Vasily Timofeevich Volsky ( March 10 [22], 1897 , Moscow - February 22, 1946 , Moscow ). Soviet commander, colonel general of tank troops .
| Vasily Timofeevich Volsky | |||||||||||||
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 Major General of Tank Troops V.T. Volsky | |||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | March 10 (22), 1897 | ||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Moscow , Russian Empire | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | February 22, 1946 (48 years old) | ||||||||||||
| A place of death | Moscow , USSR | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||||
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| Years of service | 1916 - 1946 | ||||||||||||
| Rank |  Colonel General of the Tank Forces | ||||||||||||
| Part | Crimean Front , North Caucasus Front , many others | ||||||||||||
| Commanded | 5th Guards Tank Army | ||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil war in Russia , The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||||
| Awards and prizes |
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Content
- 1 World War I
- 2 Civil War
- 2.1 The interwar period
- 3 During the Great Patriotic War
- 4 family
- 5 Death. Obituary
- 6 Ranks
- 7 Awards
- 8 Literature
- 9 notes
- 10 Links
World War I
- In military service since 1916. Member of the First World War , private.
- Assistant District Military Commissioner (since December 1917),
- Secretary and member of the Board of the Extraordinary Commission of the Zamoskvoretsky District of Moscow (since June 1918).
Civil War
- Commissioner of the 28th Kozlovsky Infantry Regiment (June - August 1918),
- Assistant Commissioner, Commissioner of the Railway Front Defense Forces of the Southern Front (September 1918 - August 1920),
- Assistant Commander of the Internal Service of the East Siberian Military District (September - November 1920),
- Head of the Political Department of the 8th Western Rifle Brigade (November 1920 - January 1921),
- Military Commissioner of the 13th Cavalry Division (February - April 1921),
- Military Commissioner of the Semipalatinsk Group of Forces (April - October 1921),
- Military Commissioner of the 10th Cavalry Division (October 1921 - October 1922).
The interwar period
- Trained as squadron commander of the 73rd Cavalry Regiment (October 1926 - August 1927),
- Commander of the 86th, 69th, 37th cavalry regiments (September 1927 - December 1929),
6th Separate Mechanized Brigade,
- He graduated from the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze in 1926, KUVNAS in 1929, armored KUKS in 1930
- Since 09.31, the assistant inspector of motorized forces of the Red Army.
- Senior Military Representative of the Engineering Department of Arkos, England (February - May 1932).
- Commander of the 6th mechanized brigade (12.32-12.34).
- At the disposal of the Office of the commanding staff of the Red Army (January - December 1935).
- Since November 1935, he was the head of the engineering department of the USSR trade mission in Milan, Italy.
- At the disposal of the Intelligence Directorate of the headquarters of the Red Army (January 1936 - May 1939).
- Military attaché under the plenipotentiary of the USSR in Italy (1938-1939).
- Assistant to the Chief of the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army Stalin from 05.20.1939.
During the Great Patriotic War
Volsky’s grave at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
- Assistant Commander of the 21st Army , South-Western Front for Armored Forces (1.7.41 - December 1941),
- Deputy Inspector General of the Main Armored Directorate (January - April 1942),
- Deputy commander of the Crimean and North Caucasian fronts for tank forces (April - September 1942).
- In the battle of Stalingrad (from October 1942).
In November 1942, before the start of the counterattack near Stalingrad, he sent a letter to Stalin in which he doubted the success of the operation and advised him to postpone it or even cancel it [1] .
- Commander of the 4th (from 18.12.42 3rd Guards ) mechanized corps.
- From 7.2.1943 - lieutenant general.
- In March-June 1943 - in a hospital due to illness.
- Deputy Commander of the Armored and Mechanized Forces of the Red Army (June 1943 - August 1944),
- Commander of the 5th Guards Tank Army (August 18, 1944 - March 16, 1945).
- Colonel General of the Tank Forces (10/26/1944). Since March 1945 on treatment.
Family
Wife: Colonel Engineer Volskaya Tatyana Anatolyevna.
Death. Obituary
He died on February 22, 1946 in Moscow. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. Obituary: Red Star. February 26, 1946
Ranks
- Kombrig (01/17/36)
- Major General of the tank forces (4.06.40)
- Lieutenant General of the Tank Forces (02/07/43)
- Colonel General of the Tank Forces (10.26.44)
Rewards
- Two Orders of Lenin
- Two Orders of the Red Banner
- Order of Suvorov I degree
- Order of Suvorov II degree
- Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad"
- Medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus"
- Medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg"
- Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
- Medal "XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army"
Literature
- Battle of Stalingrad. July 1942 - February 1943: Encyclopedia / Ed. M.M. Zagorulko . - 5th ed., Rev. and add. - Volgograd: Publisher, 2012 .-- S. 122. - 800 p.
- Lurie V. M., Kochik V. Ya., “GRU: affairs and people”, St. Petersburg, ed. Neva House, Moscow, OLMA-PRESS, 2002, p. 224
- Samsonov A.M. From the Volga to the Baltic. M., 1973.
- The Great Patriotic War. The commanders. Moscow-Zhukovsky, 2005
