A dear biography

The Memorial Board in Bryansk, Dark Nicholas Fedorovich-commander of the battery of the heavy howitzer Berlin artillery brigade of the 5th Kalinkovichi artillery division of the 4th artillery corps of the 3rd shock army of the 1st Belorussian Front, captain. Born on November 14 on November 14 in the village of Zii, now the Khomutovsky district of the Kursk region in the family of a peasant.

He graduated from a pedagogical school in the city of Sevsk of the Bryansk region in the year. He worked as a school principal in the village of Strachevo of the Suzemsky district of the Bryansk region. In the Red Army since the year. In the year he graduated from the Stalingrad Military -Political School, in the year - courses of batteries at the Leningrad Artillery School in the city of Kostroma.

Member of the CPSU B from the year. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War since October. He was a political officer of the company, the head of the club of the artillery regiment, the military commissar and commander of the howitzer artillery battery. He fought in the Western, Central, Belarusian, 1st Belorussian fronts. He was wounded in battles. He participated: - in the defense of Moscow and in the winter counterattack near Moscow - in years; - in battles on the Zhizdra River south of the city of Sukhinichi - B; -in battles on the Kursk Bulge in the area of ​​the Ponyri station, in the Chernihiv-Pipyat and Mozyr-Kalinkovichi operations, including in the liberation of the city of Kalinkovichi-in; - in the Belarusian operation, including in the liberation of the cities of Brest, Suleyuv, in the liberation of Poland with the exit to the Narev -B River; -in the Vislod-Oder operation, including in the liberation of the city of Pritz, in the Berlin operation, in the storm of the Reichstag-in the battery of the heavy howitzer artillery brigade of destruction under the command of the Captain of the Distribution, having reached the district autostrada in the area of ​​Bloomberg, northeast of Berlin, the group was scorched machine gunners and knocked out 3 tanks and 2 guns, opening the way to the division to Berlin.

Then, with a platoon of control, he crossed at his improvised means through the Berlin -Shpandau channel, explored the enemy fire and suppressed them with batteries, ensuring the crossing of the channel with infantry and its exit to the Spree River. In the year he graduated from the highest officer artillery school in the city of Kolomna. He served in the Mr. Corps of the Transcaucasian Military District: in the years - the chief of staff of the division of the Council of Corps Artillery Regiment; In years - the commander of the division of the Court of Corps Artillery Regiment.

In the years he served as the head of the artillery of the Motor Rifle Regiment of the Motorized Rifle Division. Since November, Colonel N. Lyubovy is in reserve. He worked as the head of the personnel department of the Bryansk regional public catering department. He died on November 7th. He was buried in the Soviet cemetery in Bryansk. His name is the street in Bryansk.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin after the end of the pedagogical school Nikolai Darkovy arrived in the Suzemsky district of the Bryansk region and began to work as a teacher at the School of the village of Strachevo. Here he had a family: the wife of Zinaida Dmitrievna, the son Vladimir was born in the year, the son of Anatoly in the year. In the same year, Nikolai Dobrayy became the principal of the school.

Rural life beat with a key. On the borders of the country at that time it was restless. Here and there, the foci of war arose, Hitler Germany occupied half the European. For six months, he served by the Red Army in the Mm Gaustic Artillery Regiment in Transcaucasia, and in January he was sent to study at the Stalingrad Military-Political School. It was not necessary to study for long - the Great Patriotic War began.

Already in August, the Junior Political Committee was sent to the artillery division of the RGK, where he became a political officer of the company. The division was in the reserve of the Moscow defense zone. When the Nazis began to approach the capital, in October, the dear received the title of political instructor and was sent to the artillery regiment of the RGK, where, unfortunately, he was unexpectedly appointed head of the club.

But, as it turned out, and the club more often - just impromptu meetings were needed to fight fighters fighting in the lane of the legendary army. Especially when the counterattack began near Moscow, artists and newspapers from Moscow began to come to rallies about the liberation of settlements. In addition, an indelible impression made on a kind parade on Red Square on November 7, which he had a chance to become.

But, nevertheless, he persistently rushed to the front line. All year, the army waged defensive-settings at the turn of the Zhizdra River. The battery, in which the military commissar was a courteous political instructor, many times with its destructive fire supported the actions of rifle units trying to break through the enemy’s defense in the Bryansk direction. The senior political instructor since August, dear, was almost all the time among the fighters of the battery, inspired the artillerymen to fulfill the tasks with his presence.

The battery was especially distinguished by the reflection of the next offensive of the Nazi SS troops in Sukhinichi in November. The dear then replaced the wounded battalion commander and ordered the calculations to beat direct fire on the advancing tanks. The enemy offensive failed, and the senior political instructor was awarded the Order of the Red Star.In addition, in November, he became a captain.

In February, during a relative lull on the Western Front, captain of the courteous was seconded to the courses of batteries commanders in the city of Kostroma. At this time, during the offensive of a number of fronts, the Kursk arc formed. After 2 months, in April of the year, the dear was sent to the Central Front, where he was appointed commander of the battery of the heavy howitzer artillery brigade of the 5th artillery division of the breakthrough.

