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On the day of the operation to break the blockade of Leningrad tank company lieutenant Ostanyuka from the 549 th Tank Battalion, 61st Tank Brigade of the 67th Army of the Leningrad Front, fought on the T-60, due to the low weight of their tanks, crossed the Neva on the thinnest That year ice. Overcoming the frozen peat bogs and walked to the edge of the forest. Ahead was a clearing, pitted with craters, which could be seen over the ridge Sinyavino Heights. From early morning January 13 tankers, accompanying Marines rushed to further attack.

Ostanyuk led his company into battle, targeting it to Hitler's infantry.

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And then it happened that the German tanks Pz-IV cut off the commander's T-60, which was powerless against their thick armor. Lieutenant postrelivaya a warning from a gun, ordered the driver-mechanic Makarenkova reversing maneuver, dodging enemy fire trucks and at the same time enticing them to the forest. There was a battery of lieutenant Romanov. Gunners saw how skillfully "dancing" tank, and understand the trick. When the T-60 rushed to the side, and the German tanks - for them, they framed their side. Romanov immediately opened fire. Immediately Hitler burned two cars, then a third.

Ostanyuk established radio contact with his company, found that the tankers drove the enemy infantry into a huge pit. The Germans resisted stubbornly, threw grenades at our tanks, causing them to move away from the precipice. It was impossible to delay: the Nazis have time to dig in, to call in reinforcements. Ostanyuk Makarenkov and invented the trick. Makarenkov became as close as possible "roll" to the cliff and immediately retreat in its wake. Do this several times, it is a well-paved track ramming. Then, taking a rapid run-up, the T-60 jumped off a cliff into the pit, in the midst of enemy infantry and began ironing her tracks. Lieutenant Ostanyuk crushed enemy fire. He tore the check bearing the trigger - the machine gun has earned its own, beat himself out of a cannon. After a few laps, the tank slowed down, went to the middle of the pit, and stopped. The enemy was destroyed. Under caterpillars T-60, and from its gun-machine-gun fire were killed 232 German soldiers.

January 18, 1943 tank company lieutenant Ostanyuka conjunction with the 123rd Infantry Brigade and gunners joined the worker village number 1, which merged with parts of 372 th Infantry Division of the 2nd Shock Army of the Volkhov Front. The enemy has broken through the blockade of Leningrad. January 21, 1943 in the battle of Working settlement number 6 Ostanyuka tank shell hit. Makarenkova badly wounded, the machine is out of order. Ostanyuk under fire pulled the driver out of the tank and at the hands of donёs to shelter. There he was sent to the field hospital ...

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on February 10, 1943 lieutenant Ostanyuku Makarenkova and was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

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