Biography Lavrinenko

The country and people living in it should always remember their heroes. One of them, Dmitry Fedorovich Lavrinenko, Soviet tank ace, guard of the senior lieutenant, who earned the highest military rank of the Hero of the USSR in bloody battles, will be discussed in this article. The origin of one of the versions on October 1, and on the other, on September 10, the biography of this person is extremely saturated with events, despite the fact that he died when he was only 27 years old.

His father was a Kuban Cossack and fought in the First World War. After the October Revolution, he became a Red Guard. In one of the battles, he heroically died, fighting with the White Cossacks. She held the post of chairman of the camp in one of the farms of the Armavir district. After the death of her husband, she raised her son alone. Peaceful Dmitry Lavrinenko studied at the school of peasant youth in Art.

Voznesenskaya and graduated from it in G. After that, he continued his education in teacher's courses in the city for two years, he taught children on a farm where his mother chaired. It was from his light hand that a drama circle appeared in a rural school, and then a string orchestra. In addition, he was also the organizer of several sports sections. According to the people who knew him well, the children simply adored their teacher, who usually led classes in two classes at the same time.

From the city of the cadet in the city of Dmitry decided to voluntarily join the army, where he was originally sent to the cavalry. Four years later, according to a reduced program, he trained at the Ulyanovsk Armored School. As his classmates later recalled, the future tank speaker Dmitry Lavrinenko was a modest, executive, hardworking and smart commander. He passed all the exams easily, and in this, apparently, his previous specialty helped him.

Everyone around has noticed his extraordinary love for technology. All the time he tried to learn as much as possible about her and master faster. In addition, in fire training classes, he always shot perfectly from almost any type of weapon. That is why his friends nicknamed his sniper eye. Combat experience, the first military campaign of Dmitry Lavrinenko took place in G. in the same place, in Stanislav now Ivano-Frankivsk, he met a girl Nina, his future wife.

In the summer of G. Great Patriotic War, Lavrinenko met with the rank of lieutenant. He was the commander of the tank platoon of the division, which was part of the Mohcorpus. I must say that this military unit did not enter the battle for a long time, but only departed deep into the country, losing its material part, constantly failing on the way. The tankers who did not have their cars in the buildings of the enemy, which were not currently, were used as ordinary infantrymen.

The command quickly understood its mistake and issued an order to recall the most qualified tank personnel, including Dmitry Lavrinenko. A tanker from God, he got into the service of a 4th tank brigade under the command of Colonel M. at that time, new models of tanks T and sq. They began to produce the Stalingrad Tractor Plant. In October, the brigade took part in the fighting near Mtsensk against one of the mechanized groups of the German Colonel General G.

The crew Lavrinenko and opened an account with the enemy tanks they hit him. In the first battle, held on October 6, four enemy combat vehicles were destroyed. Unfortunately, there is no exact data about the number of tanks destroyed by the crew of Dmitry Lavrinenko in battles near Mtsensk. According to various sources, this figure ranges from 7 to 19 cars.

Such inaccuracy is explained by the fact that at that time no one was particularly engaged in the calculation of bumped German technology. The last battle on December 18, the battles began near the villages of Pokrovskoye, Sychevo, numbers and ridges. The tank company Lavrinenko, along with the sappers, was sent forward to clear the minibuses from the mines, along which the main forces of the brigade were supposed to move.

Suddenly, the group stumbled upon the Germans. The commander decided not to wait for the approach of the main forces, but to attack the enemy in the village of Pokrovskoye. According to the memoirs of fellow soldiers, the Soviet tank company burst into the settlement and destroyed the fascist garrison with its fire. After that, Lavrinenko went on the attack on neighboring Goryuna, where German armored vehicles were based.

Вражеские части не выдержали столь мощного натиска: на помощь танковой роте подоспели основные силы бригады. The Nazis were defeated, and Dmitry Lavrinenko destroyed his German armored vehicle in that battle. Thus, he became the most effective tank ace of the Red Army. Immediately after the end of the battle, a powerful enemy artillery and mortar shelling fell on the village of Goryuna.

Leaving the tank, Art. But he did not have time to do this: he was killed by a fragment from a mortar shell. The burial place of the Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fedorovich Lavrinenko was buried right on the site of his last battle: near the highway, between the two villages - Goryuna and Pokrovskoye. In the city of Khabarova, he discovered the tankman’s grave.It was decided to reburial the remains of the hero in the territory of the small fraternal memorial complex in the village of Dolzovo, which is located in the Istra district of the Moscow region.

It took place in the presence of the mother of Dmitry Fedorovich - Matrene Prokofevna, his commander - Colonel Y. The awards should be noted that D. Lavrinenko’s valiant merits were not immediately recognized before the Fatherland. Shortly before the death of the tanker, namely December 5 Katukov, but for some reason was never awarded. Only on December 22 he was already posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin.

In the post-war years, Dmitry Lavrinenko, recognized by tank-AC Secondary World War, also did not receive a well-deserved reward, although this was achieved by such well-known military leaders as the Army General Llyushenko and Marshal Katukov. And only on May 5, G. In addition, his relatives were awarded the Golden Star medal and another Order of Lenin.

Lavrinenko Dmitry Fedorovich, whose feat should forever remain in the memory of the descendants, was a real hero. The streets in Armavir, Krasnodar, Volokolamsk, as well as in his homeland - in the village of fearless, are named him in the name. In just two and a half months at the front, he destroyed 52 enemy combat vehicles. On the day of the centenary of the birth of the legendary tanker, we decided to remember how his impressive front -line path was.

The fearless village is located in the south of the Krasnodar Territory. It was here that on October 14 the legendary tanker Dmitry Lavrinenko was born, in the first months of the war, he truly justified the name of the small homeland.

The platoon of Lieutenant Lavrinenko in the Panzer Division in July in July after the first failures of the Soviet Army was forced to leave the city of Stanislav in the west of Ukraine and retreat deep into the country. At the end of August, the surviving fighters of the division became part of the 4th Panzer Brigade of Colonel Mikhail Katukov, and Dmitry Lavrinenko continued to command a tank platoon.

A cold -blooded strategist, a brave fighter and a competent commander - it was these qualities that characterized a young tanker and allowed the winner from the most severe fights with the enemy. Lieutenant Lavrinenko opened his military account in battles near Mtsensk, where the Katukov tank brigade was transported in the fall. Four “thirty -four” under the command of Lavrinenko went to the help of a motorized rifle company that had been surrounded.

Soviet fighters, trying to keep the height in the area of ​​the first warrior, suffered significant losses. The enemy destroyed their anti -tank guns in the first place, and the attack undertaken by the Germans could turn out to be defeated, if not for the tank platoon of Lavrinenko. T, as if from nowhere and opened fire on enemy tanks. One caught fire, the other ...

Changing the positions, the defenders took several more lightning attacks. The maneuverable "thirty -four" with well -aimed fire destroyed the enemy, being in constant movement. Having decided that the whole tank division rushed into the attack, the Germans retreated, leaving 15 tanks on the battlefield. In this battle, Lieutenant Lavrinenko recorded four enemy fighting vehicles on his own.

The settlements changed, the position of our troops changed, but the battles continued. In these battles, the skill of a tank ace was honed. Then he acted from the shelter, skillfully hiding the combat vehicles, then appeared suddenly, taking several short attacks. After the war, Army General D. Lulyashenko talked about the tactics of a brilliant tankman: “...

Lieutenant Dmitry Lavrinenko, carefully disguising his tanks, set logs to the positions, which outwardly monitored tank guns. And unsuccessfully: the Nazis opened fire on false targets. Having let the Nazis to a profitable distance, Lavrinenko brought down a destructive fire from ambush on them and destroyed 9 tanks, 2 guns and many Nazis. ” By this time, Dmitry Lavrinenko had about 19 enemy tanks.

Soon, the crew of the platoon commander distinguished himself again, this time in a battle near Serpukhov, where he organized an ambush on the head of the Nazis. With the support of the infantry, T Lavrinenko destroyed three guns and up to two platoon soldiers, and as a trophy he drove the German bus into the location of the headquarters. True, such a brilliant victory almost turned around for the tankers to the tribunal.

The fact is that a few days before the battle, Colonel Katukov left the “thirty -four” Lavrinenko to guard the headquarters of the army.