Ivan Ivanovich Zatevakhin ( July 17, 1901 - April 6, 1957 [1] ) - Soviet military leader , lieutenant general , candidate of military sciences . Commander of the Airborne Forces [2] / Head of the Airborne Forces Directorate of the Air Force (August 1944 - January 1946).
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| Date of Birth | July 17, 1901 | ||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Kobylenka village Efremov County Tula province , Russian empire | ||||||||||
| Date of death | April 6, 1957 (55 years old) | ||||||||||
| A place of death | Moscow , USSR | ||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||
| Years of service | 1919 - 1957 | ||||||||||
| Rank |  ( 1944 ) | ||||||||||
| Commanded | Airborne troops | ||||||||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 family
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Biography
He was born in the village of Kobylinka, Zamaraysky volost, Efremovsky district, Tula province (now Kytino, Efremovsky district, Tula region) in a peasant family.
Member of the Civil War , commanded a platoon, company, battalion. He graduated from the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze . One of the oldest commanders of the Airborne Forces . In 1936 - Major, commander of an airborne regiment in the Far East .
Since 1938 - the commander of the 212nd Airborne Brigade . At the head of this brigade he participated in the hostilities on the Khalkhin-Gol river in 1939 , and in the summer of 1941 as part of the 3rd airborne corps - in the defense of Kiev . The 212nd brigade fought fierce battles with the enemy north of Kiev, near the city of Oster. The brigade’s troops thwarted all the enemy’s attempts to cross the Desna River, and later held off the crossing of the Seim River and fought stubbornly in the Konotop and Chernihiv directions.
Since August 29, 1941, in connection with the appointment of corps commander Major General Vasily Glazunov to the post of commander of the airborne forces , Colonel Zatevakhin was appointed commander of the 3rd airborne corps in the 40 army of the South-Western Front. "For the defense of the southern coast of the river. The Diet "was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. [3] On June 19, 1943, Major General Zatevakhin, already as deputy commander of the Airborne Forces, was awarded the Order of Lenin for leaving the encirclement, in the battles for Konotop and Belopolye, for the destruction of the 5th SS machine gun battalion.
Until August 1944 , Deputy Commander of the Airborne Forces, Major General Zatevakhin put a lot of work into the organizational activities of the combat operations of the Airborne Forces.
From August 1944, he was appointed commander of the Separate Guards Airborne Army [4] , and from December 18, 1944 to January 1946, he was appointed head of the Directorate of the Airborne Forces of the Spacecraft [2] .
On June 19, 1945, the head of the Airborne Forces Airborne Division, Lieutenant General Ivan Ivanovich Zatevakhin, was awarded the Kutuzov Order of the 2nd degree for his great work in the formation and combat training of the Airborne Forces.
On August 18, 1945, Lieutenant General Zatevakhin was awarded the second order of Kutuzov, 2nd degree.
After the war, he was responsible for work at the USSR Ministry of Defense, and became a candidate of military sciences.
Family
- Son - Igor Ivanovich Zatevakhin (born February 20, 1936), a specialist in the field of vascular surgery. Academician of RAMS and RAS. Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation.
- Grandson - Ivan Igorevich Zatevakhin (born September 7, 1959), Russian television and radio presenter, candidate of biological sciences.
Notes
- ↑Team of authors . The Great Patriotic War. The commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / Under the General Ed. M. G. Vozhakina . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2005 .-- S. 78–80. - ISBN 5-86090-113-5 .
- ↑ 1 2 On December 18, 1944, by order of the SVGK KA No. 0047, the post of commander of the Airborne Forces was abolished, and the position of the head of the Airborne Forces Directorate as part of the Air Force was introduced, the airborne forces were reorganized into Guards. sd
- ↑ Order No. 1 / n of the Armed Forces of the Southwestern Front of 11/05/1941
- ↑ Separate guards airborne army 12/18/1944 reorganized in the 9th Guards. BUT.
Literature
- Zatevakhin Ivan Ivanovich // Tula Biographical Dictionary. - Tula, 1996.- T. 1. - S. 219.
- Bot V.I. One of the first // Tula evening. - 2000. - Aug 1. - S. 2.