(24. 6. 1923)
With uhomlin Ivan Mikhailovich - Guard lieutenant commander of a tank company in the 17 th Guards Tank Brigade (1-Don Guards Tank Corps, 65 Army, 1 st Belorussian Front). Born June 24, 1923 in the village now Vasilenkovo Shevchenko area of Kharkiv region (Ukraine). Ukrainetz. After junior high school he graduated from Berdyansk Agricultural College.
In the army since 1941. Initially, he studied at radio courses, and then sent to Kamyshinskoe tank school, where he graduated in 1942.
. In Private World War II from January 1943 as commander of a tank platoon of 68 Tank Brigade
. He took part in fierce fighting in the Bryansk and the Central Front. He was wounded and after the treatment in the hospital sent to the 17-th Guards Tank Brigade. He fought at Kursk, participated in the liberation of Belarus. Acting on the edge of the impact of the main forces of the tank brigade, a company under his command, reinforced commando submachine particularly distinguished July 8, 1944 in the battles on the outskirts of the town of Slonim (Grodno oblast). She took possession of the station Molchad, . cutting the railroad Lida Б? Baranovichi and held her until the main forces brigades, . taking 3 self-propelled guns, . Tank, . 7 guns, . cars and train with equipment and ammunition, . destroyed in battle more than 100 Nazis,
. July 9, 1944 she was among the first stormed into the town of Slonim. Tank crew IM Sukhomlina killed 2 self-propelled guns, mortar battery, and about 30 enemy soldiers and officers. The commander was wounded, but remained in the ranks and sent a burning tank in the fascist self-propelled gun.
. W tion of the Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and medal "Gold Star" Ivan Mikhailovich Suhomlin awarded on Aug. 22, 1944 for their courage and heroism in battle.
. After the war, in 1951 he graduated from the Military Academy of armored and mechanized forces in 1955 Б? Military Academy of Frunze
. After a brief service in the army in 1961, he entered the Academy of Armored adjunction. In 1963 he received a PhD degree in military science and was kept in the academy instructor. From 1965 to 1967 was in Cuba. Later he worked in higher education. Б? Since 1975 head of department of the Military Institute. Since 1985, Major-General Suhomlin IV Б? in stock.
Lives in Moscow. He is a member of the Bureau and the Moscow Club of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, headed by the organization of the club in the Northern District of Moscow, Academician of the Academy of Military Sciences.
. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, World War 1-st degree, 2 orders of Red Star, Order Б• For Service to Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces Б•? 3rd degree, medals.
. Honorary citizen of the city of Slonim.
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Biography provided by A. Simonov
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