The NKVD sniper lieutenant who shot the Japanese gendarme on Frinovsky's order
On Frinovsky's personal order, Vinevitin, attached to his retinue at Zaozernaya, silenced the Japanese gendarme with a single well-aimed shot to the head.
An NKVD lieutenant of the Posyet border detachment who rose from sniper instructor to chief of its engineering service. On 15 July 1938, at Zaozernaya Hill, he shot dead a Japanese gendarme on Manchurian soil on the personal order of First Deputy Commissar Frinovsky, the spark that ignited the Lake Khasan war. Wounded, he slipped out of hospital to rejoin his unit, then on the night of 1 August was shot by his own sentry after giving the wrong password.
Career Timeline
- 1930–1932Studied at the railway vocational school in Liski
- 1932–1935Railway road master and section chief; head of the 5th construction section, Uryupinsk
- 1935Drafted into the NKVD border troops
- 1935–1938Sniper instructor, then chief of engineering service, Posyet border detachment (lieutenant)
- 1938.07.15Shot the Japanese gendarme at Zaozernaya on Frinovsky's order
- 1938.08.01Killed by his own sentry
- 1938.10.25Posthumously Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin