Kobylyanskiy, Isaak

Isaak Kobylyanskiy, an Ukranian Jew, was an 18 year old freshman attending the Kiev Industrial Insitute when the Axis suddenly invaded his country on June 22, 1941. He volunteered for the Soviet Red Army the next morning and left his home of Kiev on July 9, 1941. In August 1942, Kobylyanskiy was assigned to the 300th Rifle Infantry Division's 1049th Rifle Regiment (later renamed the 87th Guards Rifle Division). He served as a guncrew commander in a 76mm field-gun battery, later the battery's fire platoon commander, and finally served as a battery commander from Janruary 1945 until the end of t...