Vasily Rivne biography

The tombstone of the Rivne Vasily Grigoryevich-deputy commander of the battalion for the political part of the Rifle regiment of the Rifle Division of the Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, senior lieutenant. Born on December 25 in the city of Mineralnye waters of now the Stavropol Territory in the family of a worker. He studied at elementary school on the Kurinka farm near the Khodyzhenskaya station.

In the year, when disassembling the capsules used to undermine the rocks on the construction of the railway, trouble happened with Vasily - an explosion occurred. The boy received fragmentation wounds in the chest and eyes. About a year lay in the Tuapse railway hospital. After the revolution and the Civil War, Vasily Rivne, up to a year, launched the kulaks.

He worked as a seasonal repair worker on the railway. The rest of the time of the year worked in a timber industry, and at a sawmill, and at the sawing of the forest, a loader: they loaded sleepers, logs and firewood on the platforms. In the year he worked on laying the Grozny oil pipeline - Tuapse. In the Red Army since the year. He served in the Cavalery Regiment of the Blinovsky Cavalry Division, which was in the city of Novocherkassk.

He was enrolled in the school of junior commanders. In February, due to poor shooting and drill training, Rivne was “exposed” to the lens of his eye and commissive. Member of the CPSU B from the year. In April of the year, Rivne entered the party and was appointed head of the Cash-Related in the village of Kim, as well as the secretary of the local party organization.

The district committee set the task - to organize the preparation and conduct of collectivization and liquidation of the kulaks as a class. Soon the peasants of the village were united into a collective economy. In May, Rivne was sent to the city of Maykop to two -month courses of propagandists. There he was elected secretary of the party organization, worked as a senior worker.

At this time, tractors began to appear on the Kuban fields. During this period, MTS was organized. In order to political strengthening the MTS and state farms of the Central Committee, the Party decided to organize in all MTS and state farms political departments, headed by deputy directors for political units. In the year, Rivne was sent to the very north of the North Caucasus Territory, in the Verkhne-District now Rostov Region.

A large group of the White Guards who fled fists, with whom had an irreconcilable struggle, settled at the state farm. Rivne was revealed a large group of pests. It was headed by the chief agronomist, which included the chief accountant and chief mechanic. They created unbearable conditions for workers, spoiled grain, cars, distributed cattle epidemics. Rivne was elected second secretary of the neighboring Migulinsky district committee of the Party of the Rostov Region.

In this position, he met the Great Patriotic War. By the fall of the year, the fascist troops managed to occupy a large territory, including part of the Rostov region. Rivne was appointed Commissioner of the fighter battalion to combat saboteurs, deserters and panic. During their activities, the battalion fighters detained 10 paratrooper saboteurs and three people who distributed false rumors and enemy leaflets, promoted amazing moods among the population.

In addition, Rivne participated in the creation of a partisan detachment, its base, as well as an underground network in case of the occupation of the district. In January of the year, the regional committee and the Central Committee approved the head of the political department of the Shumilinsky state farm of the Verkhne-Don district. An urgent order was received from above due to the approach of the Germans to evacuate the entire economy inside the country.

Rivne led this difficult task. It was necessary to immediately resolve issues related to the distribution of people and the development of livestock evacuation routes. People, livestock and technology moved their strokes to Kazakhstan, to the village of Cossack Dergachevsky District. Rivne himself remained at the state farm. During this period, only part of the Upper Don and Vyoshensky districts remained unoccupied from the Rostov region.

The state farm became front -line. The defense site here was held by the rifle division. Despite this, Rivne in the summer of the year managed to organize harvesting. Barley, oats and wheat were handed over to the military units of the 1st and 3rd Guards armies. Mills and crusts were launched again to process grain, abandoned pig farms began to work. The state farm team mainly women and children under the leadership of Rivne on oxen, cows and tractors managed to organize the sowing of winter grounds, the autumn plowing of the fields and the spring sowing of the year.

This raised a patriotic spirit. Rivne organized the collection of warm things for the Red Army. At the end of June, Rivne began to work in the agricultural department of the Rostov regional committee as an instructor. A month later, he was drafted into the Red Army, and although there was an opportunity to stay on armor, he went to the service. Even in the year, despite the unusable for the service, Rivne was certified by the military registration and enlistment office, and he was awarded the title of senior political instructor.

