Biography of Alexei Sorokin

Father - Ivan Dmitrievich - mother - Alexandra Alekseevna Son - Viktor Alekseevich Sorokin. Daughter - Molokankina Olga Alekseevna. Alexey Sorokin was born in a large peasant family. Father, Ivan Dmitrievich, a hereditary peasant and soldier of the First World War and Civil Wars, returned from the front after a severe wound with a disabled person and died in a year, leaving five children to his wife Alexandra Alekseevna.

Aleksey, first with his older brother Seraphim, and then independently harnessed horses on the collective farm court, mowed hay, rye, carried sheaves from the field, thereby earning workdays. After school, he mastered the driver’s science, which instantly raised him both in his own eyes and in the eyes of Kirillovka. The “first guys” were considered to be “first guys” by harmonists and drivers.

Near Kirillovka there were an elevator and sugar warehouses: for their fire protection, two brand new “ZIS-5” acquired, one of which was entrusted with Sorokin. From the first days of the war, he asked for the front, but received a “reservation”. The leadership decided that the Kirillovsky objects needed fire protection. Despite the fact that in Gorky the Germans bombed strategic objects, Kirillovka remained aloof from active hostilities.

Therefore, Sorokin broke the resistance of the leadership, and already in September he was in the famous Gorokhovetsky camps, where mortars were in a hurry. But he was not sent to the front, but left in the instructors. His older brother Seraphim died in the year near Moscow. The mortars prepared by Sorokin went to the west, where fierce battles were going on, and new draftees appeared in the camps.

Requests to send him with a march company to the front did not find support from the command. Then he turned to the higher authorities. And he achieved his own. In the year, sergeant Alexei Sorokin became the commander of the mortar calculation of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division of the Kalinin Front. In the rifle battalion, which the mortars supported the fire, the Komsomol was out of order, and Sorokin was appointed instead.

In the year he joined the CPSU b. One of the front -line cases in Sorokin’s life was as follows: the Germans squeezed one of the battalion’s mouth, and the battalion commander, allocating a group of machine gunners from the reserve, ordered Komsomol to attack the enemy from the flank and restore the situation in the front edge. This task was fulfilled. The enemy was thrown back to its original positions.

The Komsomol had the first award - the Order of the Red Star. At the end of the year, Sorokin was summoned to the political department of the division and sent to front -line courses for the preparation and retraining of the political department, which were located in Kalinin. By that time, the Kalinin front was renamed the 1st Baltic. After graduating from the courses, the junior lieutenant Sorokin is sent to the Komsomol to the Sir In Rifle Regiment of his native rifle division.

During this period, the most memorable for Alexei Ivanovich was a battle under the city of Demidov. The Germans had a well -organized defense. The frontal attack promised heavy losses. It was necessary to conduct deep intelligence and, if possible, take the "language". The Komsomol of the regiment, who had already twice going to the rear of the enemy with the scouts, received an order to prepare and, together with the commander of the intelligence, to carry out a night search.

With the onset of darkness, the sappers cleared the passages in the neutral strip. A group of regimental scouts in one of the dugout took a German soldier and, hiding behind mortar fire, brought him to the location of the regiment. The well -thought -out operation ended with the liberation of the city. The division received the name "Demidov". Scouts and Komsomol were marked by orders and medals.

The Order of the Red Star was already the third award of Alexei Sorokin.

The division, as part of the 1st Baltic Front, continued to conduct stubborn offensive battles in the Riga direction, moving to the Baltic Sea, pushing the Courland grouping of the enemy to Liepae. The war was over. But for another week the warriors of the division counted and stored military trophies, sent captive Germans to the rear. At the same time, the Fights with the Nazis hidden in the forests flashed almost until the end of May.

Soon, Senior Lieutenant Sorokin was appointed assistant to the head of the political department of the Zenito-Artillery Brigade in Komsomol. But she was relocated to Voronezh and disbanded. Sorokin decided to quit the reserve. But the senior lieutenant was sent to Baku by the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the GO Zenito Artillery regiment of the Baku Military District.

When in the year the courses were transformed into the V. Military-Political Academy Lenin, Sorokina was sent to Moscow, where he passed entrance exams. There was no answer to the applicant for a long time. Fortunately, Alexei Sorokin, in the corridor of the Academy, he met with the deputy commander of his native rifle division Colonel Antonov. The colonel recognized the Komsomol of the regiment, who went with the scouts for the “tongue”, and led him to his comrade-the head of the Naval Faculty: “Sorokin is my fellow soldier, a combat Komsomol.

Take it. There will be an excellent political worker of the Navy. ” That year, Alexei Ivanovich had a first -born - son Victor.They called him in memory of the deceased brother of Lyubov Vasilievna Victor, who did not return from the front. Four years after graduating from the Academy, the captain of the 3rd rank Sorokin was appointed to Vladivostok, to the Pacific Fleet by the deputy commander of the destroyer for politicians.

The family went with him. He worked as a political officer on various kinds of warships: destroyers “rare” and “thoughtful”, cruiser “Kalinin”. In the year, the daughter of Olga was born. In the fall of the year, a party-government delegation, headed by N. Khrushchev climbed aboard the Kalinin cruiser. A course was taken to the open sea, combat firing was carried out, a great assessment of the crew of the cruiser was obtained.

Two years later, the captain of the 2nd rank Sorokin became the deputy commander of the Brigade of the destroyers for politicians. Two more years later-the deputy chief of the political department of the naval base, the Soviet harbor. Further, in the year-the head of the political department of the 9th division of anti-submarine defense ships with the assignment of the rank of captain of the 1st rank.

And, finally,-the head of the political department of the Naval base "Shooter" in the Primorsky Territory. In the year, Alexei Ivanovich was awarded the first labor award - the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. The peak of the fifteen-year service in the Pacific Fleet was the assignment of Rear Admiral. The boat gained a decent depth, and Vice Admiral Sorokin poured all the leaf water and forced him to make a symbolic throat, as is customary for the first immersed young submariners.

Komsomol members became "honorary submariners", and Vice Admiral Sorokin-a man who discovered a real depth for them. Then he was transferred to Moscow by the head of the propaganda and agitation department - the deputy chief of the Political Administration of the Navy, then - the first deputy head of the Political Administration of the Navy. And in December, he was appointed a member of the Military Council - the head of the political administration of the Northern Fleet.

In the year, Sorokin was awarded the title of admiral of the fleet. In the years, by the decision of the highest bodies of state power, the creation of books of memory began, and an all -Union editorial board was formed to organize work on them, which was almost from the very beginning by Alexei Ivanovich Sorokin. Now, from the planned volumes, they have been released - with the lists of those who died during the Great Patriotic War and during the period of other hostilities.

Heading the united editorial board, Sorokin made a priceless contribution to the preservation of the memory of the fallen during the Great Patriotic War. At the end of the year, A. Sorokin was elected chairman of the Coordinating Council of the International Union “The Commonwealth of Public Organizations of Veterans of Pensioners of Independent States”.

Veteran organizations of the CIS under its leadership carry out a lot of work on the patriotic and moral education of the younger generation, take effective measures against falsification of history, especially the history of the Great Patriotic War, the history of general dates and events that are unifying for the peoples of the former USSR. He loves sport very much and still skiing; He loves the sea, swims wonderful.

I retained love for cars - after all, it has a driver’s license from the year. The son Viktor Alekseevich graduated from the Moscow Energy Institute and the Military Diplomatic Academy, the captain of the 1st rank in reserve. Daughter Olga Alekseevna graduated from the Historical and Archival Institute, candidate of philosophical sciences.