On December 12, 1942, the German command made an attempt to rescue the 6th Army from the Stalingrad cauldron. In this truly fatal battle, the German tank units in the area of the farms of Verkhnekumsky and Biryukovo faced fierce resistance from the Soviet 61st Cavalry Division formed in Tajikistan.
Its warriors fought to the death, demonstrating high combat skill and mass heroism.
All to the front
In 1942, the 61st Cavalry Division was being formed in Tajikistan: the 219th Cavalry Regiment was formed in Stalinabad, the 213th Regiment in Kulyab and the 222nd in Kurgan-Tyube. The situation on the fronts remained difficult, Soviet troops retreated, so the units were knocked together in haste.
Recruits arrived from all over Tajikistan: Pamir, Kulyab, Garm, Gissar, Khatlon. The officers who were in charge of completing the cavalry squadrons noted with pleasure that the incoming youth and those called up from the reserve were excellent riders, many of whom had experience civil war in Tajikistan in the 20s. The division commander was appointed in January 1941 Stavenkov, the former commander of the 20th Mountain Cavalry Division, who was wounded in the battles near Moscow.
People practiced 15-16 hours a day. In addition, two to three hours were spent caring for a horse. Were exhausted at the end. But the allotted time expired, and the division still remained in place. A new intense plan was coming. And so without end.
And radio, newspapers brought bleak news from the fronts. Under the onslaught of superior enemy forces, our troops with heavy fighting retreated to the east ... Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessa, Smolensk were abandoned ... Leningrad was in the grip of the blockade. Fighting broke out on the outskirts of Moscow.
Everything for the front, everything for victory! These were not empty words for the Tajik people. The 61st Cavalry Division received all the best from the republic: excellent horses, solid uniforms, perfect food and fodder. And most importantly, and most dearly, Tajikistan sent its best sons to the 61st Cavalry Division. Its composition was multinational: Tajiks, Uzbeks, Russians, Tatars.
And finally, in mid-September 1942, exactly one year after the formation of the division, the desired order came. In the shortest possible time, thousands of horses, guns, mortars, hundreds of carts and wagons, motor vehicles, ammunition, engineering equipment, food and fodder had to be loaded into the wagons. A schedule of loading and movement was drawn up, as well as the routine of life and study of people on the way. Soldiers and commanders spent days and nights at loading points. The division squeezed into thirteen echelons with difficulty.
During the movement, the echelons were repeatedly attacked from the air. Having made a 400-kilometer march along the left bank of the Volga, the division crossed at Kamenny Yar and became part of the mobile group of the Stalingrad Front of the 4th Cavalry Corps of Lieutenant General Shapkin. It got very cold. The command of the division was alarmed, the horsemen arrived from Tajikistan in light clothes. But soon trucks with sheepskin coats, quilted jackets, and felt boots began to arrive. The cavalrymen got chic cloaks on their shoulders - the longed-for dream of every horseman.
Cavalry attack near Abganerovo and saber fights in Umantsevo
From the memoirs of Army General Popov, at that time the deputy commander of the Stalingrad Front: “The position of the 4th Cavalry Corps was very difficult lieutenant general Shapkin. The corps was formed in Central Asia from fighters of local nationalities. A significant part of them did not speak Russian or knew it poorly. However, the cavalrymen successfully passed the preliminary exam, skillfully disguising themselves on the way and in the area of concentration. In preparation for the operation, General Shapkin had to train people to act on horseback and on foot and to skillfully use weapons. During training, the horsemen got used to the harsh climate and the hardships of military life.
On November 19, it became known that early in the morning the troops of the South-Western and Don fronts went on the offensive north-west of Stalingrad. On the same day, Shapkin summoned the division commanders.
One of the most difficult battles immediately fell to the share of the 61st Cavalry Division - after breaking through the front line, it had to turn south and take up defensive positions on the outer front of the encirclement. The tankers were given the task of squeezing the inner encirclement of the 6th German army of Paulus.
Immediately after the arrival of the division near Abganerovo, Shapkin ordered him to assemble the unit commanders. When everyone was assembled, the general turned to the officers surrounding him:
Comrades! It is evident from the indiscriminate firing that we took the enemy by surprise. He did not expect that during the night we would cover sixty-five kilometers and at dawn we would be on the outskirts of Abganerovo, where the headquarters of the sixth Romanian army corps is located. Our task is to capture the headquarters along with all the troops that cover it. Anatoly Vasilyevich, will ten minutes be enough for you to prepare the order? Attack in half an hour.
Yes, Comrade General, - answered Stavenkov.
From the dawn of November 21, the advanced squadrons of the division at a wide gait shot down the covering units of the 1st and 4th infantry divisions of the Romanian troops, dispersed the enemy's 5th cavalry division. By 10 o'clock, with a daring attack, with drafts unsheathed, in the equestrian ranks, she captured the city of Abganerovo. The 222nd regiment from Kurgan-Tyube and the 219th from Dushanbe met west of Abganerovo, the city was completely surrounded. At the same time, the 219th regiment of Artyom Akopyan deployed three squadrons in the first echelon and, in a furious career, attacked enemy positions on the heights south of Abganerovo. Hakobyan's jigits defeated the Romanian cover detachments and seized weapons and ammunition depots. The road was cut along which the German troops were supplied from the south.
After the liberation of Abganerovo, the 61st Cavalry Division on November 22-24 fought successful battles, often turning into saber battles, with units of the Romanian 8th Cavalry Division in the Solyany-Umantsevo area. The division occupied the city of Umantsevo, defeating the headquarters of the 4th Romanian division.
On November 24, 1942, the sun rose from behind small hills under the city. In its scarlet rays, the steel of the raised blades of warriors - Tajiks menacingly sparkled. The heavy roar of hundreds of hooves scattered like a victorious roar. Squadron after squadron they formed a giant line. Behind formed the next. Now they were at a gallop. The number of horsemen suddenly doubled: the 219th regiment flew in from the flank. Only a cavalryman can understand how dangerous an unstoppable attack of cavalry from the flank and rear is dangerous for the infantry.
Machine gunner Bakir Davlyatov, in a car with a quad machine gun mount, outstripped our attacking chains and lashed the enemy with a stream of lead. And the enemy could not resist. "Kazaken! Kazaken! - heart-rending cries rushed from the trenches of the Romanians. The first to flee was the commander of the Romanian division, Colonel Kornia, and his staff. They managed to escape in cars. The units left without control did not resist for long. At 10 o’clock in the morning silence reigned in Umantsevo…
Combat reports and award lists testify to the courage of the Tajik cavalrymen. So, the adjutant of the commander of the 291st cavalry regiment Bakhrom Suyarov, breaking into Umantsevo, personally hacked to death 12 Romanians, and took three prisoners. In the same battles, his brother-soldiers also distinguished themselves: a resident of Stalinabad V. Petrov (later a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR), an Isfarinian R. Anorov, Bakir Davlyatov from Regar (later a Hero Soviet Union). In the battle for Umantsevo, more than a hundred enemy soldiers and officers were taken prisoner, a battery of 88-mm guns, a mortar battery, machine guns and other weapons were captured.
The division suffered heavy losses ... Many soldiers and commanders were buried there in a mass grave. And now there stands a majestic obelisk to Tajik soldiers.
Tajik cavalry against tanks
On November 24, 1942, it became clear to the command of the Stalingrad Front that the enemy would try to create a tank fist in Kotelnikovo from 3 tank divisions fully equipped with tanks. From the very beginning of the formation of this grouping, the command of the Stalingrad Front feared that the main blow would be delivered by this grouping from the Kotelnikovo area. To prove the correctness of their conclusions, the command decided to strike with the available forces of two cavalry divisions of the 4th Cavalry Corps, supported by a tank brigade.
The order of the commander of the Stalingrad Front, Colonel-General A.I. Eremenko, was delivered by plane to Umantsevo: “I order the commander of the 61st KD on 11/26/1942 to capture Kotelnikovsky and hold it until the main forces approach. Conduct reconnaissance in the western and southwestern directions. Eremenko. 25.11.42"
And, despite the fact that the units and regiments of the 61st Cavalry Division were exhausted in previous battles, it immediately went on the offensive in the direction of Kotelnikovo from the southeast. In essence, the 61st division left the subordination of the corps and acted independently on the orders of the front commander.
Meanwhile, on November 23, the command of the German 4th Panzer Army, which became known as the "Army Group Gotha", took over the leadership of the fighting with the task of bringing up fresh forces and launching an offensive from the Kotelnikovo area.
On the morning of November 25, the division's column set off in a long winding ribbon along a bumpy steppe road. On November 27, together with the 81st division, she attacked Kotelnikovo from the north and northwest.
On November 27, the division broke into the Kotelnikovo railway station. New enemy reserves approached there with a large number of tanks and infantry as part of 3 tank divisions. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the first train, transferred from the Caucasus by the 6th German Panzer Division, arrived at the station, which was already under fire from the artillery battalion of the 61st Cavalry Division. Two battalions of the 4th motorized regiment of this division, reinforced with tanks, attacked the Tajik cavalry directly from the train, forcing them to retreat from the city.
On November 30, the commander of the 51st Army, Trufanov, suspended the operation, ordering units of the 4th Cavalry Corps, including the 61st Division, to stand up on the defensive and conduct reconnaissance to the west and south, it was necessary to replenish the units and formations of the advancing units with people , fuel and ammunition.
The chief of staff of the 17th Army Corps of the Wehrmacht, Major General Hans Doerr, notes in his book that the enemy “continued to be active. His intensified attacks on December 4, despite the brave actions of the 3rd Romanian battalions, led to the loss of the settlements of Sharnutovsky and Dorganov. The Russian 61st Cavalry Division penetrated through a gap in the Krainyaya Balka area immediately as far as eastern outskirts Kotelnikovo.
“Intelligence brings information one more disturbing than the other,” recalls Poleshov, head of the operational department of the 61st Cavalry Division. - There are a lot of tanks in and around Kotelnikovo, and they are all coming. Our reconnaissance intercepted a passenger car with an officer who testified about the offensive of a group of German troops under the command of General Hoth, scheduled for December 12, 1942. Urgently conveying this important news to the command, the divisional commander convened the commanders and proposed using the Aksai River as a line of defense.
Forgotten feat on Aksai
On December 12, 1942, German troops went on the offensive to release the 6th German Army of Paulus. The commander of the German tank group, General Hoth, had to overcome 100 kilometers of territory held by the Soviet troops. The Soviet units found themselves in a difficult situation. General Colonel Eremenko called Stalin and reported on the situation. Stalin replied harshly:
You will hold on. We are collecting reserves for you. I am sending you a second guard army.
But until the arrival of the guards, it was necessary to hold out.
The troops of the 51st Army, which included the 61st Cavalry Division, from December 14 to 15, in accordance with the order, withdrew from the Kotelnikovo area to the line of the northern bank of the Aksai River, where a heavy battle unfolded. The German Panzer General Raus seriously assessed the threat from the 61st Cavalry Division. He wrote in his memoirs: “It is also impossible to ignore the 61st Cavalry Division of the 4th Cavalry Corps, concentrated in the area of the Aksai River. According to our estimate, this dismounted division is reinforced by 14 tanks.
As can be seen from this quote, German intelligence worked well. And according to our intelligence, 3 tank divisions, reinforced by motorized infantry regiments, were advancing against the 51st Army. Enemy aircraft, represented by dive bombers, bombed our defenses on the Aksay River all the time.
From the memoirs of the German Major General Hans Dörr: “Already on December 14, it became clear that the enemy would try to delay the further advance of the 57th Panzer Corps beyond the river. Aksai. The corps at that time was fighting with the 4th cavalry and 13th tank corps of the Russians.
The 61st division found itself in the direction of the enemy's main attack. Apparently, the Germans made this decision, taking into account intelligence data and considering that the 61st Cavalry Division was not an enemy to tanks.
On the morning of December 15, up to 150 tanks, which were based on the long-barreled T-IVs of the 6th Panzer Division of the Germans, and the grenadiers of the 114th motorized infantry regiment on the Gonomag armored personnel carrier launched an offensive against the positions of the 61st Cavalry Division. But the Germans miscalculated. Cavalrymen from Tajikistan this time, together with tankers and their own artillery battalion, heroically held the defense for five days, exactly as long as it took to deploy the 2nd Guards Army.
In these fierce battles in the Verkhne-Kumsky region, the commander and almost the entire headquarters of the 213th cavalry regiment were killed ...
"61st stand to the death"
Already on December 14, it became clear that the enemy would try to break through the Aksai River with the forces of the 57th Panzer Corps. At the turn, which held the defense of the 4th cavalry corps. On December 15, an officer of the operational department of the 61st division arrived with a report to the corps commander at the Chervlenny farm. The headquarters of the corps is loaded into cars. General Shapkin interrupts his report, points to a nearby hillock:
See the tanks? They've broken through the defenses of the 81st Cavalry Division and are on their way here. Come back as soon as possible. Anyway, I can't tell you anything. Tell the divisional commander: "61st stand to the death, hold the line with all your might."
From the memoirs of the German tanker Lieutenant Horst Scheibert: “This day of attacks - not very successful - was, however, very instructive. The enemy on Aksai held out so firmly that only systematic attacks could break through his defenses. The combined use of different types of weapons did not give the desired effect against a strong enemy ready for defense.
From the memoirs of M. Poleshov: “The NP and I are observing the actions of the calculation of a small 45-mm gun on the flank of the regiment. The division commander Nikitin, whom Kovel contacted by phone, said that this was the artillery crew of Sergeant Vakhob Abdullayev. The sergeant at the panorama points, and the gunner Pavel Tregubenko and the loader Ilya Pupygin are firing at German tanks. Within a few minutes they destroy two tanks, but then a third tank jumps out, runs into the cannon and crushes it. The artillerymen manage to jump into the trench. The tank irons the firing position... Vakhob Abdullaev leans out of the trench, throws a grenade. The tank spun with a torn caterpillar.
Here is what the former German General Mellenthin writes in his memoirs: “During this period, events full of tragedy took place, historical meaning which are difficult to overestimate. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the battle on the banks of this obscure river (Aksai) led to the crisis of the 3rd Reich, put an end to Hitler's hopes for the creation of an Empire and was a decisive link in the chain of events that predetermined the defeat of Germany.
... In the historical literature about the actions of the 61st Cavalry Division formed in Tajikistan and its participation in the fateful battle of the Great Patriotic War, unfortunately, little is written unjustifiably. There are no serious scientific work and research. But this battle was the climax, after which Germany was forced to mainly defensive actions and the military potential of the Soviet Union proved its superiority.
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In June 1980, I moved to a new place of work in Maksimovka. According to a long-established tradition at the local school, retired teachers were invited to the celebrations. This connection between generations was supported by those kind words that senior mentors always found for the young and by the fact that we saw this as real support in business. At such meetings I got acquainted at that time with still living pensioners-teachers Andrey Danilovich Markelov, Semyon Grigoryevich Artemov and many others. In the frosty winter of 1980, having moved to a new semi-detached house on Samarskaya Street, I became Semyon Grigoryevich's neighbor. Our closer acquaintance took place in the spring of 1981, when it became warm like in summer and, as my neighbor said, he took his “rightful place” on a comfortable bench under blossoming trees on the south front side of his house, waiting for an interlocutor. In conversations, somehow imperceptibly, we moved on to revelation, and since then we have had confidential conversations. Many years later, I understood why this happened. The life path of Semyon Grigoryevich Artemov and the fate of my father Frol Tikhonovich completely repeated each other: year of birth - 1913, hard work from an early age in peasant family, studying at school, universities, serving in the army in the prewar years. Participation in the fierce battles of 1941-1943 and the horrors of German captivity. Everyone got everything that can be in the war. Nothing is missing.
