Vasiliy Tereshchenko was born in 1918.

Leitenant Tereschchenko was posted to 270 IAP in December 1941. At this time this unit was flying Polikarpov I-153s and entered combat against the German invaders on 9 December 1942. They were part of the Transcaucasian Front.

In January 1942, 270 IAP moved to the Crimean Front.

Leitenant Tereshchenko claimed a Ju 87 over Chelebi-Eli on 13 January 1942. It’s possible that mladshiy leitenant Nikolay Dmitriyev claimed a second at the same time since it’s known that he claimed one during the day.

Between 6 May 1942 and 3 July, 270 IAP retrained on LaGG-3s before going back to combat on the southern Front on 16 July 1942.

They retrained on Yak-1 between 6 January 1943 and 17 March before going back to combat on the Voronezh Front on 28 May.

270 IAP was transferred to the Steppe Front on 23 July 1943.

Tereshchenko and Grigoriy Sechin claimed a Bf 109 each over Borki on 6 September.

On 20 October, the Steppe Front was renamed to the 2nd Ukrainian Front.

On 5 February 1944, 270 IAP became a guard’s unit and renamed to 152 GIAP.

Between 20 January 1944 and 30 March 1944, the unit didn’t take art in combat but was re-equipped with factory-fresh Yak-1s. They also received a number of Yak-7Bs and Yak-9s to make up for losses.

152 GIAP went back to combat operations on 13 April 1944 on the 2nd Ukrainian Front.

On 8 July, they were transferred to the 1st Ukrainian Front.

Tereschchenko ended the war with 2 biplane victories and a total of 7.
These had been claimed during 334 combat missions.
During his career, he was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner (twice), the Order of Aleksandr Nevskiy and the Order of the Patriotic War 1st Class (twice).

Claims:

Kill no.	Date	Time	Number	Type	Result	Plane type	Serial no.	Locality	Unit
	1942
1	13/01/42		1	Ju 87 (a)	Destroyed	I-153		Chelebi-Eli	270 IAP
2	14/01/42		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	I-153		W Sem' Kolodezey	270 IAP
	1943
3	06/08/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	Yak-1		Brodok	270 IAP
4	07/08/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	Yak-1		S Tsupovka	270 IAP
5	06/09/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	Yak-1		Borki	270 IAP
6	03/10/43		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	Yak-1		Likhovka	270 IAP
	1945
7	18/04/45		1	FW 190	Destroyed	Yak		Zabrodt	152 GIAP

Biplane victories: 2 destroyed.
TOTAL: 7 destroyed.
(a) Not verified with Luftwaffe records.

Sources:
All aces of Stalin 1936-1953 – Mikhail Bykov, 2014
Soviet Aces 1936-1953
Soviet Fighter Pilots 1936-1953 - Mikhail Bykov