LEV RAFAIL FROIMOVICH
senior lieutenant, participant in World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union (October 17, 1943)
He was born into a working class family in Odessa. Jewish. Finished 7th grade. He worked as a plumber in a factory. From 1941 he lived and worked in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
In 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army by the Tashkent city military commissariat of the Uzbek SSR. Graduated from the Junior Lieutenants course.
On September 26-27, 1943, Lieutenant Rafail Lev, the company commander of the 989th Rifle Regiment (226th Artillery Division, 60th Army, Central Front), fought valiantly while crossing the Dnieper River in the village of Tolishunskaya Rudnya, Vishgorodsky District, Kyiv Region, Ukraine.
His route crossed the right bank of the Dnieper, attacked the Nazis, captured the platsdarm, and from there the battalions of the 989th Infantry Regiment successfully crossed the river. The regimental commander presents R.F. Levy with the Order of the Red Banner.
But the Hero will not get a high-level award. The day after the decree was issued, on October 18, 1943, Senior Lieutenant R.F. Lev was killed in battle and buried in the village of Dmitrievsky (now Petrovskoye) in the Vishgorod district of the Kiev region of Ukraine.
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 17, 1943, Lieutenant Lev Rafail Froimovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union “For exemplary performance of combat missions, courage and heroism in the fight against Nazi invaders on the front.”
HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION
ORDER OF LENIN
ORDER OF THE RED STAR