Semyon Grigoryevich knew how to listen to his interlocutor, and he himself spoke quietly, expressing his thoughts clearly, feeling the significance of each uttered word, forcing him to listen to himself. But Semyon Grigoryevich spoke little and reluctantly about the war. I knew no more about the front-line fate of a soldier than what is written on the pages of a small samizdat Book of Memory of War Veterans, created by students of the Maximov school. Somehow, going through old school books of orders, I found a document in which Semyon Grigorievich, along with small group young teachers were reprimanded for participating in a youth party at one of their colleagues in the apartment. Today it will seem strange to someone, but the teacher in those years had the right to participate only in official celebrations. Everything else was qualified as a violation of labor discipline.
It was young! And the director was strict! - he commented with a smile and briefly, as if emphasizing how insignificant this episode of life was against the background of the upcoming trials. But I also knew something else, in the same orders for many years, the conscientious and productive work of Semyon Grigorievich at school was noted. A kind attitude towards a person was combined in him with exactingness and rigor. The children responded to him with respect and love.
Artemov Semyon Grigorievich was born on September 14, 1913 in the village of Trostyanka. In a peasant family, he was the youngest of three brothers. In 1917, the family moved to the village of Zapadny on the right bank of the Samarka River, where Semyon Grigoryevich graduated from the local school. Labor activity He began as a collective farmer on the Krasny Vostok collective farm in May 1931. A year later, he entered the Kuibyshev Planning Institute and successfully completed his higher education. educational institution in July 1936. In all likelihood, at first he studied at the "workers' faculty", since he left for Kuibyshev in May, and was enrolled in the institute in August 1932. Unfortunately, it was not possible to find facts confirming his social activities while studying at a planned institute, but we can confidently assume that it was in the student team that young Artemov developed the ability to take responsibility and bring what he started to the end. The priorities in cognition can be judged by grades in the diploma. Good and excellent marks are presented in statistics, finance, agricultural accounting and economics Agriculture, mechanization and zootechnics, industrial processing, planning and the history of economic doctrines. The student paid special attention to military affairs and the German language.
Artemov Semyon Grigoryevich defended his thesis at the State Qualification Commission on the topic: “The balance of the labor force and the methodology for compiling it on the example of the Kataisky district of the Chelyabinsk region for 1936” and received the qualification of a planner-economist. When performing his thesis, Semyon Grigorievich traveled to the Chelyabinsk region to study economic situation and it is not surprising that at the end of the institute he was sent to the village of Chebarkul, Chebarkulsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, to the post of economist of the district plan. It is recorded in the work book: July 1936 - November 1936, economist of the district plan.
In the Rokossovsky division
In November 1936, the twenty-three-year-old young specialist was drafted by the military department into the ranks of the Red Army in the 64th cavalry regiment of the 15th cavalry division as a cadet of the regimental school of reserve officers. The division was part of the Trans-Baikal Military District in 1936.
The situation in the zone of responsibility of the Trans-Baikal Military District was alarming. As you know, in Manchuria there was a struggle between Japanese and Chinese troops. In the interests of the country's defense, it was necessary to carry out measures to form and put together parts of the district as soon as possible. Therefore, since March 1932, the 15th Cavalry Division, consisting of the 64th, 73rd, 74th and 75th Cavalry Regiments, has been registered in the Trans-Baikal Group of Forces. The 64th Cavalry Regiment was withdrawn from the 2nd cavalry brigade and assigned to the 15th Cavalry Division.
The headquarters of the 15th Kuban Cavalry Division under the command of K.K. Rokossovsky, along with the 73rd, 74th cavalry regiments and the 15th mechanized regiment, was located in the village of Dauria. The 64th Caucasian Cavalry Regiment (regiment commander I.K. Kuzmin), in which Artemov served, was stationed at junction No. 74.
Given the possibility of a military clash, the division commander Rokossovsky taught his fighters to make intense and forced marches and forced marches in any weather, day and night, on roads and without roads. He demanded from regimental commanders that they master the art of deploying into battle formations on the move for a swift attack on the enemy, for pursuing him after the battle until complete destruction.
Having received a solid experience of service in the cavalry and the military rank of "junior lieutenant", Artemov Semyon Grigorievich returned to his homeland in December 1937.
At this time, an unexpected turn occurs in the fate of S.G. Artemov. Without giving himself a break to rest, in December 1937 he got a job as a teacher of history and geography at the Maksimovskaya junior high school and remained true to his choice for the rest of his life. The next three and a half years, now teachers of the school, pass in active work in the school, the rural community, in the ranks of the Komsomol organization. The villagers knew him as an experienced agitator and propagandist, participant and organizer of collective affairs. Parents and children saw in him an attentive, kind and demanding teacher.
War
For those who served in the army before the war, it was clear that war was inevitable. But still, it struck suddenly, breaking into the peaceful life of people, breaking all hopes, subordinating everyone and everything to its harsh rules.
Artemov Semen Grigorievich was mobilized into the ranks of the Red Army in the first month of the war, July 13, 1941, and sent to the Totsk camps of the Chkalov (Orenburg) region. In July-August, the 46th Cavalry Division is formed here, consisting of:
57th Cavalry Regiment, 59th Cavalry Regiment, 61st Cavalry Regiment and 53rd Horse Artillery Battalion
Junior Lieutenant Artemov is appointed platoon commander in the 57th Cavalry Regiment. The division is subordinate to the Volga Military District until October 1, 1941.
Part active army The 57th Cavalry Regiment is sent on September 18, 1941 and takes part in the defense of Moscow as part of the northern group of troops. At the beginning of 1942, the regiment entered the breakthrough and fought behind enemy lines until July 1942 as part of the 46th Cavalry Division. Later, the division, which suffered heavy losses, is disbanded, and the remaining units are transferred to the 24th Cavalry Division.
The military fate of Artemov S.G. it turns out that a junior lieutenant a week earlier before the departure of the 24th cavalry division to the front is withdrawn from the 57th regiment, and on September 10, 1941, he arrives at the 8th cavalry regiment as part of the Central Front and is appointed platoon commander. Such lightning-fast movement of personnel is most likely due to the large shortage of junior officers at that time. One of the sources mentions the need for platoon commanders of 3,000 people as of September 1941.
In Artemov's military ID, the corresponding entry does not indicate the division, which means that the 8th cavalry regiment was special, separate or part of the operational troops of the NKVD.
The scanty information that we managed to collect from various pages on the Internet allows us to analyze the situation and draw conclusions.
On January 1, 1924, in the city of Tbilisi, on the basis of the 55th Georgian division of the OGPU troops of the USSR, the 8th Transcaucasian cavalry regiment of the OGPU troops of the USSR was formed.
On January 19, 1933, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, the 8th Cavalry Regiment was awarded the Red Banner of Honor.
Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR of April 20, 1943 "Transformation into guards of the 8th cavalry regiment."
The wording of the order indicates that it will be transformed into a guards regiment that is not part of the division structure.
"Special Turkestan Cavalry Division (territorial)
Division Command - Semipalatinsk
7th Cavalry Regiment - Semipalatinsk
8th Cavalry Regiment - Akmolinsk 1931. As part of this division in 1941, the 8th cavalry is no longer mentioned.
Another 8th Cavalry Regiment, but already Guards, which received a new numbering and the title of "Guards" on February 8, 1942, was transformed from the 136th Cavalry Regiment, which was part of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division (the former 9th Cavalry Division , NPO order dated November 26, 1941 No. 342). In this regiment Artemov S.G. turned up in June 1942 and fought in its ranks until he was captured on February 27, 1943.
In November 1941, in Adygea, another regiment with the same number was formed from persons of non-conscription age: the 8th cavalry regiment, which became part of the 17th Kuban Cossack cavalry corps.
The above facts allow us to assume that the 8th cavalry regiment, recorded in the military ID, still belonged to the operational troops of the NKVD. The list of operational troops indicates the 8th cavalry regiment, this is the one that became the Guards on April 20, 1943, and with the preservation of the number. Recall that the 8th Guards Cavalry Regiment as part of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division received a new name earlier, on February 8, 1942.
The operational troops of the NKVD, together with units of the Red Army, took an active part in the hostilities at the most critical moments of the battles. In addition to the well-known functions of guarding important facilities, protecting the rear from saboteurs, deserters and other elements, divisions and individual regiments of operational troops fought heroically against the enemy.
In the Dovator group
The sons of Semyon Grigorievich recall that their father repeatedly spoke about his participation in the Moscow battle, in the Dovator group. By the way, in the materials about the military operations of this group, NKVD units are mentioned without indicating numbers.
I will give a historical background on the cavalry group:
“In the first months of the Great Patriotic War, Colonel Dovator L.M. was at the headquarters of the Western Front. In July 1941, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for his distinction in defensive battles at the Solovyovskaya crossing across the Dnieper.
In August 1941, he was entrusted to lead the operational cavalry group of the 29th Army, formed from several Cossack regiments. Under the command of L.M. Dovator, a large cavalry formation for the first time made a raid behind enemy lines, striking at communications, destroying headquarters, transport, warehouses and manpower of the Nazis.
With a sudden powerful throw, the Soviet cavalry broke through the defenses of the Nazi troops several kilometers along the front. The appearance of a cavalry unit of the Red Army, which had penetrated 100 km behind enemy lines, caused panic among the Nazis.
This exceptionally difficult raid through the roadless wooded and swampy regions of the Smolensk region continued for two weeks. During this time, the supporters destroyed over 2,500 enemy soldiers and officers, 9 tanks, more than 200 vehicles, and several military depots. Numerous trophies were captured, which went into service partisan detachments. The Nazi command appointed a large cash reward for the head of Dovator and created special detachments to capture him. But Dovator's cavalrymen were elusive."
By the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of September 11, 1941 No. 2057, Colonel Dovator L.M. promoted to the rank of Major General.
In September - October 1941, the soldiers of General Dovator participated in heavy defensive battles on the distant approaches to Moscow - on the Mezha River, along the Lama River (from Yaropolets to the Moscow Sea), heroically repelling enemy attacks.
Since the beginning German operation"Typhoon" to capture Moscow, Dovator's horsemen found themselves at the tip of a tank wedge directed through Volokolamsk and Klin to the northern outskirts of the capital.
In the most difficult battles on the Volokolamsk Highway, acting side by side with the infantrymen of the I.V. Panfilov division and the tankers of the Katukov brigade, suffering heavy losses from continuous tank attacks and bombing attacks, the supporters staunchly defended the designated line.
November 19 made their immortal feat 37 Cossacks of the 4th squadron of Lieutenant Krasilnikov from the 37th Armavir regiment of the 50th Kuban division as part of the Dovator corps. Lasovsky's regiment fought in a semi-encirclement. The 4th squadron was on the left open flank in the Fedyukovo, Sheludkovo sector. Lieutenant Krasilnikov was killed. There were no more officers in the squadron. The command was taken over by the junior political instructor Mikhail Ilyenko. At dawn, the squadron was attacked by enemy infantry with ten tanks. Having destroyed six tanks with grenades and bottles of combustible mixture, the Cossacks repelled the attack. A few hours later, the Germans threw twenty tanks into battle. At the request of Dovator, General Katukov sent five thirty-fours led by senior lieutenant Burda to help the thinned defenders of the line. After losing seven tanks, the Germans withdrew again. The Katukovites returned to their line of defense. Reflecting the third attack, all the remaining Cossacks of the squadron died. But the tanks did not pass to Moscow in their area.
The 50th and 53rd Cossack divisions of the Dovator group suffered heavy losses in these battles. So in the final combat report on the evening of November 19, the commanders of the 50th Kuban division reported to General Dovator that 177 soldiers, sergeants and officers, 9 machine guns, 3 cannons remained at the line of defense. It was all that was left of Pliev's division.
General Dovator, without rest and peace, was constantly in the active parts of the corps, supporting the morale of the cavalry, who fought courageously on the outskirts of Moscow.
November 26, 1941 - The 3rd Cavalry Corps was transformed into the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps for the courage shown in battles with the German invaders, for the stamina, courage and heroism of the SVGK personnel.
The 50th KD became known as the 3rd Guards, the 53rd KD - the 4th Guards Cavalry Division.
On December 11, 1941, the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps, Major General L.M. Dovator was transferred to the Kubinka area. One hundred and fifty kilometers he walked along the rear of the Nazi troops, pursuing their retreating units, and on December 19 he reached the Ruza River.
The advanced parts of the corps were already in the area of the village of Palashkino (Ruzsky district of the Moscow region), where there were large forces of the Nazis. Opposite the village under the steep bank of the river L.M. Dovator set up a field headquarters for the corps and, having decided to personally inspect the position of the enemy’s defenses before the attack, climbed to the opposite bank of the river. The Nazis, noticing a crowd of people, hit from a machine gun. Major General Dovator was mortally wounded. After the death of Dovator, General Pliev I.A. was appointed commander of the corps. (from December 17, 1941 to March 5, 1942)
Cavalry corps were successfully used to carry out deep raids behind enemy lines. These operations were accompanied by difficulties in supplying the troops, the divisions did not always receive ammunition and replenishment.
The raid of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps under the command of A.P. is also exceptionally unprecedented. Belov behind enemy lines. In his memoirs, the famous cavalry general wrote: “For five months we fought tense battles with the regular troops of the enemy, disrupted his communications, controlled a significant territory. These actions intensified the partisan movement in many areas of the Smolensk region.
At the end of January, about seven thousand cavalry guards went behind enemy lines, and more than ten thousand returned from there, not counting the three thousand wounded who were evacuated to the "mainland" by planes. In addition, at least seven thousand partisans remained in the fascist rear in the two partisan divisions we created.
The people who participated in the raid later fought on various fronts, witnessed great battles and glorious victories. But the struggle behind enemy lines holds a special place in our memory. It was a severe test, and the horse guards withstood it with honor.
The editor's afterword notes:
“The raid of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps in the rear of the 4th Field Army of the Germans is not only characterized by its duration (more than five months), but is also the only example in the last war when large units and formations of partisans and airborne troops. The experience of leading the combined forces of cadre and partisan formations is extremely important and requires special study.
In incredibly difficult conditions, using local means, trophies captured from the enemy and equipment left by the Red Army during the summer battles, workers and enthusiasts of their work, logistics and unit commanders not only fed the personnel, but also created artillery and tank units, staffing them found in swamps and forests and repaired guns and tanks.
The group of General Belov for a long time held down large enemy forces, which contributed to the successful fulfillment by the troops of the Western Front of the common task of defeating the Nazi troops near Moscow. The order to withdraw Belov's corps beyond the front line was received in early June 1942.
Artemov Semyon Grigorievich participated in several raids deep behind enemy lines. The greatest effectiveness of the combat operations of cavalry units was ensured by the high mobility of this type of troops, surprise, and the ability to pursue the retreating enemy and finish him off. But in the early stages of the war, the cavalry was used without means of reinforcement and support, which led to heavy losses in personnel. After each raid, replenishment of people and horse staff was required.
The conduct of hostilities in the deep rear required special psychological endurance and physical endurance from the personnel. And, of course, the situation made exceptional demands on junior officers, platoon and squadron commanders.
