It was at the beginning of the war. German then huge forces lane. Our retreated. The fighting was fiercest. The battalion, in which Corporal Ivan Sereda served as a cook, fought then in the Baltic. Well fought. The Nazis missed many, but our battalion also suffered losses. On that day, the Germans fell especially hard, tanks and self-propelled guns pulled up. There was a threat of encirclement. A liaison officer ran to the economic platoon, which was stationed in a hollow, and transmitted the order of the battalion commander to advance to combat positions and repulse the attack on the left flank. The platoon commander led the fighters to carry out a combat mission, ordering Ivan to provide security and food for the personnel. Ivan cooks porridge, listens to distant shooting. I would like to help my comrades, but the order in war is the law. Ivan Sereda became completely sad, he began to remember his native places: his parents, the house on the banks of the Amur, school, his long-haired love ... And then something seemed to push him in the side. Looked back and froze. Three fascist tanks are crawling from the road in his direction. And where did they come from? There is no time to think - it is necessary to save the good. But how to save if there are already two hundred meters left to the front tank? Ivan quickly unharnessed the horses and directed them to the fishing line that was nearby, and he himself hid behind the field kitchen - maybe the Fritz would not notice. Maybe the number would have passed, but one tank had gone straight to the kitchen and rolled out. He stopped nearby, huge with white crosses. The tankers noticed the kitchen and were delighted. They decided that the Russians had abandoned her. The hatch cover opened and the tanker leaned out. Healthy, red. He turned his head and how he cackled triumphantly. Here Ivan could not stand it, where did the fear go. He grabbed an ax that fell under his arm and jumped on the tank. The redhead, as he saw him, jumped into the hatch and slammed the lid. And Ivan is already knocking on the armor with an ax: “Hyundai hoch, hansiki! Fly in guys, surround, destroy the Fritz. The Germans began to shoot, and Ivan, without thinking twice, bent the trunk with an ax - there is no reception against scrap. And so that the Fritz would not especially swagger, he closed the viewing slot with his dressing gown. Shouts: "Hitler kaput, surround them, guys ..." With an ax, like a sledgehammer, he wields armor. I don't know what the Germans thought. As soon as the hatch opens, and with raised hands, the old familiar red-haired big man shows up. Ivan Sereda remembered here about the carbine behind his back, instantly sent it to the fascist. And then the second tanker climbs, the third. Ivan yells even louder, commands non-existent fighters to "surround" and "keep the Fritz at gunpoint." And he himself lined up the prisoners near the kitchen, forced each other's hands to be tied. When, after completing a combat mission, the soldiers of his platoon returned and saw next to the kitchen german tank, captured Nazis and Ivan Seredu with a carbine at the ready - they did not believe their eyes. Laughter was to tears! Only the Germans stood gloomy, not understanding anything. Guard corporal Ivan Sereda became a Hero Soviet Union, and his ax was kept in part as a military relic. In war, this is how: the chest is in crosses or the head is in the bushes.
WITH hereda Ivan Pavlovich - cook of the 91st tank regiment of the 46th tank division of the 21st mechanized corps of the North-Western Front, Red Army soldier.
Born on July 1, 1919 in the village of Aleksandrovka, now the administration of the city of Kramatorsk Donetsk region Ukraine in a peasant family. Lived in the village of Galitsinovka, Maryinsky district, Donetsk region of Ukraine. Ukrainian. Graduated from the Donetsk Food Training Plant.
In the Red Army since 1939. Member of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941.
The cook of the 91st Tank Regiment (46th Tank Division, 21st Mechanized Corps, Northwestern Front), Red Army soldier Ivan Sereda distinguished himself in August 1941 near the city of Dvinsk (Daugavpils, Latvia). He was preparing dinner in the woods when he heard the roar of a Nazi tank engine. Armed with a rifle and an ax, he crept up to a stopped Nazi tank, jumped onto the armor and with all his might slashed the machine gun barrel with an ax. Following this, he threw a piece of tarpaulin onto the viewing slot and drummed the butt on the armor, loudly ordering the imaginary fighters to prepare grenades for battle. When the soldiers of the infantry unit came running to the rescue. 4 enemy tankers who had surrendered were already on the ground.
Being with a group of fighters in reconnaissance behind enemy lines, when the Nazis discovered Soviet observers and tried to capture them, the Red Army soldier Sereda crawled up to a German tank with a bunch of grenades and blew it up. Then he replaced the killed machine gunner and with well-aimed fire destroyed more than ten fascist motorcyclists. The group fought off the attacking Nazis and returned to their unit with trophies and 3 prisoners.
At order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 31, 1941 for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against fascist german invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, the Red Army soldier Sereda Ivan Pavlovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 507).
In 1942, the brave warrior graduated from advanced training courses commanders, and in 1944 - Novocherkassk cavalry school.
Since 1945, Senior Lieutenant Sereda I.P. - in reserve. He worked as the chairman of the Oleksandrovsky village council of the Donetsk region of Ukraine. He died untimely on November 18, 1950 at the age of 32.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, and medals.
Streets in the city of Daugavpils and in the village of Galitsinovka are named after the Hero. In memory of the glorious son of the Ukrainian people, Ivan Sereda, a memorial plaque was installed on the street in the city of Daugavpils and an obelisk in Galitsinovka.
A detailed description of the feat is provided by Kirill Osovik
The heroic feat that he accomplished is unprecedented and unique in the history of the Great Patriotic War.
