Vasily Vasilyevich Glagolev (1898–1947) - Soviet commander in command of divisions, corps and armies in World War II , Hero of the Soviet Union (November 1, 1943). Commander of the Airborne Forces (1946-1947). Colonel-General (July 15, 1944).
Vasily Vasilievich Glagolev | |||||||||||||||||
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Date of Birth | March 5 ( February 21 ) 1898 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of Birth | Kaluga , Russian Empire | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | September 21, 1947 (49 years) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Moscow , USSR | ||||||||||||||||
Affiliation | Russian empire RSFSR the USSR | ||||||||||||||||
Type of army | artillery , cavalry , infantry , airborne troops | ||||||||||||||||
Years of service | 1916-1918 1918 - 1947 | ||||||||||||||||
Rank | Colonel general | ||||||||||||||||
Commanded | 10th Guards Rifle Corps , 9th Army 46th Army 31st Army 9th Guards Army Airborne troops | ||||||||||||||||
Battles / Wars | First World War , Russian Civil War , The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||||||||
Awards and prizes | Foreign awards | ||||||||||||||||
Retired | died in office | ||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Born February 21, 1898 in Kaluga in the family of a doctor. Early left without a father. He graduated from primary school and a real urban school in Kaluga.
From March 1916 - in the Russian Imperial Army , entered as a volunteer . He participated in the First World War as part of the 1st Siberian Artillery Brigade of the 10th Army on the Western Front . He served as a senior brigade scout with the rank of senior fireworker . In January 1918, the brigade received an order for removal from the front and for the direction to the city of Nikolsk-Ussuri . Not wanting to go to the Far East , the soldiers of the brigade at the Grayvoron station in the Kursk province unloaded from the trains and surrendered all their weapons to the local revkom . The brigade was disbanded. Having demobilized, Glagolev arrived in Bobruisk and entered the Bobruisk artillery depot. In March 1918, an ammunition explosion occurred at the warehouse, with which it was almost completely destroyed. Then Glagolev arrived in the city of Aleksin, Tula province , where he served as a gunner guard at the railway bridge across the Oka River.
In the Red Army since August 1918. Participated in the battles of the Civil War . At first he served as a Red Army man in the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Kaluga Infantry Division, which in January 1919 were reorganized into the 3rd Moscow Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Moscow Cavalry Division . In their composition he fought on the Eastern Front against the troops of Admiral A. V. Kolchak in the Urals . In May 1919, he fell ill with a fever in the Urals , and after the hospital he was sent on treatment to leave for Kaluga . From October 1919 - Assistant Chief of the reconnaissance team of the 140th battalion of the VOKhR troops . In March 1920, he fell ill again, after being healed in June, he was enlisted as a foreman of a squadron of the 1st Reserve Cavalry Regiment. Since July - a foreman of a cavalry squadron in the 68th cavalry regiment of the 12th cavalry division , which, as part of the 9th and 11th armies, fought in the North Caucasus . Among those against the operations, he participated in the liquidation of the Ulagayevsky landing force , then in October the division was transferred to Azerbaijan to suppress anti-Soviet insurrections. In January 1921, sent to study.
Interwar Period
After the Civil War, he remained in the Red Army . He graduated from the 3rd Baku command courses in 1921, while at the time of study as part of the combined brigade of cadets participated in the Soviet-Georgian war in February-March 1921. From December 1921 he continued service in the 68th Cavalry Regiment [1] of the 12th Cavalry Division of the Separate Caucasian Army : platoon commander, assistant squadron commander, regiment reconnaissance officer, squadron commander, assistant regiment commander for combat units. During his service in this regiment, he participated in numerous combat operations to suppress anti-Soviet uprisings and to combat banditry. In 1922, he participated in the suppression of the uprising under the leadership of Colonel K. I. Cholokashvili in Kakheti and Khevsuretia , in 1924 in the suppression of the August uprising in Georgia . From October 1924 he commanded a machine-gun squadron of the 66th Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Separate Caucasian Cavalry Brigade, from December 1924 to October 1925 - a separate squadron of the 1st Infantry Division of the Caucasian Army. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1925.
In 1926 he graduated from cavalry advanced training courses for commanders in Novocherkassk , continued to command a squadron in the same regiment, and from October 1929 to May 1931 he served as chief of staff of the 66th cavalry regiment. Then he studied again and in 1931 he re-graduated from cavalry advanced training courses for commanders in Novocherkassk . As one of the best graduates, he was left on these courses by the head of senior tactics. From January 1934 - Commander and Commissioner of the 76th Cavalry Regiment in the 12th Cavalry Division in Armavir . Since July 1937 - Chief of Staff of this division. Since August 1939, Colonel V.V. Glagolev commanded the 157th Infantry Division in the North Caucasus Military District . In 1941 he graduated from the Higher Academic Courses at the Military Academy of the Red Army named after M. Frunze .
Great Patriotic War
At the beginning of World War II , in July 1941, Colonel Glagolev was appointed commander of the 42nd Cavalry Division , which began to form in Krasnodar . in the North Caucasus. In August 1941, the division was redeployed to the Crimea , transferred to the 51st separate army . The division participated in the Crimean defensive operation as part of the cavalry army group, which acted very poorly and all the cavalry divisions in its structure suffered heavy losses. The remnants of the division moved to Sevastopol , where the division was disbanded in November. Colonel V.V. Glagolev was taken to the North Caucasus, where from December he formed the 242nd Infantry Division , from January 1942 - the 115th Cavalry Division, and from February - the 73rd Infantry Division . In April 1942, the division was transferred to the 24th Army of the Southern Front . In June-July 1942, he participated in heavy defensive battles of the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad operation , in which the division was encircled by Millerovo in July and was actually defeated, in August Glagolev left the encirclement with the remnants of the division, which was disbanded in September. After a short stay at the disposal of the Military Council of the Transcaucasian Front and in the post of deputy commander of the 11th Guards Rifle Corps , in October 1942 he was appointed Commander of the 176th Rifle Division on the Transcaucasian Front . At the head of the division he led successful combat operations at the defense stage of the battle for the Caucasus , distinguished himself in counterstrikes at Mozdok and Ordzhonikidze . Then the division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner (awarding military units for differences in defensive operations was a very rare case).
