Yarovenko Yuri Yuryevich Biography

Showing the Frontovik poet, Ivan Korostelev, was born in the village of Borki, Voronezh region on July 12. He studied at school, then at the Kiev artillery school, which he graduated with honors. He dreamed of continuing his studies at the Military Academy, but in the year the war with the White Finns began. Twenty -year -old Lieutenant Korostelev asked for the most crucial section of the service, to the Karelian Isthmus.

The Great Patriotic War found the lieutenant on the western border. An order was received: to join the battle with the Nazi invaders. From that moment on, a military road began for me, four years long, ”the veteran recalled. The whole battle path of Ivan Korostlev can be represented by reading his poems. Przemysl, Leningrad, Kharkov, Kyiv, Lviv, Ternopol, Warsaw, Berlin - an incomplete list of cities in the liberation of which he participated.

The battery commander compared the lines in trenches during lull hours or in sleepless nights. The soldiers met with death every day - they needed a heart and truthful word how many days of the harsh and nights with them you spent in the cold and heat, treated them to their own shaft, often ate one spoon. Under one overcoat he was sleeping nearby ... The battery of Ivan Korostelev was holding the defense on fire positions near Leningrad, near Kolpin.

Terrible at the walls of Leningrad by a shower, Soviet metal bunkers measured the enemy. The Order of the Red Star was received on April 23 of the year for making his way to the rear, the artilleryman-poet corrected the fire of the guns. As a result, the enemy’s supporting point was destroyed. Korosteleva I. Then there were still awards for successfully conducted operations, for personal heroism, and there were poems ...

Winter found near Warsaw, it is softer here than ours. Here, from TNT, the snow is all rusty, but our eyes are used to this. He ended the war with the rank of major. The combat path of the valiant warrior was marked by the orders of the Red Star, the Red Banner, the Patriotic War of the first, second and third degree, twelve medals.

Ivan Efimovich resigned from the army in the year. The craving for creativity, the desire to tell about what he saw and experienced in the war forced him to change the profession. He entered the Voronezh State University at the Faculty of Philology. He lived in Berezov, worked at the Berezovsky agricultural technical school of the Ramonsky district as a teacher of literature and initial military training.

The front-line soldier knew how to live and enjoy life, like no one, for he really recognized the price of life, looking into the eyes of death. He wrote poetry all his life: during the war, they were printed on the pages of front -line newspapers, after the war in the district newspaper. Days will rush, centuries will pass, but the case in generations will not die. They will not take us off and praise us for the forty -fifth year.

My uncle Ivan Efimovich Korostelev devoted his whole life that young people knew the history of his ancestors and never forget the horror of the Great Patriotic War and the price of the Great Victory.