), the entire Kemerovo school was placed at the disposal of the commander of the Central Front. Since September 1943, Vladimir Anisenkov took part in the battles of the Great Patriotic War. The shooter of the 6th company of the 2nd rifle battalion of the 212nd guards rifle regiment of the 75th guards rifle division of the guards Red Army soldier Vladimir Anisenkov distinguished himself when crossing the Dnieper River north of Kiev, in battles during the capture and holding of a bridgehead in the area of ​​the villages of Glebovka and Yasnogorodka (Vyshgorodsky district Kiev region) on the right bank of the Dnieper in the fall of 1943. In the presentation for rewarding, the commander of the 212nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the Guard, Colonel M. Borisov, wrote: “To the Guard, Private Anisenkov, on September 23, 1943, as part of a platoon of the Guard of Junior Lieutenant Yarzhin, first crossed the Dnieper River and was the first to break into the steamer“ Nikolaev ”, together with platoon took prisoner the steamer "Nikolaev", a barge with military engineering equipment, a heavy machine gun, a mortar and two people from the steamer's crew. Taking part in the battle for the village of Yasnogorodka, the guard Private Anisenkov acted boldly, decisively and courageously, exterminating up to 22 German soldiers and officers. For a heroic feat during the crossing of the Dnieper River and the capture of the ship's crew, he is worthy of being awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union". In the battle to expand the bridgehead near the village of Yasnogorodka, the Red Army soldier Vladimir Anisenkov was seriously wounded on September 25, 1943, and on September 30, 1943, he died of his wounds. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 17, 1943, for the successful crossing of the Dnieper River north of Kiev, the firm consolidation of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper River and the courage and heroism of the guards shown at the same time, the Red Army soldier Vladimir Ivanovich Anisenkov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.