It was hot August 1941. Our troops stubbornly fought off the fierce onslaught of the Nazi hordes in the Dvinsk region of the Latvian SSR. Ivan Sereda was then a cook.
Settling down with his kitchen in a hollow overgrown with woods, he prepared dinner for the warriors who defended the approaches to the city, and listened to the sounds of battle. It seemed to him that the situation on the front line seemed to be “not hot”, in an hour it would be possible to feed friends with delicious soup.
I was just dreaming, and suddenly, not far away, I heard the hum of an engine. Ivan looked out from behind a bush and could not believe his eyes - a tank with a fascist cross was crawling along a country road. The cook's heart trembled: “Trouble. Right there, almost next to the headquarters, - a thought flashed. And after it another, resolute: - To act. Don't let the enemy go!"
Mechanically seizing a rifle and ... an ax, Sereda, running from tree to tree, rushed across the steel colossus. I wanted to shoot, but decided that it was useless. And at the same moment (“Where did the dexterity come from,” he said after) jumped onto the tank. Then everything happened, obviously, also mechanically. He grabbed a heavy ax from his belt and, swinging, slashed at the barrel of a machine gun with all his might. Following this, he threw a piece of tarpaulin onto the viewing slot and drummed the butt on the armor.
His blows thundered like exploding shells. Hitler's soldiers were confused. The car whined.
Hyundai ho! Kaput! - Sereda shouted and began to give imaginary commands loudly: - Prepare grenades. Weapon for battle!
Soon the hatch opened and two hands stretched out of it.
Get out, get out! Sereda commanded, holding his rifle at the ready.
When the fighters came running to help, four enemy tankers who had surrendered were already standing on the ground and looked around with fear.
There were a lot of good jokes, joy and fervent laughter on that difficult day. Sereda managed to become famous for his courage, and he managed to feed his friends with a hearty lunch and dinner.
After some time, Ivan had a chance with a group of fighters to visit reconnaissance behind enemy lines. And there he again showed fearlessness, high military dexterity. When the Nazis discovered the Soviet observers and tried to capture them, Ivan Sereda crawled up to the German tank with a bunch of grenades and blew it up. Then he replaced the killed machine gunner and mowed down about ten motorcyclists with well-aimed fire. The group fought off the advancing Nazis and returned to their unit with trophies and three prisoners.
On the proposal of the command of the North-Western Front, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 31, 1941, I.P. Wednesday for him feats of arms was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
From the front, Ivan Pavlovich returned to his native village with the rank of senior lieutenant of the guard with many orders and medals on his chest. For a long time he was the chairman of the Aleksandrovskiy Village Council of Workers' Deputies. In 1950 I.P. Wednesday is dead.
Ivan Pavlovich Sereda (1919-1950) - Soviet officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1941). Guards senior lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army.
In August 1941, the cook of the 91st tank regiment of the 46th tank division of the 21st mechanized corps, Red Army soldier I.P. Sereda, especially distinguished himself in the Daugavpils region (now Latvia). Armed only with a rifle and an ax, he disarmed a German tank that drove up to the Soviet field kitchen and captured four tankers.
In August 1941, near the city of Dvinsk (now Daugavpils, Latvia), he was preparing dinner for the Red Army. At this time, he saw a German tank moving towards the field kitchen. Being armed only with a rifle and an ax, Ivan Sereda took cover behind the kitchen, and the tank, having driven up to the kitchen, stopped and the crew began to get out of it.
At that moment, Ivan Sereda jumped out from behind the kitchen and rushed to the tank. The crew immediately took cover in the tank, and Ivan Sereda jumped onto the armor. When the tankers opened fire from a machine gun, Ivan Sereda bent the machine gun barrel with ax blows, and then closed the viewing slots of the tank with a piece of tarpaulin. Then he began to knock on the armor with the butt of an ax, while giving orders to the Red Army soldiers, who were not around, to throw grenades at the tank. The crew of the tank surrendered, and Ivan Sereda, at gunpoint, forced them to tie each other's hands. When the fighters of the rifle unit arrived, they saw a tank and four German tankers tied up. According to the commander of the 21st mechanized corps, Major General D. D. Lelyushenko, "by his brave deed he showed an exceptional example of heroism."
Later, the Red Army soldier I.P. Sereda distinguished himself in reconnaissance behind enemy lines, when German soldiers discovered Soviet observers and tried to capture them, he crawled up to a German tank and blew it up with a bunch of grenades. Then he replaced the killed machine gunner and with well-aimed fire destroyed more than ten German motorcyclists. The reconnaissance group fought off the attackers German soldiers and returned to her unit with trophies and 3 prisoners.
In July and August 1941 he was wounded (the second time - seriously).
The award to I.P. Sereda was solemnly presented in October 1941 on the North-Western Front. According to the memoirs of fellow soldier I.P. Sereda V. Bezvitelnov, his ax was kept in part as a military relic. The feat of Ivan Sereda was widely popularized during the war years, was reflected in the Soviet campaign posters. Subsequently, this led to the fact that many began to believe that the "cook Sereda" is a myth, but the reality of Ivan Sereda and his feat is documented.
From October 10 to November 23, 1941, I. P. Sereda commanded a platoon of the 4th Infantry Regiment of the 46th Infantry Division of the 1st Shock Army, participated in the defense of Leningrad. Then, from November 27 to January 5, 1942, he took part in the Battle of Moscow, commanded a company of the 7th Infantry Regiment of the 185th Infantry Division of the 30th Army.
In February 1942 he was seriously wounded. In 1942, I.P. Sereda graduated from advanced training courses for command personnel, and in 1944, the Novocherkassk Cavalry School. Guards Senior Lieutenant I.P. Sereda served as assistant chief of food and economic allowances of the 8th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division.
In the period from April 14 to May 3, 1945, despite the separation of cavalrymen from supply bases and the complexity of the combat situation, it reliably provided personnel with food and ammunition. This allowed the regiment to successfully fight, which was noted by the regiment commander: on May 21, 1945, I.P. Sereda was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree.
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- in the electronic bank of documents "Feat of the People" (archival materials of TsAMO, f. 33, op. 690306, file 1969, l. 124)
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- Andrei Sidorchik.
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At that moment, a new face entered the living room. The new face was the young Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the husband of the little princess. Prince Bolkonsky was short, a very handsome young man with definite and dry features. Everything in his figure, from the tired, bored look to the quiet measured step, represented the sharpest contrast with his little, lively wife. He, apparently, was not only familiar with everyone in the drawing room, but he was so tired of it that it was very boring for him to look at them and listen to them. Of all the faces that bored him, the face of his pretty wife seemed to bore him the most. With a grimace that ruined his handsome face, he turned away from her. He kissed Anna Pavlovna's hand and, screwing up his eyes, looked around the whole company.Vous vous enrolez pour la guerre, mon prince? [Are you going to war, prince?] said Anna Pavlovna.
- Le general Koutouzoff, - said Bolkonsky, striking on the last syllable zoff, like a Frenchman, - a bien voulu de moi pour aide de camp ... [General Kutuzov wants me to be his adjutant.]
– Et Lise, votre femme? [And Lisa, your wife?]
She will go to the village.
“How is it not a sin for you to deprive us of your lovely wife?”
“Andre, [Andrei],” his wife said, addressing her husband in the same coquettish tone with which she addressed strangers, “what a story the viscount told us about m lle Georges and Bonaparte!
Prince Andrei closed his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who had not taken his joyful, friendly eyes from the moment Prince Andrei entered the living room, went up to him and took his hand. Prince Andrei, without looking back, wrinkled his face into a grimace, expressing annoyance at the one who touched his hand, but, seeing Pierre's smiling face, he smiled an unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile.
- That's how! ... And you are in the big world! he said to Pierre.
“I knew you would,” Pierre answered. “I will come to you for supper,” he added quietly, so as not to disturb the viscount, who continued his story. - Can?
“No, you can’t,” said Prince Andrei, laughing, shaking hands letting Pierre know that there was no need to ask.
He wanted to say something else, but at that time Prince Vasily and his daughter got up, and two young men got up to give them way.
“Excuse me, my dear viscount,” said Prince Vasily to the Frenchman, gently pulling him by the sleeve down to the chair so that he would not get up. “This unfortunate feast at the Messenger’s is depriving me of my pleasure and interrupting you. I am very sad to leave your delightful evening,” he said to Anna Pavlovna.
His daughter, Princess Helen, lightly holding the folds of her dress, went between the chairs, and the smile shone even brighter on her beautiful face. Pierre looked with almost frightened, enthusiastic eyes at this beauty when she passed him.
“Very good,” said Prince Andrei.
“Very,” said Pierre.
Passing by, Prince Vasily grabbed Pierre by the hand and turned to Anna Pavlovna.
“Educate me this bear,” he said. - Here he lives with me for a month, and for the first time I see him in the light. Nothing is needed young man as a society of smart women.
Anna Pavlovna smiled and promised to take care of Pierre, who, she knew, was a paternal relative of Prince Vasily. The elderly lady, who had previously been sitting with ma tante, hastily got up and overtook Prince Vasily in the hall. All the old pretense of interest was gone from her face. Her kind, weepy face expressed only anxiety and fear.
- What will you tell me, prince, about my Boris? she said, catching up with him in the front. (She pronounced the name Boris with a special emphasis on o). – I cannot stay longer in Petersburg. Tell me, what news can I bring to my poor boy?
Despite the fact that Prince Vasily listened reluctantly and almost impolitely to the elderly lady and even showed impatience, she smiled affectionately and touchingly at him and, so that he would not leave, took his hand.
“That you should say a word to the sovereign, and he will be directly transferred to the guards,” she asked.
“Believe me that I will do everything I can, princess,” answered Prince Vasily, “but it’s hard for me to ask the sovereign; I would advise you to turn to Rumyantsev, through Prince Golitsyn: that would be smarter.
The elderly lady bore the name of Princess Drubetskaya, one of the best families in Russia, but she was poor, long gone from the world and lost her former connections. She has come now to secure a position in the guards for her only son. Only then, in order to see Prince Vasily, did she name herself and come to Anna Pavlovna's for the evening, only then did she listen to the history of the viscount. She was frightened by the words of Prince Vasily; once her beautiful face expressed anger, but this lasted only a minute. She smiled again and gripped Prince Vasili more firmly by the arm.
“Listen, prince,” she said, “I never asked you, I will never ask, I never reminded you of my father’s friendship for you. But now, I conjure you by God, do this for my son, and I will consider you a benefactor,” she added hastily. - No, you are not angry, but you promise me. I asked Golitsyn, he refused. Soyez le bon enfant que vous avez ete, [Be a good fellow, as you were,] she said, trying to smile, while there were tears in her eyes.
“Papa, we will be late,” said Princess Helene, turning her beautiful head on antique shoulders, who was waiting at the door.
But influence in the world is a capital that must be protected so that it does not disappear. Prince Vasily knew this, and once he realized that if he began to ask for everyone who asks him, then soon he would not be able to ask for himself, he rarely used his influence. In the case of Princess Drubetskaya, however, after her new call, he felt something like a reproach of conscience. She reminded him of the truth: he owed his first steps in the service to her father. In addition, he saw from her methods that she was one of those women, especially mothers, who, once taking something into their heads, will not lag behind until they fulfill their desires, otherwise they are ready for daily, every minute pestering and even on the stage. This last consideration shook him.
“Chere Anna Mikhailovna,” he said with his usual familiarity and boredom in his voice, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you want; but in order to prove to you how much I love you and honor the memory of your late father, I will do the impossible: your son will be transferred to the guards, here is my hand to you. Are you satisfied?
- My dear, you are a benefactor! I did not expect anything else from you; I knew how kind you are.
He wanted to leave.
- Wait, two words. Une fois passe aux gardes ... [Once he goes to the guards ...] - She hesitated: - You are good with Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov, recommend Boris to him as adjutant. Then I would be calm, and then I would...
Prince Vasily smiled.
- I don't promise that. You do not know how Kutuzov has been besieged since he was appointed commander in chief. He himself told me that all the Moscow ladies conspired to give him all their children as adjutants.
“No, promise me, I won’t let you in, dear, my benefactor…
- Dad! - the beauty repeated again in the same tone, - we will be late.
- Well, au revoir, [goodbye,] goodbye. See?
- So tomorrow you will report to the sovereign?
- Certainly, but I do not promise Kutuzov.
- No, promise, promise, Basile, [Vasily,] - Anna Mikhailovna said after him, with a smile of a young coquette, which once must have been characteristic of her, but now did not go so well to her emaciated face.
She apparently forgot her years and used, out of habit, all the old women's means. But as soon as he left, her face again assumed the same cold, feigned expression that had been on it before. She returned to the circle, in which the viscount continued to talk, and again pretended to be listening, waiting for the time to leave, since her business was done.
“But how do you find all this latest comedy du sacre de Milan?” [Milanese anointing?] – said Anna Pavlovna. Et la nouvelle comedie des peuples de Genes et de Lucques, qui viennent presenter leurs voeux a M. Buonaparte assis sur un trone, et exaucant les voeux des nations! Adorable! Non, mais c "est a en devenir folle! On dirait, que le monde entier a perdu la tete. [And here is a new comedy: the peoples of Genoa and Lucca express their desires to Mr. Bonaparte. And Mr. Bonaparte sits on the throne and fulfills the wishes of the peoples. 0! It's amazing! No, it's crazy. You'll think the whole world has lost its head.]
Prince Andrei grinned, looking directly into the face of Anna Pavlovna.
- “Dieu me la donne, gare a qui la touche,” he said (the words of Bonaparte, spoken at the laying of the crown). - On dit qu "il a ete tres beau en prononcant ces paroles, [God gave me the crown. Trouble for the one who touches it. - They say he was very good pronouncing these words,] - he added and repeated these words again in Italian: "Dio mi la dona, guai a chi la tocca".
- J "espere enfin," continued Anna Pavlovna, "que ca a ete la goutte d" eau qui fera deborder le verre. Les souverains ne peuvent plus supporter cet homme, qui menace tout. [I hope that it was finally the drop that would overflow the glass. Sovereigns can no longer tolerate this man who threatens everything.]
– Les souverains? Je ne parle pas de la Russie,” said the viscount politely and hopelessly: “Les souverains, madame!” Qu "ont ils fait pour Louis XVII, pour la reine, pour madame Elisabeth? Rien," he continued animatedly. - Et croyez moi, ils subissent la punition pour leur trahison de la cause des Bourbons. Les souverains? Ils envoient des ambassadeurs complimenter l "usurpateur. [Sovereigns! I'm not talking about Russia. Sovereigns! But what did they do for Louis XVII, for the Queen, for Elisabeth? Nothing. And believe me, they are punished for their betrayal of the Bourbon cause. Sovereigns! They send envoys to greet the stealer of the throne.]
And he, with a contemptuous sigh, changed his position again. Prince Hippolyte, who had been looking at the viscount through a lorgnette for a long time, suddenly, at these words, turned his whole body to the little princess and, asking her for a needle, began to show her, drawing with a needle on the table, the coat of arms of Condé. He explained this coat of arms to her with such a significant air, as if the princess asked him about it.
- Baton de gueules, engrele de gueules d "azur - maison Conde, [A phrase that cannot be translated literally, as it consists of conditional heraldic terms that are not quite accurately used. The general meaning is this: The coat of arms of Conde represents a shield with red and blue narrow jagged stripes ,] he said.
The princess, smiling, listened.
“If Bonaparte remains on the throne of France for another year,” the viscount continued the conversation that had begun, with the air of a man who does not listen to others, but in a matter that he knows best of all, following only the course of his thoughts, “things will go too far. Intrigue, violence, expulsions, executions society, I mean good society, French, will be destroyed forever, and then ...
SEREDA Ivan Pavlovich
first in the brigade
Date of birth: 07/01/1919
Place of birth: s. Aleksandrovka (now the administration of the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region of Ukraine)
Date of death: 1950
Place of death: Alexandrovka
Title: Red Army soldier, Art. lieutenant
Awards: Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal, Order of the Patriotic War II degree.
