Yurasov. Heroes of the Fatherland Evgeniy Sergeevich Yurasov

Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Major Yurasov Oleg Aleksandrovich

On the 28th anniversary of the withdrawal of a limited contingent of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

Know what kind of guy he was!

Yurasov Oleg Aleksandrovich - chief of staff, deputy commander of the 2nd parachute battalion of the separate guards Red Banner Order of Suvorov, third degree, 345th parachute regiment named after the 70th anniversary of the Lenin Komsomol as part of the 40th Army of the Red Banner Turkestan Military District (limited contingent of Soviet troops in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan), guard major was twice awarded the Order of the Red Star.

On January 23, 1989, three weeks before the end of the withdrawal of Soviet troops, he was killed in action during Operation Typhoon. For courage and heroism shown in an extreme situation, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 10, 1989, medal No. 11593).

Oleg Yurasov was born on November 27, 1954 in the garrison of Ostafyevo (now Shcherbinka) in the Moscow region into a working-class family. In 1972 he graduated from the 10th grade of the Ostafyevskaya secondary school (now school No. 5 in Shcherbinka). In 1973, Oleg entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Twice Red Banner School named after the Lenin Komsomol.

After graduating from college in 1979, the young officer served in the reconnaissance company of the 331st Parachute Regiment, stationed in Kostroma, in positions from platoon commander to company commander.

Since June 1987, Guard Major O. A. Yurasov has been serving in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan as part of the 40th Army of the Red Banner Turkestan Military District as chief of staff, deputy commander of the parachute battalion of the separate Guards Red Banner Order of Suvorov, third degree, 345th parachute landing regiment named after the 70th anniversary of the Lenin Komsomol.

From the notebook of the political officer of the 2nd parachute battalion Sergei Bogatov.

Today I flew to my place of duty - the village of Anava in the Panjshir gorge. My heart sank sadly. Where did you end up, in what century? Low duvals, houses made of clay and stones. No people are visible. Only at the landing site are soldiers in bulletproof vests.

I met the chief of staff of our battalion, Captain Oleg Yurasov. The face is very mobile, the eyes are cunning, one can feel strong strength in the hand, he is as fast as a top. We said hello, he asked: “Well, how do you like our places?” and he answered himself, “I’ve already worn myself out in three months...”

Our group has been under mortar fire for three days. We are sitting at the battalion command post. Oleg at the radio station gives orders to the outposts, adjusts artillery fire on identified targets, while squinting angrily and covering the “spirits” with a strong Russian word.

In the evening they gathered in my room: battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel A. Serebryakov, chief of staff captain Yurasov and special officer. We drank "Sisi" - an orange drink, ate pilaf and apples. They talked about families, home, about the life that awaits in the Union. Then Oleg said: “I wish I could hold out until my vacation, but then it’s no longer scary. After all, there is a belief: if you didn’t kill in the first four months, then the probability of dying is minimal...”

After six years in the Panjshir Gorge, our battalion was withdrawn to the city of Bagram. The column was led by Oleg Yurasov. I followed him in a BMP. We stopped at a lonely village. The three of us - me, captain Pasha Morozov and Oleg Yurasov - took pictures. I remembered his words: “Now don’t turn your head on, it’s undesirable to tempt fate so often...”

Oleg Yurasov, captain S. Lokhin and the battalion doctor, senior lieutenant V. Zazulin, received the Order of the Red Star. We gathered at the front. They washed this thing in the kitchen. There were toasts to those awarded, to the fate of their relatives, the third - silently... Oleg then remembered his daughters. He wanted his family so much... Like everyone else present.

All officers celebrated the New Year together, with the exception of those on duty in the company and battalion.

There are only a few days left before the withdrawal of troops. I really want to live, but time drags on so slowly... Everyone who served in Afghanistan says that the most anxious period is before the replacement. They no longer hire “substitutes” for operations, lest something happen. And we, it turns out, are one hundred percent “substitutes”. Who will have a happy fate? Who will survive? This is a silent question in the soul of each of us...

There were 23 days left before the last soldier was withdrawn.

At 6.30 they started the war... Oleg managed to shout: “Spirits...”. When they brought him, mortally wounded, to the battalion command post, he still showed signs of life, but the Afghan soil had absorbed too much blood...

