Biography Titenko

Born on December 15 in the village of Zhikhovo, now the Sredo-Budsky district of the Sumy region of Ukraine in a family of a peasant. After graduating from 7 classes, he worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. In the Red Army since the year. Member of the Great Patriotic War since March. He fought on the South, 1st Baltic and 3rd Belorussian fronts.

He was wounded twice. The commander of the battery of the millimeter guns of the 6th Guards Sevastopol Red Banner Rifle Rifle Regiment 2nd Guards Taman Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division, 2nd Guards Army, 3rd Belorussian Front of the Komsomol of the Guard Sergeant Andrei Titenko distinguished himself on March 18 for the fortified resource point of the enemy Redisish-Tirau west of the village of Kornevo, Bagrationovsky district of the Kaliningrad region.

Having burst there, the calculation was cut off from the rifle units. Having organized a circular defense, a brave gunner for 4 hours repulsed the enemy counterattack. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, for the exemplary execution of command tasks of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the heroism of the Guard, Sergeant Titenko, Andrei Lavrentievich, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

Demobilized in the year. He worked at the mills in Kalmykia, in the villages of the Grigoropolis and Novotroitskaya Stavropol Territory. From the year he lived in the city of the Izobilny Stavropol Territory. He headed the mill, for a long time worked as the director of the clipstick, for 27 years he headed the fire department at the Izobilnensky elevator. In December, he met a summer anniversary from his birthday.

He died on November 2 of the year. He was buried in the Izobilnensky city cemetery. An honorary citizen of the Izobilnensky district was awarded the Orders of Lenin. The name of the hero is named the lane in the city of Izobilny. In those difficult days, he blocked the fascist vultures with well-aimed fire to Rostov-on-Don. And then Sergeant Titenko fought the gun commander in the division of the anti-tank guns of the 6th Guards Rifle Regiment.

March of the year. The troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front squeezed the encirclement ring around the East Prussian group of the Nazis. The battles every day took on an increasingly fierce nature. The calculation of the gun under his command, ahead of the battle formations of the infantry, burst on the outskirts of the village. Andrei Lavrentievich recalls: - I received an order to support the infantry units that advancing at the settlement with fire.

Soon they fell under a strong artillery fire. The horses lost. I had to drag the gun and shells on myself. They only managed to deploy the gun and take a firing position, as the Germans went into a counterattack. They squeezed our shooters. The gun turned out to be cut off from its own. I had to take a circular defense. There was a shootout for several hours.

In it I was wounded. It was a very difficult moment. There was no time even to bandage the wound. It is good that our infantry again went on the attack and the enemy was forced to retreat. In the medical battalion, they bandaged the wound to me, and I returned again. After two days of stubborn struggle, the regiment’s guards captured an important stronghold of the Provish-Tirau.

This was the merit of calculating the guns of Andrei Titenko. In subsequent fights, the gunners continued to successfully smash the enemy. But soon the guard sergeant was wounded secondly. He was a dressing. When he came into consciousness, he saw Captain Mishin's commander, bown to him. The brave warrior only during the battles in East Prussia the fire of his gun destroyed ten easel and seven manual machine guns with calculations, a lot of manpower.

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