Background
Mikhail Amosovich Vysokhorets was born on 2 December in 1920 in the village of Dukhovshchina in Vitebsk region in a peasant family.
Mikhail Amosovich Vysokhorets was born on 2 December in 1920 in the village of Dukhovshchina in Vitebsk region in a peasant family.
In 1940 Mikhail studied at Vitebsk Teachers' Institute in Vitebsk, Vitsyebskaya Voblasts', Belarus.
From 1941 he studied at Moscow Military Engineering School., Engineering department in Moscow City, Russian Federation.
Since 1957 he studied at Mining College.
In 1940, after graduation from the Vitebsk Teachers' Institute, Mikhail worked as a teacher at the Osveya school. He served in the Red Army since 1941.
During the Great Patriotic War, he was a cadet engineer of the company, then – the commanded sapper and motor engineering companies. He fought in the Seaside Army, the Voronezh, the 1st Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian fronts. He took part in special missions to undermine important facilities in the Kaluga region, the defensive operation in Sevastopol, the battles for Voronezh, the Voronezh-Kastornoy operation, the Battle of Kursk, the Kharkov operation, the Proskurovsko-Chernivtsi, the Lvov-Sandomir, the Vistula-Oder operations, the assault of Berlin.
By July 1944, the Guard Captain Mikhail Vysogorets commanded an engineering company of the 13th Guards Separate Engineering Battalion, the 17th Motor-Engineering Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Army, the First Ukrainian Front. Distinguished during the liberation of Poland in July-August 1944 when crossing the rivers of Western Bug, San, Vistula. Under the enemy's fire, he supervised the construction of bridges, with a personal example of courage and bravery inspired fighters to accelerate the end of engineering work. He was wounded but did not leave the battlefield.
Participated in the Vistula-Oder operation, in the construction of crossings over the rivers Pilica, Bzura, Warta, Oder, in the battle for Berlin.
In 1945, he was retired.
In 1957, he graduated from the Mining College, worked in Novokuznetsk as the head of the production and technical department of the mine-building department No. 8, the "Kuibyshevugol" trust.
Since 1974, he lived in a small town of Shakhovskoye, Moscow region.
Prior to retirement, he worked as the head of the production and technical department of PMK-287. Then, since 1982 - deputy chief physician on the economic part of the central district hospital.
He died on April 22, 1996. He was buried in his homeland, in Belarus.
Mikhail was the member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.