Born on July 1, 1919 in the village of Aleksandrovka, now the administration of the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region of Ukraine, in a peasant family.
Lived in the village of Galitsinovka, Maryinsky district, Donetsk region of Ukraine. Ukrainian. Graduated from the Donetsk Food Training Plant.
In the Red Army since 1939.
Member of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941.
Ivan Pavlovich Sereda (1919-1950) - Soviet officer, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1941). Guards senior lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army.
In August 1941, the cook of the 91st tank regiment of the 46th tank division of the 21st mechanized corps, Red Army soldier I.P. Sereda, especially distinguished himself in the Daugavpils region (now Latvia). Armed only with a rifle and an ax, he disarmed a German tank that drove up to the Soviet field kitchen and captured four tankers.
After being transferred to the reserve in 1945, he lived in the village of Aleksandrovka, Donetsk region, and worked as chairman of the village council.
Born on July 1, 1919 in the village of Aleksandrovka, now part of the city of Kramatorsk in Ukraine, into a peasant family. Ukrainian. Together with his family, he moved to the village of Galitsinovka, Maryinsky district, Donetsk region. Graduated from Donetsk Food College.
In November 1939, Ivan Sereda was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army (Snezhnyansky RVC of the Stalin region of the Ukrainian SSR). He served as a cook in the 91st tank regiment of the 46th tank division of the 21st mechanized corps. Red Army soldier I. P. Sereda on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941.
In August 1941, near the city of Dvinsk (now Daugavpils, Latvia), he cooked dinner for the Red Army. At this time, he saw a German tank moving towards the field kitchen. Being armed only with a rifle and an ax, Ivan Sereda took cover behind the kitchen, and the tank, having driven up to the kitchen, stopped and the crew began to get out of it.
At that moment, Ivan Sereda jumped out from behind the kitchen and rushed to the tank. The crew immediately took cover in the tank, and Ivan Sereda jumped onto the armor. When the tankers opened fire from a machine gun, Ivan Sereda bent the machine gun barrel with ax blows, and then closed the viewing slots of the tank with a piece of tarpaulin. Then he began to knock on the armor with the butt of an ax, while giving orders to the Red Army soldiers, who were not around, to throw grenades at the tank. The crew of the tank surrendered, and Ivan Sereda, at gunpoint, forced them to tie each other's hands. When the fighters of the infantry unit arrived, they saw a tank and four German tankers tied up. According to the commander of the 21st mechanized corps, Major General D. D. Lelyushenko, "by his brave deed he showed an exceptional example of heroism."
Later, the Red Army soldier I.P. Sereda distinguished himself in reconnaissance behind enemy lines, when German soldiers discovered Soviet observers and tried to capture them, he crawled up to a German tank and blew it up with a bunch of grenades. Then he replaced the killed machine gunner and with well-aimed fire destroyed more than ten German motorcyclists. The reconnaissance group fought off the pressing German soldiers and returned to their unit with trophies and 3 prisoners.
In July and August 1941 he was wounded (the second time - seriously).
Presentation of the Gold Star medal to IP Sereda, Northwestern Front (October 1941).
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 31, 1941, "for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time," Red Army soldier Sereda Ivan Pavlovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold medal. Star" (No. 507).
The award to I.P. Sereda was solemnly presented in October 1941 on the North-Western Front. According to the memoirs of fellow soldier I.P. Sereda V. Bezvitelnov, his ax was kept in the unit as a military relic. The feat of Ivan Sereda was widely popularized during the war years, and was reflected on Soviet propaganda posters. Subsequently, this led to the fact that many began to believe that the "chef Sereda" is a myth, but the reality of Ivan Sereda and his exploits are documented.
From October 10 to November 23, 1941, I. P. Sereda commanded a platoon of the 4th Infantry Regiment of the 46th Infantry Division of the 1st Shock Army, and participated in the defense of Leningrad. Then, from November 27 to January 5, 1942, he took part in the battle for Moscow, commanded a company of the 7th Infantry Regiment of the 185th Infantry Division of the 30th Army.
In February 1942 he was seriously wounded. In 1942, I.P. Sereda graduated from the advanced training courses for command personnel, and in 1944, the Novocherkassk Cavalry School. Guards senior lieutenant I.P. Sereda served as assistant chief of food and economic allowances of the 8th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division.
In the period from April 14 to May 3, 1945, despite the separation of cavalrymen from supply bases and the complexity of the combat situation, it reliably provided personnel with food and ammunition. This allowed the regiment to successfully fight, which was noted by the regiment commander: on May 21, 1945, I.P. Sereda was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree.
In 1945, with the rank of senior lieutenant, he was transferred to the reserve. He worked as the chairman of the village council in the village of Aleksandrovka, Donetsk region.
He died unexpectedly on November 18, 1950.
Soviet state awards and titles:
Hero of the Soviet Union (August 31, 1941, Gold Star medal No. 507);
Order of Lenin (August 31, 1941);
Order of the Patriotic War II degree (May 21, 1945);
medals including:
medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" (September 1, 1945);
medal "For the Defense of Moscow" (September 1, 1945).
Memory
In the city of Daugavpils, streets were named after him and a memorial plaque was installed (but after the collapse of the USSR, the street was renamed and the plaque was removed). Also, streets in the city of Balti (now the Republic of Moldova) and in the village of Galitsinovka, Maryinsky district, Donetsk region, are named after him, where an obelisk was erected to him.
