Vainrub, Matvey Grigorievich

Born May 2, 1910 in the city of Borisov in a working class family. Jew. The younger brother of the Hero of the Soviet Union Eusei Grigorievich Vainruba .

In 1924 - 1929 he worked as a glassblower at the Borisov Glass Factory . In 1927 he graduated from the 2nd year of the rabfak .

Service in the Red Army before World War II

In the Red Army since January 1929 , a volunteer. In 1931 he graduated from the All-Russian Military School named after the All-Russian Central Executive Committee . In 1931 he joined the CPSU (b) . Since January 1932, he served in the 2nd Infantry Division of the Belarusian Military District as commander of a small platoon . From April to October 1932 he studied at the Oryol armored courses , after which he returned to the 2nd Infantry Division as commander of a tank platoon. Since July 1933 - platoon commander of the 192nd Infantry Regiment of the 64th Infantry Division . From March 1934 he served in the 8th Infantry Division : commander of a tank platoon, from February 1935 - commander of a reconnaissance battalion company , from April 1937 - assistant commander of the reconnaissance battalion for technical matters. In April 1938 he was sent to study at the academy.

In May 1941 he graduated from the Military Academy of the Red Army named after M.V. Frunze and was assigned to the army as the head of the intelligence department of the 56th Panzer Division of the 26th Mechanized Corps of the North Caucasian Military District . In this division, he met a war.

World War II

Member of the Great Patriotic War from the beginning of July 1941 , when the corps arrived in the army. In the first year of the war he fought on the Western and Reserve Fronts. In July 1941, he was head of the reconnaissance division of the 102nd Panzer Division , and was soon appointed commander of the 204th Panzer Regiment. In October 1941 he was wounded. He was sent to the hospital for treatment.

From January 1942, he was a senior teacher of tactics at the 3rd Saratov Tank School , and from March 1942, he was an assistant head of the training department of this school. In June 1942 he was appointed deputy head of the department for the combat use of tanks of the 7th reserve army . Since October 1942 - again at the front, being appointed deputy chief of the armored division of the 62nd Army (soon the position was renamed the deputy commander of the 62nd Army Tank Army). Since February 3, 1943 - the commander of the armored and mechanized troops of the 62nd Army, and after the army was awarded the guards rank - the commander of the armored and mechanized troops of the 8th Guards Army . At this post, he went through the entire subsequent war as part of the troops of the Stalingrad , South-West , 3rd Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian fronts . As the commander of the armored forces of the 62nd Army and deputy commander V.I. Chuikov, Matvey Grigorievich Vainrub clearly showed himself in the defense of Stalingrad . During the Battle of Stalingrad, units under his command did not admit the enemy to the Central Railway Station , and then stopped the German offensive on this section of the front. He personally led the attack on the "House of Specialists" ^[2] .

Commanding the armored and mechanized troops of the 8th Guards Army , he participated in the Izyum-Barvenkovskaya , Donbass , Zaporizhzhya , Dnepropetrovsk , Bereznegovato-Snigirevskaya , Odessa , Belorussian , Vistula-Oder , East Pomeranian and Berlin offensive operations.

He was especially distinguished during the Vistula-Oder offensive operation , in which he led the fighting of a mobile tank group to break through the enemy’s defense on the left bank of the Vistula River near the Polish city of Magnuszew , and was wounded.

“The report of the injuries of General Weinrub made us very upset. We all appreciated the courage, honesty and humanity of Matvey Grigorievich. Third wound for the war. The last two are especially dangerous and severe - to the head and chest. When a comrade is injured, it is always sad. When they injure a man who has gone the battle way from the western regions of Belarus to the Volga, who passed the test of Stalingrad, and then passed with you from the Volga through the whole of Ukraine and Poland, it is especially difficult. Fortunately, it was soon reported that Matvey Grigoryevich would live ... .. ”

- Marshal of the Soviet Union V.I. Chuykov. The end of the Third Reich. - M .: Publishing house "Soviet Russia", 1973 - S.119.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 6, 1945 "for the skillful command of the entrusted troops and the courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders" of the guard, Major General of Tank Forces Vainrub Matvey Grigoryevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal The Golden Star ” (No. 5175).

