GRIGORY IVANOVICH BOYARINOV, a man of legend - Hero of the Soviet Union. Killed during the storming of Amin's palace

Born in the village of Sukromlya, now Ershichi district, Smolensk region, into a peasant family. Member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU since 1942. In the Red Army since 1939.
In July 1941 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Military Infantry School.
Participant of the Great Patriotic War since 1941 as commander of a mortar platoon (North-Western Front).
From December 1941 - in the fighter regiment of the North-Western Front.
From February 1942 - in the border regiment of the NKVD (North-Western, Leningrad and 2nd Baltic fronts).
He commanded a sniper school, trained sabotage units, and personally led them during campaigns behind the front line.
A special forces detachment under his command destroyed the headquarters of the Italian division.
At the final stage of the war - chief of staff of the border commandant's office. Afterwards, until 1948, he served in the border detachment of the North-Western Border District.

In 1948, Grigory Ivanovich was sent to the Military Institute of the KGB of the USSR named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky.
He studied diligently, mastered with interest the basics of protecting the state border, including aspects of intelligence and operational work, guerrilla warfare, criminal law and process, and was actively involved in the scientific community of students.
Boyarinov, who graduated with honors from the university in 1953, was left as a teacher at the department. In 1959, he entered the adjunct program at the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze, defended his thesis on the topic “Tactics of guerrilla actions in a future war.”
He became a colonel at the age of 32, which is a very rare case in peacetime, and especially in the KGB.
A veteran of four wars, a famous partisan and intelligence officer, Colonel Ilya Grigorievich Starinov, with whom he became close friends over 12 years of joint work, had a great influence on the development of Grigory Ivanovich as a scientist.
Since 1961, while teaching at the Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of State Security named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, and then at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR, Boyarinov became known to the border and security service community as a specialist in the fight against agents and sabotage and reconnaissance formations of the enemy and in guerrilla warfare tactics.
At the end of 1968, Grigory Ivanovich became a leading specialist in the advanced training courses for officers (CUOS) of the KGB of the USSR, the closest assistant to the first head of this educational institution, Colonel Khariton Ignatievich Bolotov.
The courses were not just a training unit engaged in training security officers for operations in enemy-controlled territory, but a kind of field laboratory where new techniques and methods of operational combat were mastered, and new types of weapons and equipment for special forces were tested. It is no coincidence that Boyarinov later combined two positions - head of courses and head of a special department.
The team of the first teachers of KUOS was also a match for Colonel Boyarinov: each of these people selflessly devoted to the Motherland was a unique specialist in their field. These were not desk workers, but military officers who, when necessary, put aside their lecture notes, took up arms and led their former students to complete the most difficult tasks.

In 1971, Grigory Ivanovich was appointed head of the Kuos. The leadership of the KGB of the USSR set before him the task of quickly restructuring the educational process to meet the increased needs of security agencies, and above all foreign intelligence. Boyarinov was greatly assisted in this by the responsible officer of the 1st Main Directorate (foreign intelligence), Major General Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov. These two front-line soldiers were brought together by common service interests and the mutual personal respect and trust that arises among people who know each other well. Therefore, they worked together, with passion, and soon the radical restructuring of the educational process at KUOS was completed.
Grigory Ivanovich loved and knew how to work with people. He had that dual feeling of leader and teacher, which not all military leaders get along with. The listeners also responded to their boss with great respect. Behind their backs, they kindly called him “Grisha,” or “our Grisha,” since he really treated them with comradely care and attention. But he was strict and demanding. Boyarinov did not forgive any of his listeners for sloppiness or slackness when performing combat training tasks; he always said that the group commander is responsible for the lives of his subordinates, and taking liberties when solving tasks behind enemy lines leads to irreparable consequences.
Grigory Ivanovich called his pets “my guys” and knew all the KUOS students by last name, and many by first and patronymic, remembered their affections and character traits. And when the question arose about carrying out a particularly important combat mission, Colonel Boyarinov could not stay away from “his guys.”

