In memory of Yafim Pushkin.
On November 9, 1941, according to the decree of the President of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Colonel Yafim Grigorievich Pushkin, commander of the 8th Tank Division, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, which was rare in the early period of the Great Patriotic War.
From August 19 to 22, 1941, Pushkin's division defended Dnepropetrovsk from the Nazis. In these battles the Hitlerites lost 99 tanks, about 100 vehicles and 60 artillery guns. Colonel Pushkin's soldiers captured an artillery battery, a headquarters bus with documents, covered the retreat of the Red Army units and evacuated the population to the left bank of the Dnieper.
After the Battle of Stalingrad and the liberation of the Donbass, Yafim Pushkin returned to the Dnepropetrovsk region as the commander of the 23rd Tank Corps.
He took part in the liberation of the Dnepropetrovsk region from the Nazis and on March 11, 1944, died during the offensive operation in Reznogovtoya-Snigirvka during an enemy air attack on his command post in the village of Bastanka near Nikolaev.
At the insistence of his family, the hero was buried in Dnipropetrovsk. His relatives remained in this city. After the war, a ship of the Ministry of Fisheries of the Soviet Union was named after the hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General of Tank Troops Yafim Pushkin.
In honor of the hero, a T-34 tank was installed in Dnepropetrovsk.
Under the pretext of "de-communization", the authorities of Dnipro, as Dnipropetrovsk is now called in Ukraine, removed the legendary Soviet combat vehicle.
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