On January 23, 1989, as a result of fighting in the village of Katalan, a gang of more than 100 people was surrounded. Leader Karim, having gathered women, old people and children, tried to break through under their cover and go to the base area. Major Yurasov O.A., at the head of a reconnaissance platoon, carried out a hidden maneuver and found himself between the civilian Afghan population and the bandits. The rebels responded to the proposal to lay down their arms with heavy fire on civilians and paratroopers. Having ordered the paratroopers to lie down, Major Yurasov stood up to his full height and indicated to the civilian population with gestures and speech that they should lie down on the ground. By these actions, he diverted the attention of the bandits from the civilian population and drew fire on himself, as a result of which he was seriously wounded and cut off from his platoon by rebel fire. With strong and dense fire, stopping all attempts by the reconnaissance platoon to approach the wounded, bleeding officer, the bandits tried to capture him in order to ensure a safe exit from the encirclement.

Major O. A. Yurasov, being seriously wounded, entered into battle with a superior enemy. Showing personal courage, composure and restraint, he destroyed up to 15 rebels with well-aimed fire. By engaging the enemy in battle, he gained time for the necessary maneuver of the reconnaissance platoon. Bleeding and suppressing pain, Major O. A. Yurasov, continuing to fire at the enemy, completely used up his ammunition and lost consciousness from loss of blood. The reconnaissance platoon, with a decisive throw, managed to break through the enemy’s fire barrier, completely destroying the gang, to its commander, who lay unconscious with grenades clutched in his hands. Yurasov O. A died from his mortal wounds, showing the best qualities of an officer, courage and heroism, in a critical situation, sacrificing himself, managed to save dozens of civilians and ensure the completion of the combat mission.

Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

on conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union

Major Yurasov Oleg Alexandrovich

For the successful completion of the task of providing international assistance to the Republic of Afghanistan and the courage and heroism shown during this, award

Major Yurasov Oleg Alexandrovich

Title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously)

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M. Gorbachev

Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR T. Menteshashvili

SOLUTION

Presidium of the Podolsk Executive Committee of People's Deputies

To assign secondary school No. 5 of the Podolsk district the name of the Hero of the Soviet Union

Guard Major Oleg Alexandrovich Yurasov

Chairman of the Executive Committee A. Moskalev

ORDER No. 34

Head of the Ryazan Military Airborne Command School

The fourth battalion of cadets is to establish patronage over the family and relatives of Hero of the Soviet Union Oleg Aleksandrovich Yurasov and over secondary school No. 5 in Shcherbinka.

Head of the school, Lieutenant General A. Slyusar

Traditional, annual celebration of the Hero

", surrounded by Soviet troops, militants, under the cover of civilians, tried to escape from the village of Kalatak. The most fierce fighting took place 80 meters from the 42nd outpost. It was there that Karim’s detachment settled down - only 120 people. The rebels had: machine guns, a mountain cannon, a recoilless rifle and a DShK. A sniper was working from the blast hole. Major Yurasov with a reconnaissance platoon forced the enemy to lie down with machine gun fire, and gave the residents the opportunity to escape to a safe place. He suggested that the bandits surrender. And then an oblique machine-gun burst hit the commander, piercing his thigh and groin, cutting the femoral artery. The hero died from loss of blood on the battlefield. The Karimovites were no longer coddled, and they were destroyed.

Government awards:
1980-88- awarded many medals.
1987- awarded Order of the Red Star
1988- awarded Order of the Red Star
For courage and heroism shown in extreme situations, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (decree dated April 10, 1989, medal No. 11593) posthumously.
April 10, 1989- awarded Order of Lenin.
April 10, 1989- awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, posthumously, 74th deceased To the hero out of 79 during the war.
1990— it was decided to annually hold a traditional memorial for the All-Russian youth tournament in army hand-to-hand combat “Golden Ring of Russia” in memory of Hero of the Soviet Union Oleg Yurasov.
November 26, 1990 secondary school No. 5 in the city of Shcherbinka (Oleg studied there) was given the name Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Major Yurasov.