8th Guards Cavalry Regiment
Artemov Semen Grigorievich June 25, 1942 was transferred to the 8th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division as a platoon commander. In early June, the regiment left a deep raid as part of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps, famous for its daring actions behind enemy lines under the command of Belov. In July 1942, divisions and regiments of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps received new reinforcements of commanders and rank and file. The troops are equipped with weapons and cavalry, preparing for new battles.
It is curious to note two letters received from Semyon Grigoryevich to his relatives, dated 02/07/1942, 12/17/1942. The first letter was written while serving in the 8th Cavalry Regiment in the Penza region, and the second already in the 8th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Division. In the first case, Semyon Grigorievich was probably on the re-formation, and in the second - after fierce battles as part of the Western Front.
“During the offensive on Stalingrad, the German command launched another major offensive in the area south of Sukhinichi and Kirov in order to eliminate the Kirov ledge of the troops of the Western Front. Main blow the Germans applied from the direction of the Zhizdra River to Kozelsk - Kaluga. In this direction, the Cossacks of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps, Lieutenant General V.K. Baranov, steadfastly repelled the enemy’s offensive.
At dawn on August 10, 1942, enemy tank and mechanized divisions broke through the front of our troops at the junction of the 16th and 61st armies in the area of Tutorovskaya, Krapivna and developed the offensive in a northern direction. Cavalrymen of General V.K. Baranov took on the blow of parts of the 11th, 7th and 19th German tank divisions. In the August battles, the soldiers of the cavalry corps fought to the death in battles with numerically superior forces of enemy tanks and infantry, supported by attack aircraft.
The battles of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps on the Zhizdra River, when the corps continuously repelled numerous attacks of superior enemy forces supported by aviation, went down in the history of the formations of the cavalry corps as an example of stamina, courage, heroism and military skill of cavalrymen, artillerymen, mortarmen, signalmen.
The units and formations attached to the cavalry corps fought heroically in these battles. By their joint efforts, the enemy was stopped here.”
In this famous battle in the history of the Great Patriotic War, Artemov S.G. took the most active part, being at the forefront in direct contact with the enemy.
Here is how Marshal of the Soviet Union I. Kh. Bagramyan recalled the beginning of this operation: “The Hitlerite command ... on August 11 ... launched a powerful blow with a large group against the armies of the left wing of the Western Front. In this case, the enemy’s plan was to make a deep breakthrough in the defense of our 16th and 61st armies and further develop success in the direction of Sukhinichi, in order to then go to the Yukhnov region and thereby endanger the entire left wing of the Western Front. For this operation, as it turned out later, about fifteen divisions were involved, including five tank divisions, which had up to 500 combat vehicles. Aviation was also widely used.
Suddenly, the enemy broke through the defenses of the 61st Army neighboring us in its center and advanced 25 kilometers to the north-west, reaching the Zhizdra River in the Vosta, Belo-Kamen sector ... At the same time, another grouping of enemy troops struck in the sector of our left-flank 322 th Infantry Division, which was defending the line along the Resseta River, 17-18 kilometers long, with the front to the west ... The enemy, apparently, sought to subsequently reach the Zhizdra River and close with his main strike group ...
As soon as the scale and possible goals pursued by the Nazi command were identified, the 10th tank corps of General V. G. Burkov was ordered to march from the Sukhinichi region and concentrate by the morning of August 12 on the northern bank of the Zhizdra behind the left flank of the army, in readiness for a counterattack in a southerly direction, towards the enemy tank divisions that broke through the defenses of the 61st Army.
In the afternoon, enemy aircraft intensified continuous massive attacks on the corps, and tank and infantry divisions approached from the reserve and attacked the advancing units of the formation. General Burkov at 15 o'clock brought the 186th brigade into battle. A stubborn counter-fight ensued. But the forces were unequal, and the corps, having lost 35 tanks, was forced to go on the defensive at the Pochinok-Perestryazh line, having all the brigades in the first echelon. (TsAMO, f. 3410, op. 1, d. 6, l. 6 - Note)
Further:
“At night, units of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps approached, the tanks of the 10th Corps, which had lagged behind along the way, pulled up. On the morning of August 13, tankers and cavalry resumed their counterattack: tank brigades acted in the center, and the 1st and 2nd Guards Cavalry brigades acted on the flanks. With the approach of strong reserves on the morning of August 14, the Nazi troops, supported by massive air strikes, resumed the offensive against the 10th Tank and 1st Guards Cavalry Corps of the 16th Army. Smoke covered the sky. The dust raised by the tanks hung in a thick cloud in the air, trembling from the roar of guns, the roar of engines, the clanging of caterpillars. But none of the soldiers of the corps flinched.
Unable to bring down the 10th Panzer Corps with a frontal attack, the enemy attacked the neighboring cavalry divisions, which did not have the necessary amount of anti-tank weapons. Unable to withstand the pressure of the enemy's tank wedges, the 1st Guards Cavalry Division left Perestryazh and withdrew to Volosovo, while the 2nd Guards Division could not hold Dubna. As a result, the flanks of the tank corps were open. Having broken the resistance of the cavalry formations, the Nazis rushed to the Zhizdra River, intending to capture crossings across it from the settlements of Vosta and Dretovo on the move.
But the enemy's plan was thwarted.
During the August battles, the plan of the Nazi command was thwarted: to defeat the troops of the left wing of the Western Front. The enemy was stopped at the turn of the Zhizdra River, three Soviet armies, going on the offensive, "struck him back, after which the original position of our troops was largely restored."
In the order to the troops of the Western Front dated September 15, 1942, it was noted that in battles the Guards Cavalry Corps showed stamina, firmness, great endurance and courage, inflicting more losses on the enemy.
“The 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps,” the order said, “destroyed over 70 tanks, 12 aircraft and over 4,300 enemy soldiers and officers in battle.
The 1st Guards Cavalry Corps destroyed 207 tanks, 6 aircraft, and about 11,000 enemy soldiers and officers. The 1st and 2nd Guards Cavalry Divisions of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps and the 4th Guards Cavalry Division of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps distinguished themselves in battle. Of the guards cavalry regiments, the 1st, 7th, 8th guards cavalry regiments of the 1st guards cavalry corps, the 9th, 11th and 16th guards cavalry regiments of the 2nd guards cavalry corps showed particularly outstanding combat success. ”(G. L. Voskoboynikov Cossacks and cavalry during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945)
The order also noted shortcomings in the combat use of cavalry: “army commanders in some cases used cavalry instead of infantry to perform purely infantry tasks. The commanders of the 16th and 20th armies pulled apart the cavalry regiments, attaching the cavalry regiments to rifle divisions. The 8th and 21st Guards Cavalry Regiments were transferred to the commander of the 32nd Rifle Division of the 16th Army, the 13th and 14th Guards Cavalry Regiments were subordinate to the commander of the 8th Guards rifle corps 20th Army. These lines specify that the 8th Guards Cavalry Regiment fought in the specified period as part of the 32nd Division of the 16th Army. The 2nd Guards Cavalry Division was part of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps in August - September 1942, along with the other two 1st and 7th Cavalry Divisions.
I think it would be appropriate here to name the commanders of the corps and its divisions:
1st GVKK - Major General Baranov Viktor Kirillovich (07/10/1942 - 05/11/1945)
1st GVKD - Guards Colonel Ovar Yulian Ivanovich (07/16/1942-11/30/1943)
2nd GVKD - Guards Colonel Sinitsky Vasily Gavrilovich (07/01/1942 - 03/05/1943), went missing on 03/05/1943. in the district of st. Sinelnikovo.
7th GVKD - Guards Major General Glinsky Mikhail Ivanovich (01/05/1942 - 03/21/1943)
During this period of hostilities, the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps had three divisions.
Lieutenant Artemov, commander of a cavalry platoon of the 8th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Division, took an active part in these fierce battles. It is worth rethinking that the platoon commander in the war was always ahead of the unit at the very forefront: in the trenches, in attack and defense, and was the most frequently replaced commander in connection with death or injury.
Operation Star and Leap
In November 1942, the most powerful Soviet offensive since the beginning of the war began in the bend of the Don, which had disastrous consequences for Germany. When the German front was broken through northwest and south of Stalingrad, two Romanian armies were defeated, and the 6th german army surrounded in Stalingrad. As a result, the prerequisites appeared for the interception of the strategic initiative by the Soviet command. Meanwhile, the Soviet Southern Front made an attempt to cut off the German grouping in the North Caucasus. In January 1943, the Voronezh and Southwestern fronts hit the area north of the Seversky Donets River, crushing the 2nd Hungarian Army and the Italian Alpine Corps stationed here. Developing success, the Soviet troops inflicted several more blows on the Germans, thoroughly battering Army Group B. Unable to parry all these powerful blows at the same time, Germany gave the initiative to the Soviet Union, while she herself took up "patching holes."
As a result, in January 1943, in the areas between Slavyansk (slightly east of the confluence of the Seversky Donets and Oskol) and north of Kursk, a gap about 500 kilometers long formed in the German front. Through this gap, the Soviet armies rushed west, with the goal of reaching the Dnieper in the Dnepropetrovsk region. An important component of this intention was the task of capturing the first capital of Soviet Ukraine - Kharkov. The corresponding plan was personally approved by Stalin on January 23, 1943. The start of the operation, codenamed Zvezda, was scheduled for February 1, 1943. The 3rd Tank Army, the 40th and 69th Combined Arms Armies, plus the 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of the Voronezh Front were assigned to take over the Kharkov area. In addition, separate formations of the 60th Army were attached to the advancing armies as a reinforcement.
Due to a delay in the deployment of forces, the start Soviet operation"Zvezda" was delayed by one day from the scheduled date (February 1).
On February 14, the encirclement of Kharkov was almost completed. Groups of Soviet tanks broke through the defensive lines from the north, northwest and southeast and reached the outskirts of the city. The supply route Kharkov - Poltava was shot through by Soviet artillery.
At noon on February 15, the Soviet troops went on the attack again. Now there was only one small passage in the southeast in the ring around the city. German troops left their positions and began to make their way out of the city. By 12 o'clock on February 16, Kharkov was completely cleared of the enemy.
After the capture of Kharkov by the Soviet troops, Stalin authorized the implementation of the plan proposed by the commander Southwestern Front Vatutin. This plan, called the Leap, provided for a breakthrough of mobile units to the Dnieper and the capture of a bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper before the start of the spring thaw. To accomplish this task, Kharitonov's 6th Army was intended, which, in addition to infantry, included two tank and one cavalry corps. South of the 6th Army, Popov's group, consisting of 4 tank corps, was advancing on the Donbass (a fully equipped Soviet tank corps corresponded, in terms of the number of tanks, to a German tank division) to the rear of the Hollidt task force through Slavyansk in the direction of the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov.
On February 19, the 25th tank corps of Kharitonov's army captured the Sinelnikovo station and was located 60 km from Zaporozhye. But subsequent events developed unsuccessfully for the Soviet troops.
On the same day, February 19, 1943, Manstein launched a counteroffensive from the Dnepropetrovsk region and from the flanks of the advancing Soviet groups. Troops arriving from the west were used immediately after being unloaded from the wagons. 100 thousand soldiers were airlifted from the Taman Peninsula (the German command used these troops at the next stage of the battle). This was the last successful German offensive against Eastern Front. By the end of February, the Soviet troops had lost, according to German data, 23,000 killed and 9,000 captured. The casualties were relatively small compared to the large losses in the unsuccessful battles of 1942. This was explained by the fact that Vatutin was able to quickly withdraw troops beyond the Seversky Donets, to a distance of over 100 km, which made it possible to avoid the encirclement of a large number of troops. But at the same time, hundreds of tanks were lost, and the flank of the neighboring Voronezh Front turned out to be open.
This front continued to advance until March 4, putting its troops in an increasingly dangerous position. This was, of course, the mistake of the front commander Golikov.
On March 4, German tank formations attacked the weakly defended flank of the Voronezh Front. The Germans again succeeded. By March 10, a 60-kilometer gap had formed in the Soviet defense. On March 14, German troops surrounded Kharkov and took the city 2 days later. According to Soviet data, the divisions surrounded in Kharkov managed to break out and retreat to the left bank of the Seversky Donets.
The Germans continued their offensive and on March 18 they took Belgorod, but a week later they were stopped by fresh troops of two Soviet armies transferred to this area. By this time, the spring thaw began, the attempts of the German command to continue the offensive were unsuccessful. Soviet troops entrenched themselves, forming the southern face of the so-called Kursk salient.
But let's get back to the events of the last ten days of February in the area of the Sinelnikovo station in the Dnepropetrovsk region. Acting in concert, the German tank troops and infantry divisions surrounded the 100th and 102nd Guards Rifle Regiments of the 35th Guards Rifle Division, Major General I.Ya. Kulagin, units of the 41st Guards Rifle Division (all from the 4th Guards Rifle Corps) and the combined cavalry division of Colonel G.K. Sinitsky (from the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps). last Soviet command recently thrown into the Sinelnikovo area to reinforce the tank group of Lieutenant General Popov.
The capture of Pavlograd and the restoration of control over the Sinelnikovo area was of paramount importance for the entire Manstein operation. On February 23, the position of the Germans was further strengthened when the 6th tank division The 48th Panzer Corps reached Pavlograd. “After that, the“ tip of an exceptionally dangerous Soviet strike ”in the direction of the crossings across the Dnieper was chopped off: the superbly equipped Soviet 25th tank corps was cut off:“ As a result of strong blows from the north and south, two German tank corps succeeded by the end of the day on February 22 unite in the area of Pavlograd and encircle part of the troops of the 6th Army in the area of Sinelnikovo, Pavlograd, Novomoskovsk. (From German sources). Part of the Soviet troops was dispersed and subsequently captured. Among the formations that suffered heavy losses in these battles is the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps with three cavalry divisions (1,2,7 cavalry divisions).
The list of troops participating in Operation Zvezda does not include the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps. In the documents on the combat composition of the Red Army on 01.02. 1943 the corps is listed on Western front as part of three guards cavalry divisions: 1st, 2nd and 7th. And from 01.03. In 1943, the corps in the same composition is already at the disposal of the 6th Army. Of course, such a movement was associated with a rapid change in the situation on the Southwestern Front under the command of Vatutin.
Presumably, the corps was redeployed to the 6th Army of the Southwestern Front by February 5, 1943. Three corps divisions were used as highly mobile units. Moreover, in these battles, the divisions were reinforced by tank regiments or brigades.
The date of arrival of the 8th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division can also be considered February 5, 1943. From that moment Artemov S.G. ended up on the Southwestern Front.
From the memoirs of front-line artilleryman Olimpiyev Vsevolod Ivanovich
The spring battle for Kharkov: “On a sunny morning on March 19, the remnants of the 1st Cavalry Corps began to stretch towards the bridge along a long earthen ramp. Suddenly, a large group of Yu-87 dive bombers appeared and, without encountering fire resistance, dropped the entire bomb load on the bridge and approaches to it from one run. Not being able to turn off the narrow road, wagons, cannons, machine-gun carts, cars rolled down, turning over from the steep slopes of the embankment. Almost simultaneously, from the north along the Donets, having crushed a weak cover, tanks with a landing of machine gunners from the same SS division "Dead Head" broke through to the bridge. Pressed against the river and disorganized by the bombing, our units were unable to offer serious resistance and chaotically tried to cross the river, some on ice, some along the rafters of the destroyed bridge.