In the summer of 1979, Colonel Boyarinov was sent to Afghanistan as a supervisor of the Zenit special forces detachment (KGB intelligence).
The main task of the unit was to assess the political and operational situation in the country, as well as reconnaissance of Kabul, its approaches, identifying the location and security system of important government buildings, vital facilities, army headquarters and barracks.
He took direct part in the storming of Amin's palace. Due to his official position, the commander could remain at the headquarters of the operation, but Grigory Ivanovich could not sit on the sidelines when “his guys” were in front and risked their lives.
During the storming of Amin's palace, Colonel Boyarinov died.
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded posthumously to Colonel Grigory Ivanovich Boyarinov by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 28, 1980. Medal "Gold Star" No. 11431 was awarded to the Hero's family. He was buried at the Kuzminskoye cemetery in Moscow. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner, the medal "For Courage" and other medals.

BOYARINOV Grigory Ivanovich

(15.11.1922 – 27.12.1979)*

Grigory Ivanovich Boyarinov was born on November 15, 1922 in the village of Sukromlya, now Ershichi district, Smolensk region, into a peasant family.
Received secondary education. Boyarinov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1939. In July 1941 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Military Infantry School.
He took part in the battles of the Great Patriotic War from 1941 as commander of a mortar platoon on the North-Western Front.
From December 1941 he served in a fighter regiment of the North-Western Front. In 1942 he joined the ranks of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
From February 1942 he served in the NKVD border regiment, which fought on the North-Western, Leningrad and 2nd Baltic Fronts). He commanded a sniper school, trained sabotage units, and also personally led them during campaigns behind the front line. A special forces detachment under his command destroyed the headquarters of the Italian division.
At the final stage of the war he was chief of staff of the border commandant's office.
Until 1948 he served in the border detachment of the North-Western Border District.
In 1953 he graduated from the Military Institute of the MGB, after which he was a teacher at the department. In 1959 he completed his postgraduate studies at the M.V. Frunze Military Academy. In the same year he was awarded the academic degree “Candidate of Military Sciences”.
Since 1961, he taught at the Higher Red Banner School named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky (now the Academy of the FSB of the Russian Federation).
Since 1969, Boyarinov led the improvement courses for the school’s officers, organized by the KGB.
In the summer of 1979, Grigory Ivanovich Boyarinov was sent to the Republic of Afghanistan as the commander of the Zenit special forces detachment, in which capacity he participated in the storming of Amin’s palace, during which he died.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 28, 1980, for the courage and heroism shown in the performance of international duty in the Republic of Afghanistan, Colonel Grigory Ivanovich Boyarinov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
He was buried at the Kuzminskoye cemetery in Moscow.

Awards
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of the Soviet Union No. 11431
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner
Medal "For Military Merit"

Memory
Foundation "KUOS - Vympel" named after Hero of the Soviet Union G.I. Boyarinov.
Artistic marked envelope (Russia, 2012)

Boyarinov Grigory Ivanovich – head of the Officer Improvement Course at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, colonel.

Born on November 15, 1922 in the village of Sukromlya, Ershichi volost, Roslavl district, Smolensk province (now Ershichi district, Smolensk region). Russian. In 1939, he graduated from the 10th grade of school in the village of Akimovka (now the village of Akimovsky district, Zaporozhye region, Ukraine).

In the army since February 1940. He studied at the Cherkasy Infantry School, which in the spring of 1941 was relocated to the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). In July 1941 he graduated from the 2nd Sverdlovsk Military Infantry School.

Participant of the Great Patriotic War: in August-November 1941 - commander of a mortar platoon of the 1016th Infantry Regiment (North-Western Front). Participated in defensive battles in the Tikhvin direction and the Tikhvin operation. On November 11, 1941, he was wounded in the head and sent to the hospital.

In December 1941 - January 1942 - company commander of a fighter regiment of the North-Western Front. Participated in defensive battles on the territory of the Novgorod region. On January 23, 1942, he was wounded in the left arm.

