Ivan Stepanovich Odartschenko

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Ivan Stepanovich Odartschenko ( Russian Иван Степанович Одарченко * 6. September 1926 in the village Nowoalexandrowka in Rajon atbasar ; † 2. July 2013 in Tambov ) was a Russian soldier of the Red Army .

Life

In 1931 the family moved to Magnitogorsk because of a famine and returned to their hometown a few years later. At the age of 16 Odartschenko became a brigadier in the kolkhoz . In the German-Soviet war , his father was killed near Stalingrad in autumn 1943 .

In January 1944 Odartschenko was drafted into the Red Army and was first placed in a training regiment in Ajagös . His eldest brother died in 1944. Odartschenko fought in the 114th Guards Rifle Division of the 9th Guards Army in Hungary , Austria and Czechoslovakia , where the war ended for him near Prague .

The Liberator, Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park

After the war, Odartschenko served in the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany . In August 1947 he took part in the sports festival of the Soviet soldiers in the Buschallee stadium in Berlin-Weißensee . When he was watching the competitions after the cross-country run, the sculptor Yevgeny Viktorovich Wuchetich spoke to him, who was looking for a model for the statue of the liberator-soldier for the memorial on the central burial mound of the Soviet memorial in Treptower Park . Odartschenko now stood as a model for about six months, carrying on his left arm first a German girl and then the three-year-old daughter of the Berlin city commander Alexander Georgievich Kotikow Svetlana Alexandrovna Kotikowa , who later became an actress . He was also the model for Anatoly Andreevich Gorpenko , who created a mosaic for the interior of the monument. On the right there is Odartschenko on the one hand a soldier with a gold star of the Hero of the Soviet Union and a steel helmet in his left hand and on the other hand a worker in blue overalls with his head bowed and holding a wreath.

Mosaic in the interior of the base of the liberator, Soviet memorial in Treptower Park

In 1949 Odartschenko was released into the reserve and sent back to Kazakhstan . He went to his sister in Tambov to help her. He married and worked as a lathe operator and milling cutter in the Awtotraktorodetal plant . He became famous on the 20th anniversary of the victorious end of the war when he traveled seven times to the GDR with delegations . He was a member of the United Russia party . On May 8, 2010 the monument to the victorious veteran of the sculptors Viktor Kupayev and Valery Paramonov was inaugurated in Tambov Victory Park , depicting Odartschenko as a veteran on a bench with a girl in his arms.

Honors

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Odartschenko, Ivan Stepanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Одарченко, Иван Степанович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Red Army soldier
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Nowoalexandrowka, Rajon atbasar
DATE OF DEATH 2nd of July 2013
Place of death Tambov