Sereda Ivan Pavlovich - cook of the 91st tank regiment of the 46th tank division of the 21st mechanized corps of the North-Western Front, Red Army soldier.
Born on July 1, 1919 in the village of Aleksandrovka, now the administration of the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region of Ukraine, in a peasant family. Lived in the village of Galitsinovka, Maryinsky district, Donetsk region of Ukraine. Ukrainian. Graduated from the Donetsk Food Training Plant.
In the Red Army since 1939. Member of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941.
The cook of the 91st Tank Regiment (46th Tank Division, 21st Mechanized Corps, Northwestern Front), Red Army soldier Ivan Sereda distinguished himself in August 1941 near the city of Dvinsk (Daugavpils, Latvia). He was preparing dinner in the woods when he heard the roar of a Nazi tank engine. Armed with a rifle and an ax, he crept up to a stopped Nazi tank, jumped onto the armor and with all his might slashed the machine gun barrel with an ax. Following this, he threw a piece of tarpaulin onto the viewing slot and drummed the butt on the armor, loudly ordering the imaginary fighters to prepare grenades for battle. When the soldiers of the infantry unit came running to the rescue. 4 enemy tankers who had surrendered were already on the ground.
Being with a group of fighters in reconnaissance behind enemy lines, when the Nazis discovered Soviet observers and tried to capture them, the Red Army soldier Sereda crawled up to a German tank with a bunch of grenades and blew it up. Then he replaced the killed machine gunner and with well-aimed fire destroyed more than ten fascist motorcyclists. The group fought off the attacking Nazis and returned to their unit with trophies and 3 prisoners.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 31, 1941, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, the Red Army soldier Sereda Ivan Pavlovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 507).
In 1942, the brave warrior graduated from advanced training courses for command personnel, and in 1944, the Novocherkassk Cavalry School.
Since 1945, Senior Lieutenant Sereda I.P. - in reserve. He worked as the chairman of the Oleksandrovsky village council of the Donetsk region of Ukraine. He died untimely on November 18, 1950 at the age of 32.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, and medals.
Streets in the city of Daugavpils and in the village of Galitsinovka are named after the Hero. In memory of the glorious son of the Ukrainian people, Ivan Sereda, a memorial plaque was installed on the street in the city of Daugavpils and an obelisk in Galitsinovka.
The heroic feat that he accomplished is unprecedented and unique in the history of the Great Patriotic War.
It was hot August 1941. Our troops stubbornly fought off the fierce onslaught of the Nazi hordes in the Dvinsk region of the Latvian SSR. Ivan Sereda was then a cook.
Settling down with his kitchen in a hollow overgrown with woods, he prepared dinner for the warriors who defended the approaches to the city, and listened to the sounds of battle. It seemed to him that the situation on the front line seemed to be “not hot”, in an hour it would be possible to feed friends with delicious soup.
I was just dreaming, and suddenly, not far away, I heard the hum of an engine. Ivan looked out from behind a bush and could not believe his eyes - a tank with a fascist cross was crawling along a country road. The cook's heart trembled: “Trouble. Right there, almost next to the headquarters, - a thought flashed. And after it another, resolute: - To act. Don't let the enemy go!"
Mechanically seizing a rifle and ... an ax, Sereda, running from tree to tree, rushed across the steel colossus. I wanted to shoot, but decided that it was useless. And at the same moment (“Where did the dexterity come from,” he said after) jumped onto the tank. Then everything happened, obviously, also mechanically. He grabbed a heavy ax from his belt and, swinging, slashed at the barrel of a machine gun with all his might. Following this, he threw a piece of tarpaulin onto the viewing slot and drummed the butt on the armor.
His blows thundered like exploding shells. Hitler's soldiers were confused. The car whined.
- Hyundai hoh! Kaput! - Sereda shouted and began to give imaginary commands loudly: - Prepare grenades. Weapon for battle!
Soon the hatch opened and two hands stretched out of it.
- Get out, get out! Sereda commanded, holding his rifle at the ready.
When the fighters came running to help, four enemy tankers who had surrendered were already standing on the ground and looked around with fear.
There were a lot of good jokes, joy and fervent laughter on that difficult day. Sereda managed to become famous for his courage, and he managed to feed his friends with a hearty lunch and dinner.
After some time, Ivan had a chance with a group of fighters to visit reconnaissance behind enemy lines. And there he again showed fearlessness, high military dexterity. When the Nazis discovered the Soviet observers and tried to capture them, Ivan Sereda crawled up to the German tank with a bunch of grenades and blew it up. Then he replaced the killed machine gunner and mowed down about ten motorcyclists with well-aimed fire. The group fought off the advancing Nazis and returned to their unit with trophies and three prisoners.
On the proposal of the command of the North-Western Front, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 31, 1941, I.P. Sereda was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for his military exploits.
From the front, Ivan Pavlovich returned to his native village with the rank of senior lieutenant of the guard with many orders and medals on his chest. For a long time he was the chairman of the Aleksandrovskiy Village Council of Workers' Deputies. In 1950 I.P. Wednesday is dead.
From the book of A.A. Trokaev “Knights of the Golden Star. Essays on the Heroes of the Soviet Union. Donetsk, "Donbass", 1976. With. 377-378
Presentation of the medal "Gold Star" I.P. Sereda,
Northwestern Front, October 1941.
