Michael Tsiselsky

Michael Tsiselsky
Michael Petrovich Tsiselsky
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Born May 20, 1909(1909-05-20)
Stoykovo, Russian Empire
Died November 3, 1989(1989-11-03) (aged 80)
Kiev, USSR
Allegiance  Soviet Union
Years of service 1932—1938, 1939—1948
Rank Major
Battles/wars German-Soviet War
Awards Hero of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner, 2 times
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class
Order of the Red Star
Order of the October Revolution

Michael Petrovich Tsiselsky (Russian: Михаил Петрович Цисельский); May 20, 1909 – November 3, 1989) was a Soviet naval pilot during World War II (German-Soviet War).

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Biography

Michael Tsiselsky was born May 20, 1909 (May 7 by old style) in village Stoykovo (Katerinopolsky district by Cherkassy region) in peasant family. He is Ukrainian. He finished incomplete secondary school and specialized technical school. He lived in Ussuriysk starting in 1928. He repaired steam locomotives, and was a member of All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) since 1932.
He also served in the Red Army's Fourth Zabaykalsky cavalry regiment beginning in 1932. He completed Irkutsky aircraft maintenance training in 1934. Thereafter he served in Byelorussian command as an aircraft technician. He finished naval aviation military school, again at Yeisky, in 1936. Thereafter Michael Tsiselsky served in the Black Sea Fleet aviation element. His first combat mission of the German-Soviet War took place June 22, 1941 . He participated in the destruction of a tank battalion in the Gros-Libental-Odessa district. On September 23, Tsiselsky and his unit sunk a heavy troop transport on the Dniester Liman and killing hundreds of Nazi fascist soldiers and officers, as well as 15 tanks and 20 other vehicles in the Perekop-Sevastopol district in a separate action. For great services to the Motherland, Tsiselsky was awarded his first Order of the Red Banner.

Official document of Supreme Soviet to Hero of Soviet Union Tsiselsky M.P.
Captain M. Tsiselsky
July 1943

Navigator of bomber squadron by 12-th Guards air regiment of Baltic Fleet Michael Tsiselsky during the German-Soviet War, performed 396 successful combat missions for air reconnaissance and bombardment enemy’s ships and troops. He destroyed three troop transports with common displacement 11000 tonnes, several vehicle landing craft, motorboats, motor torpedo boat, 31 tanks, 20 cars, fuel storage tanks, and 4 transport aircraft. He personally downed three fascist aircraft.

Pilots by 3-d squadron of 40-th air regiment by Air force of Black Sea Fleet
M. Tsiselsky is the third person in middle row

March 6, 1945 he was recognized as a Hero of Soviet Union by decree of the Supreme Soviet for exemplary fulfilment of battle orders on front of the German-Soviet War, and his fortitude and heroism.

Major Tsiselsky was demobilized in 1948. During 1948-1955 he worked by a Head of kolkhoz in native village. He has lived in Kiev since 1955. In Kiev Tsiselsky worked as foreman at the “Krasny Rezinschik’’ plant for production of mechanical rubber goods.
Michael Petrovich Tsiselsky died November 3, 1989. He was buried in Kiev.

Awards

Family

Wife — Maria Nikolaevna Tsiselska (maiden name— Tsupkina) (January 21, 1916 — June 12, 2004)

Children:

  • Daughter — Tamara Mihaylovna Tsiselska (married name — Ostrovska) (January 9, 1936 — March 28, 1993). Neurologist
  • Son — Albert Mihaylovich Tsiselsky (was born October 14, 1937). Engineer in nuclear-power engineering

Further reading

  • «Zorenosci» (Ukrainian: «Зореносці»). The book about Hero of the Soviet Union, who was born in the Cherkassy region. — Dnepropetrovsk, "Promin": 1971.
  • «The pilots of the Baltic are in the sky» (Russian: «В небе летчики Балтики»). The battle history of naval aviation of Baltic Fleet during the German-Soviet War. Memoirs, essais. — Tallinn, "Eesti Raamat": 1974.
  • «The wings of the Baltic: Articles and memoirs». (Russian: «Крылья Балтики: Статьи и воспоминания»). Golubev V.F., Kalinichenko A.F. - compilers. — Kaliningrad "Publishing house": 1979.
  • "The Gold Stars of Primorye" (Russian: «Золотые Звезды Приморья»). — Vladivostok: 1983, p. 236—239.
  • Kuznetsov I.I. "The Residents's of Irkutsk Gold Stars" (Russian: «Золотые Звезды иркутян»). — Irkutsk: 1982, p. 299—303.
  • "They defended a peace" (Russian: «Они отстояли мир»). — Dnepropetrovsk, "Promin": 1985, p. 336—338.

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