Guselnikov biography

The tombstone of Guselnikov Denis Semenovich is the gun commander of the Guards Artillery Regiment of the Guards Belgorod-Kharkov Rifle Division of the Army of the Steppe Front, the guard senior sergeant. Born on July 11 in the village of Nizhny Stevetz now Zolotukhinsky district of the Kursk region in a peasant family. He graduated from 9 classes, worked on a collective farm.

He served in the Red Army in years. The military service was held by the Red Army man in the MA artillery regiment of the Rifle Division of the Oryol Military District in the city of Kursk. Secondary in the Red Army and in the battles of the Great Patriotic War since August. He was a cadet of the spare horse-artillery regiment, the commander of the gun. He fought in the Bryansk, Voronezh, steppe, 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts.

Sergeant Guselnikov, as part of the Rifle Division of the Bryansk Front in October - June, participated in defensive battles in the Kursk city and at the turn of the Tim and Kshen River. As part of the same division of the 6th Army of the Voronezh Front, in July-September, he participated in the battles to eliminate the enemy bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Don River in the area of ​​the villages of Korotoyak-Pokrovskoye and in the conquest of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Don in the area of ​​the settlements of Selyavlevoy-Storozhevoy, for which he was awarded the medal for the Medal for the Medal for Combat merits.

" In January-April, Guselnikov participated in the Ostrogozh-Rossoshanskaya and Belgorod-Kharkov operations. As part of the 3rd Panzer Army of the Voronezh Front, he liberated the villages of Mitrofanovka, New Kalitva, participated in the battles for Kharkov. In April of the year, for the combat successes, the Infantry Division was transformed into the Yu Guards Rifle Division.

In the summer of the year, in the army of the Steppe Front, Guselnikov participated in battles on the Kursk arc. On the same day, the city was released, for which Guselnikov was awarded the medal "For Courage". In August-September, he freed many settlements of the Poltava region and went to the Dnieper. The gun commander of the Guards Artillery Regiment I am the Guards Rifle Division, I am the army, the steppe front of the guard senior sergeant Denis Guselnikov when crossing the Dnieper River on September 30 in the village of Keleberd Krelenchug District of the Poltava Region of Ukraine under the enemy’s fire crossed the river and in the battle with a straight firefield with a straight firefield.

Four mortars, three machine -gun points N, a large amount of enemy power. Guselnikov knocked out a tank, three machine guns and destroyed dozens of Nazis. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated December 20, for successful forcing of the Dnieper River, strong consolidation on the western bank of the Dnieper River and the heroism of the guard, the senior sergeant Guselnikov Denis Semenovich, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

After crossing the Dnieper of the Guard, the senior sergeant Guselnikov, as part of the army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, participated in the battles for the city of Krivoy Rog. In March, during the Odessa operation in the battle for the city of Voznesensk, the Nikolaev region was seriously wounded. After a cure in the hospital in June, he was sent to study at the Military-Political School.

In July, D. Guselnikov graduated from the Ivanovo Military-Political School. He served as deputy commander of the division for the political unit of the GO anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the artillery brigade of the Voronezh Military District. Since July, Lieutenant D. Guselnikov is in stock. He lived in the city of Voronezh.

He worked as the head of the Route Service of the City Transport of the Ministry of Public Utilities. He died on December 24. He was buried in the southwestern cemetery of the city of Voronezh. The name of the hero was awarded the Order of Lenin on the memorial plaque to graduates and teachers of the Ivanovo Military-Political School in the city of Ivanovo, opened in May. The biography is supplemented by Valery Vorobyov.