I quote these lines with one purpose: to show how tragic sometimes the fate of a simple soldier in the war is, how envy it is from the soldier himself and whether it leaves him the right to choose other than death.
On the finale of Operation Leap: Our troops ended up in approximately the same positions from which they started the offensive. But not for long.
Captivity
On the site www.obd-memorial.ru, we managed to find several valuable documents that were previously inaccessible, as they are marked with the heading “secret”. Documents clarify the further fate of Semyon Grigorievich. A very small part of such documents about prisoners of war ended up in the archives of the Ministry of Defense. But we were lucky. We can read a photocopy of the prisoner of war record card.
The prisoner of war registration card filled out by a German clerk states:
Surname: Artemov
Name: Semyon
Surname: Grigorievich
Date of Birth: 1913
Place of Birth: Kuibyshev region, Kuibyshev
Last place of service: 8 CP (cavalry regiment)
Military rank: lieutenant
Capture date: 27.02.1943
Place of captivity: Egorovka
Camp: Stalag V A
camp number: 35456
Fate: was captured
Delivered to camp 18.06.1943
Translated: from camp VA to camp IXB 07/12/1944 (Von Stalag VA versetzt nach Stalag IXB)
On February 27, 1943, near the village of Egorovka, Artemov Semyon Grigoryevich, being surrounded, was captured by German troops.
The commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division, Colonel Sinitsky Vasily Gavrilovich, was considered, according to primary data, also missing from February 27, 1943 in the area of the Sinelnikovo station. Later, the date was specified in connection with the appearance of additional evidence: March 5, 1943. In official documents, he is listed as a division commander until 04/06/1943. The further fate of the commander is unknown. But we remember that in late February-early March 1943 he commanded a combined cavalry group, being commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division.
As for the village of Egorovka, the place of captivity of Artemov S.G., it was not possible to establish the exact area and area of location. On the territory of Ukraine there are 13 villages with this name. Having screened out 11 villages from the list, I considered the villages of Yegorovka the most likely Donetsk region, Volnovakhsky district and Yegorovka, Zaporozhye region, Orekhovsky district. The territory with such a radius of dispersion of troops in the environment may well include both of these villages.
The "funeral" went home. In the corresponding order of the Main Directorate of Personnel dated June 11, 1843 No. 0265, dead (deceased-author) it is written: Lieutenant Artemov Semyon Grigoryevich - 8 Guards Red Banner Cavalry Regiment, 2 Guards Red Banner Cavalry Division, born in 1913, member of the Komsomol. Died on February 27, 1943. Popova's wife, Vera Semyonovna, lives in the Bogatovsky District.
The specified order will be canceled on November 24, 1945 by order of the Main Directorate of Personnel of the NPO No. 3277.
“Article 17 of the order of the GUK NKO No. 0265 of 43 in relation to Lieutenant Artemov Semyon Grigorievich, who was excluded from the lists of the Red Army, as dead, should be canceled.
Was in captivity Nazi Germany from February 27, 1943 to May 27, 1945. Repatriated and is in the 1st reserve rifle division.
After 3.5 months, Artemov, after passing through several transit camps, on 13.06. 1943 was delivered to the Stalag VA camp. The camp was located in the 5th German military district in Ludwigsburg. Ludwigsburg is a city in Germany, a district center, located in Baden-Württemberg. Subordinated to the administrative district of Stuttgart. It is part of the Ludwigsburg district. The city is located in the southwest of the country, near the French border.
In 1935, 17 barracks and several stables were built in Ludwigsburg, on the southern outskirts. The military unit of the Wehrmacht was stationed here. In 1939 the territory was adapted for a camp for Polish prisoners of war. In 1940, Belgian, French, Dutch prisoners of war appeared here, later - English. In 1941-1942, Soviet prisoners of war appeared in the camp in large numbers. They were kept separately from other prisoners of war, the conditions of detention were more cruel. Thousands of Soviet prisoners of war died of starvation and disease. Some of the prisoners from among the rank and file and junior officers were sent to labor camps to work in factories and plants, farms. The prisoners also repaired automobile and railways. The mode of work was exhausting, many died from physical overload.
Attempts to escape, mainly from the work teams (Arbeitkommandos), were sporadic and brutally suppressed.
The territory of the camp was systematically bombarded by British and later by American aircraft. Here is about one of the prisoners of this camp:
“Tishchenko Aleksey Timofeevich, born in 1919, paramedic by education, camp number 43201, died in captivity. The card says: "Killed in a raid on Stuttgart." There were thousands of them."
On the outer side of the walls of the barracks and the roofs, the inscriptions “Prisoners of War” were made in large letters, large red crosses were painted. But these measures only provoked the pilots to bombing and shelling. The result was completely opposite.
The camp was surrounded by a double parallel fence, with tangled barbed wire (Bruno's Spiral) strewn between them.
The above is confirmed in the materials about the fate of Eldon Bertiom, an American soldier, a prisoner of the Stalag VA.
He recalled that the prisoners were usually fed a "green soup" of spinach and small pieces of lard. There was always not enough food, they ate rotten vegetables and even insects (snails). Over the camp, battles between Messerschmitts and American fighters were often observed (since 1944).
This camp, also known as Bad Orb on the Wegschtide in Hesse, had a reputation as one of the worst POW camps in Germany. Escapes from the camp were extremely isolated.
The camp was established in 1939; initially, Polish prisoners of war were housed here. They worked in salt mines. Then the French appeared in the camp - 1940, later the Yugoslavs, mostly Serbs - 1941. In 1942 and 1943, a large number of Soviet prisoners of war arrived. At the end of December, the Americans appeared. The number of prisoners of war significantly exceeded the capacity of the camp, the conditions of detention were difficult.
Liberation
In early April 1945, the camp was liberated by the American 44th rifle division. As noted above, the last day of Semyon Grigorievich's stay in captivity is May 27, 1945 in accordance with the Order of the Main Directorate of the NPO of the USSR No. 03277 of November 24, 1945. Part of this period of time from the beginning of April 1945 (liberation by the Americans) he was in an American camp for former prisoners of war, then transferred to the Soviet side as part of a group, joined the special contingent and, presumably, was sent to the first rifle reserve division as repatriated from the American zones in Germany.
Let's take a look at the following document:
"F. R-9408, 1 op. , 58 units ridge , 1941 - 1946
The Department of Special Camps of the NKVD of the USSR was created on August 28, 1944. On February 20, 1945, it was named the Department of Checking and Filtration Camps of the NKVD of the USSR. His duties included the maintenance and provision of verification and filtering of the special contingent, which consisted of two categories: 1) all prisoners of war of the Red Army who were in captivity or surrounded by the enemy; 2) all non-military personnel who lived in the occupied territory and worked under the Germans as village elders, ordinary policemen, etc. ”
Thus, Semyon Grigoryevich passed the filtration and was assigned to the first category of repatriated.
The military ticket already indicates the third date of being in captivity: until 07/25/45. This is followed by an order dated 07/25/1945 on the appointment of Artemov S.G. reserve officer in the 7th reserve rifle regiment. From that date, Semyon Grigorievich again got into service and, most strikingly, he was not deprived of his officer rank!
But more respect is caused by the entry made in the party documents, according to Semyon Grigorievich himself. There is not a single superfluous word and sign in this entry:
"Germany, prisoner of war camp, from February 27, 1943 to April 1945." Semyon Grigorievich did not take on a single extra day of being in captivity, and he had the right to such an act.
Meanwhile, each department assigned its own terms to him, apparently, it was easier to manipulate this date. It is also a fact that, in accordance with the instructions, soldiers from among the former prisoners of war, being in penal units and participating in battles, continued to be listed as prisoners. Artemov Semyon Grigorievich this period was extended by almost 4 months.
He remains a reserve officer until December 07, 1945. By the next order, Lieutenant Artemov is appointed economist-controller of the planning part of the 8th department of the Ural construction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
I will give an interesting list of NKVD documents stored in the archives. Even from their names, serious conclusions can be drawn:
“Orders, circulars and instructions of the NKVD of the USSR and the NKGB of the USSR on issues of work with special settlers and repatriates and the activities of special and check-filtration camps (1941 - 1946). Circulars of the Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR for prisoners of war and internees on the material support of the camps, on the procedure for transferring wages to special contingents and their use in industry (1944). Orders, circulars and instructions of the Department on the organization of special camps, maintenance and labor use of special contingents (1944 - 1945).
Reports and certificates of the Department on the deployment of check-filtration camps and collection points, on the number and composition of special contingents in the camps (1945 - 1946). Correspondence with the NKVD of the USSR, the Headquarters of the Main Directorate of Logistics of the Red Army and other institutions on the repatriation of Soviet prisoners of war, accounting and distribution of repatriated citizens (1944 - 1945). Documents on the transfer of special contingents from check-filtration camps to permanent industrial personnel: reports, certificates, accounting books (1944 - 1945).
Let's take a look at the last line...
NKVD. The Ministry of Internal Affairs did a lot of work on special construction of a defensive nature and, of course, personnel, including highly qualified ones, were required for construction. There were hundreds of enterprises aimed at implementing the atomic bomb program alone, and many of them were hastily built beyond the Urals and far beyond the Urals.
Artemov Semyon Grigorievich was not a regular officer, belonged to the senior draft age and was subject to demobilization in October 1945.
But he returned home only in March 1947.
In confirmation of much of what is written in the final part of the story, I will give a small excerpt from the preserved note of a warrior with a similar fate:
“My great-grandfather writes that on April 25, 1945, Eichstadt was occupied by American troops and the POW camp was liberated. But the former prisoners remained in the camps for repatriates until further notice, although they were transferred from one place to another. June 1, 1945 - to the city of Bautzen, where the great-grandfather was transferred to the Soviet units. Then he arrived at the camp at the Opukhliki station and, after checking, was assigned to the 10th reserve regiment (October 6, 1945), and on November 4, 1945 - to the 7th reserve regiment (I Gorky reserve division) with the rank of senior lieutenant " . Pay attention, the regiment is the same 7th!
Since March 1947, for many years Artemov S.G. worked as a geography teacher at Maksimovskaya secondary school, in 1960 he was appointed deputy director, then he headed the school for 12 years until he retired.
V.F. Artyukov, Director of Bogatov secondary school
DENISOV Alexey Stepanovich (1915-1942), squadron commander of the 222nd cavalry regiment of the 61st cavalry division of the 4th cavalry corps of the 51st Army of the Stalingrad Front (II f), senior lieutenant.
Born March 9, 1915 in Ukraine - in the village of Nomikosovsky district town of Konstantinovka, Donetsk region. The worker of the workers. Russian.
Married at least twice:
- first family: wife - Ekaterina Vasilyevna Begletsova, born in 1914, from the peasants of the Saratov province, as of August 1940 - the cook of the bakery No. Uzbekistan); son - Gennady, born in 1938. Source - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 81, ll. 1 and 7;
- second family: wife - Berestneva Nina Gavrilovna; as of March 1941 - an employee of the Main Post Office of the then capital of Kazakhstan, the city of Alma-Ata (now Almaty); the command of the 14th separate sapper squadron of the 21st mountain cavalry division of the 4th cavalry corps of the Central Asian military district for Outgoing No. 2/2903 dated March 29, 1941, a Certificate was issued in her name stating that she really is the wife of junior lieutenant A. WITH. Denisov, on the basis of which he has the right to quit his previous job in connection with the move from Alma-Ata to Ferghana - to her husband's place of work. Source - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 48, l. 103.
Parents:
- father - Denisov Stepan Ivanovich, from the poor peasants of the village of Svinets, Kursk province (now - as part of the modern Manturovsky district of the Kursk region), in 1907-1924. - switchman railway station Konstantinovka in the Donbass, and then a wagon coupler at the Konstantinovsky Metallurgical Plant named after M.V. Frunze; tragically died in September 1924 as a result of an accident at work;
- mother - Agafya Nikolaevna Denisova, housewife, as of August 1940, lived at the address: Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine), Stalin (now Donetsk) region, Konstantinovka city, Nomikosovsky village, Proletarskaya street, 38.
Relatives:
- older brother - Denisov Egor Stepanovich, born in 1914, as of August 1940 - electrical engineer of Novokramatorsk machine-building plant No. 2 named after I.V. Stalin in the city of Kramatorsk, the former Stalin region of the Ukrainian SSR, and now the modern Donetsk region of Ukraine;
- younger brother - Ivan Stepanovich Denisov, born in 1921, as of August 1940 - director of the DTS at the Konstantinovsky flying club of the former Stalin region of the Ukrainian SSR, and now the modern Donetsk region of Ukraine;
- a certain relative of Vasiliev Raisa Alekseeva - the degree of kinship is not indicated in the texts of the documents, but in a number of other sources it is voiced as allegedly a wife; as of autumn 1942, she lived in the district town of Slavgorod, Altai Territory.
Education:
- general: in 1929 he graduated from the Konstantinovsky incomplete secondary school of the Stalinsky district of the Ukrainian SSR (now - Ukraine), and in May 1932 - the School of FZO at the Konstantinovsky Metallurgical Plant named after M.V. Frunze with a degree in Locksmith;
- military: on August 23, 1940 he graduated from the courses of junior lieutenants engineering troops at the 20th separate engineering battalion (Samarkand military garrison) of the Central Asian military district.
In 1924-1929. - a student of Konstantinovka incomplete high school Stalinsky district of the Ukrainian SSR (now - Ukraine).
In the period from 1929 to May 1932 - a student of the School of Physical Education at the Konstantinovsky Metallurgical Plant named after M.V. Frunze with a degree in locksmith.
May 1932-April 1935 - mechanic of the electric power shop of the Konstantinovsky Metallurgical Plant named after M.V. Frunze.
In April 1935 he left for permanent residence in Central Asia:
- in August-October 1935 - a mechanic of MTS No. 2 in the district town of Tejen, the former Ashgabat region of the Turkmen SSR, and now the modern Akhal velayat of Turkmenistan;
- in November 1935-October 1937. 1978 - 1978 - a locksmith of the 2nd Guzar MTS in the district village (since 1978 - in the status of a city) Kamashi, Kashkadarya region of the Uzbek SSR (now - the Republic of Uzbekistan).
He was drafted into the army on October 15, 1937 by the Kashkadarya OVK of the Uzbek SSR (now the Republic of Uzbekistan).
October 1937-February 1940. - a serviceman of the 147th separate reserve mountain cavalry regiment of the Alma-Ata military garrison SAVO:
- in October-December 1937 - a fighter of a machine-gun squadron;
- in December 1937-May 1938. - cadet of a training machine-gun platoon of the School of Junior Commanders (it is also a regimental school). Released ahead of schedule in the military rank of "separated commander";
- from May 15 to November 1938 - the commander of the department of the training machine-gun platoon of the regimental school;
- from November 1938 to the beginning of February 1940 - assistant commander of a training machine-gun platoon, in connection with which in November 1938 he was promoted to junior commander platoon ("commander platoon") by military rank.
He took the military oath on February 23, 1939. Sources - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 81, ll. 1ob, 4 and 7ob.
From February 10 to August 23, 1940 - in the Uzbek regional city of Samarkand: cadet of the Courses of junior lieutenants of engineering troops at the 20th separate engineer battalion of SAVO.
From the Certification dated August 13, 1940 as a graduate of the Junior Lieutenant Courses: “I graduated from the Junior Lieutenant Courses in August 1940 with a good grade. Well developed politically. He works independently to improve his knowledge and skills. He showed a good increase in his knowledge. In terms of training and inclinations, he was a combat commander of cavalry sapper units.
