Biography of Zolin Sergey

A memorial sign in the village of Krutoy Log Zorin Sergey Petrovich - the commander of the telephone department of the Guards Voropanovsky Rifle Regiment I am the Guards Stalingrad Rifle Division, the 7th Guards Army, the Steppe Front, the Sergeant Guard. He was born in October in the village of Samodurovka, the Sapozhkovsky district of the Ryazan province, now the village of Zorino, the Usanovsky district of the Ryazan region, in the family of a peasant.

In the year he graduated from a 7-year school in his native village. He worked as a shepherd, a carpenter. In October, he was drafted into the Red Army of the Umotovsky regional military enlistment office. In the spare regiment I received the specialty of the telephone operator. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War since August. The whole military path went in the Marty of the Guards Rifle Division.

He was a telephone operator, commander of a branch of a communication platoon of the rifle battalion of the Guards Rifle Regiment. During the battle on the distant approaches to the Volga, Zorin performed the duties of a messenger commander of the battalion. With the onset of darkness, crawling along the hollows and ravines, through enemy chains, he made his way to the surrounded units, delivered them the warfare orders.

With the departure of the troops and in defense, he always provided an uninterrupted connection.

He was awarded two medals "For Military Merit". He was especially distinguished in battles on the Kursk arc in the summer of the year. When 70 enemy tanks broke and began to iron the battle formations of the battalion, the connection was destroyed. Sergeant Zorin under enemy fire, making his way between enemy tanks, restored the destroyed connection 12 times. When the technical means of communication were completely out of order, by order of the battalion commander 4 times delivered combat reports to the regiment headquarters and returned back, each time making his way between enemy tanks.

Making his way with the second report, the anti -tank grenade knocked out the tank and continued to carry out a combat mission. The information delivered by the Guards by Sergeant Zorin was very important and contributed to the successful outcome of the battle. For these battles, he was presented to the assignment of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

I did not have time to get a high reward. Later he participated in the forcing of the Seversky Donets River, in the liberation of the cities of Belgorod and Kharkov. He was buried at the battlefield on the outskirts of the village of Aleksandrovka, 3 km southeast of the city of Merefa Kharkov region, Ukraine. Later, reburied in the mass grave in the village of Yakovlevka of the same area.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 1, for the exemplary fulfillment of command tasks at the front of the fight against German invaders and the heroism of the guard, Sergeant Zorin Sergey Petrovich, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. He was awarded the Order of Lenin on the site of the house where S.

Zorin lived, it was planned to erect a monument, but the plans were never implemented. Now 15 people live in the village. In the village of Yakovlevka, Kharkov region, the street is named after the hero. Belgin, I. Ilyasov and S.