In February 1942 - June 1944 - commander of a rifle platoon, deputy chief and chief of staff of the rifle battalion of the 9th border regiment of the NKVD troops. He fought on the Northwestern (February 1942 - November 1943) and 2nd Baltic (November 1943 - June 1944) fronts. Participated in the Demyansk, Starorussian and Starorussko-Novorzhevsk operations. He carried out the liquidation of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups in our rear, as well as training snipers and sabotage units to work behind enemy lines.

In July-October 1944 - chief of staff of the rifle battalion of the 9th border regiment of the NKVD troops, which guarded the rear of the Leningrad Front (on the territory of the Karelian Isthmus).

In October 1944 - November 1947 - Chief of Staff of the 3rd Border Commandant's Office of the 9th Border Detachment (Leningrad District), guarding the border on the Finnish Porkkala Peninsula (leased from the USSR). In November 1947 - October 1948 - senior assistant to the chief of the 2nd department of the headquarters of the 106th Tallinn border detachment (Leningrad district).

In 1953 he graduated from the Military Institute of the MGB, and until 1956 he served there as a teacher in the department of tactics of border troops. In February-July 1956, he completed an internship at the 37th Batumi border detachment (Transcaucasian district) as deputy chief of the detachment.

In 1959 he completed his postgraduate studies at the M.V. Frunze Military Academy. In 1961-1969 - teacher at the department of tactics and operational art of border troops at the KGB Higher School.

Since 1969 - head of the Advanced Courses for Officers at the KGB Higher School (Balashikha, Moscow Region). He supervised the training of commanders of reconnaissance and sabotage groups.

In December 1979, he was sent to Afghanistan as part of the operational group of the USSR State Security Committee. On December 27, 1979, he directly led the storming of the Taj Beg residence of the head of Afghanistan, Kh. Amin, in Kabul. During this operation he was mortally wounded.

For courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 28, 1980, Colonel Boyarinov Grigory Ivanovich awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

Lived in Moscow. He was buried at the Kuzminskoye cemetery in Moscow.

Colonel (1959), Candidate of Military Sciences (1959). He was awarded the Order of Lenin (04/28/1980, posthumously), the Red Banner (05/11/1942), the medal “For Military Merit” (11/24/1950), and other medals.

May 15th, 2017

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Colonel Grigory Ivanovich Boyarinov
(15.11.1922 - 27.12.1979)

Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously)

Commander of the special forces unit "Zenith".

Born in the village of Sukromlya, now Ershichi district, Smolensk region, into a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU since 1942.

Secondary education. In the Red Army since 1939.

In July 1941 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Military Infantry School.

Participant of the Great Patriotic War since 1941 as commander of a mortar platoon (North-Western Front).

From December 1941 - in the fighter regiment of the North-Western Front.

From February 1942 - in the border regiment of the NKVD (North-Western, Leningrad and 2nd Baltic fronts).

He commanded a sniper school, trained sabotage units, and personally led them during campaigns behind the front line.

A special forces detachment under his command destroyed the headquarters of the Italian division.

At the final stage of the war - chief of staff of the border commandant's office.

After the war, until 1948, he served in the border detachment of the North-Western Border District.

In 1948, Grigory Ivanovich was sent to the Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of State Security named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky.

He studied diligently, mastered with interest the basics of protecting the state border, including aspects of intelligence and operational work, guerrilla warfare, criminal law and process, and was actively involved in the scientific community of students.

Boyarinov, who graduated with honors from the university in 1953, was left as a teacher at the department. In 1959, he entered the adjunct program at the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze, defended his thesis on the topic “Tactics of guerrilla actions in a future war.”

He became a colonel at the age of 32, which is a very rare case in peacetime, and especially in the KGB.

A veteran of four wars, a famous partisan and intelligence officer, Colonel Ilya Grigorievich Starinov, with whom he became close friends over 12 years of joint work, had a great influence on the development of Grigory Ivanovich as a scientist.

Since 1961, while teaching at the Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of State Security named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, and then at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR, Boyarinov became known to the border and security service community as a specialist in the fight against agents and sabotage and reconnaissance formations of the enemy and in guerrilla warfare tactics.

The courses were not just a training unit engaged in training security officers for operations in enemy-controlled territory, but a kind of field laboratory where new techniques and methods of operational combat were mastered, and new types of weapons and equipment for special forces were tested. It is no coincidence that Boyarinov later combined two positions - head of courses and head of a special department.

