Dorzhi Tyheev
Dorzhi Tyheyev | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Dorzhi Harmaevich Tyheyev |
| Born | 1921 Ust-Zaz ulus (in the territory of the present Yeravninsky District of Buryatia) |
| Died | ? |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union |
| Service/ | Soviet Army |
| Years of service | 1940–1945 |
| Rank | junior sergeant of the guard |
| Unit | 52nd Guards Rifle Division, Soviet Army, USSR |
| Awards | Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, Order of the Red Star (twice), Order of Glory 2nd class, Order of Glory 3rd class, Medal "For Courage" (Russia) |
Dorzhi Tyheyev (Russian: Доржи Гармаевич Тыхеев , 1921–?) – a participant of the Great Patriotic War, a junior sergeant of the guard, a front-line scout.
Biography
Dorzhi Tyheyev was born in 1921 in the Ust-Zaz ulus (in the territory of the present Yeravninsky District of Buryatia). He was the seventh child in the family. Early orphaned, Dorzhi was adopted by the Tyheyev family.
In 1937, he graduated from the seven-year Gundinskaya school. In 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army. He served on the front since January 1942. At his own request, he transferred to the front scouts.
His first award, the Medal "For Courage", Dorzhi received during the Battle of Kursk in August 1943.
In March 1944, Tyheyev accomplished the feat for which he was presented his first military order, the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. When the Nazis tried to free the captured "language", "Comrade Tyheyev repelled the enemy and destroyed three soldiers," and a few days later "threw grenades into the enemy’s machine-gun nest and allowed the reconnaissance group to capture the prisoner."
In the summer of 1944, the reconnaissance company commander, Dorzhi Tyheyev, destroyed ten enemy soldiers, captured one German soldier, and in the course of another raid behind enemy lines threw grenades into German dugouts, captured two "languages", and extracted valuable documents.
Then, in the summer of 1944, Tyheyev was seriously wounded and was treated in the hospital until the end of the war. In May 1945, he was demobilized and returned home. At home, he worked as a physical education teacher at the Gundin school.
Dorzhi Tyheyev was keen on hunting. One day he returned from the taiga with a hunted moose; the meat was distributed among the villagers. However, one of the villagers reported him to the police, accusing Dorzhi of poaching. Dorzhi did not actually have a license for the animal. The police arrived in the village to arrest Dorzhi, but he managed to hide in the taiga before they arrived. For some time he lived in a remote zaimka. Having learned about it, the policemen went there, but the former front-line reconnaissance officer remained elusive this time as well.
There is no reliable information about the future of Dorzhi Tyheyev.
Awards
- Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
- Order of Glory 2nd class
- Order of Glory 3rd class
- Order of the Red Star (twice)
- Medal For Courage
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