Background
Vasily was born in 1916 in Turmasovo, Kozlovsky uyezd, Tambov governorate, Russian Federation. He was born in the family of peasants. Son of Praskovya Yakovlevna.
hero of the soviet union Participant of the Great Patriotic War
Vasily was born in 1916 in Turmasovo, Kozlovsky uyezd, Tambov governorate, Russian Federation. He was born in the family of peasants. Son of Praskovya Yakovlevna.
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He was in the Red Army beginning from 1932. He was also the member of the Great Patriotic War and the shooter of the 78th Guards Rifle Regiment (6th Army, South-Western Front). Vasily Leonovich was distinguished on 02.03.1943 in repelling attacks of armored vehicles and infantry of the enemy near the village of Taranovka (Gotvaldovsky district, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian SSR) as a part of a platoon under the command of guard Lieutenant P.N. Shironin. He died of wounds in the hospital.
He was born in the family of peasants.