Volitional qualities are well developed. Has great performance. There is initiative and determination. Disciplined. High demand. Health is good; physically developed; hardy in camping life. Source - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 81, l. eleven.
From the Political Description dated August 20, 1940: “He takes an active part in public life. He enjoys business and political authority among cadets.” Source - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 81, l. 12.
From an autobiography dated August 21, 1940: “During my stay in the Red Army, I have encouragement and valuable gifts, I have no penalties.” Source - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 81, l. 7rev.
At the moment, the Personal File of a cadet of the Courses of junior lieutenants of engineering troops at the 20th separate engineering battalion (Samarkand military garrison) SAVO A.S. Denisov is stored in the Russian State Military Archive. The volume of this document is 16 sheets, including three photographs, on which A.S. Denisov is depicted with the insignia of a junior platoon commander military service. Requisites: RGVA - fund No. 2406, inventory No. 1, file No. 81.
From August 23, 1940 - commander of a cavalry platoon of the 14th separate engineer squadron (Fergana military garrison) of the 21st SAVO mountain cavalry division.
From the Service Characteristics signed by Commander-14 Senior Lieutenant S.Ya. Borisov on A.S. Denisov as a platoon commander and dated, presumably, October 16, 1940: “Political and morally stable; enjoys authority among fighters and commanders; insufficiently takes part in mass work; not resolute; politically developed satisfactorily. Sources - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 48, l. 109; f. 2406, op. 1, d. 81, l. thirteen.
By order of the NPO of the USSR No. 0191 of January 18, 1941, announced in turn by order of division commander-21 No. 09 of February 11, 1941, he was approved in his position and military rank of junior lieutenant. Source - RGVA: f. 32492, op. 2, d. 164, l. 21.
On January 25, 1941, according to the instructions "from above", he assumed the duties of the commander of a motorized platoon of the 14th separate engineer squadron, replacing junior lieutenant F.P. Music, about which on the same day, junior lieutenant A.S. Denisov reported to the Commander-14 to Senior Lieutenant S.Ya. Borisov. Source - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 48, l. 36.
When summing up the results of the single training of fighters for 1940, of all regular units of the 14th separate engineer squadron, the platoon under the command of junior lieutenant A.S. was recognized as the best. Denisov. In particular, the personnel of the platoon mentioned above learned the special training program “well”, and here, especially against the general background, the squad under the command of Komsomol junior sergeant Vladimir Stepanovich Raschen stood out (he, according to the staff list, is the commander of the technical platoon squad). On February 9, 1941, the daily Red Army newspaper SAVO Frunzevets told its readers about this with the lines of a note by a serviceman of the 1st cavalry platoon, deputy political officer Vasily Pavlovich Agarkov, “Help in action”.
As of April 17, 1941 - the commander of a technical platoon of the 14th separate engineer squadron. Source - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 48, l. 144.
On May 13, 1941, the Frunzevets newspaper published another article by deputy political officer V.P. Agarkov - "Gaining time". Here is its text in retelling: in the spring of 1941, during the exercises, where the defense of the cavalry regiment was worked out, the platoon of junior lieutenant A.S. Denisov. So, when the “enemy” began to advance on the village of K. at a high pace, thereby threatening to prevent the defenders from completing the concentration of forces to go on the counteroffensive, the subordinates of junior lieutenant A.S. Denisov, following the order to detain the "enemy", moved forward with a throw.
Arriving in the indicated area, they immediately set to work: the department of junior sergeant Nikolai Sergeevich Maksimov equipped anti-personnel and anti-tank minefields, and also installed stone throwers. And the department of junior sergeant Vladimir Stepanovich Raschen built two wire fences.
Then the sappers, having dug in, prepared to conduct battle as shooters.
The "enemy" was not long in coming. At first, his scouts appeared, who, having carefully examined the area, quite accurately identified the boundaries of the minefields and began to make passages in them. But then a platoon of junior sergeant A.S. spoke with a “volley” from all the available small arms. Denisov, has not yet been discovered.
Having suffered heavy "losses", the scouts lay down. The fiery duel turned out to be fruitless, which is why junior lieutenant A.S. Denisov decides to attack the "enemy" from the flank. Under the cover of four DP-27s, he first regrouped the available forces, and then raised them to the attack.
The "destruction" of the intelligence by the defenders forced the "enemy" to prematurely turn into battle formation. As a result, the pace of the offensive fell, which means that the defending side in the end won such precious time to prepare a crushing counterattack.
After the end of the exercises, for the examples of selfless work demonstrated in a simulated battle, the following sappers were awarded by the higher command in a disciplinary manner: junior sergeants N.S. Maksimov and V.S. Raschenya, Red Army soldiers Naum Grigoryevich Zalmanov (according to the staffing table, a shoemaker of an economic platoon), Grigory Vasilyevich Ippolitov and Roman Kupriyanovich Leonovets (according to the staffing table, a sapper of a motorized platoon).
As of April 1941, he attended classes in general education. Source - RGVA: f. 2406, op. 1, d. 48, l. 156.
He received his baptism of fire on August 2, 1941 in a battle that broke out near the stations of the same name in the Shumyachsky district of the Smolensk region.
By order of the 21st Mountain Cavalry Division No. 050 dated September 8, 1941, he was temporarily appointed commander of a sapper platoon of the 112th combined cavalry regiment (from the second half of November 1941 - again the 112th mountain cavalry division) of the 21st mountain cavalry division. Source - TsAMO: f. 3550, op. 2, d. 1, l. 334.
On November 22, 1941, the command of the 112th mountain cavalry regiment was presented for awarding the Order of the Red Banner: “In battles since August 1, 1941; As a commander of a sapper platoon in the 112th GK [mountain cavalry] regiment, he repeatedly showed exceptional courage and heroism, providing the regiment with the installation of minefields and water crossings against the Nazi invaders.
In September 1941, during the actions of the regiment near the city of Glukhov [regional center of the Sumy region of Ukraine], comrade. Denisov skillfully mined the road and destroyed 15 German motorcycles and 18 Nazi soldiers on his mines.
In September 1941, during the operation of the regiment near the city of Yampol [correctly - a district village, and since 1956 - a district settlement of the Sumy region of Ukraine], comrade. Denisov destroyed 2 fascist armored vehicles with his mines.
He showed exceptional courage and initiative in destroying crossings on the river. Svapa in October 1941, where, under heavy machine-gun fire from the Nazis, he heroically destroyed the crossing near the village. Mukhino [in the Khomutovsky district of the Kursk region], which provided a barrier for the Nazi troops to enter the left flank of the regiment's defense.
When units of the 13th Army left the environment of Comrade. Denisov, performing responsible tasks of command, despite the difficult weather conditions weather - in a snowstorm and snowfall - acting day and night, on the boats he built, he ferried across the river. Svapa of over 1000 commanders and [representatives] of the rank and file of units of the 13th Army in the area of the village [correctly - the village] Mukhino and the village of Golubovka [both settlements are part of the Khomutovsky district of the Kursk region], including a major general was transferred tank troops comrade. Korolev [Mikhail Alexandrovich; head of the armored department of the 13th army]”. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 682524, d. 385, l. 196.
This idea was implemented in the lines of the order for the troops of the Bryansk Front (II f) No. 2 / n dated January 11, 1942: on behalf of the Motherland, he was awarded his first and, it seems, the only remaining combat state award- Order of the Red Star. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 682524, d. 385, l. 204, ll. 70 and 76.
As of winter 1941/1942. and in the spring of 1942 - the commander of a sapper platoon of the 112th mountain cavalry regiment of the 21st mountain cavalry division.
By order for the troops of the Operational Group of the Western Direction of the South-Western Front (I f) No. 0111 dated December 4, 1942, announced in turn by order for the 21st Mountain Cavalry Division No. 0109 dated December 6, 1942, he was awarded the next military rank - " lieutenant". Sources - TsAMO: f. 3550, op. 2, d. 1, ll. 362 and 369.
In April 1942, the command of the 21st Mountain Cavalry Division was presented for the military rank of "Senior Lieutenant". Source - TsAMO: f. 3550, op. 2, d. 5, l. 152.
When and for what reason he left the 21st Mountain Cavalry Division is unknown.
By the second half of November 1942, he was a squadron commander of the 222nd Cavalry Regiment of the 61st Cavalry Division of the 4th Cavalry Corps of the 51st Army of the Stalingrad Front (II f), already a senior lieutenant in military rank.
He died in battle on November 23, 1942 in the vicinity of the village of the same name and the railway station of Abganerovo - near a certain village of Salt Kurgan, the former Stalingrad, and now the modern Volgograd region. For reference: the village of Abganerovo is now part of the Oktyabrsky district of the Volgograd region, and the Abganerovo station is in the Svetloyarsky district of the same Volgograd region.
At the same time, in reports on irretrievable losses in relation to the personality of Senior Lieutenant A.S. Denisov, there are frank discrepancies and distortions and, in particular:
- TsAMO - f. 33, op. 11458, d. 89, l. 148. Distortions: 1) as allegedly called by the Slavgorod RVC of the Altai Territory, and not by the Kashkadarya RVC of the Uzbek SSR (now the Republic of Uzbekistan); 2) as allegedly the commander of a saber platoon of the mythical 22nd Cavalry Regiment of the 61st Cavalry Division, and not the commander of a squadron of the 222nd Cavalry Regiment of the 61st Cavalry Division; and 2) a certain Raisa Alekseevna Vasilievna is presented as allegedly the wife, although the legal wife of officer A.S. Denisova was Ekaterina Vasilievna Begletsova. This report also states that the senior A.S. Denisov was buried in a certain Stalingrad village of Umantsevo (unidentified);
- TsAMO - f. 58, op. 18001, d. 1377, l. 6. Distortion: as allegedly called by the Konstantinovsky RVC of the former Stalin region of the Ukrainian SSR, and now the modern Donetsk region of Ukraine, and not by the Kashkadarya RVC of the Uzbek SSR (now the Republic of Uzbekistan). This report also states that the senior A.S. Denisov was buried at the place of death - in a certain Stalingrad village of Salt Kurgan (it was not possible to identify).
Excluded from the lists of the Red Army twice:
- by order of the GUF RKKA No. 0259/pog. dated March 14, 1943 (article "593"): as "squadron commander of 222 cav. regiment, 61 kav. divisions", but at the same time as allegedly dead on November 21, and not on November 23, 1942. Source - TsAMO: f. 56, op. 12220, d. 98, l. 126 - the original;
- by order of the GUK of the Armed Forces of the USSR No. 0436 for 1947 (article "15"). Source - TsAMO: f. 56, op. 12220, d. 98, l. 126 - link.
As of November 1950, information about the fate of Senior Lieutenant A.S. Denisov through the Department for Registration of the Deceased and Missing Privates and NCOs Soviet army The Ministry of War of the USSR was looking for one of the relatives not voiced in the available archival documents. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 744829, d. 30, l. 588.
Immortalized in the Book of Memory of the Altai Territory - vol. 5, p. 117, but with two distortions: 1) as allegedly called in 1941, and not in 1937; and 2) as allegedly killed on the 21st, and not on November 23, 1942.
Yuri Rzhevtsev.
Winter 1941/1942, the city of Lipetsk, representatives of the middle command staff of the 112th mountain cavalry regiment of the 21st mountain cavalry division: on the left - the commander of the sapper platoon, Lieutenant Alexei Stepanovich Denisov, and on the right - the head of the office work of artillery supplies, the quartermaster 1st rank Konstantin Efimovich Solovyov.
Fragment: Lieutenant Alexei Stepanovich Denisov.
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TATARKIN Alexey Ivanovich, Soviet front-line officer.
Born in 1916 in the village of Agafonovo, Gorohovets District, Vladimir Region. Russian. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1942: party card of the sample of 1936 No. 4791002.
Education: on June 10, 1941, in the 2nd category, he graduated from the Tambov Red Banner Cavalry School named after the 1st Cavalry Army, and presumably at the end of 1945 - twice Red Banner Higher Cavalry Officer School of the Red Army named after S.M. Budyonny.
He was drafted into the army on November 24, 1937 by the Gorohovets RVC for that period of time in the Ivanovo, and now the modern Vladimir region.
From the autumn of 1939 to June 10, 1941 - a cadet of the Tambov Red Banner Cavalry School named after the 1st Cavalry Army.
By order of the NPO of the USSR No. 0266 dated June 10, 1941, he was awarded the military rank of “lieutenant” as a primary one and by the same order was appointed commander of a saber platoon of the 17th mountain cavalry regiment (Ferghana military garrison) of the 21st mountain cavalry division of the 4th cavalry corps of the Central Asian military districts. Source - TsAMO: f. 3550, op. 2, d. 3, l. 301.
Direct participant of the Great Patriotic War since July 22, 1941.
He received his baptism of fire on August 2, 1941 in the ranks of fellow soldiers in a battle that broke out near the village and station of the same name, Ponyatovka, in the Shumyachsky district of the Smolensk region.
He retired from the 21st Mountain Cavalry Division on August 27 (according to other sources - September 1), 1941, due to a severe wound received in battle.
The second time (but now lightly) he was wounded on November 17 (according to other sources - 22) November 1941 (during the fighting on the Bryansk Front (I f).
Upon recovery, he was a representative of the middle command staff of the 61st Cavalry Division of the 4th SAVO Cavalry Corps. And in this capacity since October 13, 1942 - in the crucible of the Battle of Stalingrad.
By the beginning of February 1943 - the commander of an armored squadron of the 21st separate reconnaissance battalion of the 21st mountain cavalry (from February 14, 1943 - the 14th guards cavalry) division and in this capacity - in the crucible of the Debaltsevsky (aka - Donbass) raid 8- of the 1st Cavalry / 7th Guards Cavalry (later - the Brandenburg Order of Lenin, the Red Banner Order of Suvorov) corps, still lieutenant (but from February 14, 1943 - guard lieutenant) by military rank. At the same time, on February 15, 1943, he received a shell shock, but remained in the ranks.
At the end of February (but no later than the 27th), the command of the 21st separate reconnaissance battalion was presented with the medal “For Courage”: “7.2.43 reconnaissance. the division led an attack on the village of Beloskeletoe, Voroshilovgrad region. [now - this village as part of the Krasnodonsky district of the Luhansk region of Ukraine], comrade. Tatarkin showed exceptional skill and courage in this battle. The enemy threw tanks at the squadron three times, Comrade Tatarkin skillfully organized fire from rifles (PTR), personally firing from anti-tank guns at the lead tank - forced him to turn back.
On February 16, 1943, the 1st platoon took up defense northeast of the village of Sofiyivka [correctly - a village, now it is part of the Perevalsky district of the Luhansk region of Ukraine], the enemy (up to the company) launched an offensive, Comrade Tatarkin, being at the platoon, skillfully organized a counterattack, as a result of which the enemy lost up to 60 soldiers and officers and rolled back. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 686044, d. 1287, l. 131.
This idea was implemented in the lines of the order of divisional commander-14 No. 06 / n dated February 27, 1943: on behalf of the Motherland, he was awarded his very first state award - the medal "For Courage". Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 686044, d. 1287, ll. 12 and 20.