In November 1942, as the best commander of the division, he was appointed commander of the 10th Guards Rifle Corps as part of the 9th Army and the 56th Army of the Black Sea Group of Forces, and participated in the offensive phase of the battle for the Caucasus . The corps distinguished itself during the liberation of the city of Hot Key , smashing the defending group. Major General (01/27/1943). From February 1943, he served as commander of the 9th Army , from March 1943 he commanded the 46th Army of the North Caucasus Front , which operated in the Krasnodar offensive operation and in the spring-summer battles in the Kuban . In August 1943, the army was deployed on the South-Western Front and it participated in the Donbass offensive operation .
In September 1943, the army was transferred to the Steppe Front , in which it participated in the battle for the Dnieper . On the night of September 26, 1943, advanced units of the army forced the Dnieper and captured the Aul bridgehead , which was retained and expanded in subsequent battles. On October 2, 1943, the army fought as part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front . In October, during the Dnepropetrovsk operation (part of the Nizhne-Dneprovsk strategic offensive operation ), the army freed Dnepropetrovsk and Dneprodzerzhinsk with blows from the Aul bridgehead. For this operation, thousands of soldiers and army commanders were awarded orders, and the commander was presented to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union.
" For the successful crossing of the Dnieper River, the strong consolidation of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper River and the bravery and heroism shown at the same time " By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 1, 1943, Lieutenant-General Vasily Vasilyevich Glagolev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Order of Lenin and medal Golden Star .
Later, at the head of the 46th Army, he participated in the Nikopol-Krivoy Rog , Bereznegovato-Snigiryovsk and Odessa offensive operations.
From May to December 1944, Colonel-General Glagolev commanded the 31st army on the 3rd Belorussian front . He distinguished himself in the Belarusian strategic operation , especially in the Vitebsk-Orsha operation and in the Minsk operation ; in October 1944, participated in the Gumbinnen-Goldapa operation . From January 1945 until the end of the war he commanded the 9th Guards Army in the 3rd Ukrainian and the 2nd Ukrainian fronts , fought in the Vienna , Gratsko-Amstetten and Prague offensive operations.
Post-war period
After the war, he continued to command the 9th Guards Army , which was transferred to the Central Group of Forces . From April 1946 he was commander of the USSR Airborne Forces . Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the 2nd convocation (since 1946).
He died on the teachings of September 21, 1947 . He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery .
Military ranks
- Colonel (for 1940)
- Major General (01/27/1943)
- lieutenant general (10/27/1943)
- Colonel-General (07/15/1944)
Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union (11/01/1943)
- Two Orders of Lenin (11/01/1943, 02.21.1945)
- Two Orders of the Red Banner (12/13/1942, 11/03/1944)
- Two orders of Suvorov I degree (03/19/1944, 04/28/1945)
- Order of Kutuzov I degree (July 4, 1944)
- Medal "For the Defense of Sevastopol"
- Medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus"
- Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
- Medal "For the capture of Vienna"
- Medal "For the Liberation of Prague"
- Medal "XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army"
Foreign awards:
- Commander of the Order "Virtuti Militari" ( NDP )
- Commander of the Legion of Honor ( France )
Memory
In the name of the general named:
- General Glagolev Street in Moscow ,
- General Glagolev Street in Minsk ,
- General Glagolev Street in Kaluga (on the street there is a memorial plaque in his honor),
- General Glagolev Street in Kamenskoye (former Dneprodzerzhinsk) (Ukraine).
Notes
- ↑ Due to the constant reorganization of the regiment during these years, several times it was renamed and was the 103rd Cavalry Regiment, the 1st Voznesensky Cavalry Regiment, the 64th Cavalry Regiment.
Literature
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. College I. Shkadov . - Moscow : Military Publishing , 1987. - T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 s. - 100 000 copies - ISBN SEC., Reg. Number in the PSC 87-95382.
- The team of authors . The Great Patriotic War. Commanders. Military biographical dictionary / Under the general ed. M. G. Vozhakina . - M. Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Pole, 2005. - 408 p. - ISBN 5-86090-113-5 .
- The team of authors . Great Patriotic: Komkory. Military Biographical Dictionary / Under the general editorship of M. G. Vozhakina . - M. Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Pole, 2006. - T. 2. - 464 p. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .
- The team of authors . Great Patriotic: Komdivy. Military biographical dictionary. - M .: Kuchkovo Pole, 2014. - T. 3. - p. 593-595. - 1000 copies - ISBN 978-5-9950-0382-3 .
- Polenkov K. A., Khromienkov N. A. Kaluzhane - Heroes of the Soviet Union. - Kaluga, 1963. - P.76-78.
- Heroes of fiery years. Prince 7. - M., 1984. - P.198-206.
- Airborne troops in the faces. Ed. V.A. Shamanov. - M., 2010.
- Andreev S. A. Heroes of the Motherland in the names of the streets of Moscow. - M., 2010.
Links
- Glagolev, Vasily Vasilyevich . The site " Heroes of the country ."
- Glagolev Vasily Vasilyevich .
- Glagolev Vasily Vasilyevich .
- Glagolev Vasily Vasilyevich - Desantura.ru .
- Vasily Vasilyevich Glagolev on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation