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Ivan Flyorov

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Soviet Army officer (1905-1941)

Lived 1905 to 1941 · aged 36
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Ivan Andreyevich Flyorov, was a captain in the Red Army in command of the first battery of 8 Katyushas (BM-8), which was formed in Lipetsk and on 14 July 1941, who was deployed in a battle against the German army at Orsha in Belarus, with devastating effect on the enemy causing massive casualties: a single salvo...

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1995Hero of the Russian Federation
1963Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
1940Order of the Red Star

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Ivan Andreyevich Flyorov, was a captain in the Red Army in command of the first battery of 8 Katyushas (BM-8), which was formed in Lipetsk and on 14 July 1941, who was deployed in a battle against the German army at Orsha in Belarus, with devastating effect on the enemy causing massive casualties: a single salvo destroyed several German freight trains with ammunition, fuel, and tanks, annihilating the station itself. The second blow destroyed a bridge across the river Orshica, that connected to Minsk-Moscow highway, simultaneously the German 17th Panzer Division got under a shocking fire blow, as a result of shock damage the 17th Panzer Division of Wehrmacht was unable to recover its forces for more than three days.

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Lived 1905 to 1941 · aged 36
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