The team of the first teachers of KUOS was a match for Colonel Boyarinov: each of these selflessly devoted people to the Motherland was a unique specialist in his field. These were not desk workers, but military officers who, when necessary, put aside their lecture notes, took up arms and led their former students to complete the most difficult tasks.

In 1971, Grigory Ivanovich was appointed head of the Kuos. The leadership of the KGB of the USSR set before him the task of quickly restructuring the educational process to meet the increased needs of security agencies, and above all foreign intelligence.

Boyarinov was greatly assisted in this by the responsible officer of the 1st Main Directorate (foreign intelligence), Major General Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov. These two front-line soldiers were brought together by common service interests and the mutual personal respect and trust that arises among people who know each other well. Therefore, they worked together, with passion, and soon the radical restructuring of the educational process at KUOS was completed.

Grigory Ivanovich loved and knew how to work with people. He had that dual feeling of leader and teacher, which not all military leaders get along with. The listeners also responded to their boss with great respect. Behind their backs, they kindly called him “Grisha,” or “our Grisha,” since he really treated them with comradely care and attention. But he was strict and demanding. Boyarinov did not forgive any of his listeners for sloppiness or slackness when performing combat training tasks; he always said that the group commander is responsible for the lives of his subordinates, and taking liberties when solving tasks behind enemy lines leads to irreparable consequences.

Grigory Ivanovich called his pets “my guys” and knew all the KUOS students by last name, and many by first and patronymic, remembered their affections and character traits. And when the question arose about carrying out a particularly important combat mission, Colonel Boyarinov could not stay away from “his guys.”

In the summer of 1979, Colonel G.I. Boyarinov was sent to Afghanistan as commander of the Zenit special forces detachment.

The main task of the unit was to assess the political and operational situation in the country, as well as reconnaissance of Kabul, its approaches, identifying the location and security system of important government buildings, vital facilities, army headquarters and barracks.

He took direct part in the storming of Amin's palace. Due to his official position, the commander could remain at the headquarters of the operation, but G.I. Boyarinov could not sit on the sidelines when “his guys” were in front and risked their lives.

On December 27, without saying a word, for more than twenty years now, veterans, teachers and students of KUOS have been meeting at the cemetery in Moscow at the grave of Grigory Ivanovich. His two sons - Igor and Andrey with their grandson Grigory - also come.

Boris Pavlovich Kashitsin, a military pilot by profession, wrote a wonderful poem dedicated to the memory of Grigory Ivanovich, which Anatoly Alekseevich Nabokov read at one of the anniversaries at Boyarinov’s grave.

A veteran stands near the old grave,
Slightly bent over from wounds and illness,
And, shedding a tear, he raises his glass
For a dead friend.
The years go back again and again,
This picture comes back to my memory again,
When Grisha Boyarinov started his special squad
He led the assault on Amin's citadel.
Knocked everyone to the ground with dagger fire,
Death was looking for a soldier in the darkness,
Then they heard a voice: “Guys, follow me,
It’s too early for us to die!”
The commanding will of the guys raised,
Inspired by a single impulse,
Under the lead rain, under the explosions of grenades
They followed their commander into battle.
Not for the Motherland, not for the splendor of orders
Heroes of Russia died,
They did not like empty and pompous words,
But they cherished and valued honor...
And friends come, remembering Afghanistan,
To the grave of a soldier - Hero
And, without hiding a tear, they raise their glass
For the one who brought them out of the battle.

Born in the village of Sukromlya, now Ershichi district, Smolensk region, into a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU since 1942.
Secondary education. In the Red Army since 1939.
In July 1941 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Military Infantry School.
Participant of the Great Patriotic War since 1941 as commander of a mortar platoon (North-Western Front).

From December 1941- in the fighter regiment of the North-Western Front.

Since February 1942- in the border regiment of the NKVD (North-Western, Leningrad and 2nd Baltic fronts).
Commanded a sniper school, trained sabotage units, personally led them during campaigns behind the front line.

