Vladimir Mironenko“We are fighting for Berlin. The city is divided into sectors, the regiments of each division are storming their direction: such a mess is going on! Wounded in the head. Hastily bandaged and - again into battle!" This is how Vladimir Mironenko (1926–2020), PhD of Chemical Sciences, Head of the Research Sector of the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering (SPbGASU), engineer-captain of the second rank, recalled the capture of the capital of Nazi Germany by Soviet troops. Explosions and skirmishes did not subside all the time, but one night, while on guard duty, in the middle of some calm, the fighter heard a completely different shooting and realized: these are our soldiers saluting in honor of the victory!
…Belarus, Gomel region. 20 June, 1941 Volodya Mironenko turns 15 years old. And two days later comes war! The Republic is under occupation. In September 1942, the young man leaves for the 129th partisan detachment, and on 5 July, 1944, when the Soviet troops begin to liberate Belarus, he himself reaches draft age, joins the regular Red Army. Having completed short-term courses for machine gunners in Kozelsk, a recruit in the 526th Infantry Regiment of the 89th Infantry Division of the 1st Belorussian Front is sent to the front line. Then this regiment fought in Poland and, according to the memoirs of Vladimir Fedorovich, every Red Army soldier dreamed of one thing: to reach Berlin!
By the end of the war, Vladimir Mironenko was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals "For Courage" and "For Military Merit". The war ended, but the fighter Mironenko continued his military service: his regiment stood for three months in a camp near Berlin, and then they were sent to Yerevan, where the Taman division was formed.
He spent almost three decades in military service. During this time, the front-line soldier had graduated from the Higher Naval School of Weapons Engineers in Leningrad, headed a laboratory here, and then taught at the Caspian Higher Naval School in Baku. In 1970 he returned to Leningrad and continued his scientific and teaching activities as a senior researcher at the industrial laboratory for the development of methods for industrial wastewater treatment at LISI. In a few years, the author of more than twenty scientific papers headed the research sector of the institute and brought its activities to the highest level. The certificate of awarding the badge "For excellent success in work" indicates that Vladimir Mironenko made a great personal contribution to the formation of the thematic plan for the research work of the institute, the implementation of the "Targeted integrated territorial and sectoral program for the development of the national economy of Leningrad and the Leningrad Region based on automation with widespread use of computers for 1984–1985 and up to 1990" (program "Intensification-90").
Vladimir Mironenko was always appreciated as a disciplined, demanding and politically competent officer, a qualified researcher. He had forwarded all his strength and knowledge for the good of the Motherland.
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