From September 19, 1943 (including as of May 1944) - 1st Assistant Chief of Staff (PNSH-1) of the 54th Guards Cavalry Three times Red Banner Order of the Red Banner of Labor of the Turkmen SSR (later - Tomashovsky Order of Lenin four times Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Alexander Nevsky) regiment of the 14th Guards Cavalry (later - Mozyr Red Banner Order of Suvorov) division, already a senior lieutenant in military rank.
On October 7, 1943, the command of the regiment mentioned above was presented for awarding the Order of the Red Star: “Comrade. Tatarkin has been participating in battles in the regiment since 19.9.43, a brave officer, an experienced staff worker.
In the battle near Kulikovka [now the district town of the Chernihiv region of Ukraine], acting as chief of staff, he skillfully organized the deployment of the regiment's combat units, thereby the enemy suffered heavy losses. He was located directly at the command posts of unit commanders.
In the battle near Koltsov [it was not possible to identify, but territorially - the Bragin district of the modern Gomel region of Belarus] organized a systematic crossing of combat units across the river. Braginka.
By informing the division headquarters in a timely manner about the situation on the front line, it enabled the division headquarters to correctly issue orders for the further development of the battle. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 686044, d. 269, l. 237.
This idea was implemented in the lines of the order of division commander-14 No. 016 / n dated October 10, 1943: on behalf of the Motherland, he was awarded his second state award - the Order of the Red Star.
Since November 11, 1943 - holder of the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" (certificate No. 19709). Source - TsAMO: f. 3475, op. 2, d. 27, l. 310.
On May 6, 1944, the commander of the 54th Guards Lieutenant Colonel Romanenko was presented for the award of the Order of the Red Banner: “Comrade. Tatarkin, working as the first assistant to the chief [chief] of the regiment headquarters, in battles against the German invaders showed exceptional examples of stamina in the leadership of combat units, examples of courage and courage.
In the battles that the regiment fought in the district [district] of Turya and the settlements of Ruda, Stavki and Pisareva Volya [all villages of the Volyn region of Ukraine, but only Ruda and Stavki - of the Turiysky district, and Pisareva Volya - of Vladimir-Volynsky], comrade Tatarkin deserved exceptional attention as a combat commander. Despite the superiority of the pr-ka [enemy] in strength in the Stvki region, where the pr-k threw a large number [amount] of infantry into the attack with the support of tanks and aircraft, all units of the regiment, following the combat order, staunchly defended the occupied lines and when Comrade appears. Tatarkin in the units, the fighters, inspired by his personal example, rushed to the counterattack 3-4 times and inflicted heavy losses on the pr-ku. In these battles Comrade. Tatarkin personally destroyed 9 Fritz from a carbine and silenced the machine gunner, who prevented the units from moving forward.
From 16.4.44 the regiment was cut off from the division. Acting in the rear of the pr-ka, Comrade Tatarkin repeatedly, going out on reconnaissance, established the forces of the pr-ka and the ways of retreat and exit of the regiment from the encirclement. So, in a battle in the Zamlynye region [a village in the Lyubomlsky district of the Volyn region of Ukraine], from where the avenue launched an offensive, comrade. Tatarkin, being in the 1st squadron, by a personal example of courage raised the squadron [squadron] in a counterattack - the avenue rolled back in disorder, suffered heavy losses: in this battle, up to 100 Fritz remained on the battlefield, Comrade himself personally. Tatarkin destroyed 8 Fritz.
When leaving the rear of the pr-ka and breaking through his [that is, the enemy's] defense on the river. Turya tov. Tatarkin was at the head of the units, he himself directly conducted reconnaissance of the pr-ka, and when breaking through the defense, inspiring them, he raised the fighters in a bayonet attack. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 690155, house 1185, l. 151.
This idea was implemented in the lines of the order of the commander-69 No. 059 / n dated July 10, 1944: on behalf of the Motherland, he was awarded his fourth state award - the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 690155, d. 1185, ll. 128 and 128r.
By the second half of August 1844 - intelligence assistant to the chief of staff (he is also an intelligence officer) of the 56th Guards Cavalry (later - Pomeranian Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov) Regiment of the 14th Guards Cavalry Mozyr Red Banner (later - in addition to the Order of Suvorov) division , already a guard captain by military rank.
On August 23, 1944, the regiment commander-56 of the guard, Major A.A. Satsyuk was presented for the award with the Order of the Red Star: “TATARKIN, working as an intelligence officer of the regiment, showed himself to be an exceptionally courageous, determined and skillful intelligence officer. On August 21, 1944, he was given the task of crossing the Vistula River at any cost, breaking into the enemy's trench and getting a prisoner of war from there. The task was difficult and difficult, the approaches to the river were completely bare, there was no disguise. The sands completely unmasked the approach to the river.
TATARKIN, assessing the situation, studied the area on the map during the day and then, having gathered a group of scouts, explained to them the task; at 11.00 [pm] on August 21, 1944, scouts for the indicated comrade. Tatarkin line crossed to the left bank to the enemy and broke into his trenches unnoticed by the enemy, from where they brought the German "language", which, when questioned, showed valuable and accurate information about the location of the enemy's defenses in front of the front of our entire division.
CONCLUSION: for the skillful, decisive and correct leadership of a group of scouts, for the correct formulation of the task of capturing a prisoner of war, he is quite worthy of a high government [correctly - state] award - the Order of the RED STAR [correctly - the Order of the Red Star]." Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 690155, house 1410, l. 109.
This idea was implemented in the lines of the order for the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front (II f) No. 234 / n dated September 8, 1944: on behalf of the Motherland, he was awarded his fifth state award - the second Order of the Red Star. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 690155, d. 1410, ll. 81 and 83.
On September 22, 1944, the commander of the regiment-56 of the guard, Major A.A. Satsyuk was presented for awarding the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class: “TATARKIN, working as an intelligence officer, proved to be a brave, determined and skillful intelligence officer. Performing the combat mission assigned to him to capture the German "language" on the left bank of the river. Vistula from 10 to 11.9.44, he skillfully organized the search for scouts. The correct observation system made it possible for scouts to get through those places that were almost not controlled by the Germans. The correct direct guidance of comrade. The Tatarkin reconnaissance group made it possible for the scouts to go behind enemy lines completely unnoticed by him, suddenly pounce on the German dugout and throw grenades.
Thanks to the excellent preparation of Comrade. Tatarkin of their scouts for the above operation, the reconnaissance group dragged one control prisoner directly from the German defense and killed two.
During the interrogation, the German prisoner of war showed the entire group of Germans that stood in front of the front of our division. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 690155, house 5250, l. 121.
This idea was implemented in the lines of the order for the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front (II f) No. 307 / n dated October 14, 1944: on behalf of the Motherland, he was awarded his sixth state award - the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 690155, d. 5250, ll. 105 and 106.
Presumably, since November 1944 - in Moscow as a student of the twice Red Banner Higher Cavalry Officer School of the Red Army named after S.M. Budyonny. And in this capacity, from September 8, 1945 - holder of the medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (certificate No. Г-0131191). Sources - TsAMO: f. 135, op. 12761, d. 757, ll. 197rev and 206rev; f. 63935, op. 36200, house 33, ll. 245r and 253r.
Further fate is unknown.
soldiers of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps,
dead or missing in the battles near Kashira
at the end of November - December 1941.
Designations:
KP- cavalry regiment
GKD- Guards Cavalry Division
1 GKK- 1st Guards Cavalry Corps.
Alekseev Alexey Grigorievich, born in 1914, Chelyabinsk region, Krasnoarmeisky district, Krasnoarmeysky RVC, 136kp, 1gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/13/41.
Alekseev Vasily Alekseevich, born in 1917, Kalininskaya ol., Serezhinsky district, village. Ulyanits, Serezhinsky RVC, 108th brigade of the 2nd Guards Kd 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/22/41.
Alekseev Vasily Petrovich, born in 1912, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Alipensky district, Churapchinsky RVK, 108 command post, Red Army soldier, went missing on 13.1.42.
Androsov Vasily Vasilievich
Antipov Petr Nikolaevich, born in 1910, Yakut ASSR, Olekma, Olekminsky RVC, 136th command post, Red Army soldier, missing, 12/11/41.
Argunov Philipp Osipovich, born in 1914, Yakut ASSR, Trenshinsky district, p. Yaltansin, Tattinsky RVC, 5th command post, 2nd GKD, killed on 12/12/41.
Antonenko Vasily Nazarovich, Krasnodar region, Slavyansky district, 131 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Arkhipov Vasily Stepanovich, born in 1920, Mari ASSR, Yoshkar-Ola district, village. Knyazhno, Yoshkar-Ola RVC, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, junior sergeant, killed on 12/29/41.
Arshanov Mikhail Borisovich, born in 1922, BMASSR, Bichursky district, p. Khoyam, Bichursky RVC Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 2nd GKD 136 bp, Red Army soldier, killed 12/1/41.
Aryushkin Ivan Prokhorovich, born in 1904, Alma-Ata, Frunzensky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/28/41.
Babiy Taras Mikheich, born in 1915, Kyiv region, Buksky district, s. Yakhnovka, ZF 1gkk, quartermaster technician of the 1st rank, went missing 10 - 12.41.
Baranov Arkady Vasilievich, born in 1917, Tula region, Uzlovaya, Tula GVK, 1st GKK 2nd GKD 136 cp, junior lieutenant, killed 12/1/41.
Baranov Afanasy Denisovich, born in 1914, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Churapchinsky district, Churapchinsky RVK, 136th command post, Red Army soldier, killed 12/6/41.
Belikov Dmitry Dmitrievich, 160kp 1 GKD 1 GKK, Red Army soldier. Killed 12/10/41.
Belokon Vasily Vasilevich, born in 1898, Alma-Ata, Frunzensky RVC, Kazakh SSR, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Belousov Arsenty Karpovich, born in 1904, Pavlograd region, Biskargan district, p. Kazansk, Beskargay RVC Kazakh SSR, 160th cp 1st GKD 1 GKK, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Bitov Ivan Andreevich, 160kp 1 GKD 1 GKK, Red Army soldier, killed 12/10/41.
Bogdasarov Ruben Karapetovich, born in 1903, Stalin's RVC, Baku, Stalin's RVC, 160 rp 1 GKD 1 GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/15/41.
Burchenko Ivan Vasilievich, born in 1907, South-Kazakhstan region, Sairam district, Sairam RVK Kazakh ASSR, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, sergeant, went missing on 12/29/41.
Valkha Vasily Stepanovich, born in 1919, Irkutsk region, Kuibyshevsky district, Kuytuk, Kuytynsky RVC, 160 cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Vartamyan Batazhan, born in 1917, Armenian SSR, Ashtarak district, p. Karby, Ashtarak RVK, 5th cp 2nd cd 1 cd, Red Army soldier. Killed 12/11/41.
Volkov Alexander Ivanovich, born in 1904, Semipalatinsk region, Novozhulbinsk district, Belagachsky RVK Kazakh SSR, 160 cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Vasiliev Nikolay Ivanovich, born in 1912 Dnepropetrovsk region. , with. Shlyahovka, Dnepropetrovsk RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/6/41.
Vinokurov Vladimir Alexandrovich, born in 1908, Kuibyshev region, Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk RVK, 136th brigade of the 1st gkk, lieutenant, killed on 12/20/41.
Volkov Alexander Dmitrievich, Semipalatinsk region, N.-Shiludinsky district, Belagachsky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160kp 1gkd 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed on 6.12.41.
Golubev Konstantin Moiseevich, born in 1916, Vinnitsa region, Timashkinsky district, s. Palacko, Tamashpolsky RVC Ukrainian SSR, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, sergeant, went missing on 12/29/41.
Gordienko Vasily Prokopevich, born in 1921, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Karabatinsky district, Karabatinsky RVK, 136 command post, sergeant, killed 12/20/41.
Davydenko Prokofy Mikhailovich, born in 1913, Irkutsk region, Zhigalovsky district, p. Lugovaya, Zhigalovsky RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Danilov Ustin Nikolaevich, Krasnodar Territory, Temirgoevsky District, Termigoevsky RVC Krasnodar Territory, 131 checkpoint 1 GKD 1 GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Devyatov Vasily Ivanovich, born in 1917, Uzbek SSR, Aitizhen, Andijan RVK, 136th brigade of the 1st GCC, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/6/41.
Dondurov Banzerakis, born in 1913, Ustinovskaya oblast, Ogoleisky district, Uzaisky s/s, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Dranov Alexander Alekseevich, born in 1914, Kazakh region, Dzhadkensk, Cavalry Guard Detachment, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, junior lieutenant, killed on 12/29/41.
Dremov Stepan Efimovich, born in 1905, Alma-Ata, Stalin's RVC, Kazakh SSR, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Gavrilenko Ivan Alexandrovich, Semipalatinsk region, Zherlinsky district, Belodzhan mine, 131 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Gatov Mikhail Mikhailovich, born in 1900, Semipaltiska region, 160kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Killed 12/6/41.
Germakov Tikhon Alexandrovich, born in 1902, Art. Novopletnekovskaya, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Glazkov Alexey Yakorvlevich, Kazakh SSR, art. Tserbots, 131st command post of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, sergeant, went missing, 05.12.41.
Gnilomedov Alexander Ivanovich, Kazakh SSR, Pavlodar region, Barakogon district, with. Semenovo, 131th cockpit, 1st gkd, 1st gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Golikov Gleb Petrovich, Pavlodar region, Beskaragai district, with. Serkovo, Baskaragai RVK Kazakh SSR, 131st brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 11.12.41.
Gorbunov Alexey Fedorovich, born in 1908, Kazakh SSR, city of Guryev, Guryev RVK, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Gorshkov Evgeny Alekseevich, born in 1919, Tambov region, Tambov, Tambov RVK, 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/12/41.
Grigoryan Andrey Semenovich, born in 1918, Azerbaijan SSR, Pido Tagrobensky s / s, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/6/41.
Grishchenko Alexander Abramovich, born in 1920, Kalinin region, Zheludovsky district, village. Kaznayevo, Zheludovsky RVC, 160th command post of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, junior sergeant, killed on 12/29/41.
Zharlikov, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/10/41.
Zhugay Vasily Fyodorovich, born in 1902, Oryol region, Ponurovsky district, p. Azarovka, Ponurovsky RVC, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/10/41.
Zagladskaya Oksana Dmitrievna, born in 1921, Chernihiv region, Sosnitsky district, V. Ustye, 108kp 2gkd 1 gkk, military paramedic, killed 12/29/41.
Zagreba Ivan Mikhailovich, born in 1914, Alma-Ata, Mountain Giant, Kaskelen RVVK Kazakh SSR, 160kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 10.12.41.
Zaitsev Fedor Akimovich, Irkutsk region, Tangui district, village. B. Noginskaya, 131th cockpit of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Zamaratsky Fedor Alexandrovich, born in 1907, Irkutsk region, Uzeda district, p. Cherepanovo, Uzedinsky RVC, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Zaripin Vasily Alexandrovich, born in 1910, Irkutsk region, Zalarinsky district, Leninsky RVC, 1gkk 2 gkd 136 cp, Red Army soldier, killed 11/28/41.
Zdanovich Vladimir Grigorievich, born in 1920, Irkutsk region, Bayandaevsky district, p. Bayandai, Bayandaevsky RVC, 1st GKK 2 GKD 136 KP, Red Army soldier, killed 11/28/41.
Erdikov Guryan Agafovich, born in 1916, Alma-Ata Ol., Frunzensky district, Frunzensky RVC, Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 160 cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Ershov Dmitry Nikolaevich, born in 1910, Yakut ASSR, Alkhotsky district, Tereodon village, Allaikhovskiy RVC, 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 3.01.42.
