Grigory Grigorievich Kolpakov (? - October 31, 1920 ) - Soviet military leader , an active participant in the civil war . Cousin B.M. Dumenko .
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Velikoknyazheskaya stanitsa, Salsky okrug , region Don Don Troops , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | October 31, 1920 |
| Place of death | the area of farms Morozov and Pozdnyakov, Dnieper county , Tauride province |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire RSFSR |
| Type of army | infantry cavalry |
| Years of service | - 1920 |
| Commanded | 39th Infantry Division 2nd and 1st brigades of the 11th cavalry division of the 1st Cavalry Army |
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil war in Russia |
| Communications | B. M. Dumenko |
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Biography
He was born in the village of the Grand-Ducal Salsky District of the Don Don Army Region [1] (now the city of Proletarsk, Rostov Region ) into a nonresident family managing the stud farm [2] .
Member of the First World War . During the Civil War - one of the organizers of the Red partisan detachments on the Don, he commanded the 39th Infantry Division . Then in the 1st Cavalry Army , commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the 11th Cavalry Division . He participated in the defeat of Denikin and the Soviet-Polish war .
The brigade commander Grigory Kolpakov is tall, thin and slightly stooped, as always in a gray cap. He did not part with her either in winter or in summer. Constantly seeing the brigade commander ahead of them, the fighters bravely went into the hottest battle [3] .
- S. M. Budyonny
He died on the Wrangel front in an attack near Agayman in the area of the Morozov and Pozdnyakov farms [4] . In the village of Otrada, a special cavalry group of Reds under the command of Kolpakov, together with the 1st Horse Army of Budenny, was supposed to close the encirclement around the Drozdovskaya division of the Russian army, departing for Perekop. The group successfully completed the maneuver by entering the village of Otrada from the south (Budyonny pressed from the north), and the Drozdov division was in a critical position. However, thanks to the skillful and decisive actions of the Drozdovites under the command of General A.V. Turkul, the group came under heavy machine-gun fire and then was routed and thrown back from Otrad by a bayonet counterattack. G. G. Kolpakov was at the head of the group and died - the Drozdovites found his body riddled with a machine gun burst, Kolpakov's revolutionary awards and documents from his tablet became trophies of the White Guards. In the same battle, they died, having scored F.M. Morozov and the division commissar P.V. Bakhturov . VV Korobkov [5] joined the division command.
For a minute of silence we paid tribute to the heroically dead commander and commissar, brigade commander G. Kolpakov. It was hard for me to talk about them as if they were dead, and I was very worried [6] .
- S. M. Budyonny
Family
The younger brother, Mark Grigoryevich Kolpakov, intelligence chief of the Horse-Consolidated Corps, was shot on false charges on May 11, 1920.
A cousin - Boris Mokeevich Dumenko , commander of the Horse-Consolidated Corps, was shot on false charges along with M. G. Kolpakov and a number of other senior officers of the corps headquarters.
Memory
The name of Kolpakov is the lane in Proletarsk .
Notes
- ↑ A personal list of losses at the fronts in the personnel of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army during the civil war . - [ M. ]: Directorate of the device and service of the GURKKA troops, 1926. - S. 248.
- ↑ Do not drop the banner! // News , December 30, 2008
- ↑ Budyonny S.M. The second book. - M.: Military Publishing, 1965
- ↑ Bakhturov Pavel Vasilievich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- ↑ Heroes of the Civil War // Military History Journal . - 1972. - No. 2 . - S. 48 .
- ↑ Budyonny S.M. The third book. - M .: Military Publishing, 1973