Colonels Dmitry Biography

Born on June 3 in the city of Kostroma in the family of an officer. He graduated from the Poltava Higher Military Command School of Communications in the year. He served in the Baltic states and in Belarus by the head of the tropospheric radio station. In May, he was appointed commander of a platoon of communication in the Separate Guards Brigade of the Marine Corps twice red -banned Baltic fleet.

In December, in December, he arrived in the Chechen Republic, where the first Chechen war, as part of the combined Marine Corps battalion, arrived in the Chechen War. Hero was fought by the assault on Grozny as part of the company of Captain Evgeny Kolesnikov, who was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously for heroism in these battles.

The platoon of senior lieutenant Polkovnikov defended three fortified buildings in the center of Grozny for several days, constraining the large forces of the Dudaevites. In the battles of the capture of the building of the kindergarten, turned into a supporting point of the militants, he was twice shell -shocked, but remained in service. Then he participated in the assault on the Presidential Palace and the School of Snipers in Grozny.

When the latter is captured by Dmitry Colonels, at the head of the group of marine infantrymen, burst into the building, but the group was cut off from the rest of the units with powerful enemy fire. Having evaluated the situation, he ordered the continuing offensive actions. Having stunned the enemy with a daring pressure, the soldiers captured the entire building, destroying several enemy snipers and grenade launchers.

In this battle, the colonels were wounded, but again remained in service. Then a handful of fighters held the building from attacks of superior enemy forces. At the critical moment of the fight of the guard, the senior lieutenant of Colonels covered the fighters in the basement and caused artillery fire on himself. The whole group was considered the deceased, but two days later a sudden attack broke through to their own.

At the same time, thanks to the skillful actions of Captain Polkovnikov, not a single fighter from its composition died, one sailor received severe injuries, several people escaped with light wounds and contusion. By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation “closed” dated May 3, for courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task, the guard, the senior lieutenant, Poloniknikov Dmitry Alexandrovich, was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation with the award of a special distinction - the Golden Star medal.

Upon returning from the Caucasus, D. Colonel continued to serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in parts of the Marine Corps twice red -banned Baltic fleet. In the year, he was fired in the reserve with the rank of major. He was engaged in entrepreneurship and active work in public organizations in Kaliningrad. In the x years he moved to Sevastopol.

He is the chairman of the regional public organization "Union of Heroes of the Hero City Sevastopol", which is part of the Russian Association of Heroes. Lieutenant Colonel of the reserve. Awarded medals.