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'''Alexey Afanasyevich Pasko''' (1916-1997) - junior lieutenant of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).
'''Alexey Afanasyevich Pasko''' (1916-1997) - junior lieutenant of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

==Biography==
==Biography==
Alexey Afanasyevich Pasko was born on March 1, 1916 in Yekaterinoslav, in a family of employees. Ukrainian иy nation<ref name="шкадов">{{cite book| author = Пред. ред. коллегии И. Н. Шкадов | chapter = | chapter-url = | format = | url = | title = Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь | orig-year = | agency = | edition = |location= М. |date = 1988 |publisher= Воениздат |at= |volume= 2 |issue = | pages = 240| page = | series = | isbn = ISBN 5-203-00536-2| ref = }}</ref>. After graduating from the Poltava Medical College, he worked in a photo team<ref name="шкадов" />. In 1940, Pasko was called up for service in the Red Army by the Novo-Senzharsky District Military Commissariat<ref name="pn" />. From July 1942 he was on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. In 1944, Pasko graduated from the Chelyabinsk Tank Technical School. In battles he was shell-shocked<ref name="wh">[https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=7546 A. A. Pasko on the site warheroes.ru] </ref>.
Alexey Afanasyevich Pasko was born on March 1, 1916, in Yekaterinoslav, in a family of employees. Ukrainian иy nation.<ref name="шкадов">{{cite book| author = Пред. ред. коллегии И. Н. Шкадов | chapter = | chapter-url = | format = | url = | title = Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь | orig-year = | agency = | edition = |location= М. |date = 1988 |publisher= Воениздат |at= |volume= 2 |issue = | pages = 240| page = | series = | isbn = 5-203-00536-2| ref = }}</ref> After graduating from the Poltava Medical College, he worked in a photo team.<ref name="шкадов" /> In 1940, Pasko was called up for service in the Red Army by the Novo-Senzharsky District Military Commissariat.<ref name="pn" /> From July 1942 he was on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. In 1944, Pasko graduated from the Chelyabinsk Tank Technical School. In battles he was shell-shocked.<ref name="wh">[https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=7546 A. A. Pasko on the site warheroes.ru]</ref>


By January 1945, Junior Technician-Lieutenant Alexei Pasko was a tank driver of the 13th Guards Separate Heavy Tank Regiment of the 4th Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. He distinguished himself during the liberation of Poland. Pasko's crew, together with a group of machine gunners, attacked a large group of enemy troops near the city of Kobylin, destroying 1 tank, 5 artillery pieces and 30 enemy soldiers and officers. When, 12 kilometers southwest of Kobylin, Pasko's tank stood still due to a malfunction, Pasko, with the tank crew and machine gunners, repelled the attacks of the Nazis for three days, destroying an enemy armored personnel carrier, five vehicles and many enemy fighters<ref name="шкадов" />. When the tank was completely destroyed, Pasko covered the retreat of his comrades to the nearby village of Penkov<ref name="шкадов" />o with machine-gun fire, after which he took refuge with his comrades from local residents, where he waited for reinforcements to arrive<ref name="wh" />.
By January 1945, Junior Technician-Lieutenant Alexei Pasko was a tank driver of the 13th Guards Separate Heavy Tank Regiment of the 4th Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. He distinguished himself during the liberation of Poland. Pasko's crew, together with a group of machine gunners, attacked a large group of enemy troops near the city of Kobylin, destroying 1 tank, 5 artillery pieces and 30 enemy soldiers and officers. When, 12 kilometers southwest of Kobylin, Pasko's tank stood still due to a malfunction, Pasko, with the tank crew and machine gunners, repelled the attacks of the Nazis for three days, destroying an enemy armored personnel carrier, five vehicles and many enemy fighters.<ref name="шкадов" /> When the tank was completely destroyed, Pasko covered the retreat of his comrades to the nearby village of Penkov<ref name="шкадов" /> o with machine-gun fire, after which he took refuge with his comrades from local residents, where he waited for reinforcements to arrive.<ref name="wh" />


By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 10, 1945, for "exemplary performance of combat missions of the command and the courage and heroism shown at the same time," junior technician-lieutenant Aleksey Pasko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal for the number 7480<ref name="wh" />.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 10, 1945, for "exemplary performance of combat missions of the command and the courage and heroism shown at the same time," junior technician-lieutenant Aleksey Pasko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal for the number 7480.<ref name="wh" />


In 1946, Pasko was transferred to the reserve. Lived and worked in the village of Vysoky, Kharkiv region, [[Kharkiv Oblast]] of Ukraine, at a furniture factory<ref name="шкадов" />. He died on April 4, 1997, and was buried in Vysokoe.
In 1946, Pasko was transferred to the reserve. Lived and worked in the village of Vysoky, Kharkiv region, [[Kharkiv Oblast]] of Ukraine, at a furniture factory.<ref name="шкадов" /> He died on April 4, 1997, and was buried in Vysokoe.