From the memoirs of fellow soldier Ivan Sereda V. Bezvitelnov
It was at the beginning of the war. German then huge forces lane. Our retreated. The fighting was fiercest. The battalion, in which Corporal Ivan Sereda served as a cook, fought then in the Baltic. Well fought. The Nazis missed many, but our battalion also suffered losses.
On that day, the Germans fell especially hard, tanks and self-propelled guns pulled up. There was a threat of encirclement. A liaison officer ran to the economic platoon, which was stationed in a hollow, and transmitted the order of the battalion commander to advance to combat positions and repulse the attack on the left flank. The platoon commander led the fighters to carry out a combat mission, ordering Ivan to provide security and food for the personnel.
Ivan cooks porridge, listens to distant shooting. I would like to help my comrades, but the order in war is the law. Ivan Sereda was completely sad, he began to remember his native places: parents, a house on the banks of the Amur, school, his long-haired love ...
And then something pushed him to the side. Looked back and froze. Three fascist tanks are crawling from the road in his direction. And where did they come from? There is no time to think - it is necessary to save the good. But how to save if there are already two hundred meters left to the front tank? Ivan quickly unharnessed the horses and directed them to the fishing line that was nearby, and he himself hid behind the field kitchen - maybe the Fritz would not notice.
Maybe the number would have passed, but one tank had gone straight to the kitchen and rolled out. He stopped nearby, huge with white crosses. The tankers noticed the kitchen and were delighted. They decided that the Russians had abandoned her. The hatch cover opened and the tanker leaned out. Healthy, red. He turned his head and how he cackled triumphantly. Here Ivan could not stand it, where did the fear go.
He grabbed an ax that fell under his arm and jumped on the tank. The redhead, as he saw him, jumped into the hatch and slammed the lid. And Ivan is already knocking on the armor with an ax:
“Hyundai hoh, gansiki! Fly in guys, surround, destroy the Fritz.
The Germans began to shoot, and Ivan, without thinking twice, bent the trunk with an ax - there is no reception against scrap. And so that the Fritz would not especially swagger, he closed the viewing slot with his dressing gown.
yelling:
"Hitler kaput, surround them guys..."
An ax, like a sledgehammer, wields armor. I don't know what the Germans thought. As soon as the hatch opens, and with raised hands, the old familiar red-haired big man shows up. Ivan Sereda remembered here about the carbine behind his back, instantly sent it to the fascist. And then the second tanker climbs, the third. Ivan yells even louder, commands non-existent fighters to "surround" and "keep the Fritz at gunpoint." And he himself lined up the prisoners near the kitchen, forced each other's hands to be tied.
When, after completing a combat mission, the soldiers of his platoon returned and saw a German tank next to the kitchen, captured Nazis and Ivan Sereda with a carbine at the ready, they did not believe their eyes. Laughter was to tears! Only the Germans stood gloomy, not understanding anything. Guard Corporal Ivan Sereda became a Hero of the Soviet Union, and his ax was kept in the unit as a military relic. In war, this is how: the chest is in crosses or the head is in the bushes.
Having learned about the heroism of the corporal-cook, the commander of the reconnaissance unit offered Sereda to become a scout, and literally a few days later Sereda again had to show heroism - the same one that is discussed in the second paragraph of this text ("Being with a group of soldiers in reconnaissance behind enemy lines, when the fascists discovered the Soviet observers and tried to capture them, the Red Army soldier Sereda with a bunch of grenades crawled up to the German tank and blew it up. Then he replaced the killed machine gunner and destroyed more than ten fascist motorcyclists with well-aimed fire.").
The feat of the Red Army soldier Sereda. - The feat of Ivan Sereda was widely popularized during the war and was reflected on propaganda posters.
From the book: Semenov N.S. It was at dawn.
In the battles near Dvinsk, our cook, Komsomol member Ivan Pavlovich Sereda, accomplished his immortal feat.
- With a scoop went on the attack?! someone put in.
Loud laughter erupted.
- No, with a sledgehammer!
The soldiers laughed even louder.
“I speak the truth, comrades. Our divisions withdrew, and Sereda, while collecting the kitchen facilities, was somewhat delayed. A tank with a cross on the turret crawls out from behind the bushes. The Nazis are constantly scribbling from a machine gun. But they do not see where the kitchen is disguised. Ivan realized quickly: the tank is light, with one machine gun, and crawls like a turtle. Grabbed a sledgehammer and - on the tank! First, he bent the barrel of a machine gun with a blow. Then he threw a cape over the viewing slot to prevent the enemy from conducting aimed fire. For warning, he knocked on the tower with a sledgehammer. It seems that he warned: do not show your head - otherwise it will hit the back of the head! While the frightened fascists were sitting, he dragged an armful of hay, on which he himself slept. Doused with gasoline and set on fire. The tankette burned down along with the calculation.
After that, he twice participated in reconnaissance at night. The first time he blew up the same enemy car with grenades, the second time he shot 20 motorcyclists, and brought three to the location of the unit.
For these exploits, Ivan Pavlovich Sereda was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 31, 1941. He became our first hero.
Memorial sign in the village of Galitsinovka. - Installed in the center of the village of Galitsinovka, Maryinsky district, Donetsk region (Ukraine).
"Soviet soldier came out with an ax against a German tank and won." For most, such a statement will cause an incredulous smile, and some will even accuse the author of trying to “feed” the spreading “cranberries”.
But, as Cardinal Richelieu said in the novel Alexandra Dumas: "Do not judge rashly."
