Vasilisin biography

Military cemetery view 2 Vasilisin Sergey Dmitrievich - political instructor of the company of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division of the Northern Front. Born on June 28 in the city of Vladimir in the family of an employee. He graduated from the 5th grade of the Soviet school in Vladimir in the year. After school, from the year he worked as a singer at the forest science, with a locksmith student in copper -flesh workshops, with a locksmith at the Sverdlov Kameshkovsky factory, and from December - a locksmith of the Vladimir brick factory named after Volodarsky.

Member of the CPSU B from the year. In the same year, he graduated from special tank courses, after which for about 3 years he was a driver, a foreman of tank workshops, a tank commander. In the year, for military skill, the excellent successes in combat and political training, Sergei Vasilisin, was awarded the Order of Honor. In the same year, he entered the courses of political workers.

At the end of the courses, he served as a political officer of a tank company. After the tank accident and injury, he was forced to change the family of troops and moved to the infantry. In June, in the city of Moscow, he was preparing for admission to the academy. But the war began and S. Vasilisin left in his part. He distinguished himself in battles in the early days of the Great Patriotic War.

In July-August, German troops rushed to Murmansk. In order to distract the advancing enemy, a landing was being prepared in his rear, in which Roth S. he arrived in the company four days before the landing. The political instructor carried out a lot of work with the Red Army men not only in words, but also by a personal example. He possessed a well -owned sniper rifle and during the period of the company in reserve during preparation for the landing, and then at the front line personally exterminated to seventy Nazis.

Their task was a blow from the west to the flank and the rear of the advancing German troops to weaken the onslaught of the enemy on Murmansk. The operation began successfully. The bridgehead was taken, but it was required to be kept. The nameless height passed from hand to hand. The battles lasted several days. After the death of the commander, the command of the company was accepted by political instructor Sergei Vasilsin.

Bleeding, continued to command and, together with the soldiers, beat off the attacks of the Nazis. In the attack was wounded secondly. He died at a mortar shelling during the evacuation from the battlefield. He was awarded Lenin’s orders in the year for the Murmansk port was assigned the production refrigerator of Sevrybholodflot, bearing the name "Sergey Vasilisin".

In memory of the hero on May 15, one of the new streets of the city of Vladimir was named after him, later a memorial plaque was installed on one of the houses. The stele with the bas -relief of the hero was installed in May on the memorial on Victory Square in Vladimir.