The feat accomplished by Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Alexeyevich Konorev triggered the naming of a battle tank. Konorev took part in the battle of Kursk where he was a tank platoon leader. On July 12, 1943, Senior Lieutenant Konorev, in an effort to check the advance of German troops in the vicinity of Belgorod, along with other armor sections charged onto the enemy near a state farm Polyana. The Nazis offered grim resistance and brought two Soviet tanks out of action.
Lt. Konorev, with just one battle tank, had to fight an uphill battle against five German assault guns. The German SP guns were giving cover to an infantry attack, which the Soviet troops had to break up to achieve a breakthrough. Lt. Konorev checkmated two assault guns, brought one out of action and forced the rest to retreat.
He pursued the enemy’s SP guns that were fleeing the battlefield, in order to destroy them, but his tank got on a minefield where it suffered damages and could not keep moving. Nevertheless, Lt. Konorev did not leave the tank using its fighting power to repel the German attack. Even being wounded, he kept on struggling.
To stop our soldier from firing, the Nazis shelled the tank by artillery. Only then they did manage to crash the tank. At that moment, Senior Lieutenant Konorev fell in battle. He was laid to rest by his comrades-in-arms in the village of Voznesenovka. Today, this village belongs to Shebekino district in Belgorod region.
On October 26, 1943 the Government of the USSR posthumously awarded the Guards Senior Lieutenant the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for an exemplary combat mission command ordered by the Command of the Front. The tank soldier had shown shear courage and devotion to his Motherland.
27th Guards Tank Brigade is a Soviet armored military formation dating back to the Great Patriotic War. Its full name is the 27th Guards Jassy Red Banner Separate Tank Brigade. Its merits to the Motherland were distinguished by Suvorov and Kutuzov Orders as well as by naming it after the People’s Commissariat for Vehicle Construction. The brigade was organized on the bedrock of the 121st tank brigade on February 16, 1943, and was fighting as an army team till the end of the war.
The men of armor went through the battle of Kursk where they were marching against the enemy outflanking it south of Prokhorovka. The brigade was fighting in Belgorod-Kharkov, Uman-Botoshansk, Jassy-Kishinev, Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava-Brno and Prague military operations.
The battle tank forced the crossing of the Dnieper, the Southern Bug and the Tisza. The men of armor were engaged in liberating Kirovograd, Merefa and Bratislava. Officers Konorev, Martekhov and Butyrin of the tank brigade were posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
Lt. Konorev, with just one battle tank, had to fight an uphill battle against five German assault guns. The German SP guns were giving cover to an infantry attack, which the Soviet troops had to break up to achieve a breakthrough. Lt. Konorev checkmated two assault guns, brought one out of action and forced the rest to retreat.
He pursued the enemy’s SP guns that were fleeing the battlefield, in order to destroy them, but his tank got on a minefield where it suffered damages and could not keep moving. Nevertheless, Lt. Konorev did not leave the tank using its fighting power to repel the German attack. Even being wounded, he kept on struggling.
To stop our soldier from firing, the Nazis shelled the tank by artillery. Only then they did manage to crash the tank. At that moment, Senior Lieutenant Konorev fell in battle. He was laid to rest by his comrades-in-arms in the village of Voznesenovka. Today, this village belongs to Shebekino district in Belgorod region.
On October 26, 1943 the Government of the USSR posthumously awarded the Guards Senior Lieutenant the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for an exemplary combat mission command ordered by the Command of the Front. The tank soldier had shown shear courage and devotion to his Motherland.
27th Guards Tank Brigade is a Soviet armored military formation dating back to the Great Patriotic War. Its full name is the 27th Guards Jassy Red Banner Separate Tank Brigade. Its merits to the Motherland were distinguished by Suvorov and Kutuzov Orders as well as by naming it after the People’s Commissariat for Vehicle Construction. The brigade was organized on the bedrock of the 121st tank brigade on February 16, 1943, and was fighting as an army team till the end of the war.
The men of armor went through the battle of Kursk where they were marching against the enemy outflanking it south of Prokhorovka. The brigade was fighting in Belgorod-Kharkov, Uman-Botoshansk, Jassy-Kishinev, Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava-Brno and Prague military operations.
The battle tank forced the crossing of the Dnieper, the Southern Bug and the Tisza. The men of armor were engaged in liberating Kirovograd, Merefa and Bratislava. Officers Konorev, Martekhov and Butyrin of the tank brigade were posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