Links to articles about Oleg Alexandrovich:
http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=3184
http://www.scherbinka.ru/history/zinoviev.php?page21

Hero's father

When we hear the name Yurasov, we immediately think of our fellow countryman, the famous hero of Afghanistan Oleg Yurasov. The story of his feat is familiar to many Shcherbinsk residents, and there is no point in repeating it again. This time, on the eve of Victory Day, we want to talk about Oleg’s father Alexander Mikhailovich Yurasov. About the man who raised our hero, instilling in him a love for the Motherland from childhood and raising him to be a courageous and honest person. The life of Yurasov Sr. deserves special attention. During the Great Patriotic War, he lost his father and uncle at the front. His older brother went through it from beginning to end and even managed to fight in the Far East with the Japanese. But Alexander Mikhailovich himself did not manage to get to the front, despite the fact that he spent six months preparing in training as part of a reconnaissance company. The war is over! For some, May 9 was the end of military service, but for him it was all just beginning. Alexander Mikhailovich devoted his entire life to the army and does not regret it at all.

Alexander Mikhailovich is now 85 years old. He looks strong and fit. As if the tragic events that he had to endure did not break him, but, on the contrary, strengthened him. He is cheerful, cheerful and carries himself well, although sometimes in a conversation a shadow of sadness falls on his face, and his lively eyes dim a little. He has a lot to tell, although he says little about himself, remembering more about his grandfather, father, brother and beloved son. All of them are military men and served their Motherland at different times. Some died heroically, while others were lucky enough to live to see deep gray hairs. If you look at the life story of Alexander Mikhailovich during the Great Patriotic War, it is in many ways similar to the fate of those boys who accompanied their father, brother and uncle to the front, while he himself waited with bated breath for a summons from the military registration and enlistment office. As Alexander Mikhailovich says, then the youth had no idea that they might not go to war. Everyone believed that they should be at the front and protect their country from the Nazis. There was no talk of any military romance, everyone understood well that they might not return from the front, but many were still eager, as if without this their lives would have been lived in vain.
Sasha Yurasov knew from childhood what army life was. His grandfather, a man of interesting fate, fought in the French Foreign Legion in Africa during World War I. When the revolution began in Russia, the legion, largely composed of Russian soldiers, supported the Bolsheviks. Simply because for many, the service already seemed like torture, and Lenin’s words that it was enough to fight, it was time to go home, became decisive. But it was not possible to return immediately. The legion was disbanded, and there was no one to take the soldiers back. At this time, a civil war was already raging in Russia. Several thousand Russians were captured and scattered throughout northern Africa: Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria. Grandfather later said that their life there was not bad at all. The Russian peasant was a hard worker, a jack of all trades, and could feed himself even in a foreign land. Some soldiers even married local women and stayed there forever. Our stately and handsome soldiers enjoyed success in Africa. And then Lenin hired a ship from the British, issuing a decree to return all Russians from Africa to their homeland. My grandfather was not a communist, but he was grateful to Lenin for this all his life and even bequeathed that a newspaper with a portrait of the leader should be placed in the coffin with him.
Sasha's father Mikhail Yurasov also linked his fate with the army, entering the Ryazan Infantry School and graduating as an officer. He and his family were sent to the border troops with Finland. He took part in that very bloody Soviet-Finnish war in 1939 and 1940s. Returning back to Ryazan, he again found himself in the Ryazan Infantry and began working with young soldiers. In 1943, when a very difficult situation arose near Kharkov, where the Germans could break the advance of the Soviet troops and again turn towards Moscow, all career officers were called to the front.
“I remember,” says Alexander Mikhailovich, “how my father came home before leaving. He said that he was going to the meat grinder and would certainly not return home. And so it happened, he died as a company commander. Then I understood the meaning of the saying: “When trouble comes, open the gate.” First there was a funeral for my father, then for my mother’s brother, who died near Smolensk, and then there was a letter from my older brother Nikolai. He was severely wounded in the arm by a shrapnel, and a nurse from the hospital wrote for him. My younger brother and sister, afraid that their mother would go crazy with grief, burned this funeral, showing only a letter from her son.
Alexander Mikhailovich did not remember the place of his father’s burial, and only recently, via the Internet, it was possible to find the exact location of the grave. It is located near Donetsk, and Alexander Mikhailovich will definitely go to his father’s grave. Now this is his main goal in life.
He remembers very well how the war began. The family then lived in the village, and there was no radio in the house. At five in the morning there was a sharp knock on the window. A watchman from the collective farm came running.
- Michal Ivanovich, the war has begun!
My father was called to the regional center, and he immediately left. A feeling of terrible threat hung over everyone, and it did not leave anyone until the end of the war.
While the war was going on, Sasha Yurasov, who had not yet reached conscription age, went to school and worked on a collective farm. Everyone then worked tirelessly: it was necessary to feed the army. There was a moment when the Germans approached his village, they were only 12 kilometers away. Their goal was the city of Ryazhsk, a large railway center. From there there were routes to Kuibyshev, Tambov and Lipetsk. Fortunately, we managed to push them back. Then we had to level the trenches in the fields that the Germans had dug.
The time has come for Sasha to join the army. In November 1944, he was 16 years old when he and his comrades took the oath. The guys were assigned to a reconnaissance company and transferred to the city of Kineshma. The preparation took six months. The soldiers were seriously prepared for war. They easily ran a 60-kilometer march with full ammunition and shot perfectly. After such drilling, they were not only ready physically, but also psychologically. The soldiers were confident and eager to go to the front. It was the beginning of May 1945, when Sasha Yurasov’s company was transferred to Shuya - the last point before the front, where his regiment was formed. The company was assigned to artillery, its task was to direct fire at enemy positions.
Then the great and long-awaited word spread throughout the country: “Victory!” Of course, you can’t say that the boys who were eager to go to war were disappointed by this. The joy was indescribable, but not at all the same as that of our fathers and grandfathers, hardened in battle. Those who still wanted to fight asked to go east to fight the Japanese. And many did not return...
Combat reconnaissance was no longer so needed, and a separate engineering battalion was created from Alexander Yurasov’s company. He became a cook, and from then on he fed his colleagues until his retirement. His battalion built various structures for the Soviet Army until it ended up in our Ostafyevo garrison. Here it was necessary to lengthen the runway and expand the airfield itself, where the aviation regiment of fighters of three times Hero of the USSR Ivan Kozhedub was to be stationed. This was the last stopping place before sending our pilots to the war in Korea, where the Americans were in charge at that time. Alexander Mikhailovich’s battalion built a building for the pilots, which today in Ostafyevo is called a house management building and still serves the residents of the microdistrict. Alexander Mikhailovich is proud that he himself fed Ivan Kozhedub, and also the commander of the Moscow Military District Air Force Vasily Stalin.
After the regiment was sent to Korea, the battalion was transferred to Orenburg. There they strengthened the border with China and built reserve airfields for our aviation. And so on for another seven years. And then demobilization. Alexander Mikhailovich was offered to return to Ostafyevo and work in our aviation unit as a catering instructor. He agreed and has been feeding our pilots ever since.
His son Oleg was also born here. When I asked how he managed to raise such a son, Alexander Mikhailovich said that from the 5th grade he sent him to the Podolsk wrestling school. And he didn’t touch on his physical education anymore. There was one concern: I had to buy a tracksuit once a week - they were torn very quickly. Oleg always had a serious and persistent character, and soon he became the champion of the Moscow region. To this day, in Kostroma, where Oleg Yurasov is well remembered, a tournament in his memory in hand-to-hand combat is held. He retained his love for sports throughout his life and tried to instill it in all his colleagues. It is a great joy for Alexander Mikhailovich that now a wrestling tournament in memory of his son has also begun to be held in his native Shcherbinka.
Three times a year, Oleg’s comrades from the Ryazan airborne school come to visit Alexander Mikhailovich. At the table they remember past years, Oleg’s feat, and encourage Alexander Mikhailovich. After all, for him, every visit of Oleg’s friends is an extension of life. They go together to Oleg’s grave to lay flowers.
Alexander Mikhailovich also has a daughter and two grandsons from her, and two granddaughters from Oleg. He never gets bored. He does not lose heart, he still goes fishing and is going to Kostroma for the next tournament in memory of his son.
Dmitry Strakhov. Photo by the author