The military path of Rivne began with the Karpov Military-Political School. There he studied until April.After graduating from the school in April, Rivne was awarded the title of senior lieutenant. He was first sent to the city of Murom, and then at the disposal of the political department of the Western Front. During this period, with the aim of managing the troops, the Western Front was divided into 2nd and 3rd Belarusian fronts.

The political department of the 2nd Belorussky sent Rivne to the yu army, where he was appointed party organizer of the 2nd battalion of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division. The regiment at that time held positions in the area of ​​the village of Ryaska on the Pronya River in Belarus. The operation "Bagration" began on June 23. The battalion of the political officer of Rivne was introduced into the battle when crossing the Berezin River and began to move forward with battles.

In these battles, the battalion destroyed from above the Germans, 38 Nazis were captured, the Ferdinand self -propelled artillery installation and two cars were destroyed, the headquarters of the enemy battalion were defeated. On the night of July 6, the regiment made a night, difficult accelerated march and in the morning took up defense at the Apchak state farm near the Minsk-Moscow highway, completing the encirclement of the German group near Minsk.

When trying to break through the Germans from the environment, Rivne was wounded in the hand and sent to the hospital. Senior Lieutenant Rivne returned to his regiment from the hospital at the end of August and was appointed deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion. The regiment at this time was on the border with East Prussia. The replenishment of the former Soviet prisoners of war, who were released from concentration camps from the concentration camps of the former Soviet prisoners of war, came to the battalion of Rivne.

Rivne, a painstaking “rehabilitation” work fell on - many fighters, out of hatred of fascism without an order, immediately rushed into battle. On the night of January 12, the assault battalion of Major Subbotin, where the Prime Minister was the senior lieutenant Rivne, made a march and changed the units on the Pulavsky bridgehead of Vistula. The enemy’s defense was to be broken only by their 1st assault battalion with a company of sappers, a company of fines-officers I am Oashr, a division of tanks and self-propelled guns, and a division of artillery.

After 15 minutes, the battalion rushed to the breakthrough. Rivne went on the attack with the 2nd company of the battalion. The Germans did not expect a swift attack. In the 2nd trench, hand-to-hand combat unfolded, grenades, bayonets and butt went into the course of.

The companies went rapidly forward, overcoming the enemy’s resistance, suppressing his firing points. At the 8th trench in the area of ​​the 2nd company, with which the political officer of the Rivne battalion went into battle, the Germans went in a counterattack. Ahead, in a hollow overgrown with shrubs, German pillboxes were visible, from which the supporting fire led, and about a hundred Germans departed from the rear.

These two groups covered the front attacking group of Rivne in the amount of 9 people on both sides. The fighters dispersed along the trench, Rivne - with a manual machine gun, others - with automatic fire forced both groups to lie down. At this time, a self -propelled gun and a tank arrived at them. They quickly suppressed the bunkers, scattered German groups, which were partly destroyed or captured.

После этого в прорыв были введены танковые корпуса. For ensuring the breakthrough of the deeply echeloned defense of the Germans west of the Visla River on the Pulavsky bridgehead, all soldiers and officers of the battalion were represented by the command of the regiment to award orders and medals, and 15 people, including senior lieutenant V. Rivansky, to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 27, for the exemplary execution of command missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the senior lieutenant to the senior lieutenant Vasily Grigoryevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

With battles, eliminating the scattered groups of the Germans, Rivne with his battalion passed all of Poland. The fighters, led by Rivne, successfully crossed the Oder-Shpra channel. Overcoming the complex enemy defense system, the rifle regiment entered the Zeelovsky heights, which the 8th Guards Army took by storming. Soon he was transferred to Elbe, where Rivne met with the Americans.

After the disbandment of the Army, Rivne was appointed assistant to the military commandant of the city and the Weimar district for agriculture. Soon, the “missing” from the political agencies of the captain of Rivne “found”. The political department withdrew him and approved the deputy head of the political unit of the army hospital, which was later transformed into a military district hospital.

In April, captain V. Rivne was demobilized. From September to the years, V. Rivansky is a listener of the regional party school. In the same years, he entered the Rostov Pedagogical Institute, which he successfully graduated from the year, having received a diploma of a high school history teacher. After graduating from the party school, V. Rivnensky worked as the secretary of the party committee of the optical-mechanical plant, and in December he was elected the second secretary of the Azov District Committee of the CPSU, and from December 25, the chairman of the Azov district executive committee.