Malinin, Mikhail Sergeevich

Mikhail Sergeyevich Malinin was born in the village of Polutino in the Galich district of the Kostroma province, now in the Antropovsky district of the Kostroma region in the family of peasants Sergey Gennadievich (1866-1951) and Zinovia Evgenievna (nee Efimova; 1864-1915).

He worked as a carpenter in his native village.

Civil War

Since 1919 he served in the ranks of the Red Army .

He served as a Red Army soldier in the 6th reserve rifle regiment in the Kostroma province, repeatedly participated in military operations to suppress counter-revolutionary rebellions and peasant uprisings in the province during the Civil War .

In 1921 he joined the ranks of the RCP (b) .

The interwar period

In 1922 he graduated from the 2nd Moscow Infantry School, and in 1923 - courses of the middle command staff.

From 1922 to 1928 he served in the 42nd Rifle Regiment of the Moscow Military District as platoon commander, assistant company commander, head of the regimental school and battalion commander.

At the end of the MV Frunze Military Academy in 1931 he was sent to the Urals Military District , where he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the regiment, in May 1932 - to the post of chief of staff of the 45th Infantry Division .

In 1933 he graduated from academic courses at the Military Academy of Motorization and Mechanization of the Red Army and until 1937 he served in the Trans-Baikal Military District . Appointed chief of staff of the mechanized corps, and in October 1933 - to the post of chief of staff of the 20th Motorized Brigade, and then - to the post of chief of staff of the district.

Since September 1936, he commanded the 32nd mechanized brigade of the same district.

In December 1937 he was transferred to the post of teacher of tactics of the Leningrad armored improvement courses for command personnel. From November 1938 he worked as a senior teacher, from April 1940 - the head of the tactical cycle of courses. From December 1939 to March 1940 he was seconded from the courses to the front of the Soviet-Finnish War , where he fought as the chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the 9th army , and then - deputy chief of staff of the 9th army on the rear.

In April 1940, he was appointed chief of staff of the 7th Mechanized Corps ( Moscow Military District ).

World War II

In the early days of World War II, the corps was transferred to the Western Front , where it participated in heavy fighting in the region of Orsha - Mogilev and counterattack near Lepel . By mid-July, the corps suffered heavy losses and was surrounded. Colonel M.S. Malinin, with the headquarters of the corps and a significant part of the personnel, left the encirclement in the Smolensk region. After leaving the encirclement, he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the Yartsevo Group of Forces of the Western Front (the group commander was Major General K.K. Rokossovsky ), which during the Smolensk battle played a significant role in stopping the advance of the enemy east of Smolensk .

From this moment until the autumn of 1944, M. S. Malinin was constantly the chief of staffs of military associations commanded by K. K. Rokossovsky. Sami K.K. Rokossovsky and M.S. Malinin became loyal combat associates and close friends. Surviving M.S. Malinin, Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky in his book of memoirs devoted many good words to him. However, other Soviet commanders invariably spoke positively about M. S. Malinin.

On August 19, 1941 M.S. Malinin was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 16th Army of the Western Front. In this post, he went through the final stage of the Smolensk battle , the death of a significant part of the army in the Vyazemsky disaster and its reconstruction in October 1941 , the defensive battles of the Moscow battle on the shortest route of the enemy to Moscow - the Volokolamsk direction. The army forces also acted successfully at the offensive stage of the Moscow battle .

On July 16, 1942, after the appointment of K.K. Rokossovsky to the post of commander of the Bryansk Front, Major General M.S. Malinin was appointed to the post of chief of staff of this front. At this time, the Bryansk Front carried out a number of private operations with the aim of diverting the enemy’s reserves from the South-West direction, which became the main one in 1942. September 30, 1942, simultaneously with the appointment of K.K. Rokossovsky to the post of commander of the Don Front , M.S. Malinin was appointed chief of his staff. He successfully led the front headquarters in defensive and offensive battles north of Stalingrad , surrounded and destroyed by the forces of Friedrich Paulus during the Battle of Stalingrad .

After the victory at Stalingrad , the front troops were transferred to the Kursk region, and the front itself was renamed Central . At the head of the front headquarters he conducted a winter offensive operation in the Sevsk region, defensive and offensive battles on the northern front of the Battle of Kursk, and the Oryol and Chernihiv-Pripyat offensive operations. After the Central Front was renamed in October 1943 as the Belarusian Front and in February 1944 the Byelorussian Front as the 1st Belorussian Front remained the chief of their headquarters. In the winter of 1943-1944, the front consistently carried out the Gomel-Rechitsa , Kalinkovichi-Mozyr and Rogachev-Zhlobin offensive operations. The front was especially distinguished during the Belarusian operation in the summer of 1944 .

In the fall of 1944, K. K. Rokossovsky was appointed to the post of commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front and for the first time during the war broke up with his headquarters. Fighting under the command of G.K. Zhukov , M.S. Malinin distinguished himself in the Vistula-Oder and Berlin offensive operations .

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 29, 1945, for the skillful command of the troops of the fronts and the personal courage and heroism shown, Colonel General Mikhail Sergeyevich Malinin was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal .

Post-war time

In July 1945, he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the Group of Soviet occupation forces in Germany , on November 12, 1948, to the post of chief of the General Staff - deputy commander in chief of the USSR Ground Forces . Since March 1950 - First Deputy, and since 1951 - Chief Inspector of the Soviet Army . From June 29, 1953 until the last days of his life, he was First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR .

During the Hungarian uprising of 1956 he was in Hungary , where he took part in the development and implementation of action plans of the Soviet troops, for which he was awarded the Order of Kutuzov 1st degree.

In 1952-1956 he was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU . In 1956-1960 - member of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU . Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3-4 convocations (since 1950).

Mikhail Sergeyevich Malinin died on January 24, 1960 in Moscow . He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery .

The first wife was considered dead, in fact, she was captured in the occupied territory and until 1944 could not make herself felt.

The second wife is Nadezhda Grigorievna Grekova , Chairman of the Supreme Council of the BSSR ^[1] .

• Medal "Golden Star" (05/29/1945);
• four orders of Lenin (2.01.1942, 02.21.1945, 05.29.1945, 12.26.1959);
• three orders of the Red Banner (08.17.1943, 11/03/1944, 11/15/1950);
• two orders of Suvorov 1st degree (07/29/1944, 04/06/1945);
• two orders of Kutuzov 1st degree (01/28/1943, 12/18/1956);
• Order of Suvorov, 2nd degree (10.2.19.1943);
• Order of the Red Star (05.21.1940);
• medals.

Foreign awards :

• Honorary Knight Commander of the Military Order of the British Empire ( Great Britain , 1945) ^[2] ;
• Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari ( Poland );
• Order of the “Grunwald Cross” 3rd class ( Poland ).

• Colonel (1935).
• Major General (10/7/1941).
• Lieutenant General (12.20.1942).
• Colonel General (09/18/1943).
• Army General (08/03/1953).

• Malinin Street in Minsk and in the village of Antropovo, Kostroma Region ^[3] .

I have known the Chief of Staff of the Central Front M.S. Malinin since the Battle of Moscow; then he was the chief of staff of the 16th army. It was a comprehensively trained commander, a high-class staff employee. He performed his duties perfectly.

- Four times Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union G. Zhukov. Memories and Reflections. Volume 2. 3rd edition. - M.: Publishing House of the Press News Agency, 1978. P.147.

Malinin, Mikhail Sergeevich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".