Kunitsa biography
Artistic marked envelope of Kunitsa Alexei Sergeyevich-platoon commander of the 4th Guards Airborne Rifle Regiment 2nd Guards Airborne Division, the Guards Rifle Corps, I am the army, the Central Front, the guard senior sergeant. Born on May 12 of the year in the village of Nikolaevka, now the Burabay district of the Akmola region, Kazakhstan in a peasant family.
Graduated from 8 classes. From the year - in the Red Army. In the army - from February 20. He fought on the northwestern and central fronts. He took part in the bloody battles in the area of the village of Demyansk now the village of urban type of Novgorod region, the battle in the Kursk arc, the liberation of Left -Bank Ukraine. In the battles on the Dnieper bridgehead in the area of the village of Gubin now the Ivankovsky district of the Kyiv region, Ukraine from October 6 to 10, A.
Kunitsa with his platoon stubbornly held his positions, reflecting the numerous counterattacks of the enemy. He died in this battle. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 10, for the exemplary implementation of the command missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the heroism of the guard, the senior sergeant, Kunitsa Sergey Sergeyevich, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.
He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Sosnovka, Konotop district of the Sumy region Ukraine. He was awarded the Order of Lenin by the name of the hero and a school in the village of Nikolaevka of the Burabay district of the Akmola region Kazakhstan.
In the year of the Perm factory of Goznak, an artistic marked envelope with a portrait of A. was released from the award sheet on A. Kunits: “In battles with German invaders of the October year in the Chernobyl district of the Kyiv region for holding a bridgehead on the right bank of the river. The Dnieper showed exceptional courage, courage and resistance in defense and in these battles died the death of a hero.
In the battle in the area of the village Buybino, where the Germans went into counterattacks seven times, in one of the attacks of the Germans, his platoon trembled and began to depart, and the Germans, taking advantage of this, rushed to the entire height of the platoon, the Kunitsa rushed to the manual machine gun, the calculation of which was killed, and, opening the fire from a distance of meters, shot a group of Germans.
The survivors of the Germans lay down and began to throw grenades. The marten, in turn, entered into a grenade battle with them, and who tried to creep into our trenches destroyed the machine gun. The fighters of his platoon, seeing the fight of their commander, returned to the trenches and the situation on this site was restored. In the battle, the German infantry, taking advantage of this, began to quickly approach our front edge of the defense.
A critical situation was created on this site, since this bunker was closed from the front with a bush and a height and arts credibility could not hit it. Guard Art. The garrison of the bunker, having thrown machine guns, rushed to flee into the forest, but at that time a group of Germans up to fifty people.