Viktor Vasilyevich Butorin

Viktor Vasilyevich Butorin was born on 26 September 1898 in Semipalatinsk, now the city of Semey in Kazakhstan, into the family of an office worker; by nationality he was Russian. He completed nine years of school. From 1918 to 1924 he served in the Red Army, and afterwards worked in the consumer co-operative system; according to ru.wikipedia he lived and worked in Tajikistan from 1924. In October 1941, at the age of forty-three, he was called up again, and from 1943 he was with the army in the field. He joined the Communist Party in 1943. He served as commander of a sabre platoon in the 62nd Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 16th Guards Chernigov Cavalry Division — the former 112th Bashkir Cavalry Division, formed in Ufa in December 1941 — in the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 61st Army, Central Front. He distinguished himself in the battle of the Dnieper. On 21 September 1943, in the fighting for the village of Pershe Travnya in Horodnia district of Chernihiv region, Ukraine, he was wounded twice but did not leave the field until the village had been cleared of the enemy. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 15 January 1944, for exemplary performance of combat tasks and the courage and heroism shown, Guards Senior Sergeant Viktor Vasilyevich Butorin was made a Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal, no. 3010. In the decree itself his surname is spelled 'Butarin'. He was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner. After the war he was transferred to the reserve as a lieutenant. He lived and worked in Kyiv, where he died on 7 March 1974. He is buried in the Lukyanivka Military Cemetery in Kyiv. His name is carved, with those of all seventy-eight Heroes of the Soviet Union of the 112th Bashkir (16th Guards Chernigov) Cavalry Division, on memorial plaques in the National Museum of Bashkortostan and in the museum of the division in Ufa.