Michael Tsiselsky

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Mikhail Petrovich Tsiselsky (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Петро́вич Цисе́льський Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Цисе́льский); May 20, 1909 – November 3, 1989 was a Ukrainian Soviet naval pilot during World War II who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Biography Mikhail Tsiselsky was born on 20 May [O.S. 7 May] 1909 in Stoykovo (a village in Cherkasy Raion of Cherkasy Oblast) to a Ukrainian peasant family. He finished incomplete secondary school and specialized technical school. He lived in Ussuriysk from 1928. He repaired steam locomotives, and became a member of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) in 1932. Tsiselsky joined the Red Army's Fourth Zabaykalsky cavalry regiment in 1932. He completed aircraft maintenance training at Irkutsky in 1934 and subsequently served in the Byelorussian command as an aircraft technician. He completed a naval aviation course at Yeisky in 1936 and then served in the Black Sea Fleet's naval aviation branch. His first combat mission of the German-Soviet War took place on June 22, 1941. He participated in the destruction of a tank battalion in the Gros-Libental-Odessa district. On September 23, Tsiselsky and his unit sunk a heavy troop transport on the Dniester Liman and killing hundreds of Nazi soldiers and officers, as well as 15 tanks and 20 other vehicles in the Perekop-Sevastopol district in a separate action. For great services to the Motherland, Tsiselsky was awarded his first Order of the Red Banner. Tsiselsky was a Navigator in a…Citește mai mult

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Awards Hero of the Soviet Union Medal of Gold Star (№ 5083, 6 March 1945)

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Order of the October Revolution (№40988) Order of the Red Banner, twice (№5667 and №27662) Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class (№ 478013)