Hello comrades!
This review will be about Ivan Kharchenko, a hero of the soviet union, who saved a huge amount of lives, by neutralizing enemy grenades, mines and shells.
Ivan Kharchenko´s stats:
Engineer II
Starter perk: +35% stamina regeneration speed
Mobility: 18
Vitality: 20
Weapon handling: 16
Appearance:
Ivan Kharchenko in real life:
History:
Kharchenko Ivan Ustinovich - platoon commander of the 6th engineering anti-chemical regiment of the local air defense troops of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (MPVO NKVD), lieutenant.
Born on September 23, 1918 in the village of Komarovka, now Borznyansky district, Chernihiv region of Ukraine, in a working class family. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1944. Graduated from 7 classes. He worked as a carpenter at a factory in the city of Khimki, Moscow Region.
The platoon commander of the 6th anti-chemical engineering regiment (NKVD MPVO troops), Lieutenant Ivan Kharchenko, during the war years on the Leningrad and Karelian fronts, performed special tasks to protect Soviet troops and civilians, neutralizing more than twenty-six thousand enemy shells, mines and bombs, also during combat situations.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 2, 1944, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, Lieutenant Kharchenko Ivan Ustinovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal "(No. 5573).
After the war, the brave officer continued to serve in the Armed Forces of the USSR. In peacetime, he neutralized more than sixteen thousand aerial bombs, not counting other explosive objects - the terrible legacy of the past war. In 1953 he graduated from the Military Academy of Chemical Defense. Since 1967, Colonel Kharchenko I.U. - in the reserve, and then retired. He lived in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. Died July 1, 1989. He was buried in Kyiv at the Berkovtsy city cemetery.
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