IGOR EVGENIEVICH YURASOV

Biography

Was born October 10, 1922 in a family of doctors
in Vladimir. Graduated from high school. During the war, he studied first in Alma-Ata (where MAI was evacuated), then, at the end of 1942. - in Moscow.
His wife also studied there and at the same time. Galina Antonovna.
IN 1946 graduate of the aircraft department of the Moscow Aviation Institute named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze, majoring in electrical engineering.
WITH 1947 works in a special design bureau NII-88 (OKB-1, NPO Energia, Kaliningrad, Moscow region) first as a senior engineer, then as the head of a group, laboratory, sector, department.
WITH early 1954 deputy technical manager OKB-1 B.E. Chertoka.
IN 1958 Igor Evgenievich defends his dissertation and becomes candidate of technical sciences.
WITH 1963 th 1966 year - Deputy Chief Designer OKB-1.
WITH 1966 th 1974 year - Deputy Head of the complex TsKBEM.
WITH 1974 th 1981 year - scientific supervisor of the topic, scientific consultant
GKB NPO “Energia”.
Participant in the creation of the first domestic long-range ballistic missiles R-5, R-7, R-11, and the design and creation of onboard systems of the first domestic Zenit spacecraft for photographing the Earth’s surface. One of the leading managers of work on the creation and improvement of the control system for the descent from orbit to Earth of the return vehicles of unmanned (development) and manned spacecraft “Vostok”, “Voskhod”, “Soyuz”, ships under the lunar programs L-1, N-1, L- 3.
I.E. Yurasov- author and co-author of more than 80 scientific works, articles, inventions.