Efimov Georgy Fyodorovich, born in 1919, Voronezh region, Bobrov, Bobrovsky RVC, military paramedic, killed 12/6/41.
Ivankin Izmual Lalionovich, born in 1921, ASSR, Bugursky district Buysky s / s Buguruslansky RVK, 136 bp 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/11/41.
Ivanov Illarion Vasilievich, born in 1899, Akmola region, Arykbal district, p. Labanovka, Aryk-Balyk RVC Kazakh SSR, 160 rp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Ivankov, 160 kp 1gkd 1 gkk, sergeant, killed 12/10/41.
Ilyin Inokenty Alexandrovich, born in 1906, Irkutsk region, Bakhansky district, village. Ongosor, Ulan-Uda RVK Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 160 rp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Ismailov Aribjan Akhundzhanovich, ZF 1 gkk, military technician of the 1st rank, went missing on 12/10/41.
Kazyrnov Ivan Vasilievich, born in 1917, Uzbek SSR, Cherginskaya region , Kakanski, Kagansky RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/17/41.
Kalashnikov Dmitry Alexandrovich, born in 1906, ASSR, Lanza region, Banizar district, s. N.-Zazany, Barda RVK, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Kalinovsky Maxim Yakovlevich, born in 1916, drafted in 1937, ZF 25 kp 2 kd 1 gkk, quartermaster technician of the 1st rank. went missing between 10.41. and 12.41.
Kalchenkov Ivan Ivanovich, Pavlodar region, Beshkargan district, Serkovo, 131 checkpoint 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/5/41.
Kalyuzhny Vasily Antonovich, East Kazakhstan region, Semipalatinsk, 131 checkpoint of the 1st GKD 1 GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 5.12.41.
Kapustin Dmitry Vasilievich, born in 1916, Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Katansky district, Zherdinsky s / s, Kichshevo, Kabansky RVK, 136 bp 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/20/41.
Kapustin Yakov Danilovich, born in 1907, Chitinskaya ol., Krasnochukolsky district, s. Holkuro ..., Krasnochikoysky RVC, 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/12/41.
Karadzhan Khalat Georgievich, born in 1920, Armenian SSR, Art. Kulanchend, Stepanovan, s. Opartsi, Stepanavan RVC, 5th brigade of the 2nd GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/11/41.
Karataev Semyon Fedorovich, born in 1905, Semipalatinsk, Oktyabrsky RVC, Kazakh SSR, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, sergeant, killed on 12/29/41.
Karpyshyn Mikhail Karpovich, born in 1901, Smolensk region, Srodsky district, Vskhodsky RVC, 5th brigade of the 2nd gkd of the 1st gkk, captain, killed on 12/11/41.
Karpushin Ivan Elizarovich, born in 1903, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Stalin's RVK, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Kasko Mikhail Alexandrovich, Kazakh SSR, Alma-Ata region, Kegen district, Jelanash, Kegen RVK, 160kp 1gkd 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/6/41.
Katashev Vladimir Vasilievich, Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Ulan-Ude, 131 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/5/41.
Kesel Stepan Petrovich, born in 1918, Sumy Region, Akhtyrov, Naursky RVC Ordzhonikidzovsky Territory, 1gkk 2 gkd 136 kp, died 11/29/41.
Kiykov Nikolay Ivanovich, born in 1911, Yakut ASSR, Alekvinsky district, pos. Chaikizy, Allaikhovskiy RVC, 5th command post of the 2nd GKD, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/11/41.
Kislovy Andrey Fyodorovich, born in 1914, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Churapchinsky district, Gorny RVC, 136th command post, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Koveshnikov Mikhail Dmitrievich, Ordzhonikidzevsky region, Staro-Maryevsky district, st. Maryevo, 131th command post of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on December 5, 1941.
Kozhik, born in 1908, Kazakh SSR, Stalingrad region, Stalinist RVC, Alma-Ata, Stalinsky district, 136 kp1 gkk, Red Army soldier, missing, 12/14/41.
Kozlov Afanasy Ivanovich, born in 1910, Chita region, Burkhansky district, s. Dolo, Byrkinsky RVK, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Komar Matvey Grigorievich, Stalin region, st. Rutchenkovo, 131st brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, foreman went missing on 12/11/41.
Kondratiev Pantilimon Nikiforovich, born in 1917, Yakutsk region, Olekminsky district, p. Khinkizm, Olekminsky RVC, 2nd GKD, Red Army soldier, killed 17.1.42.
Kondrashev Afanasy Mikhailovich, born in 1910, Yakutsk region, Aleksandrovsky district, Allaikhovskiy RVK, 2nd GKD 136 CP, Red Army soldier, disappeared on 3.1.42
Kostyuk Kiril Mikhailovich, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, sergeant, killed 12/29/41.
Kramar Vasily Markovich, born in 1913, Frunze region, Kachalovsky district, st. Pishnek, Kaganovichi RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GCC, Red Army soldier, killed 12/20/41.
Krahmalev Petr Stepanovich, born in 1902, Semipalatinsk region, N.-Udensky district, Buturlinovsky RVK, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/28/41.
Kryukov Vasily Seleverstovich, born in 1902, Alma-Alata, st. Pastak, Frunzensky RVK Kazakh SSR, 160 rp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Kuzin Alexey Al-vich, born in 1903, Pavlodar region, Irtim district, Irtysh RVK, Kazakh ASRR, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 11/30/41.
Kuzmin Roman Nikolaevich, born in 1912, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Amginsky district, Amginsky RVC, 136th command post, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/6/41.
Kulakov Nikolai Savelievich, born in 1917, Irkutsk region, Badaibo, Badaibo RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GCC, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Kuntsevich Vladimir Vasilievich, born in 1910, BSSR, Minsk region, Uzdensky district, Uzdensky RVK, Belorussian SSR, 1st GKK 2 GKD 136 cp, sergeant, killed on 1.12.41.
Laishin Ivan Yakovlevich, born in 1912, Frunze, Uzbek ASSR, Bukhara region, Sukhan-Darya district, Baysun district, 136kp 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/13/41.
Livshchin Adolf Iosifovich, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Lisnyak Dmitry Solovich, born in 1918, Kharkov region, Krasnogradsky district, Kirilovsky s / s, pos. Svetly, Krasnogradsky RVC, 136th regiment of the 1st GKK sergeant, went missing on 12/11/41.
Likhanov Semyon Vasilievich, born in 1913, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Yakutsk, 136th command post, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/20/41.
Lokhno Philip Vasilievich, Semipalatinsk, Belogoshensky district, Belagachsky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160kp 1gvkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/10/41.
Magrov Mikhail Mitrofanovich, born in 1908, Pavlodar region, Irtim district, Irtysh RVK Kazakh SSR, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, disappeared on 11/30/41.
Mazitov Yuri, born in 1903, Kansk region, Abedshkensky district, Ushatsky s / s, Abashsky RVK Georgian SSR, 136 kp 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/6/41.
Makarov Ivan Petrovich, born in 1921, Yakut ASSR Karabatinsky district, Karabatinsky RVC, 136th command post, Red Army soldier, killed 12/20/41.
Makarov Gavriil Vasilievich, born in 1915, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Karabatinsky district, Churapchinsky RVK, 136th command post, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/14/41.
Makeev Inek Nikolaevich, born in 1912, Yakut ASSR, Zharkhansky district, p. Zharkhansk, Zhigansky RVC, 5th checkpoint of the 2nd GKD, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/12/41.
Malygin Georgy Prokofievich, Irkutsk region, Cheremkhovsky district, with. Elan, 131th cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Malyshev Sergey Vasilievich, born in 1919, Mari ASSR, Volzhsky district, Volzhsky RVC, 160th cp, 1st gkd 1st gkk, junior sergeant, killed 12/29/41.
Marozovsky Ivan Ivanovich, born in 1914, Irkutsk, Irkutsk RVC, 1gkk 2gkd 136 cp, sergeant, killed 12/1/41.
Martovitsky Alexey Andreevich, born in 1914, Semipalatinsk region, Agachinsky district, s. Nikolaevka, Belagachsky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/28/41.
Martselevich Yavin Iosifovich, East Kazakhstan region, Predgorsky district, Berezensk, Predgornensky RVC, Kazakh SSR, 160 bp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Matushkin Grigory Pavlovich, born in 1917, Alma-Ata region, Kopalsky district, Taldy-Kurgan RVK, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/14/41.
Maslennikov Yakov Yakovlevich, 191 5, Semipalatinsk region, Zharma district, Balanjar mine, Zharma RVK Kazakh SSR, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, disappeared on 12/29/41.
Minawat Tursumbai Minovich, born in 1919, Fergana region, Kasanovsky s / s, p. Artyko, Kassansay RVC Uzbek SSR, 160kp 1gkd 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/6/41.
Mishchenko Petr Grigorievich, born in 1905, Alma-Ata, Kiskalensky district, Chumalkansky s / s, Kaskelensky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160 cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Mordinsky Nikolay Petrovich, born in 1908, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Churapchinsky RVK, 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed 3.1.42.
Mosoltsev Vasily Dmitrievich, born in 1907, Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Pribaikalsky district, village. Koma, Pribaikalsky RVC, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/29/41.
Nagikh Semyon Nikolaevich, born in 1920, Yakutsk region, Alexandrovsky district, Aleksandrovsky RVK, 2nd GKD 136 CP, Red Army soldier, killed on 3.1.42.
Nagorny Nikolay Ivanovich, born in 1910, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Aleginsky district, Amginsky RVK, 136 command post, sergeant, went missing on 12/6/41.
Nadykov Argin, born in 1917, Kazakh SSR, Alma-Ata region,. Alma-Ata, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/20/41.
Nazibulin Kurmat, born in 1917, Yakut ASSR, Mongolondalashsky district, p. Nachlikhadora, Churappchinsky RVC, 72nd command post, sergeant killed on 11/24/41.
Neustroev Afanasy Nesterovich, born in 1911, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Amginsky district, Anabarsky RVC, 136th command post, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/14/41.
Nevidimov Vasily Tarasovich, born in 1921, Yakut ASSR, Churapchinsky district, p. Churapchi, Churapchinsky RVC, 5th checkpoint of the 2nd GKD, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/26/41.
Nedoshivko Andrey Ivanovich, Alma-Ata region, Kochkarevsky district, 131 checkpoint 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/5/41.
Nemirov Vasily Dmitrievich, born in 1905, Chita region, Berezinsky district, Chitinsky RVK, 1gkk 2gkd 136 kp, Red Army soldier, killed 11/28/41.
Nerashchuk Pavel Ivanovich, born in 1913, Kirovograd, Kirovograd RVC, 5th cp 2nd cd 1 cd, junior lieutenant, killed on 12/11/41.
Nikitin Nikolay Mikhailovich, born in 1914, Yakut ASSR, Zharkansky district, p. Karelskoye, Zhigansky RVC, 5th checkpoint of the 2nd GKD, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/12/41.
Nikitin Nikolai Semenovich, born in 1918, BASSR, Rudovansky district, p. Mikhailovka, Duvansky RVC, Bashkir ASSR, 1st GKK 2 GKD 136 KP, Red Army soldier, killed 11/28/41.
Nikiforov Nikolay Vasilievich, born in 1919, Yakutsk region, Amginsky district, Amginsky RVK, 2nd GKD 136 KP, Red Army soldier, killed 11/28/41.
Nikolaev Vasily Stepanovich, born in 1917, Omsk region . si. Isil-Kul, Petropavlovsk RVC, 160th regiment of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, senior sergeant, killed on 12/10/41.
Nikonesite Inducendium, born in 1902, Kharkiv region, Kashenarsky district, Kolomaksky RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GCC, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/6/41.
Novikov Petr Gavrilovich, born in 1920, Yakut ASSR, Amginsky district, Churapchinsky RVK, 2nd GKD 136 CP, Red Army soldier, killed 12/20/41.
Newly baptized Andrei Konstantinovich, born in 1908, Chita region, Barazinsky district, Chita RVK, 1gk 2 gkd 136 kp, Red Army soldier. Killed 11/28/41.
Novoselov Ivan Dmitrievich, born in 1918, Irkutsk region, Irkutsk, Irkutsk RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GCC, Red Army soldier, killed 12/20/41.
Obukhov Semyon Fedorovich, Frunzenskaya region, Chita district, Takmak-Bazarnaya, 4, Chilikinsky RVK, 136 command post of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Okolelov Dmitry Maksimovich, born in 1914, Tambov region, Lysogorsky district, p. Surovo, Lysogorsk RVC, 1st GKK 2 GKD 136 KP, sergeant, died 11/29/41.
Okripkin Egor Dmitrievich, born in 1918, Kharkiv region, Izyum, Alexander village, Izyumsky RVC Ukrainian SSR, 1gkk 2 gkd 136 cp, senior sergeant, killed on 1.12.41.
Olshansky Mikhail Ivanovich, Semipalatinsk region, Akhgar district, with. Ala-Aikir, Zharma RVK Kazakh SSR, 160 rp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/10/41.
Olesov Dmitry Ivanovich, born in 1902, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Uzal-Zanosy district, village. Tsygatskoye, Ust-Aldansky RVC, 5th checkpoint of the 2nd GKD 1GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/12/41.
Orgunab Semyon Vasilievich, born in 1913, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Ust-Aldansky district, Ust-Alansky RVC, 160th command post, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/15/41.
Okhlopkov Vinokenty Nikolaevich, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Megino-Kangalassky district, Churapchinsky RVK, 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed 12/12/41.
Okhlopkov Semyon Petrovich, born in 1918, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Ust-Adansky district, 160 KP 2 GKD, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Pavlov Konstantin Lukyanovich, born in 1906, Izmail region, Artsyz. District, s. Pavlovka, Artsyzsky RVC Ukrainian SSR, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/29/41.
Pangin Pavel Ivanovich, born in 1910, Semipalatinsk, Deengiz RVK Kazakh SSR, 160 corps 1 GKD 1 GKK, sergeant, killed 12/29/41.
Pankratov Lukyan Yakovlevich, born in 1904, Guryev, Guryev RVC Kazakh SSR, 169 cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/19/41.
Perevalov Ivan Gavrilovich, born in 1911, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Zhigalovsky district, village of Khomino, Zhigalovsky RVC, 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed 3.01.42
Perekozhev Vasily Nikolaevich, born in 1916, Yakutsk region, Meganchelyansky district, Nsyuykulo, Megino-Kagaldassky RVC, 2nd GKD 136 KP, Red Army soldier, disappeared on 3.1.42.
Petrikov Yakov Ananyevich, Azerbaijan SSR, Astrakhan-Bazar district, with. Privolnoye, 131th cp 1gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Peshekhonov Dmitry Semenovich, born in 1913, Irkutsk region, Irkutsk, Irkutsk RVK, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/15/41.
Pimenov Afanasy Maksimovich, Frunze Voroshilovsky district, with. Chuysk, 131 cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Podkorytov Inokenty Alex., born in 1903, Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Pribaikalsky district, village. Irto, Pribaikalsky RVC, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/29/41.
Polyanov Mikhail Semenovich, born in 1918, Sumy region, Krasnopolsky district, s. V.-Syvdo, Krasnopolsky RVK, 136kp 1gkk, killed 12/14/41.
Podoynitsin Ivan Semyonovich, born in 1903, Chita region, Chernyshevsky district, Chernyshevsky RVC, 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/12/41.