The brigade took up defense at the state farm "May 1" 2 kilometers from the Ponyri station. Intelligence of the Central Front worked perfectly - on the eve of the Nazi offensive, the time of its beginning, the direction of the main blows, the number and composition of the group, the place of concentration of the units were clarified. Anticipation of the enemy, on the morning of July 5, a powerful artillery blow was inflicted on his positions.

The howitzer battery of Captain the District also participated in this shelling, which delayed the Nazis' offensive from the north to Kursk for 1.5 hours. Nevertheless, the enemy went the ropes. Unable to break through our defense from the village of Olkhovatka in the main direction in 2 days, the Nazi command on July 7 threw tanks and 2 infantry divisions in the direction of Ponyre.

Here they were met by the fighters of the Rifle Division and the artillerymen of the heavy howitzer brigade. The battery of the captain of the courteous entered the battle. By order of the howitzer commander, they beat direct fire on fascist tanks. The whole field before the daggers was dotted with enemy corpses hit and burned by tanks, a significant part of which was destroyed by the fire of the Dyubovnoy guns.

Without passing through the pitch, the enemy again transferred the onslaught to Olkhovatka and self -domination. For skillful actions in the defensive period of the Battle of Kursk, Captain Lyubovy was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. After the defensive period on July 12, the offensive of the Soviet troops began on the Oryol Bulge, during which on July 16 the Captain Lyubovy was wounded and was treated in the medical battalion until mid -September.

In the fall of the year, the 5th artillery division of a breakthrough as part of the Central and Belorussian fronts participated in the Chernihiv-Pipyat and Mozyr-Kalingic operations. Especially the battery of the Captain of the courteous distinguished herself in battles in the capture of the city and the Kalinkovichi railway station, helping with its fire to rifle units in the assault on the outskirts of the city.

For these battles in January of the year, Captain Lyubovy was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the summer of the year, the operation "Bagration" began. The compound in which the Captain Captain Fighted acted in the band of the Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. The artillerymen of the courtyard batteries on July 17 participated in the preliminary artillery preparation immediately before the breakthrough by rifle units of enemy defense on the Pripyat River.

The enemy front edge was thoroughly plowed by the fire of our howitzers, which allowed the infantry to force the river, master the village of Mezhisyt and go to the eastern shore of Lake Crust. After 12 days of battles, the troops of the army took possession of the southern part of the city of Brest. After the Brest, the army allocated another lane of the offensive, and its troops fought in the direction of the Polish city of Suleyuv.

Here again the howitzers of the heavy artillery brigade were needed. Within 2 days, the artillerymen of the courteous destroyed several more units of military equipment, contributed to the mastery of the settlements of Byalka, hens, tramps and the exit of the rifle units to an important node of the enemy defense of the town of Tlush. For the difference in these battles, all gunners of the battery of Captain Derevoy were presented to the orders and medals, and the commander himself was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

By the fall of the year, his unit in the brigade entered the Narev River northeast of Warsaw. After that, the courtyard battery in her brigade “moved” to the Magnushevsky bridgehead. From Vistula to the Oder, I was a heavy howitzer artillery brigade in January-February of the year went parallel to tank raids, imitating a roar of tractors on a tracked passage of the noise of a tank column and threw a panic on the enemy.

Especially heavy battles by the artillerymen of the Captain of the District had to lead out of the city of Pitz. Here, the gunners rolled their howitzers directly a tip and beat the enemy fortifications at point blank range. The enemy counterattacked continuously. In these battles, the courteous captain personally replaced the leaders that had traveled them 2 times and he himself became behind the panorama of the gun.

For the difference during the Visl-Odery operation, Captain Lyubovy was awarded the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky of the 3rd degree. But the battalion commander was especially distinguished in the battles for Berlin. In the Berlin operation, I supported the howitzer artillery brigade, the Rifle Corps of the 3rd Shock Army of General S. Batary of the division of Major B. Kirpikov were given to Mu Mu Rifle regiment of Colonel F.

Zinchenko and the 1st battalion of the Captain Captain C.S., it was these units that took the Reichstage, cleansed him from the enemy and installed it on the dome of the bonus Victory.When there were kilometers to the Bolshoi Berlin district, the Military Council of the 1st Belorussian Front set the task of artillery units - to independently break through the motorway, take fire positions directly in Berlin and open fire on its center.

Colonel N. Sazonov, the brigade commander of the heavy howitzer artillery, ordered the division to start the movement of batteries on April 21 at 3 a.m. on the country road to Folvarka Bloomberg, on the district highway. It was necessary to force the freeway, take fire positions in Berlin and open fire at the South Silesian station. After going to the auto track and overcoming the viaduct to the artillery division from the grove, 4 tanks and the enemy machine gunners rushed to the attack.

The howitzers of the battery of the Captain of the District opened fire on fascist tanks. Scouts, signalmen fired from machine guns and carbines. The Germans lay down, and when one, then the second tanks lit up, began to retreat. The third tank was also shot down. When the fragmentation shells covered the enemy chains, the Germans fled. As a result of the battle, 42 corpses of the enemy, 2 guns and 3 lined tanks remained near the battle.