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Vasiliy Ivanych Utin Geroy Sovetskogo Soyuza

orn in the village of Ivanovka in 1918. After finishing the seven-year school, Vasily Ilyich entered the Kushnarenkovsky Fruit and Vegetable College. At this time, the entire Shein family (named after stepfather Vasily Utin) left the village of Ivanovka for the village of Bugabash, Bakalinsky district of the BASSR; Vasily was 15 years old at that time. Having studied at the technical school from 1936 to 1939, in September 1939 he began working as a biology teacher at the Bugashev eight-year school. But already at the end of December 1939 he was called up to serve in the Red Army. Vasily Utin served at a border outpost in Moldova, on the border with Romania. Soon, the young, capable fighter is sent to junior command school. After graduating from this school, Vasily, now a junior commander, was sent to serve in the Baltic states. And plans for the future included studying at a military school. But the Great Patriotic War began. Submachine gunner Vasily Utin showed himself heroically. 12/9/1941 in a battle with the Germans near the village of Sofyino-Raevka, Gorlovsky district. Having captured the settlement, Vasily Utin with his group of machine gunners, repelling fierce attacks from superior enemy forces, held it until our main forces arrived. On this day, the unit received an order to build on their success and master the heights. The Germans fired heavily with mortars. The company commander, Senior Lieutenant Yaganov, ordered Utin to support the attack with machine gun fire from the flank. The brave warrior was wounded, but did not allow the enemy to carry out a counter maneuver and pinned him down. The Red Army soldiers launched an attack and the height was taken. By the end of the day, Utin ensured the outcome of a fierce battle for the third time a day. Covering the flank of his company, which occupied a new position, he alone, with a machine gun in his hands, drew fire from the fascist company for more than two hours. His courage and fortitude seemed inexhaustible. The explosion tore off his hand, but overcoming the pain, seeing that the Nazis again went on the attack, with the last of his strength, holding a pistol in his surviving hand, he raised the fighters to attack. The soldiers quickly rushed after him. The Nazis, unable to withstand the bayonet strike, turned back. Enemy bullet V.I. Utin was mortally wounded in the chest. He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously and his name is forever included in the list of personnel of the N-outpost on the western border of our Motherland, which now bears the name of the hero, our fellow countryman Vsailiy Ilyich Utin. in this