Verbovskyi Ivan Martynovich: my grandfather, a simple Soviet soldier, a hero

Verbovskyi Ivan Martynovich: my grandfather, a simple Soviet soldier, a hero

My grandfather: Verbovskyi Ivan Martynovich (04/13/1910-01/06/1971).
Rank: Senior Lieutenant
Military branch: artillery
Place of birth: Ukrainian SSR, Voroshilovgrad region, Uspensky district, village of Sh.-Protok
Date of enlistment: __.12.1932.
Combat path: He began the war on July 10, 1941 (he was drafted by the Assumption Military District, Voroshilovgrad region) as part of the Central and Bryansk fronts. From 1941 to 1943, he participated in the organization of the air defense of Gorky, Nizhny Novgorod region, a major industrial center of the RSFSR and the USSR as a whole. In Gorky, he commanded an anti-aircraft battery and guarded an automobile factory from numerous German air raids.

Military units: Served in the ranks of 196 zsp Air Defense, 174 zsp Air Defense, 874 oatb 5 adp RGK 1BelF. He was the party organizer of the 874th separate motor transport battalion of the 5th Artillery Kalinin Division.During his service, he was concussed twice and wounded three times. He participated in the First Belorussian Front in the liberation of the Volyn region of the Ukrainian SSR and the city of Minsk, the capital of the BSSR. He received his first concussion in the north of Ukraine. After the hospital, he was enlisted as an officer in the Polish units of the Ludowa Army. As part of Ludova's Army, he liberated Warsaw. He took part in the storming of Berlin. He served on long-range guns "howitzers". He conducted artillery preparation in Berlin. During the Berlin operation, he was severely concussed again. He spent about a year in the hospital. The concussion was very severe, and he was discharged in 1946.
A feat for which he was awarded the "Order of the Red Star"
"Summary of the military feat of Ivan Martynovich Verbovskyi".- Award list of Comrade. Ivan Martynovich Verbovskyi.//Order of the Artillery Commander of the First Belorussian Front No. 0177 dated March 29, 1945.
"Comrade. I.M. Verbovskyi has been working as the party organizer of the autobatallion since 18.11.1943. During his work, he did a lot of work to increase the cohesion of the party organization and raise the level of young communists. During this period, the party organization has grown stronger and has grown by 170%. Due to the good cohesion of the party organization during the period of hostilities, all combat orders of the higher command of the autobatallion were carried out in an exemplary manner on time.By the time of the offensive military operations, Comrade Verbovskyi did a lot of organizational work with the Communists, as well as with the non-partisan masses, to ensure the strict implementation of combat orders.During the offensive period, Comrade Verbovskyi, along with his job, combined the work of a platoon commander, and was repeatedly appointed Head of a column on long-range flights of "600 km" to obtain ammunition and fuel for units of the division. I always delivered ammunition and fuel on time .In addition, Comrade Verbovskyi takes the initiative and takes care to purchase captured fuel and barrels. So for example: On 01/21/1945, 50 tons of captured gasoline were found and captured by an autobatallion at Lask station, then he (Verbovskyi Ivan Martynovich-V.V.) spent 2 days, regardless of the deprivation of rest, searching for and transporting captured barrels for the division units, transporting it, filling it with fuel and releasing it to the units.Releasing fuel, Comrade. Verbovskyi was shelled by an encircled group of Germans who were trying to seize a fuel depot (but this attack was successfully repulsed.-V.V.).
End of service date: 06/21/1946.
Post-war life:
After the war, he returned home. In peacetime, he worked in senior positions. He began his post-war career in the village of Peremozhny in the Lutuginsky district of the Voroshilovgrad region, where he met his wife Antonina Alexandrovna Verbovskaya (12/15/1920-2007), who worked as a primary school teacher at a local school. Antonina Alexandrovna was also a veteran of the Second World War.
Ivan Martynovich's wife: Antonina Alexandrovna Verbovskaya. She served as a corporal in the 405th separate long-range bomber aviation regiment, in the Chancellery in a secret unit. She was born in 1920 in Pervozvanovka village, Lutuginsky district. She volunteered for the front. He has military awards. She was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II, the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." After the liberation of the Luhansk region, she was demobilized and sent to her former job as a teacher at the Engels school in the Lutuginsky district of the Voroshilovgrad region. She died in 2007 and was buried in the village of Peremozhnoye.
Children:
They had two children, Vladimir Ivanovich Verbovskyi (born 1947) and Galina Ivanovna Verbovskaya (born 1950-1993).Verbovskyi Ivan Martynovich died in 1971. He was buried in the village of Peremozhnoye in the Lutuginsky district of the Voroshilovgrad region of the Ukrainian SSR.
He was awarded:
1. The Order of the Red Star (03/29/1945);
2. Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945" (05/09/1945);
3. Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw" (06/09/1945);
4. Medal "For the capture of Berlin" (06/09/1945).
Sources:
1. TSAMO. - F. "Accounting and service record file".- Cabinet number: 32.- Drawer number: 32.
2. CAMO. - F. "The card file of awards.-Cabinet number 15a, drawer 1.
3. TSAMO. - F. "The card file of awards.- Cabinet number 15a, drawer 18
4. Central Administrative District. - F. "Historical information":9621.-Op.2.- Case.65.
5. Central Administrative District. - F. "Historical information":9621.-Op.2.- Case.78.
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