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Mayorov, Alexander Mikhailovich

Alexander Mikhailovich Mayorov ( September 13, 1920 , p. Pokurley , Saratov province - January 14, 2008 , Moscow ) - Soviet military leader, army general ( 1977 ), participant in the war in Afghanistan (from 1980 to 1981 - chief military adviser to the armed forces of the DRA .) In 1968 , as the commander of the 38th Army, he participated in the deployment of the Warsaw Treaty Organization to Czechoslovakia .

Alexander Mikhailovich Mayorov
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Date of BirthSeptember 13, 1920 ( 1920-09-13 )
Place of Birthwith. Pokurley , Khvalynsky uyezd , Saratov province , RSFSR
Date of deathJanuary 14, 2008 ( 2008-01-14 ) (87 years old)
Place of deathMoscow , Russian Federation
Affiliation the USSR
Type of armyGround forces of the USSR
Years of service1940 - 1992
RankArmy General
CommandedBaltic Military District ,
Deputy Commander of the Ground Forces of the USSR,
Chief Military Advisor to the Commander of the DRA Armed Forces
Battles / warsThe Great Patriotic War
Operation Danube
Afghan war
Awards and prizes
The order of LeninThe order of LeninThe order of LeninOrder of the October Revolution
Order of the Red BannerOrder of the Red BannerOrder of the Red BannerOrder of Alexander Nevsky
Order of the Patriotic War I degreeOrder of the Patriotic War I degreeOrder of the Red StarOrder of the Red Star
Order of the Red StarMedal for Military MeritAnniversary medal "For Valiant Labor (For Military Valor). In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
SU Medal Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ribbon.svgSU Medal Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ribbon.svgSU Medal Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ribbon.svgSU Medal For the Capture of Vienna ribbon.svg
SU Medal For the Liberation of Prague ribbon.svgSU Medal Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR ribbon.svgMedal "For the Strengthening of the Military Commonwealth" (USSR)SU Medal 30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy ribbon.svg
SU Medal 40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ribbon.svgSU Medal 50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ribbon.svgSU Medal 60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ribbon.svgSU Medal 70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ribbon.svg
RUS Medal of Zhukov ribbon.svgRUS Medal 50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ribbon.svgRUS Medal 60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ribbon.svgRUS Medal In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow ribbon.svg
Order of the White Lion 2 degreesOrder of the Red Banner (Mongolia)Order of Tudor Vladimirirescu 2 degrees

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Biography

Born September 13, 1920 in the village. Pokurly (now - the Saratov region ) in the family of a prosperous peasant.

In September 1940 he entered the Zlatoust military engineering school , which he graduated from at the beginning of the war. For two years, being deputy and commander of a sapper company at the courses of junior political officers of the Volga Military District , he trained officers for the front.

In January 1943 he was appointed division engineer of the 8th Guards Cavalry Division . He took part in the battles on the Voronezh , Western , 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts , liberated Hungary and Czechoslovakia .

After the war, he commanded a battalion , at the same time was trained at the M.V. Frunze Military Academy , which he graduated in 1951 . Further service was held at the headquarters of the military district. Since 1954, he sequentially commanded a motorized rifle and mechanized regiments , a few years later - a motorized rifle brigade. From January 1960 to July 1961 he commanded the 32nd Panzer Division .

In 1963 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff , in July 1963 he was appointed 1st Deputy Chief of Staff of the Volga Military District . From 1965 to 1966, Mayorov was at the disposal of the 10th Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR (international military cooperation) and, through this department, led a group of Soviet military advisers in Egypt .

In July 1966 he was appointed commander of the 38th Army ( Carpathian Military District ). In the summer of 1968, General Mayorov and his army participated in the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops on the territory of Czechoslovakia . In October 1968 he was appointed the first commander of the Central Group of Forces created on the territory of Czechoslovakia and at the head of it served for more than four years. Over time, the archive of the commander accumulated 4 thousand pages of documents. Thirty years later, he decided to tell the truth about the invasion of troops by writing a book: “Invasion. Czechoslovakia, 1968 ”( 1998 ).

From July 1972 to August 1980, Colonel General Mayorov commanded the troops of the Baltic Military District . In 1977, he was awarded the rank of army general .

In July 1980 he was appointed first deputy commander of the Ground Forces. In this position, being simultaneously the Chief Military Advisor to the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from August 4, 1980 to October 29, 1981, Army General Mayor planned and carried out the first major combined-arms operations of the Soviet army in cooperation with the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Later, on his participation in the Afghan war, the general wrote the book The Truth About the Afghan War, published in 1996 .

Since February 1987, he was in the Group of Inspectors General of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR . Since June 1992 - retired.

Candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1971-1981). Member of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 8-11 convocations (1970-1989) from the Uzbek SSR [1] .

He died on January 14, 2008 . He was buried at Kuntsevsky cemetery .

Military ranks

  • Major General (05/07/1960)
  • Lieutenant General (02.23.1967)
  • Colonel General (02.21.1969)
  • Army General (10.28.1977)

Rewards

  • 3 orders of Lenin
  • Order of the October Revolution
  • 3 orders of the Red Banner
  • Order of Alexander Nevsky
  • 2 orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree
  • 3 orders of the Red Star
  • medals of the USSR and the Russian Federation
  • foreign awards

Compositions

  • Alexander Mayorov. The truth about the Afghan war. - M .: Human Rights, 1996 .-- 287 p. - ISBN 5-7712-0032-8 .
  • A.M. Mayorov. "Invasion. Czechoslovakia, 1968 "(Publishing house" Human Rights ", 1998)

Literature

  • Kalashnikov K.A., Dodonov I.Yu. High command staff of the USSR Armed Forces in the post-war period. References (1945-1975). Volume 1. Ust-Kamenogorsk: Media-Alliance, 2013. - ISBN: 978-601-7378-16-5. - S.163-164.

Notes

  1. ↑ List of deputies of the Supreme Council of the USSR of the 11th convocation

Links

  • Biography of A. M. Mayorov on the Chronos website
  • Biography of A. M. Mayorov on the website of the publishing house "Human Rights"
  • Memoirs of Army General A.M. Mayorov on the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mayorov__Alexander_Mikhailovich&oldid=100203666


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