Lev Vasilievich Zagrebin ( February 16, 1870 - 1920 ) - Ural Cossack , participant of the Russian-Japanese , First World and Civil Wars , Major General ( 1918 ).
Lev Vasilievich Zagrebin | |||||||
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Date of Birth | February 16, 1870 | ||||||
Place of Birth | Ural region (Russian Empire) | ||||||
Date of death | 1920 | ||||||
Place of death | Ural region (Russian Empire) | ||||||
Affiliation | Russian Empire , Ural Cossack Host | ||||||
Type of army | Cossack troops | ||||||
Years of service | 1888–1920 | ||||||
Rank | major general | ||||||
Commanded | 1 Ural Cossack regiment, 3rd separate cavalry preferential brigade of the Ural army , Iletsk horse division. | ||||||
Battles / Wars | Russian-Japanese War , World War I , Russian Civil War | ||||||
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Biography
Born February 16, 1870 , from the Cossacks of the Iletsk village of the Ural Cossack Army . In 1892 he graduated from the Orenburg Cossack Junker School , after graduating he was promoted to the rank of priestle and was assigned to the Ural academic hundred. From September 1893 transferred to the 1st Ural Cossack Regiment, stationed in Kiev . In July 1897 promoted to the rank of centurion . In 1898 he was transferred to the 3rd Ural Cossack regiment, stationed in the town of Lipno . In July 1903, he was promoted to the rank of a porch . He participated in the Russian-Japanese war in the state of the 4th Ural Cossack regiment, which was part of the Ural-Transbaikal consolidated Cossack division (the division commander is General P.I. Mishchenko ).
From January 1907 to August 1909 he served in the 1st Ural Cossack Regiment. In 1913 he graduated from the course of the Officers Cavalry School and was assigned to the 3rd Ural Cossack Regiment. At the beginning of World War I was in the rank of captain in the position of commander of the 5th hundreds of the 3rd Ural Cossack regiment. Since July 1916 - Assistant Commander of the 1st Ural Cossack Regiment for the combat unit. In January 1917, he was promoted to colonel , in March 1917, by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the South-Western Front , cavalry general A. A. Brusilov was appointed id. commander of the 1st Ural Cossack Regiment, and from June 1917 - appointed commander of the same regiment. After the October Revolution, he participated in the Civil War on the side of the White movement, as part of the Ural Separate Army .
In January 1918, he commanded the avant-garde of the 1st and 8th Ural Cossack regiments, during their return from the front to the Urals and participated in the battle with the Bolsheviks near the city of Voronezh . Since April 1918, the Iletsk front was formed in the area of the “high-level” Ural stanitsas (Colonel Zagrebin was appointed commander), whose troops began military operations against the Red forces along the Tashkent-Orenburg railway line and in the Orenburg region . In the autumn of 1918, he was the head of the Iletsky defense region. By the Decree of the Army Congress No. 2130 "for differences in battles with the Reds, combat command of units and other merits" was made on October 6, 1918, in the rank of major general . From October 8, 1918 he was appointed commander of the 3rd separate equestrian preferential brigade of the Ural Army (12, 15 and 16 cavalry preferential regiments). From November 1918 he was appointed commander of the Iletsk horse division, deployed from his brigade. In 1919 he was in the 2nd Iletsk Equestrian Cossack Corps of the Ural Army (Commissar - Lieutenant-General V.I. Akutin ).
General Zagrebin L. V. died of typhus during the march of the remnants of the Ural Army to Fort Alexander in January-February 1920.
Awards
- Order of St. Anne, 4th degree "For courage"
- Order of St. Stanislav 3 degree with swords and bow
- Order of St. Anne 3 degrees with swords and bow
- Order of St. Stanislav 2 degree with swords
- Order of St. Anne 2 degrees with swords
- Order of St. Vladimir, 4 degrees with swords and bow