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Сергей Алексеевич Бороздин / Sergej Alexeewitsch Borosdin 1916 - 1942 Edit

Born 1.9.1916 in Stalino / Donezk
Died 17.3.1942 in Mauthausen

Biography

Sergei Alexeevich Borozdin was born on 1 September 1916 into a working-class family in the city of Yuzovka (later Stalino, now Donetsk in Ukraine). He was Russian by nationality. In 1933 he completed his seventh year in a factory and works school and became a metalworker by profession.

He joined the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army on 26 October 1937. From 5 November 1937 until the end of January 1940, he served in the 22nd Rifle Regiment of the 8th Red Banner Rifle Division ‘F.E. Dzerzhinsky’ in Minsk (Belorussian Military District, from 26 July 1938 the Belorussian Special Military District). From 5 November 1937 to 10 October 1938 he took courses at the regimental school, and from 10 October 1938 to 31 January 1939 he served as deputy political commissar (‘Politruk’).

In mid-1938 the 22nd Rifle Regiment (unit 4757) was relocated to the town of Rahachow (in the Gomel region of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Belorussia). In summer 1938 the units of the 8th Rifle Division were renamed: thus the 22nd Rifle Regiment became the 229th Rifle Division.

Based on his term of service (5 November 1937 to 31 January 1940) in the stated unit serving the Belorussian Special Military District, it can be assumed that Borozdin took part in the Polish campaign of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (17 to 29 September 1939) – a military operation of the Red Army in the eastern provinces of the Republic of Poland – as well as in the Soviet-Finnish war (30 November 1939 to 12 March 1940).

At the end of January 1940 Borozdin was sent on a training course at the Red Banner Infantry School ‘Supreme Soviet of the USSR’ in Moscow. After completing an accelerated course at the school on 1 May 1941 he was conferred the rank of lieutenant. He was then dispatched to a post in Belorussia, in the Western Special Military District.

From May to 24 June 1941 he served as an armoured train driver in the 10th Special Artillery Armoured Train Battalion (consisting of four trains) in the 68th Grodnensky Fortified Area of the Western Special Military District (battalion headquarters were in the village of Kopchany, Grodno region, Soviet Socialist Republic of Belorussia).

The units of the 68th Fortified Area were encircled and during the bitterly fought defence, Lieutenant Borozdin was taken prisoner on 24 June 1941 at Galynka, Grodno region, Belorussia.

From July to December 1941 he was held in German captivity in Oflag XIII D (62). He had an identity tag bearing the number 1107.

On 11 December 1941 he was handed over to the Gestapo.

On 17 March 1942 he and other Soviet prisoners of war were executed (shot) at the Mauthausen concentration camp.

 

Andrei Murylev

 

Translation into English: Joanna White

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