Mikhail Ignatyevich Belousov

Mikhail Ignatyevich Belousov was born on 8 (20) February 1894 in the settlement of Zdolbunov in Volyn province, now a town in Rivne region of Ukraine, into a worker's family. He was Russian, with a primary education. He served in the Red Army twice: from 1917 to 1924, and then from June 1941 to 1946 in the field army. He went to the front at forty-seven. During the Great Patriotic War, Lieutenant Belousov commanded a platoon of the 1179th Rifle Regiment, 347th Rifle Division, 44th Army of the Southern Front, and fought as a sniper. According to the documents, by the end of May 1943 his personal tally was two hundred and forty-five enemy soldiers and officers killed with a sniper rifle. He was forty-nine. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 26 October 1943, Lieutenant Mikhail Ignatyevich Belousov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and Gold Star no. 1286. From 1946 Guards Senior Lieutenant Belousov was in the reserve. He lived in the settlement of Girey in Gulkevichi district of Krasnodar krai and worked at Girey station. He died on 1 March 1956.