Alexey Filipenko Biography

The tombstone of Filipenko Aleksey Afanasevich-machine gunner of the Rifle Bialystok regiment of the Rifle Red Banner Order of the Kutuzov 2nd degree of the Division of the Rifle Corps, the 3rd Army, the 3rd Belorussian Front, the corporal-at the time of presentation for awarding the Order of Glory of the 1st degree. From a family of peasants. He received an incomplete secondary education, graduating from 7 classes of a local school.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was forced to stay in the area occupied by German invaders in August. He worked in the parental economy. In October, after the liberation of the district, he was mobilized into the Red Army to the Svetilovichi district military enlistment office of the Gomel region. The combat path went in the ranks of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division as part of the 3rd Army.

He fought on Bryansk, Belorussian from February 24 to April 5 and from April 16-1st Belorussian, 2nd and 3rd from February 10 by the Belarusian fronts. He participated in the Gomel-Rochitskoye, Rogachev-Zhlobinsky, Lomzha-Ruzhansk offensive operations, in the Belarusian and East Prussian strategic offensive operations. Twice wounded: easy - August 4 and hard - February 22. Corporal Filipenko distinguished himself in one of the battles of local significance in the territory of the Rogachevsky district.

In the offensive in the area of ​​the village of Novoselki, he was the first to burst into the enemy’s trench and killed three Germans, for which he was awarded the medal “For Military Merit”. From February 21 to 26, the troops of the Right Wing of the Belarusian from February 24-the 1st Belorussian Front conducted the Rogachevo-Zhlobin offensive operation. During the operation, the 3rd Army as a front strike group successfully crossed the Dnieper River, broke through the enemy’s heavily strengthened defense, captured and expanded the tactically important bridgehead, freeing the city of Rogachev and cutting the Rocadic Railway line of Mogilev-Zlobin, and captured the no less important bridge on the Druit River, the tributary of the Dnieper.

At the end of the operation, individual compounds continued fierce battles of local significance to improve the positions. On the night of February 24, in a battle on the Drutsk bridgehead for the village of Velikiy Konoplitsy, the Rogachevsky district of the Gomel region Corporal Filipenko, he was one of the first to burst into German trenches. Bravely knocked out of it the enemy.

Then he took an active part in cleansing the northern outskirts of the village of enemy soldiers. At the same time, throwing grenades, destroyed a hand machine gunner, and also captivated one German soldier. In the midst of the battle, which turned into a fierce battle, he saved the life of a seriously wounded deputy commander of the battalion to Captain Koptyukh, who, risking his own life, carried away from the neutral zone.

In the battle on the same day on March 1, the shooter Filipenko burst into the enemy dugout and captured four German soldiers by force of weapons, for which he was awarded the medal for courage. Within the framework of the Belarusian strategic offensive operation, from June 24 to 30, the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front conducted the Bobruisk offensive operation, during which they surrounded and destroyed the main forces of the 9th Wehrmacht field army in the Bobruisk region now, as part of the Mogilev region of Belarus.

In the starting battle, Corporal Filipenko destroyed 12 Germans from a machine gun. Subsequently, I took an active part in the Bialystok component of the Belarusian strategic offensive operation and Lomzh-Ruzhansk offensive operations, in battles in East Prussia, during the Wormtitsk-Melzak offensive operation. With his personal example, he inspired the fighters to destroy the enemy.

At the same time, he showed the initiative, replacing the platoon commander from the system, and led the battle before the combat mission. He was wounded in a fierce battle, but did not leave the battlefield, and only after a repeated wound was evacuated to the rear. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, for exemplary execution of the command missions of the command at the front of the fight against German invaders and at the same time the valor and courage, Corporal Filipenko, Alexei Afanasevich, was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree.

He became the full gentleman of the Order of Glory. In the year, junior sergeant A. Filipenko was demobilized.

He lived and worked in the city of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad region. He died on August 21. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Babichi of the Chekra district awarded by three orders of glory with the 1st name of A. Filipenko, streets were named in his native village and in the district center of the city of Chechrask.