"Taking part in the capture of Berlin was the best gift in life"
Ivan Arnautov fought well. Nikolai Vishnevsky wrote about some of his heroic actions in his book "The Saved World Must Remember".
In 1945, Red Army Guards soldier Ivan Arnautov was the crew number of a 76-mm cannon in the 52nd Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 14th Guards Cavalry Division of the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front.
In February 1945, the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps took part in the operation to eliminate the Pomeranian group of troops and supported the movement of the Red Army to Berlin. Units of the 14th Guards Cavalry Division of this corps captured several settlements in four days of the offensive and reached the city of Klein-Dammer (currently the city of Stargard in northeastern Poland). Guards Red Army soldier Ivan Arnautov distinguished himself in the battle for the village of Gospodzha. He dispersed a counter-attacking enemy group of up to 50 people with fire from his 76-mm cannon.
On March 7, 1945, Red Army Guardsman Ivan Arnautov distinguished himself again. In the battle for the city of Greifenberg (now Gryfice in Poland near the Baltic Sea), the 52nd Guards Cavalry Regiment was sent to destroy an enemy group that had broken through encirclement. The Germans were blocked at a sugar factory. Two squadrons were advancing from the north and south. Soviet artillerymen fired directly at the Nazi firing points, and assault groups moved forward.
At some point, the Germans increased their fire and stopped the attack of the 1st squadron. In addition, the Soviet gunners ran out of shells. Arnautov was ordered to deliver ammunition. At the risk of his life, the task was completed, which allowed the fire of the enemy machine gun position to be suppressed.
On the morning of March 8, after a quick attack, the regiment completely captured the territory of the plant.
In this battle, a German tank destroyed Arnautov’s gun, the crew died, but Ivan was lucky – he was only wounded and shell-shocked.
On April 28, 1945, the 52nd Guards Cavalry Regiment was tasked with capturing a bridgehead fortification near a canal near the German city of Rathenow (70 km from Berlin), forcing the canal and capturing a crossing over the Havel River. The regiment reached the designated line and dug in, then repelled nine enemy tank counterattacks. The gun crew, where the gunner was 21-year-old Arnautov, acted boldly and decisively in the battle. Ivan personally destroyed two machine gunners who were hindering the platoon's advance.
Ivan Pavlovich Arnautov, born on April 14, 1924, considered his participation in the operation to capture Berlin in April 1945 to be the best birthday present in his life.
Vyacheslav ZHERDEV.
BY THE WAYOn April 5, 1945, the 7th Guards Cavalry Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Corps received the honorary title "Brandenburg" by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief for distinction in the battles to capture the province of Brandenburg.
REFERENCEArnautov Ivan Pavlovich lived on Sakhalin for over 30 years: from 1950 to 1980. He worked as the head of the logging points of Yelniki and Matrosovo, later as the chairman of the workers' committee of the Poronaisky timber industry enterprise. Then he headed the logging points of Golubichny and Belorechye of the Verkhne-Tymsky timber industry enterprise, Buyuklovsky timber industry enterprise, the logging points of Yasnomorsky (Korsakovsky LPH) and Argi-Pagi (Tymsky LPH). After retiring, he moved to Lipetsk.
Participant of the Great Patriotic War since 1942. Fought as part of the Voronezh, Southwestern, Central and 1st Belorussian Fronts. Liberated Poland and Germany. Ended the war in Berlin.
He was awarded the Order of Glory 3rd degree, the Red Star, the Patriotic War, the medals "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", and received more than ten Gratitudes from Stalin.
Kachurin Ivan Sergeevich, a native of the Omsk region, was drafted into the Red Army in 1940 by the Aleksandrovsky military registration and enlistment office of the Sakhalin region. He fought on the Western, Karelian, Volkhov, 1st Belorussian fronts, and participated in the liberation of Poland and Germany.
The battery commander of the 236th Howitzer Regiment of the 22nd Breakthrough Artillery Division, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Kachurin, died in battle on March 15, 1945, in the area of Stettin (now Szczecin in Poland).
He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Alexander Nevsky and the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.
This is described in the book by N. V. Vishnevsky “The saved world must remember”.
Labor Valor- Fishermen from the Krasny Sakhalin collective farm in the East Sakhalin region are working selflessly during the herring fishing season. The teams of comrades Noskov, Shershenev and Brilliantov have caught dozens of centners of fish in Piltun Bay with cast nets in excess of the 5-day assignment.
- The distinguished hunter, Comrade Malygin, received the first All-Union Prize – a double-barreled hunting rifle, a hunting dog, and blanks for chrome boots. Comrade Parkizny, foreman of the hunting brigade of the Chir-Unvd collective farm, was awarded the second All-Union Prize – a hunting rifle and blanks for chrome boots. The third All-Union Prize – blanks for chrome boots and a winter hunting suit – was awarded to Comrade Protsenko, a hunter from the Aleksandrovsky District.
The final exams of the evening group of accountants at the Aleksandrovsky educational branch were successfully completed. Excellent knowledge was demonstrated by front-line soldiers comrades Klimenko and Krasnikov, cadet of the canteen trust comrade Kornienko, housewives comrades Rassolenko, Popova, Podushkina and Butenko.
Sovetsky Sakhalin