After the war

After the war he continued to serve in the Soviet Army . Another year he served in the 8th Guards Army in the same position. From May 1946 - commander of the 11th Panzer Division in the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany , from April 1947 to December 1949 - commander of the 20th Panzer Division of the Northern Group of Forces (in Poland). Then sent to the Academy.

In December 1951 he graduated from the K.E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy . From January 1952, he was the commander of armored and mechanized troops of the West Siberian Military District , and from January 1954, he was an assistant to the commander of the district’s troops and head of the tank armament department of the West Siberian Military District. Since May 1955 - the commander of the 14th Guards Heavy Tank Division of the Kiev Military District . Since November 1956 - assistant commander of the district’s troops — head of the tank armament department of the Kiev military district. From March 1960 to September 1970 - deputy commander for combat training - head of the combat training department of the headquarters of the Kiev military district.

Since November 1970, Lieutenant General of Tank Forces Matvey Grigorievich Vainrub in stock. He lived in Kiev . He worked as a senior researcher at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Technical Information .

He died on February 14, 1998 . He was buried in Kiev at the Sovsky cemetery in Kiev.

• senior lieutenant (01/29/1936);
• captain (04.17.1938);
• major (09/09/1942);
• lieutenant colonel (10.20.1942);
• Colonel (09.09.1943);
• Major General of the tank forces (03/19/1944);
• Lieutenant General of Tank Forces (05/25/1959).

• Hero of the Soviet Union (April 6, 1945)
• two orders of Lenin (April 6, 1945, November 5, 1955),
• three orders of the Red Banner (February 8, 1943, September 17, 1943, June 20, 1949),
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky I degree (May 31, 1945),
• Order of Suvorov II degree (March 19, 1944),
• Order of Kutuzov II degree (August 23, 1944),
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (March 11, 1985),
• two orders of the Red Star (August 15, 1936, November 3, 1944),
• USSR medals, including:
  • Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" ,
  • Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" ,
• Foreign orders and medals.

Honorary titles

• Honorary Citizen of Volgograd ( January 15, 1993 )
• Honorary Citizen of Borisov ( Belarus )

• These are steel guys. The story of the past. - Kiev: Young, 1972.
• Fellow soldiers. - Kiev, 1982.
• Frontline fate. - Kiev, 1985.

• Monument at the Sovsky cemetery in the hero city of Kiev

• In 2010, the Post of Ukraine issued an artistic envelope dedicated to the Hero of the Soviet Union Matvey Vainrub.
• May 5, 2013 in the city of Ashdod (Israel) a monument was opened to two siblings - tankers, Jews, Heroes of the Soviet Union Matvey Grigoryevich and Evsey Grigoryevich Vainrub ^[3] .

  Vainrub Evsey Grigoryevich - the elder brother of Matvey Grigoryevich Vainruba, also a Hero of the Soviet Union

• Battle of Stalingrad. July 1942 - February 1943: Encyclopedia / Ed. M.M. Zagorulko . - 5th ed., Rev. and add. - Volgograd: Publisher, 2012. - P. 92. - 800 p.
• Kalashnikov K.A., Dodonov I.Yu. High command staff of the USSR Armed Forces in the post-war period. References (1945-1975). Volume 3. The command staff of the tank troops. Ust-Kamenogorsk: Media Alliance, 2017. - ISBN 978-601-7887-15-5 . - S. 115-118.
• N. Makarevich. Hero Brothers // “For the Glory of the Motherland”. 2014. May 8.

• Vainrub, Matvey Grigorievich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• “Weinrubs were born here” - on Rosenbloom website
• They fought for their homeland - on the site "Jewish observer"
• Administration site of Volgograd
• M. G. Vainrub on the site "Tank Front"