Ivan Mikhailovich Sidorenko
Ivan Mikhailovich Sidorenko ( Russian Иван Михайлович Сидоренко , scientific transliteration. Ivan Michajlovič Sidorenko * 12. September 1919 in Tschanzowo , Smolensk , Soviet Russia ; † 19th February 1994 in Kizlyar , Dagestan , Russia ) was an officer in the Red Army in Germany Soviet war . As a sniper he killed around 500 enemy soldiers, making him one of the most successful snipers of the Second World War . In 1944 he was honored with the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
biography
Ivan Sidorenko was born in 1919 into a poor peasant family in the village of Chanzowo near Smolensk. His family soon moved to Donbass , and later to Lipetsk . In 1938 he began studying at an art college in Penza , but was soon recalled to the army.
From 1941 Sidorenko fought in the Great Patriotic War. At first he operated a mortar, from 1942 he became a sniper. He was wounded three times in the fighting with the Wehrmacht , but kept returning to the front. By 1944 he killed around 500 Axis soldiers with his sniper rifle . He also distinguished himself as an organizer of the sniper movement. In total, he trained 250 snipers, many of whom also received honors.
On June 4, 1944, Sidorenko was named Hero of the Soviet Union, received the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star. Sidorenko experienced the end of the war in a military hospital in Estonia .
After the war, Sidorenko worked at Chelyabinsk as a mining specialist and in other cities. From 1974 he lived in Dagestan, where he died in 1994.
See also
Web links
- Ivan Sidorenko on the portal for Heroes of the Soviet Union (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Sidorenko, Ivan Mikhailovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Сидоренко, Иван Михайлович (Russian); Sidorenko, Ivan Michailovič (transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian sniper and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chanzovo , Smolensk Governorate , Soviet Russia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1994 |
| Place of death | Kisljar |