Grigory Kabakov

Grigory Samoylovich Kabakovsky (Russian: Григорий Самойлович Кабаковский; 2 October 1909 – 2 November 1959) was a Ukrainian Red Army lieutenant and Hero of the Soviet Union. Kabakovsky was awarded the title for leading his company during the Battle of the Dnieper in September 1943, where he reportedly killed 60 German soldiers.

Early life Kabakovsky was born on 2 October 1909 in the village of Kuchubeivka in Poltava Governorate to a peasant family. He graduated from primary school. Kabakovsky worked as a mechanic in a sugar factory in Artemivka village. In 1938, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1940, he headed the trade department of the Opishnya Executive Committee.

World War II Kabakovsky was drafted into the Red Army in 1941 and sent to the front. He fought on the Southwestern Front, Northwestern Front, Central Front and Kalinin Front. Kabakovsky was seriously wounded twice. Near Dnipropetrovsk in late 1941, he reportedly took command after his company commander was wounded, and led five counterattacks. He was with the 33rd Tank Brigade (later 57th Guards Tank Brigade) from its formation and fought near Moscow. Kabakovsky, then a senior sergeant commanding a gun in the brigade's motor rifle battalion, first distinguished himself in the opening stages of the Battle of Moscow in late November 1941, receiving the Order of the Red Banner on 17 January 1942 for his actions. The award recommendation read:Comrade Kabakovsky and his crew, during combat operations in the Novo–Petrovskoye and Antonovka region on 19 and 20 November 1941, destroyed two German tanks, and knocked out one German tank in the region of Filatovo on 24 November 1941. In this battle his gun was disabled. Despite the fact that the enemy tanks were already three to four hundred meters away and a hurricane of artillery and machine gun fire, Comrade Kabakovsky managed to withdraw the gun from its firing…Citește mai mult

Postwar After the war Kabakovsky returned to Chutove Raion. He became a collective farm chairman and chairman of the Pogrebky MTS. In 1946 he became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union at its Second Convocation. Kabakovsky died on 2 November 1959 and was buried in the village of Artemivka in Chutove Raion.