Pozhidaev Ivan Stepanovich, born in 1916, Uzbek SSR, Kokand, Kokand RVK, 1st Red Army soldier, killed 12/3/41.
Ponomarchuk Alexander Sidorovich, born in 1916, Irkutsk region, Zelenovsky district, Bashokhinsky s / s, 136 bp 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/6/41.
Ponamorev Petr Petrovich, born in 1906, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Churansky district, Churapchinsky RVK, 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed 12/12/41.
Ponomarev Semyon Nikiforovich, born in 1902, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Ulginsky district, Ust-Yansky RVC, 116 command post, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Popov Ignat Parfiryevich, born in 1918, Khimki, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Popov Ivan Efimovich, born in 1910, Semipalatinsk, Leninsky RVC, Kazakh SSR, Semipalatinsk, Leninsky district, 160 kav. regiment 1 Guards. kav. div. 1 Guards kav. bldg. Red Army soldier, went missing on 11/30/41.
Potapkin Mikhail Filippovich, 160 kp 1 GKD 1 GKK, Red Army soldier, died (disappeared) 12/15/41.
Pristynsky Savely Mikhailovich, born in 1907 Stalingrad region, Kalokovsky district, Kalachevsky RVK, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/29/41.
Prokudin Ivan Ivanovich, born in 1916, Voronezh region, Gribanovsky district, Gribanovsky RVK, 1gkk 2gkd 136 kp, Red Army soldier, killed 12/1/41.
Ramdurakhman Suren Solovatovich, born in 1918 Kazakh SSR, Aktyubinsk, Aktobe RVC Kazakh SSR, 1gkk 2 gkd 136 kp, Red Army soldier, killed 12/1/41.
Redjabov Yakov Radkhabovich, Born in 1917, Dagestan ASSR, Derbent, st. Mamekadla, p. Velikhat, Derbent RVC, 1st GKK 2nd GKD 136 KP, junior sergeant, killed 12/1/41.
Rezvyakov Vasily Timofeevich, Yoshkar-Ola, Alexander village, Yoshkar-Ola RVC Mari ASSR, 1gkk 2 gkd 136 cp, lieutenant, killed 12/1/41.
Retz Fedor Grigorievich, born in 1902, Chita region, Kyrinsky district, p. Mangut, Kyrinsky RVC, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 11/30/41.
Rogalev Nikolay Vladimirovich, born in 1913, Saratov region, Pugachevsky district, p. B.-Sekma, ZF 3 gkp 1 gkd 1 gkk, lieutenant, went missing between 10. - 12.41.
Rogozin Semyon Efimovich, born in 1920, Chelyabinsk region, Shulikansky district, village of Karaevo, Bagaryaksky RVK, 136th cp 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/13/41.
Rylev Grigory Vasilievich, born in 1918, Irkutsk region, Tangunsky district, Staro-Gorovsky s / s, Tulunsky RVC, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/15/41.
Rymarev Ilarion Timofeevich, born in 1905, Irkutsk region, Tangui district, village. Illyr, Golumetsky RVK, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 11/30/41.
Rynchinov Sambul Rynchinovich, born in 1904, BMASSR, Barguzinsky district, Barguzinsky RVC of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/12/41.
Rudenko Grigory Petrovich, born in 1914, Nikolaev region, Skadovsky district, Skadovsky RVK Ukrainian SSR, 1gkk 2 gkd 136 kp, Red Army soldier, killed 11/28/41.
Rudykh Mikhail Prokofievich, born in 1912, Irkutsk region, Zhigalovsky district, p. Turgakovo, Zhigalovsky RVC, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Ryazanov Vasily Grigorievich, born in 1916, Ordzhonikidzevsky Territory, Alexandrovsky district, Aleksandrovsky RVC, 160 cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, junior political officer, killed 12/29/41.
Saven Prokofy Pavlovich, born in 1919, Chita region, Uzkorinsky district, Ust-Karsky RVK, 1gkk 2gkd 136 cp, Red Army soldier, killed 12/1/41.
Sakibaev, Stalingrad region, Kharabalinsky district, n. Saltpeter, Kharabalinsky RVK, 160 rp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Saltovsky Alexey Tikhonovich, born in 1921, Kharkiv region, Burlutsky district, Artel-Gorskogo, Burlutsky RVC, Ukrainian SSR, 160 rp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Salnikov Kipel Alekseevich, born in 1905, Alma-Ata region, 160kp 1gkd 1gkk, Red Army soldier. Killed 12/6/41.
Samarin Fenogent Mikhailovich, Alma-Ata region, Vorotalsky district, 131 checkpoint 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Samarsky Yakov Akimovich, born in 1900, Dnepropetrovsk SSR, Petropavlovsk district, s. Dmitrievka, Petropavlovsk RVC Ukrainian SSR, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Sanzharov Dmitry Parfirovich, born in 1911, Rostov region, Zavetinskiy district, Zavetinskiy RVK, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/28/41.
Sapozhnikov Gavriil Nikolaevich, born in 1912, Chita region, Ushagan district, Kurnaya avenue, Ushaninsky RVK, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Serebryannikov Nikifor Semenovich, born in 1917, Irkutsk region, Kachugsky district, Kachugsky RVC, 108th brigade of the 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 11/28/41.
Siasbukov Vasily Fedorovich, born in 1914, Novosibirsk region, Stalinsky district, Osinovsky ore, Stalinsky RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed 12/20/41.
Sivov Vasily Petrovich, born in 1919, Itinskaya region, Ivlyansky district, Olovyanninsky RVK, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, sergeant was killed on 12/13/41.
Sidorkin Sergey Vasilievich, born in 1910, Semipalatinsk region, Belagachsky district, Belagachsky RVK, 160 brigade unit 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Scarlatov Daniil Filippovich, born in 1922, BMASSR, Selenginsky district, p. Strelka, Selenginsky RVC of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1st GKK 2 GKD 136 KP, Red Army soldier, killed 12/1/41.
Skubitsky Anton Ligorovich, born in 1918, Dnepropetrovsk region, Solonyansky district, Suren-Mikh. s/s, Solonyansky RVC, 136th command post of the 1st GCC, sergeant, killed on 12/20/41.
Sokolnik Iosif Petrovich, born in 1915, Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Baikal district, p. Gorenik, Baikalovsky RVC, 136th rp 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/13/41.
Stepanov Arkhip Mikhailovich, born in 1912, Stalinogorsk region, Kumylzhensky district, Radinsky s / s, 108 KP Guards. KD 1 Gv.Kav.korp. ml. lieutenant, whit 11/28/1941, in the report - Bulgakovo. He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Zendikovo.
Stepanov Dmitry Ivanovich, Kazakh SSR, art. Alma-Ata, Levatarsky settlement, Khobdinsky RVK, 160kp 1gkd 1gkk, sergeant, killed on 12/11/41.
Suvorov Konstantin Stepanovich, born in 1913, Krasnodar Territory, Krasnotilensky district, Kavkazskaya village, Kurganinsky RVK, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed 12/6/41.
Sushko Nikolai Alexandrovich, Kazakh SSR, Alma-Atiska region Taldy-Kurgan district, with. Stalino, 131st brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 5.12.41.
Tokunov Ivan Pavlovich, born in 1907, Alma-Ata, Stalin's RVC, Kazakh SSR, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, senior sergeant, killed on 12/29/41.
Trachev Georgy Mironovich, born in 1912, Omsk region, Muromtsevsky district, Aldansky RVC, gkk 2gkd 136kp, Red Army soldier, killed 12/1/41.
Trofimenkov Vasily Iosifovich, born in 1910, Alma-Ata region, Frunzensky district, Frunzensky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Fedorenko Petr Trofimovich, born in 1905, Alma-Ata region, Frunzensky district, pos. M. Almaata, Frunzensky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160 rp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Khataguryan Arden Malikovich, born in 1919, Armenian SSR, Martuk district, p. Geol, Martuni RVK, 160th corps of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/29/41.
Khlysov Vasily Dmitrievich, Yakutsk region, Bratsk district, village Moka, Bratsk RVC of the Irkutsk region, 2nd GKD 136 KP, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/1/41.
Kholbaev Georgy Vasilievich, born in 1912, Irkutsk region, Eheridbul district, p. Khosyi, Ekhirit-Bulagatsky RVC, Ust-Ordynsky Buryat-Mongolian NO, 160 cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Khakhryakov Dmitry Tikhonovich, Irkutsk region, Zhigalevsky district, with. Vorobyevo, 131 KKP 1 GKD 1 GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/5/41.
Cherepilov Zhikmit, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/29/41.
Chayaliev Ivan Andreevich, born in 1909 Smolensk region, Leninsky district, Leninsky RVC, 1gkk 2 gkd 136 cp, Red Army soldier, killed 11/28/41.
Chernov Alexey Mikhailovich, born in 1916, Stalinogorsk, Stalinogorsk RVK, Tula region, 108 kp 2 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/26/41.
Chorosov Nikita Pavlovich, born in 1909, YASSR, Megino-Kangalassky district, Megino-Kangalassky RVC, 2nd GKD 136 CP, Red Army soldier, disappeared on 3.1.42.
Chupakhin Sergey Gavrilovich, Tatar ASSR, Mari region, Kushkinskaya branch, st. Motech, 131 cp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Shaitanov Sergey Fyodorovich, born in 1899, North-Kazakhstan region, Ayrtau district, p. Chelkareki, Ayrtau RVK, Kazakh SSR, 160kp 1gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/6/41.
Shalaputin Andrey Nikolaevich, Chita region, Krasnochisky district, with. Uraltsevo, 131 bp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing news 12/5/41.
Shaldarev Danzan, born in 1909, Chita region, p. Shlyahovka, Chitinsky RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/6/41.
Shakhvorostov Matvey Pavlovich, born in 1901, Pavlodar region, Beskaragai district, p. gunboat, Beskaragai RVC Kazakh SSR, Pavlodar region, 160 brig.
Shvidenko Yakov Yakovlevich, born in 1904, Semipalatinsk region, Zharlinsky district, Balanzhar mine, Zharma RVC Kazakh SSR, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, disappeared on 12/29/41.
Shevchenko Ignat Prokofievich, born in 1914, Kyiv region, Boreypolsky district, s. Voronov, Zelenovsky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160th cp 1st GKD 1 GKK, sergeant, killed 12/29/41.
Sherstyansky Ivan Grigorievich, 1911 G.R., Chita region, Cheresnikovsky district, p. Melgedum, Chesmensky RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GCC, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/13/41.
Shestakov Nikolay Efimovich, born in 1898, Alma-Ata, Stalin's RVC, Kazakh SSR, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/15/41.
Shestakov Evgeny Filippovich, born in 1921, Mari ASSR, Zvenigorod district, p. Zvenigovka, Zvenigovsky RVC, 160th command post of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, junior sergeant, killed on 12/29/41.
Shishkin Ivan Andreevich, born in 1921, Irkutsk region, Ziminsky district, Novoletinsky s / s, Zalarinsky RVK, 136 kp 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/11/41.
Shmakov Petr Grigorievich, born in 1904 Alama-Ata region, Burlyu-Tobinsky district, fish farm "Turenby", Burlyu-Tobinsky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160 bp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/29/41.
Shmakov Philip Lazarevich, East Kazakhstan region, Buktashir district, 131 checkpoint 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier. Missing on 12/5/41.
Sholganov Lazar Ubonovich, born in 1907, Irkutsk region, Olkhonsky district, village. Talovka, Olkhonsky RVC, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, killed on 12/29/41.
Shofrin Petr Yakovlevich, born in 1909, Chita region, Zavodskoy district, p. Bystry, Aleksandrovo-Zavodsky RVC, 136th brigade of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/6/41.
Shchaseltsev Ivan Vasilievich, born in 1910, Alma-Ata region, Dzerzhinsky district, Nadezhdovka, Andreevsky RVK Kazakh SSR, 160 kp 1 gkd 1 gkk, Red Army soldier, disappeared on 1.12.41.
Schukin Ivan Ivanovich, Irkutsk region, Ust-Ordynsky district, Ust-Ordynsky RVC of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 160kp 1gkd 1gkk, Red Army soldier, killed 12/6/41.
Shurshalin Alexander Nikolaevich, born in 1917, Krasnodar Territory, Krasnoarmeysky district, Krasnoarmeysky RVC, 5th cp 2nd cd 1 cd, sergeant, killed 12/11/41.
Yakuba Ivan Ananyevich, born in 1900, Aktobe region, Khobdinsky district, s. Uspenskoye, Khodbinsky RVC Kazakh SSR, 160th brigade of the 1st GKD of the 1st GKK, Red Army soldier, went missing on 12/28/41.
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The 61st Cavalry Division from Tajikistan took part in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943.
Tajik military divisions were formed in Stalinabad, and received their baptism of fire in Stalingrad.
The 61st Cavalry Division, formed in different cities and regions of Tajikistan, took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. The division was staffed from the inhabitants of the entire Tajik USSR - Pamir, Garm, Gissar, Khatlon.
The composition of the division was multinational - Tajiks, Uzbeks, Russians, Tatars and others. In January 1941, Colonel A. Stavenkov, who participated in the battle near Moscow, was appointed division commander.
The standard strength of a cavalry division is 8,968 men and 7,625 horses. But the 61st Cavalry Division was understaffed in terms of manpower - 350 people were missing and 500 horses were missing.
The division was formed at a time when the situation at the front was difficult, the Soviet troops were retreating inland. In 1942, at this difficult time for the Soviet Union, the formation of the 219th Cavalry Regiment in Stalinabad, the 213th Regiment in Kulyab and the 222nd Regiment in Kurgan-Tyube was proceeding rapidly in Tajikistan. Units had to be "put together" in haste.
Many of the recruits were excellent in the saddle, so the training went at a fast pace. It was necessary to engage in combat training for 15-16 hours a day.Finally, on October 21, 1942, the 61st Cavalry Division arrived in Kamyshin and became part of the mobile group of the Stalingrad Front of the 4th Cavalry Corps, Lieutenant General T.T. Shapkin.
Tajik cavalry, overcoming the fierce resistance of the enemy in the directions of Abganerovo, Umantsevo, Kotelnikovo, Aksai, provided offensive operations for the armies of the Stalingrad Front, continuing active operations behind enemy lines.
According to historian Shafur Shermatov, the division suffered the greatest losses from fascist aviation. In addition, the material support of the division was insufficient, the cavalry suffered great deprivation of food, fodder and fuel.
Nevertheless, despite all the difficulties, the 61st Cavalry Division, finding itself in the direction of the main attack of the enemy, showed real stamina, having managed to hold the enemy at the cost of many lives.
Tajik cavalrymen made their invaluable contribution to the development of the battle and, together with many others, Soviet soldiers turned the outcome of the Great Patriotic War on the side of the Soviet Union.
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Tajiks, along with the entire Soviet people, demonstrated unparalleled courage and courage. Subsequently, 7,000 soldiers called to the front from Tajikistan were awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad".
One of the streets of the city of Volgograd is called "Tajik", and on the marble plaque attached to the famous Pavlov's house, there is the name of the Tajik Akhmed Turdyev.
The battle of Stalingrad became one of the bloodiest in the history of mankind: 478,741 Soviet soldiers died, about 300,000 German, about 200,000 German allies (Italians, Romanians, Hungarians, Croats), the number of dead citizens cannot be established even approximately.