Alexander K. Ushakov (1920-1992) - a Soviet officer, artillery, gunners, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of Soviet Union (1944).
Biography
editBorn February 24, 1920 in the village of Lomovka Bogoroditsky County Tula province in a large peasant family. In 1929, Ushakov family moved to Kuznetsk District Siberian region (Iganino Kazankovskaya village council). Alexander Ushakov studied in school Stalinsk, then Novosibirsk, where he graduated 10 classes of secondary school number 29. In the Red Army in 1939. On the Great Patriotic War in 1941. He was commander of artillery reconnaissance department, gunner and commander of self-propelled artillery unit. He participated in battles to defeat the Germans near Moscow, he fought at Kursk, Ukraine, Poland and Germany. After the war he served in Lviv Military District. Demobilized in 1946. Commander SU-85 1st Guards self-propelled artillery regiment (6th Guards Mechanized Corps, the 4th Panzer Army, 1st Ukrainian Front) Guard Sergeant Ushakov distinguished himself in the fighting on the outskirts of the city of Kamenetz-Podolsk (Khmelnytsky region, Ukrainian SSR) in the area Manachin village. From 9 to 21 March 1944, leading to heavy fighting enemy tanks, knocked out 9 of them and destroyed 150 Nazis. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 24, 1944 Alexander K. Ushakov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1946, he was demobilized. He worked at the Central Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics. In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Trade. He worked in the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR, the USSR State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations, Trade Mission of the USSR in Denmark in the years 1952-1954, USSR Embassy in Indonesia in 1958-1963, respectively, in the apparatus of the CPSU Central Committee, International Publishers book. Died October 30, 1992 in Moscow.
Memory
editIn Novosibirsk, the name Ushakov AK imprinted on the Walk of Heroes at the Monument of Glory. Bogoroditsk on the stele to the Heroes of the Soviet Union, there is a plaque with his name.
Awards and titles
edit- Hero of the Soviet Union (24 May 1944);
- Order of Lenin (24 May 1944);
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree;
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree;
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor;
- Order of Friendship of Peoples;
- Order of the Red Star;
- Order "Badge of Honor";
medals.
- title - honorary citizen of Kamenetz-Podolsk (1985)