Fedor Alekseevich Sirotkin.
18.01.1913-11/11/1944.
Gun commander of the 171st anti-tank artillery battalion of the 18th combat anti-tank artillery brigade separately 18 of the reserve of the Supreme Command (RGK) of the Second Baltic Front, senior sergeant, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).
In December 1943, in a battle near the city of Navel, an artillery team under the command of Sirotkin held Kow for 24 hours, firing a gun at the attacking chains. If the enemy got too close, light machine guns and grenades came into play. By evening, over a hundred corpses of Nazi soldiers lay in front of their positions.
In April 1944, in the battle for the village of Pachan, gunners under the command of Sirotkin managed to repel three attacks, destroying two heavy machine guns, one anti-tank and destroying over forty Nazis. During an attack on enemy positions near the village of Yasinovets, Sirotkin wheeled a gun on the rifle chain line and destroyed five enemy machine gun points with direct fire. The bold and decisive actions of the gunners helped our rifle units capture the village.
In Latvia in the fall of 1944, crossing the Lialkasta River, Sirotkin rolled a gun right up to the shore, destroyed two enemy machine guns from a distance of 300 meters and covered the crossing of our infantry across the river. While the riflemen fought on the bridgehead, the gunners assembled a raft, threw the gun across the river and, advancing in infantry fighting formations, destroyed four more enemy machine guns.
On November 10, 1944, near the small village of Selma (near the city of Seldus, Latvia), in a difficult situation, Sirotkin courageously moved his gun to an open firing position and helped the riflemen repel an enemy counterattack. The next day, during the capture of a cameraman, Sirotkin's gun was also in combat formations. The team destroyed four enemy machine guns and up to 30 Nazis.