Kolobov, Leonid Alexandrovich

Born in a peasant family. Russian. Graduated from 5 classes. He worked at the Aleksandrov railway station in the Vladimir region , at the Savyolovsky station in Moscow .

In the Red Army since October 1928. In 1931 he graduated from the Moscow Infantry School. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1931. He served as commander of a machine gun platoon of the 81st rifle regiment of the 27th rifle division of the Belarusian military district in the city of Vitebsk , from April 1933 - commander of a machine gun company , assistant chief of staff and chief of staff of the motorized rifle battalion of the 4th mechanized brigade in the city of Bobruisk .

In 1939 he graduated from the Military Academy of the Red Army named after M.V. Frunze . Member of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 as an assistant chief of staff of the 3rd Infantry Division . Since May 1940, he served as commander of a training battalion at the Telavsky Rifle and Mortar Military School.

Since June 1941, he was an officer for special assignments under the commander of the Transcaucasian Military District (since August, under the commander of the Transcaucasian Front ). In October 1941, he was appointed chief of staff of the 408th Infantry Division , which was located on the Soviet- Turkish border in the Armenian SSR .

Member of the Great Patriotic War in August 1942, when he was appointed assistant chief of staff of the 11th Guards Rifle Corps of the 9th Army of the Northern Group of Forces of the Transcaucasian Front, and at the end of August he was approved as chief of staff of the corps. He participated in the Mozdok-Malgobek defensive operation , restraining the advance of the enemy in the Mozdok direction along the Terek River.

On September 5, 1942, Lieutenant Colonel L.A. Kolobov, by order of the commander of the 9th Army of the Transcaucasian Front, General Konstantin Apollonovich Koroteyev, was appointed acting commander of the 389th Infantry Division (he was confirmed as a division commander only on February 9, 1943). Leonid Aleksandrovich Kolobov commanded this division until the very end of the war. He fought at the head of the division on the Transcaucasian , North Caucasian , 1st Ukrainian fronts.

Led by L. A. Kolobov, the 389th Infantry Division took part in the battle for the Caucasus , the liberation of Chechen-Ingushetia , North Ossetia , Kabardino-Balkaria , the Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories with access to the Sea of ​​Azov , the breakthrough of the Blue Line , in the liberation Taman , Zhytomyr-Berdychiv operation , Lviv-Sandomierz operation , Vistula-Oder operation , Lower Silesian offensive operation , Berlin offensive operation , Prague operation .

The commander of the 389th Infantry Division, Colonel Kolobov, was especially distinguished during the Lviv-Sandomir offensive operation . In the battle on July 13, 1944, his division near the Gorokhov town of the Volyn Region broke into the deeply layered enemy defenses, immediately crossed the Western Bug River and, over the period until July 20, 1944, destroyed over 2 thousand Nazis in continuous battles.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 23, 1944 for exemplary performance of command missions on the front of the struggle against Nazi invaders and courage and heroism shown to Colonel Kolobov Leonid Aleksandrovich, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal (No. 2336).

After the war, he continued to serve in the Soviet Army , from August 1945 to March 1947 he commanded the 97th Guards Rifle Division of the Carpathian Military District , then was sent to study. In 1948 he graduated from the Higher Academic Courses at the K.E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy . He served in the following positions: from May 1948 - commander of the 114th Guards Airborne Division , from July 1950 - commander of the 86th Guards Rifle Division . Since October 1952, he was at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany ; since May 1954, he was senior military adviser to the head of the territorial Directorate of the Barracks People’s Police of the German Democratic Republic . Since October 1957, he commanded the 4th Guards Army Corps . Since September 1959 - Deputy Head for Operational and Tactical Training of the V. I. Lenin Military-Political Academy .

Since May 1969, Lieutenant General L.A. Kolobov is in stock. He lived in Moscow. He died in 1993.

• senior lieutenant (01/13/1936);
• captain (12/31/1938);
• major (1941);
• lieutenant colonel (07/25/1942);
• Colonel (02.14.1943);
• major general (09/13/1944);
• lieutenant general (02/18/1958).

• Medal "Golden Star" (09/23/1944);
• 2 Orders of Lenin (09/23/1944; 11/05/1954);
• 3 orders of the Red Banner (04/02/1943; 01/03/1944; 06/20/1949);
• Order of Suvorov , 2nd degree (No. 1719 dated 04/06/1945);
• Kutuzov Order of the 2nd degree (No. 2404 dated 05/29/1945);
• 2 orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (10/22/1943; 11/03/1985);
• Order of the Red Star (11/03/1944);
• medals;
• Foreign awards :
  • Order of Virtuti militari ( Poland );
  • Order of Merit to the Fatherland ( GDR );
  • medals of foreign states.

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• Kolobov, Leonid Aleksandrovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". (Retrieved March 31, 2010) .
• The Generals of WWII .
• Site Museum of the 389th Berdichev-Keleck, Red Banner Orders of Suvorov 2 tbsp. and Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2 tbsp. infantry division .