Sergey Arefiev Biography

The Glory Hall in Volgograd Arefiev Sergey Anatolyevich is the foreman of the intelligence company of the Guards Red Banner Order of Suvorov of the parachute regiment of the Guards Airborne Division, the guard senior sergeant. Born on November 25 in the village of urban type of Bykovo district of the Bykovsky district of the Volgograd region. He graduated from the Bykovskaya secondary school in the year with a silver medal.

He worked as a loader in the Bykovskaya district consumer cooperation, engaged in a military-patriotic club for several years, and made 33 parachute jumps to the army. He studied at the training center for junior Airborne Forces in Gaizhunay, Lithuanian SSR, then served in the m parachute-long regiment, deployed in the hero city of Tula.

He mastered a military specialty well, was distinguished by successes in combat training. I went from an ordinary paratrooper to the foreman of the company. As part of a group of 27 prisoners, he took part in the operation to evacuate the personnel of the Russian Embassy and foreign missions from Kabul. Three aircraft of the Russian military transport aircraft landed in the partially destroyed Kabul airport on August 28.

The airport was surrounded by detachments of the Afghan opposition, which had already occupied Kabul. The paratroopers took up defense in buildings around the location of the aircraft. At first everything was quiet, but then the shelling began. A number of firing points were suppressed with return fire, but the missile shelling continued. The first aircraft under the control of Colonel E.

Zelenov had already taken off into the sky, the second aircraft of Lieutenant Colonel A. at that moment in the third plane, which caught in the strip, accelerated along the runway. The plane was damaged and caught fire. Lieutenant Colonel A. Kopyrkin managed to miraculously stop the run -up and chopping to the burning board. The prisoners quickly evacuated people from a burning machine and their loading to the second plane.

However, when checking the personnel, it turned out that there was no officer, company commander senior lieutenant Igor Matvienko. The last time he was seen in a burning plane. The senior sergeant Arefiev without a team rushed into a burning plane. Rummaging the salon of a flaming car in a pungent poisonous smoke, he found an officer to the touch, wounded by a fragment and lost consciousness from smoke, and carried it out of the plane ready to explode.

With his determined and courageous actions saved the life of the commander. The flaming plane exploded already behind S. Since the second plane was already overloaded, and the shelling became stronger, the commander of the paratroopers gave him the team to take off. Both planes safely returned to Russia. Airborne Forces fighters took up a circular defense in the airport building, withstanding the shelling for almost a day and repelled the Mujahideen attempts to capture them.

Arefiev performed the duties of a wounded company commander. A day later, by negotiations, it was possible to rescue the paratroopers - they were taken to the north of Afghanistan by a local airline by a local airline, from there they reached Uzbekistan with ground transport. For the courage and heroism shown in the performance of a special assignment to evacuate Russian citizens and employees of foreign missions from Kabul, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 15, the guard of the senior sergeant Arefiev Sergey Anatolyevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation with the award of a special distinction - the Golden Star medal.

Zelenov and A. All other participants in this operation were awarded orders and medals. After dismissal to the reserve, S. Arefiev returned to his homeland and in January of the year he entered the service in the internal affairs bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. After its completion, he served in the same educational institution: the platoon commander, inspector of the service and combat training department, deputy head of the course of service and combat training units, deputy head of the faculty of training of criminal police service workers, teacher of the Department of Fire Training.

He lived and worked in the city of Hero Volgograd. He died tragically in a car disaster on July 27. He was buried in the cemetery of the city type of Bykovo district of the Bykovsky district of the Volgograd region. Special titles:.