Belyh, Vasilij Terent'evich, Commissar, 92nd Tank Brigade

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Father Terenty Zakharovich Belykh, peasant, died in tsarist army 1916 (or 1917—varies). Mother Marfa Eliseevna Radchenko, since 1930 on Drabovo Collective Farm.

Married Lyodmila Zakharovna Pronich, born 1922 Brusilov in Zhitomir Province. Wife and children living in Kiev since 1946: daughter Tamara born 1946, son Aleksandr born 1947.

WW2 service at fronts:
-- July to October 1941 on Northwestern Front in 523rd Rifles Regiment of 188th Rifles Division (wounded)
-- June to December 1942 on Western Front in 92nd Independent Tank Brigade
January to June 1943 on Northern Caucasus Front in 92nd Independent Tank Brigade
-- Match 1944 to May 1945 on 1st White Russian Front with 1205th Independent Self-propelled Artillery Regiment

Wounded:
-- 20 October 1941, lightly (unspecified)
-- 15 September 1942, lightly in left cheek
-- 2 June 1944, lightly in right arm or hand (same word in Russian for both)

Service in the Red Army:
-- October 1937 to February 1938: Cadet in Political School of 223rd Rifles Regiment,
-- 75th Rifles Division, Kharkov Military District
-- February to August 1938: Assistant Political Worker in school above
-- August to December 1938: Company Political Worker in 223rd Rifles Rgt, 75th Rifles Division
-- December 1938 to September 1939: cadet at Kharkov Military-Political School
-- September 1939 to May 1940: Political agitation instructor in 147th Rifles Division, Kharkov Military District
-- May to September 1940: Instruction Battery Political Worker in 231st “ODPTO” (whatever form of artillery that was) in 147th Rifles Division, then in Odessa Military District in the city of Aleksandriya, taking part in the 1940 occupation of Bessarabia in Rumania.
-- September and October 1940: Instruction Battery Political Worker in 142nd (his 1951 autobiography says 132nd ) “ODPTO” of 74th Rifles Division, Odessa Military District, city of Smolensk
-- October 1940 to July 1941: Student at Red Army Military-Political School of Propaganda in Smolensk
-- July and August 1941: “on reserves” (i.e. no assignment) Northwestern Front
-- August to October 1941: Regimental Propagandist in 523rd Rifles Regiment of 188th Rifles Division, Northwestern Front
-- October 1941 to February 1942: recuperating (from wound) at Evacuation Hospitals in cities of Sukhoi Log and Gorky
-- February 1942 to September 1943: Secretary of the Communist Party and Senior Instructor for Party organization work in 92nd Independent Tank Brigade on the Western and Northwestern Fronts
-- September 1943 to February 1944: Student in academic courses for improvement of staff officers at the Tank and Mechanize Forces Academy “in the name of Stalin” in Moscow
-- February 1944 to December 1945: Deputy Regimental Commander for political matters of 1205th Independent Self-propelled Artillery Regiment of the 1st White Russian Front (and GoSFiG after the war)
-- December 1945 to February 1946: “on reserves” (no assignment) Military Political Administration of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
February to December 1946: Deputy Regimental Commander for political matters of the 58th Tank Regiment, 23rd Guards Mechanized Division in the GoSFiG
-- December 1946 to October/November (overtyped) 1947: student in classes for deputy unit commander of political matters at the Gorkovsky Military Political School
-- November 1947 to March 1948: Senior Instructor for Party organization work on political staff of the 113rd Guards Rifles Division, Tovrichesky (sp? see below) Military District
-- March 1948 to March 1951: Deputy Battalion Commander for political matters of the 72nd Independent Guards Armored-car battalion, 43rd Guards Rifles Brigade, Tavrichesky (sp? see above) Military District
-- March 1951 to November 1953: Senior Instructor for Marxist-Leninist Readiness on political staff of the 3rd Guards Mechanized Army, GoSFiG
-- November 1953 to November 1956: Assistant Division Commander for political matters of 19th Guards Mechanized Division, 3rd Army, GoSFiG
-- November 1956 to May 1957: Army Political Matters Inspector of the 5th Guards Mechanized Army, White Russian Military District
-- May to November 1957: Inspector of Organizational Instruction Department of the political staff of 5th Guards Tank Army, White Russian Military District
-- November 1957 to May 1959: Commander for Political Matters and Deputy Divisional Commander for political matters of 29th Tank Division, White Russian Military District
-- May 1959 to January 1961: Assistant Commander for Political Matters of the 5th Guards Tank Army
January 1961: At disposal of the Political Administration of the White Russian Military District
-- 14 March 1961: “released to the reserves until 60th birthday”—discharged to Leninsky District Military Commissariat of the City of Kiev, with permission to wear his former military uniform.

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His first Medal "For Combat Merits" Citation.

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His second Medal "For Combat Merits" Citation.

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His Red Star Citation.

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His Patriotic War II Citation.

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His Patriotic War I Citation, downgraded from a Red Banner.

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His Red Banner Citation.