Biography of Ivan Lysenko

The VR reconstruction "Unknown Znamoster" "The morning of April 30 came,-recalled the commander of the battalion of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Corps of the Idric Division of the 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, Captain Semen Neustroev. The area for two parts was cut by a canal flooded with water. Behind the channel is the German defense - trenches, bunkers, anti -aircraft guns, put on direct aims.

At the end of the square, a small gray building with a dome and towers is the Reichstag. ” The defense of the building was very strong. Before the main entrance, trenches of a full profile were dug, the approaches to the Reichstag were barricaded. The whole square was shot in front of the Reichstag. The building itself with its thick walls and deep basements was adapted to circular defense.

The lower floors and basements were reinforced with earthen embankments. In the rooms and halls of the building, machine gunners and machine gunners with faustpatron were located. Three times the fighters, go and th regiments climbed the attack, closer and closer to the Reichstag. Among them were the scouts of the regiment, led by Captain Sorokin, who had an order to hook the Red Banner over the Reichstag.

One of them was an assistant to the intelligence platoon commander Ivan Lysenko. Ivan Nikiforovich Lysenko was born on September 9 in the village of Kuznets, the Surazhsky district of the Chernihiv province now Gordeevsky district of the Bryansk region. At the age of 6, he remained an orphan. At the end of primary school, he began to work on the collective farm.

During the years of repression, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He spent three years in the Solovetsky camp of a special regime. After the start of the Great Patriotic War, he signed as a volunteer to the front, but he was refused a draft in the Red Army. In the year, he again submitted an application for sending to the front and, as he visited the occupation, was sent to the penalty battalion.

According to the redeeming of guilt, it was directed to the Blood of the Division. For actions as part of the assault groups, he was awarded the medal "For Courage" and the orders of the Patriotic War of the II degree and the Red Star. At the same time, as stated in the documents “a German officer twice almost point blank shot at Comrade. Lysenko was from a pistol, but it was not given to die the hero.

Until machine gun Comrade Lysenko refused, at a moment he knocked his head with his head to the German officer and his batman. A panic rose in the camp of the enemy.

The moment was used, and several more of our groups crossed through the channel. ” Having broken into the second floor, the scouts hung a flag in the window, after which Sorokin, according to Ivan Nikiforovich, ordered him to go down to the first floor and knock out enemy soldiers from there. Having entered the battle, Ivan Lysenko got into one of the basements of the building where the hospital was located, and captivated the head of the hospitals of Berlin, Major General Schraiber and the head of the Red Cross of the German capital, Lieutenant General Brenfeld, who were soon delivered to him to the regiment headquarters.

After the end of the Great Patriotic War, Ivan Lysenko stopped the destroyed mines in the Donbass, then returned to his native lands. He worked as a cinema mechanic, foreman of the field brigade, chairman of the collective farm. In April, Ivan Lysenko was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the Bryansk region. Ivan Nikiforovich Lysenko died on December 30. His name is the square and the street in the village of Krasnaya Gork of the Krasnogorsk district of the Bryansk region.