Brief biography of Kudrin
The tombstone of Kudrin Roman Stepanovich-commander of the 1st battalion of the Rifle Regiment, I am a rifle Belarusian Kholmsk-Berlin Red Banner Order, Suvorov 2nd degree division, I am the Guards Rifle Corps, 3rd shock army, 1st Belorussian front, captain. Born on July 24 in the village of Zarechye, now the Klintsovsky district of the Bryansk region, in the family of a peasant.
After graduating from the city of Klintsy, the school of factory apprenticeship worked at the factory, then the accountant on the collective farm. In the Red Army in years and from a year. On the fronts in the Great Patriotic War since July 17.
He fought in the Western, Leningrad, 3rd Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. In the battles with German invaders in the area of the village of Kolodeza, the commander of the platoon of the mortar battalion of the Rifle Regiment of the Infantry Division, Lieutenant R. Kudrin, showed courage and determination. When the company was surrounded by the Nazis, he determined their weak place, opened a hurricane mortar fire, led the fighters to the attack and, breaking through the encirclement, brought his own personnel, while destroying up to fifty enemy soldiers and officers.
For his actions he presented the Order of the Red Star for awarding, but was awarded the medal "For Courage". In battles from February 22 to March 9, he proved himself a bold, capable of a commander. The company destroyed 30 enemy firing points, detained two saboteurs. For his actions he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Especially the battalion commander, Captain R.
Kudrin, distinguished himself in the spring of the year. In the battle for the crossing in the city, using a bypass maneuver, brought the crossing, crossed the Inu River, went to the rear of the enemy and cut off his path to retreat. These actions led to the fact that the rifle regiment, which included the battalion of Captain R. Kudrin, took possession of the city with small losses.
Subsequently, in the battle when breaking through the enemy’s defense from the bridgehead west of the Oder River, Captain R. Kudrin received the task from the regiment commander to check in battle and take the first enemy trench. During the performance of the task, the battalion captured three enemy trenches within 30 minutes, as a result of which, exploration by battle grew up on the offensive throughout the site.
Thanks to the skillful leadership of Captain R. Kudrin, the battalion broke through the enemy’s heavily fortified defense of 25 kilometers, while maintaining his combat effectiveness. Kudrin was seriously wounded in battle, but did not leave the battlefield until the battalion fulfilled the combined combat mission. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 31, for the exemplary implementation of the command missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the captain Kudrin, Roman Stepanovich, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star Hero.
In battles, 5 times was injured 5. After the demobilization, R. Kudrin was in party work. He lived in the village of Sharkovshchina, Vitebsk region of the Republic of Belarus. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Sharkovshchina. The Orders of Lenin was awarded in the village of Sharkovshchina established a memorial sign. From the site www.
This city, located among forests along both shores of a relatively small river, was for the advancing difficult obstacle. The swampy terrain interfered with maneuverable actions. On the approaches to the city, the Germans created a system of engineering barriers in advance. Nevertheless, our fighters took possession of Golnev in one day and threw the remnants of a defeated garrison south.
At the same time, part of the forces of the corps fought in local importance - cleaned the east coast of the Stettin Bay from the enemy. The commander of the 1st battalion, Captain R., skillfully led his divisions in the battle for the Gollen, bypassed the city from the east, the battalion suddenly burst into one of the streets and ensured the advance of its regiment, which with minor losses reached the city center and went to the IPA River.
In the battles for crossing this river, the battalion Kudrina again used a bypass maneuver, unnoticed, he went out to the rear of the enemy and thereby significantly facilitated the crossing of the main forces of the division. The commander of the rifle battalion, Captain R. Kudrin on March 7, skillfully organized hostilities when mastering the city of Gollenn now Golenuv, Poland and the village of Lichin Germany.
The heavily wounded R. Kudrin did not leave the battlefield. The biography was prepared by:.