Awards:
1946 – Medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”;
1956 — Order of the Red Banner of Labor;
1957 December 18 — Lenin Prize laureate, resolution № 1418-657 ,
for work on the creation of the R-7 rocket;
1961 June 17 — Igor Evgenievich Yurasov by a closed Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “For outstanding achievements in creating samples of rocket technology and ensuring the successful flight of Soviet people into outer space” the title was awarded
Hero of Socialist Labor with delivery Order of Lenin And
Gold medal "Hammer and Sickle"

Links to articles about Igor Evgenievich:
http://epizodsspace.narod.ru/bibl/chertok/kniga-1/6-4.html Chertok B.E. "Rockets and People"
http://www.x-libri.ru/elib/kaman001/00000448.htm Kamanin N.P. "Hidden Space"

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EVGENY SERGEEVICH YURASOV

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YURASOVS AWARDED DURING THE PERIOD
GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

/from the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
“Feat of the People during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945,” update dated April 3, 2013/

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Best regards, Guardian.

Awards Medal "Golden Star" of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) Order of Lenin (posthumously) Two Orders of the Red Star Medal

Memory The name of the Guard Major O. A. Yurasov was assigned to Secondary School No. 5 named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Major Oleg Aleksandrovich Yurasov in the city of Shcherbinka. On November 27, 1990, on the day of remembrance of the Hero, the museum of military and labor glory “Memory” was opened in this educational institution. In memory of the Hero, since 1998, the open tournament “Golden Ring of Russia” in army hand-to-hand combat in memory of Oleg Yurasov has been held in the city of Kostroma. In 1999, the tournament received All-Russian status. In 2004, the competition was given the official status of the All-Russian tournament Cup “Golden Ring of Russia” in memory of Hero of the Soviet Union Oleg Yurasov; they became second in rating in the calendar of the Russian Army Hand-to-Hand Combat Federation after the Russian Championship. Since 2011, the tournament in memory of Oleg Yurasov received the status of the Russian Cup in army hand-to-hand combat.

Brief biography Born on November 27, 1954 at the Shcherbinka station, Leninsky district, Moscow region. In the Armed Forces of the USSR from November 18, 1973. Graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command twice Red Banner School named after the Lenin Komsomol. Since 1979, after graduating from college, he served in the reconnaissance company of the 331st Guards Parachute Regiment in Kostroma in positions from platoon commander to company commander. In 1987, he was sent to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan to a separate 345th airborne regiment. Took part in 16 combat operations. January 23, 1989, three weeks before the end of the Soviet withdrawal, during Operation Typhoon. , the militants, surrounded by Soviet troops, under the cover of civilians, tried to escape from the village of Kalatak. The most fierce fighting took place 80 meters from the 42nd outpost. It was there that Karim's detachment settled - 120 people in total. The rebels had: machine guns, a mountain cannon, a recoilless rifle and a DShK. A sniper was working from the blast hole. Major Yurasov with a reconnaissance platoon forced the enemy to lie down with machine gun fire, and gave the residents the opportunity to escape to a safe place. He suggested that the bandits surrender. And then an oblique machine-gun burst hit the commander, piercing his thigh and groin, cutting the femoral artery. The hero died from loss of blood on the battlefield. The Karimovites were no longer coddled, and they were destroyed.

Hero of the Soviet Union

Guard Major Oleg Alexandrovich Yurasov

Know what kind of guy he was!

On January 23, 1989, three weeks before the end of the withdrawal of Soviet troops, he was killed in action during Operation Typhoon " For courage and heroism shown in extreme situations, he was posthumously awarded the titleHero of the Soviet Union(decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 10, 1989, medal No. 11593).