A special forces detachment under his command destroyed the headquarters of the Italian division.

At the final stage of the war- Chief of Staff of the Border Commandant's Office.

After the war, until 1948, he served in the border detachment of the North-Western Border District.

In 1948, Grigory Ivanovich was sent to the Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of State Security named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky.
He studied diligently, mastered with interest the basics of protecting the state border, including aspects of intelligence and operational work, guerrilla warfare, criminal law and process, and was actively involved in the scientific society of students.

Boyarinov, who graduated with honors from the university in 1953, was left as a teacher at the department. In 1959, he entered the adjunct program at the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze, defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Guerrilla tactics in a future war".

He became a colonel at the age of 32, which is a very rare case in peacetime, and especially in the KGB.
A veteran of four wars, a famous partisan and intelligence officer, Colonel Ilya Grigorievich Starinov, with whom he became close friends over 12 years of joint work, had a great influence on the development of Grigory Ivanovich as a scientist.

Since 1961, while teaching at the Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of State Security named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, and then at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR, Boyarinov became known to the border and security service community as a specialist in the fight against agents and sabotage and reconnaissance formations of the enemy and in guerrilla warfare tactics.

At the end of 1968, Grigory Ivanovich became a leading specialist in the advanced training courses for officers (CUOS) of the KGB of the USSR, the closest assistant to the first head of this educational institution, Colonel Khariton Ignatievich Bolotov.

The courses were not just a training unit engaged in training security officers for operations in enemy-controlled territory, but a kind of field laboratory where new techniques and methods of operational combat were mastered, and new types of weapons and equipment for special forces were tested. It is no coincidence that Boyarinov later combined two positions - head of courses and head of a special department.

The team of the first teachers of KUOS was also a match for Colonel Boyarinov: each of these people selflessly devoted to the Motherland was a unique specialist in their field. These were not desk workers, but military officers who, when necessary, put aside their lecture notes, took up arms and led their former students to complete the most difficult tasks.

In 1971, Grigory Ivanovich was appointed head of the Kuos. The leadership of the KGB of the USSR set before him the task of quickly restructuring the educational process to meet the increased needs of security agencies, and above all foreign intelligence. Boyarinov was greatly assisted in this by a responsible employee of the 1st Main Directorate (foreign intelligence) Major General Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov. These two front-line soldiers were brought together by common service interests and the mutual personal respect and trust that arises among people who know each other well. Therefore, they worked together, with passion, and soon the radical restructuring of the educational process at KUOS was completed.

Grigory Ivanovich loved and knew how to work with people. He had that dual feeling of leader and teacher, which not all military leaders get along with. The listeners also responded to their boss with great respect. Behind their backs, they kindly called him “Grisha,” or “our Grisha,” since he really treated them with comradely care and attention. But he was strict and demanding. Boyarinov did not forgive any of his listeners for sloppiness or slackness when performing combat training tasks; he always said that the group commander is responsible for the lives of his subordinates, and taking liberties when solving tasks behind enemy lines leads to irreparable consequences.

Grigory Ivanovich called his pets “my guys” and knew all the KUOS students by last name, and many by first and patronymic, remembered their affections and character traits. And when the question arose about carrying out a particularly important combat mission, Colonel Boyarinov could not stay away from “his guys.”

Summer 1979 Colonel Boyarinov G.I. was sent to Afghanistan as commander of the special forces unit "Zenith".
The main task of the unit there was an assessment of the political and operational situation in the country, as well as reconnaissance of Kabul, its approaches, identifying the location and security system of important government buildings, vital facilities, army headquarters and barracks.

He took direct part in the storming of Amin's palace. Due to his official position, the commander could remain at the headquarters of the operation, but G.I. Boyarinov could not sit on the sidelines when “his guys” were in front and risked their lives.

During the storming of Amin's palace, Colonel Boyarinov died.

Title of Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Grigory Ivanovich Boyarinov was awarded posthumously by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 28, 1980. Medal "Gold Star" No. 11431 was awarded to the Hero's family. He was buried at the Kuzminskoye cemetery in Moscow. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner, the medal "For Courage" and other medals.