Victor Dmitrievich Kuskov biography

The memorial plaque in Kronstadt Kuskov Viktor Dmitrievich is a motorbridge of the torpedo boat of the 1st Guards Division of the torpedo boats of the 1st brigade of the torpedo boats of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, the guard senior sailor. Born on November 2 in the village of Perelogi now Rameshkovsky district of the Tver region in a peasant family.

Member of the CPSU from the year. Graduated 7 classes. He worked as an invoice on a collective farm. In the Red Army since July. In the year he graduated from the training detachment of the Northern Fleet. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War from the year. The motorist of the torpedo boat of the 1st Guards Division 1st Brigade of torpedo boats, the Red Banner Baltic Fleet of the Guard Senior Red North Viktor Kuskov participated in forty-two combat campaigns, in which three enemy ships were sunk.

After the war, the brave Baltic sailor graduated from the A. Zhdanov Naval Political School in Leningrad since the year-Hero city, and St. Petersburg from the year. Since the year, Senior Lieutenant Kuskov V. lived and worked in the city of Pushkin of the Leningrad City Council, now the administration of St. Petersburg. He died on September 25. He was buried in the city of Pushkin in the Kazan cemetery.

His name was awarded the orders of Lenin on a memorial plaque with the names of the heroes of the Soviet Union of the brigade of the sea torpedo boats of the Baltic Fleet, installed on the Alley of Glory in the city of Kronstadt. It was an exciting meeting. Is it a joke! Indeed, over a quarter of a century, much has changed: one was gray, another comb no longer needs a hug, memories also talked about studying at the A.

Zhdanov Naval Political School, which for many was a step on the way to the academy. I remembered the dialogue of two captains of the 1st rank of reserve. Many joined the conversation. They remembered a tall, slender sailor with a beautiful, intelligent face, with a thoughtful look of gray attentive eyes. In thoroughly stitched trousers and a flannel with a blue collar, bordered by three white stripes, outwardly, shape, he looked like other cadets.

Nevertheless, there were special, characteristic features that distinguish him. No, not only the star of the Hero of the Soviet Union, sparkling with gold on the blue flannel. And I recalled how once, in the post -war year, in a school on Malaya Okhta, during a break between lectures on the ramp site, where we went to a smoke break, at the request to tell about the feat of the foreman of the 1st article Viktor Kuskov quietly pronounced: - What to tell there?

I did what I had to do, and did as each of those who were here. Isn't it? Viktor Kuskov was born in the year in the village of Perelogi Rameshkovsky district of the Kalinin region. He did not stand out in a brisk character in his school years, did not differ particularly and when he grew up. The thoughtful, diligent and responsive sailor was respected and loved by the comrades and friends in the electromechanical school of the training detachment of the Northern Fleet, in which he studied in the year and which he graduated with honors.

Victor studied was easily given, but in his soul he was looking forward to the day when he went to ships, he would participate in combat campaigns. There was no end to the joy of the Red Fleet when he found out that he, the 3rd class motorist, was sent to the brigade of torpedo boats of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. This news was beyond any expectations.

Victor knew that bold, brave people serve on the boats. And when the young sailor changed the black tape of the dishes at the guards orange-black, he made his own oath, which will justify the title of the guardsman in the upcoming military campaigns. And there were a lot of them. Then the ships of the Red Banner Baltic firmly kept the defense of Leningrad and Kronstadt.

A large, very large load fell on the "mosquito fleet", to which torpedo boats were attributed. Unlike large ships that could not go to sea due to strong mine danger, the boats conducted active combat operations on enemy communications, carried the sentinel service, put minefields in more than 40 combat outputs by Viktor Kuskov in the first year of service in the Baltic. Here is one of the episodes.

The boat, on which V. Kuskov served, fought with the enemy ships. The motorist reliably provided a move specified by the commander, quickly performed each team transmitted from the bridge by machine telegraph and negotiation pipe. Everything went well. The battle seemed to be nearing the end. And suddenly an enemy shell exploded in the engine compartment.

The left engine was broken, the right oil wire of the right was damaged. Viktor Contesilo. For a while, he lost consciousness. Waking up, the Red Navy appreciated the situation with lightning speed. He saw that the oil did not enter the motor, which was about to fail, stall. If this happened - the boat will lose move. This will immediately take advantage of the enemy who will try to capture the boat.

The outcome of the battle could decide seconds. And then, overcoming the pain, Victor crawled to the oil pipeline. There was no time to look for any material to eliminate the malfunction, and the Red Navy squeezed the hole with his bare hands. Hot oil, metal burned palms, fingers. The pain was hellish.But the idea of ​​what can happen if the motor staller and the boat loses its move, gave the strength to the sailor, and he did not take his hands away.

The boat at that time arrived safely at the base. For this and other military campaigns of the guard, the senior Red Navy V. Kuskov was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit". Yes, Victor could tell himself that it was not for nothing that the orange-black ribbon wears on a dishevef's. On the night of June 1, four enemy guard ships, the minesweeper and two destroyers tried to break into the Vyborg Bay.

Four torpedo boats under the command of the Hero of the Soviet Union Captain Lieutenant V. Gumanenko resolutely attacked the enemy. The boat of senior lieutenant V. Nekrasov, under strong artillery fire, broke forward and put a smoke curtain. Under her cover, the rest of the boats went on the attack. They fired on more automatic and semi -automatic guns. Despite this, the boat of senior lieutenant S.

Glushkov, from a short distance, released torpedoes and sank an enemy ship. Two other torpedo boats under the command of senior lieutenant A. Suvorov, meeting a strong barrage fire, could not approach the enemy. They attacked him from a different direction and torpedoed a guard ship. Ivanov sank another watchdog. During this battle, the boat of Lieutenant M.

Khrenov, on which Viktor Kuskov served. A fire began on the deck, which soon swept the entire boat.

Victor Kuskov and Grigory Matyukhin fought with fire for the survivability of the ship. On the sailors, clothes, hair burned, the body was incredibly burned, blood poured from the wounds. Having exhausted all the possibilities of combating fire in the engine compartment, the sailors got out to the deck. Here were the wounded. Grigory Matyukhin and Viktor Kuskov put on life zones on them, lowered overboard.

The sailors found the commander in the wheelhouse. Heavily wounded, he was unconscious. Nearby lay an officer of the unit, Lieutenant Prushinsky. He slowly opened his eyes, said barely audibly: - Leave the boat! It is known that according to the requirements of the ship charter, the commander leaves the ship to be the latter. Is it possible to leave the boat, leave the wounded?

Neither Matyukhin nor pieces could allow this; They knew another sea commandment well: "Dyn yourself, and help out a comrade." The senior Red Navy Kuskov put on the commander a cork rescue belt and with him went out overboard. The head of the headquarters was helped by the chief foreman Grigory Matyukhin.