Everyone remembers the classic Russian fairy tale about a clever soldier who cooked porridge from an axe. The soldier managed to secure his dinner thanks to an ax and ingenuity.
In the story in question, wit and an ax also played a major role. And as in a Russian fairy tale, porridge was also present in it.
The name of the main character in this story is Ivan Pavlovich Sereda. Although it is more correct, of course, simply Ivan Sereda, because at the time of the events he was 22 years old.
He was born in 1919 in the village of Aleksandrovka in the Donbass, in a family of Ukrainian peasants. Later, with his parents, Ivan moved to another village, Galitsinovka, where he graduated from high school.
Like all Ukrainian lads, Vanya loved to eat delicious food. But, unlike his peers, he loved not only to eat, but also to cook. That is why after school Ivan entered the Donetsk Food College.
When the time came to serve in the army in 1939, there were no questions about Ivan Sereda's military specialty - his main military post was located in the kitchen.
It was near Dvinsk ...
Met the war in June 1941, Ivan Sereda as a cook of the 91st Tank Regiment of the 46th Tank Division of the 21st Mechanized Corps of the North-Western Front.
Heavy and unsuccessful battles for the Red Army flared up, Ivan rushed to the front line, but he was strictly answered - everyone knows how to shoot, but few can feed a fighter, so march to the kitchen, Red Army soldier Sereda!
With heavy fighting, the Soviet units retreated to the east. The battalion in which Sereda served was near Dvinsk, now known as the Latvian Daugavpils.
The field kitchen, where Ivan cooked, stood in a small forest, where the entire household platoon was located. Suddenly, a messenger from the battalion commander came running - a new German attack threatened to be surrounded, and the platoon was ordered to move to the front line, to help. Everyone except the chef.
Ivan was left alone with porridge and soup. And suddenly the sound of a working tank engine was heard very close by.
Sereda looked back and saw that two German tanks appeared just a few hundred meters away from him. These were vehicles from the 10th Panzer Regiment of the 8th German Panzer Division. As it turned out later, the tankers had orders to go to the rear of the battalion in which the cook Sereda served.
Of the weapons, the cook had only a carbine and an ax, which, at first glance, are bad helpers in the fight against tanks.
How to be? Run? Many would probably run. However, the economic Sereda was not going to throw his property to the delight of the Germans - he unharnessed the horses and led them away into the forest, and he hid behind the field kitchen, hoping that the Nazis would not pay attention to her.
One of the tanks actually drove past, but the second rolled out straight to the field kitchen.
"Hyundai hoh!"
Psychology played a big role in what happened next. The crew of a German tank trophy in the form of a field kitchen relaxed and cheered. From the turret of the tank, the head of a German appeared, who laughed contentedly, saying something to his comrades inside the car.
Ivan Sereda. Photo: Frame youtube.com
And here Ivan Sereda was seized with rage. He cooked porridge for his guys, and the Germans will eat it?! And in a moment he rushed to the tank, holding an ax in his hands.
The German, seeing a Russian soldier running towards him, dived into the hatch. A machine gun fired from the tank, but the cook did not fall into the zone of his shelling.
Picking up a piece of canvas, Sereda jumped onto the armor and closed the viewing slots with it, depriving the tankers of the view. The machine gun continued to fire, and then the cook with two blows of the butt of the ax bent its barrel.
Courage, as you know, takes cities, what can we say about tanks. The cook saddled the enemy car and began to furiously thrash the hatch with an ax, giving commands to non-existent comrades:
Surround them guys! Let's blow up the grenades! Give up, gansiki, Hyundai hoh!
The stunned and blinded German tankers were clearly at a loss. How many people surrounded them, they had no idea, the furious blows of the ax on the armor brought the crew to a slight shell shock.
As a result, the hatch of the tank opened, and four German tankers climbed out of it one by one.
Sereda, remembering the carbine, pointed a weapon at them and forced them to tie each other.
How the hero turned into an "occupier"
When Sereda's comrades returned to the field kitchen, their eyes widened. A German tank stood next to her, Germans were tied up, and the cook, as if nothing had happened, took a sample from the porridge.
About unique case very quickly became known to the high command in Moscow, and he was widely covered in Soviet propaganda materials, which subsequently did a disservice: many began to believe that the “cook Sereda” was a mythical character.
But the reality of Ivan Sereda and his exploits are documented.
After the incident with the tank, Sereda began to be involved in military operations, during one of which the hero-cook destroyed a German tank with a bunch of grenades, and then, replacing the killed machine gunner, destroyed up to a dozen Nazis.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 31, 1941, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, the Red Army soldier Sereda Ivan Pavlovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal .
Presentation of the award to Ivan Sereda. Photo: Public Domain
In 1942, Ivan Sereda was sent to advanced training courses for command personnel, and in 1944, to the Novocherkassk Cavalry School.
Ivan Sereda ended the war with the rank of senior lieutenant, adding to the star of the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, as well as medals awarded for valor and courage in battles.
In 1945, Ivan Sereda returned home, soon became chairman of the village council. Alas, his peaceful life turned out to be short - the hero died in the fall of 1950 at the age of 31.
After the Victory, one of the streets of the Latvian Daugavpils was named after Ivan Sereda. But when the USSR collapsed, both from the name and from memorial plaque they got rid of one of the houses - in a country where SS veterans are revered, the “Soviet occupier”, who takes German tankers prisoner with an ax, turned out to be not a hero, but an aggressor.