He was also awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, a number of medals.<ref name="wh" /><ref name="pn">[https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/person-hero93150687/?backurl=%2Fheroes%2F%3Fstatic_hash%3D06c36eb9816bf3e6be63834eb7d33200v3%26last_name%3D%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%26data_vibitiya_period%3Don%26group%3Dall%26types%3Dpamyat_commander%3Anagrady_nagrad_doc%3Anagrady_uchet_kartoteka%3Anagrady_ubilein_kartoteka%3Apdv_kart_in%3Apdv_kart_in_inostranec%3Apamyat_voenkomat%3Apotery_vpp%3Apamyat_zsp_parts%3Akld_ran%3Akld_bolezn%3Akld_polit%3Akld_upk%3Akld_vmf%3Apotery_doneseniya_o_poteryah%3Apotery_gospitali%3Apotery_utochenie_poter%3Apotery_spiski_zahoroneniy%3Apotery_voennoplen%3Apotery_iskluchenie_iz_spiskov%3Apotery_kartoteki%3Apotery_rvk_extra%3Apotery_isp_extra%3Asame_doroga%26page%3D1%26grouppersons%3D1%26first_name%3D%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9%26middle_name%3D%D0%90%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87&search_view_id=smperson_guk3219283 А. А. Пасько на сайте «память народа»]</ref>


He was also awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, a number of medals<ref name="wh" /><ref name="pn">[https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/person-hero93150687/?backurl=%2Fheroes%2F%3Fstatic_hash%3D06c36eb9816bf3e6be63834eb7d33200v3%26last_name%3D%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%26data_vibitiya_period%3Don%26group%3Dall%26types%3Dpamyat_commander%3Anagrady_nagrad_doc%3Anagrady_uchet_kartoteka%3Anagrady_ubilein_kartoteka%3Apdv_kart_in%3Apdv_kart_in_inostranec%3Apamyat_voenkomat%3Apotery_vpp%3Apamyat_zsp_parts%3Akld_ran%3Akld_bolezn%3Akld_polit%3Akld_upk%3Akld_vmf%3Apotery_doneseniya_o_poteryah%3Apotery_gospitali%3Apotery_utochenie_poter%3Apotery_spiski_zahoroneniy%3Apotery_voennoplen%3Apotery_iskluchenie_iz_spiskov%3Apotery_kartoteki%3Apotery_rvk_extra%3Apotery_isp_extra%3Asame_doroga%26page%3D1%26grouppersons%3D1%26first_name%3D%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9%26middle_name%3D%D0%90%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87&search_view_id=smperson_guk3219283 А. А. Пасько на сайте «память народа»]</ref>.
== Books ==
== Books ==
* {{Cite book |title=Герои Советского Союза: краткий биографический словарь |publisher=Voenizdat |year=1988 |isbn=5203005362 |editor-last=Shkadov |editor-first=Ivan |volume=2 |location=Moscow |language=ru |trans-title=Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary}}
* {{Cite book |title=Герои Советского Союза: краткий биографический словарь |publisher=Voenizdat |year=1988 |isbn=5203005362 |editor-last=Shkadov |editor-first=Ivan |volume=2 |location=Moscow |language=ru |trans-title=Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary}}
* {{Cite book |title=За мужество и отвагу |publisher= |year=1984 |isbn= |editor-last= |editor-first= |volume= |location=Харьков |language=ru |trans-title=For courage and bravery}}
* {{Cite book |title=За мужество и отвагу |publisher= |year=1984 |isbn= |editor-last= |editor-first= |volume= |location=Харьков |language=ru |trans-title=For courage and bravery}}

== References ==
== References ==
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Alexey Afanasyevich Pasko (1916-1997) - junior lieutenant of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

Biography

Alexey Afanasyevich Pasko was born on March 1, 1916, in Yekaterinoslav, in a family of employees. Ukrainian иy nation.[1] After graduating from the Poltava Medical College, he worked in a photo team.[1] In 1940, Pasko was called up for service in the Red Army by the Novo-Senzharsky District Military Commissariat.[2] From July 1942 he was on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. In 1944, Pasko graduated from the Chelyabinsk Tank Technical School. In battles he was shell-shocked.[3]

By January 1945, Junior Technician-Lieutenant Alexei Pasko was a tank driver of the 13th Guards Separate Heavy Tank Regiment of the 4th Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. He distinguished himself during the liberation of Poland. Pasko's crew, together with a group of machine gunners, attacked a large group of enemy troops near the city of Kobylin, destroying 1 tank, 5 artillery pieces and 30 enemy soldiers and officers. When, 12 kilometers southwest of Kobylin, Pasko's tank stood still due to a malfunction, Pasko, with the tank crew and machine gunners, repelled the attacks of the Nazis for three days, destroying an enemy armored personnel carrier, five vehicles and many enemy fighters.[1] When the tank was completely destroyed, Pasko covered the retreat of his comrades to the nearby village of Penkov[1] o with machine-gun fire, after which he took refuge with his comrades from local residents, where he waited for reinforcements to arrive.[3]

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 10, 1945, for "exemplary performance of combat missions of the command and the courage and heroism shown at the same time," junior technician-lieutenant Aleksey Pasko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal for the number 7480.[3]

In 1946, Pasko was transferred to the reserve. Lived and worked in the village of Vysoky, Kharkiv region, Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine, at a furniture factory.[1] He died on April 4, 1997, and was buried in Vysokoe.

He was also awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, a number of medals.[3][2]

Books

  • Shkadov, Ivan, ed. (1988). Герои Советского Союза: краткий биографический словарь [Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Moscow: Voenizdat. ISBN 5203005362.
  • За мужество и отвагу [For courage and bravery] (in Russian). Харьков. 1984.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Пред. ред. коллегии И. Н. Шкадов (1988). Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь. Vol. 2. М.: Воениздат. p. 240. ISBN 5-203-00536-2.
  2. ^ a b А. А. Пасько на сайте «память народа»
  3. ^ a b c d A. A. Pasko on the site warheroes.ru