Oleg Yurasov was born on November 27, 1954 in the garrison of Ostafyevo (now Shcherbinka) in the Moscow region into a working-class family. In 1972, he graduated from the 10th grade of Ostafyevskaya Secondary School (formerly School No. 5 in Shcherbinka). In 1973, Oleg entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Twice Red Banner School named after the Lenin Komsomol.

From the notebook of the political officer of the 2nd parachute battalion Sergei Bogatov.

We are preparing for the New Year. It has been raining heavily for the second day. In the morning I went to outpost No. 16, Oleg - to No. 12. They took apples, cheese, and sausage to the guys. Everyone is in an anxious mood: the “spirits” also know that it’s New Year, and they can throw out any trick.

In the evening they gathered in my room: battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel A. Serebryakov, chief of staff captain Yurasov and special officer. We drank "Sisi" - an orange drink, ate pilaf and apples. They talked about families, home, about the life that awaits in the Union. Then Oleg said: “I wish I could hold out until my vacation, but then it’s no longer scary. After all, there is a belief: if you didn’t kill in the first four months, then the probability of dying is minimal...”

After six years in the Panjshir Gorge, our battalion was withdrawn to the city of Bagram. The column was led by Oleg Yurasov. I followed him in a BMP. We stopped at a lonely village. The three of us - me, captain Pasha Morozov and Oleg Yurasov - took pictures. I remembered his words: “Now don’t turn your head on, it’s undesirable to tempt fate so often...”

Oleg Yurasov, captain S. Lokhin and the battalion doctor, senior lieutenant V. Zazulin, received the Order of the Red Star. We gathered at the front. They washed this thing in the kitchen. There were toasts to those awarded, to the fate of their relatives, the third - silently... Oleg then remembered his daughters. He wanted his family so much... Like everyone else present.

All officers celebrated the New Year together, with the exception of those on duty in the company and battalion.

There are only a few days left before the withdrawal of troops. I really want to live, but time drags on so slowly... Everyone who served in Afghanistan says that the most anxious period is before the replacement. They no longer hire “substitutes” for operations, lest something happen. And we, it turns out, are one hundred percent “substitutes”. Who will have a happy fate? Who will survive? This is a silent question in the soul of each of us...

There were 23 days left before the last soldier was withdrawn.

At 6.30 they started the war... Oleg managed to shout: “Spirits...”. When they brought him, mortally wounded, to the battalion command post, he still showed signs of life, but the Afghan soil had absorbed too much blood...

January 23In 1989, as a result of fighting in the village of Katalan, a gang of more than 100 people was surrounded. Leader Karim, having gathered women, old people and children, tried to break through under their cover and go to the base area.Major Yurasov O.A., at the head of a reconnaissance platoon, carried out a hidden maneuver and found himself between the civilian Afghan population and the bandits. The rebels responded to the proposal to lay down their arms with heavy fire on civilians and paratroopers. Having ordered the paratroopers to lie down, Major Yurasov stood up to his full height and indicated to the civilian population with gestures and speech that they should lie down on the ground. By these actions, he diverted the attention of the bandits from the civilian population and drew fire on himself, as a result of which he was seriously wounded and cut off from his platoon by rebel fire. With strong and dense fire, stopping all attempts by the reconnaissance platoon to approach the wounded, bleeding officer, the bandits tried to capture him in order to ensure a safe exit from the encirclement.

Major O. A. Yurasov, being seriously wounded, entered into battle with a superior enemy. Showing personal courage, composure and restraint, he destroyed up to 15 rebels with well-aimed fire. By engaging the enemy in battle, he gained time for the necessary maneuver of the reconnaissance platoon. Bleeding and suppressing pain, Major O. A. Yurasov, continuing to fire at the enemy, completely used up his ammunition and lost consciousness from loss of blood. The reconnaissance platoon, with a decisive throw, managed to break through the enemy’s fire barrier, completely destroying the gang, to its commander, who lay unconscious with grenades clutched in his hands.YU races O. A died from his mortal wounds, showing the best qualities of an officer, courage and heroism, in a critical situation, sacrificing himself, managed to save dozens of civilians and ensure the completion of the combat mission.

DECREE

Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

on conferring the title Hero of the Soviet Union

Major Yurasov Oleg Alexandrovich

For the successful completion of the task of providing international assistance to the Republic of Afghanistan and the courage and heroism shown during this, award

Major Yurasov Oleg Alexandrovich

title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously)

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M. Gorbachev

Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR. Menteshashvili

Moscow Kremlin, April 10, 1989

SOLUTION

Presidium of the Podolsk Executive Committee of People's Deputies

Assign to secondary school No. 5 of Podolsk district Name Hero of the Soviet Union

Guard Major Oleg Alexandrovich Yurasov

Chairman of the Executive Committee A. Moskalev

ORDER No. 34

chief of the Ryazan military airborne command school

The fourth battalion of cadets is to establish patronage over the family and relatives of Hero of the Soviet Union Oleg Aleksandrovich Yurasov and over secondary school No. 5 in Shcherbinka.

Head of the school, Lieutenant General A. Slyusar

YURasov Oleg Alexandrovich
November 27, 1954 – January 23, 1989

Born at the Shcherbinka station, now a city in the Podolsk district of the Moscow region, in a working-class family. Russian. In 1972 he graduated from the 10th grade of school No. 5 in Shcherbinka.

In the Soviet Army since November 1973. In 1979 he graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Twice Red Banner School named after the Lenin Komsomol. Member of the CPSU since 1979. After graduating from college, the young officer served in the reconnaissance company of the 331st Parachute Regiment, stationed in the city of Kostroma, in positions from platoon commander to company commander.

As part of the 40th Army in the Republic of Afghanistan from June 1987 to January 1989. Chief of Staff, Deputy Commander of the Parachute Battalion of the 345th Separate Guards Parachute Regiment of the Guard, Major Oleg Yurasov, took part in sixteen combat operations.

On January 23, 1989, when militants surrounded by Soviet troops, under the cover of civilians, tried to escape from the village of Kalatak in South Salang, guard Major Yurasov with a reconnaissance platoon forced the enemy to lie down with machine gun fire, and gave the residents the opportunity to escape to a safe place. Having been seriously wounded, the courageous paratrooper officer died on the same day. This happened three weeks before the end of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan...

O.A. Yurasov Afghanistan.

He was buried in the village of Ryazanov, Podolsk district, Moscow region.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 10, 1989, for the courage and heroism shown in an extreme situation while providing international assistance to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Guard Major Oleg Aleksandrovich Yurasov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Star(1987, 1988), medal.

On November 26, 1990, by the decision of the Presidium of the Podolsk Executive Committee of People's Deputies, secondary school No. 5 in the city of Shcherbinka was named after the school graduate, Hero of the Soviet Union Oleg Alexandrovich Yurasov, and the next day, on the birthday of O.A. Yurasov, a museum of military and labor glory “Memory” was opened at the school.

By order No. 34 of the head of the Ryazan Military Airborne Command School dated January 9, 1991, the fourth battalion of school cadets was ordered to establish patronage over the family and relatives of the Hero of the Soviet Union Oleg Aleksandrovich Yurasov and over secondary school No. 5 in Shcherbinka.

By order of the USSR Minister of Defense dated October 9, 1989, he was forever included in the lists of personnel of the 331st Guards Parachute Regiment.

In memory of the Hero, since 1998, the open tournament “Golden Ring of Russia” in army hand-to-hand combat in memory of Oleg Yurasov has been held in the city of Kostroma. In 1999, the tournament received All-Russian status. In 2004, the competition was given the official status of the All-Russian tournament Cup “Golden Ring of Russia” in memory of Hero of the Soviet Union Oleg Yurasov; they became second in rating in the calendar plan of the Russian Army Hand-to-Hand Combat Federation after the Russian Championship. Since 2011, the tournament in memory of Oleg Yurasov received the status of the Russian Cup in army hand-to-hand combat.

On Shagova Street in Kostroma, on the house where O.A. lived. Yurasov a memorial plaque was installed.

The Center for Additional Education of Children in Kostroma “Berkut” (Club of Young Pilots, Cosmonauts and Paratroopers) was named after O.A. Yurasova.

During the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, the name of O.A. Yurasov listed on memorial plaques located on the Monument of Glory on Peace Square in Kostroma.

Sources:

331st Guards Parachute Regiment Kostroma. History of the regiment. Historical sketch. Kostroma 2014 pp. 116-119

Airborne troops in faces. Edited by V.A. Shamanova. M., 2010. p.380

Russian airborne troops. Airborne Command. 2007. p. 268.

Website "Heroes of the Country"

Head of the military history department

Kostroma State Historical and Architectural Institute

and art museum-reserve

Belous Mikhail Alexandrovich.