Shcherbakov, Vladimir Ivanovich (general)

In April 1919 he joined the ranks of the Red Army . During the civil war, the Red Army soldier of the Yelets guard detachment, from May 1919, a cadet of the Yelets infantry courses, then renamed the infantry courses of the red commanders of the South-Western Front. In May - June 1919, as part of these courses, he participated in battles on the Southern Front against the troops of General A.I. Denikin in the area of Kalach , the Berezina station, in August - he fought with the cavalry of General K.K. Mamontov in the area of ​​the city of Yelets . After completing the courses in July 1920, he was the commander of the marching company of the 2nd reserve regiment. He fought against the White Poles and Petliurists on the Southwestern Front . Also in 1921 - a participant in the elimination of banditry in the Podolsk province .

After the end of the civil war, from November 1923 he commanded a platoon and company as part of the 212nd Moscow Rifle Regiment of the 24th Samar-Ulyanovsk Iron Rifle Division . He studied at the rifle tactical courses to improve the command staff of the Red Army "Shot" named after the Comintern , which he graduated in 1928. Since February 1928 - battalion commander and chief of staff of the 286th infantry regiment of the 96th infantry division .

From November 1930, he taught tactics at the V.I. Lenin Military School, and from June 1932, at the Leningrad re-training courses for reserve personnel. Later he was appointed there as the head of the training unit.

He graduated from the Military Academy of the Red Army. M.V. Frunze (1938). Since July 1938, he served as an assistant commander of the 90th Infantry Division , and since March 1939, he served as commander of the 104th Infantry Division in the Leningrad Military District ,

At the head of the 104th Infantry Division (then it was called the 104th Mountain Division) he participated in the Winter War of 1939-1940 . As part of the 14th Army, the division conducted rather limited military operations in the Arctic , taking the Petsamo area with little Finnish resistance.

Since January 1941 he was appointed commander of the 50th Rifle Corps in the LVO , which covered the northwestern border of the USSR on the Karelian Isthmus, was engaged in the construction of fortified areas on the new border with Finland .

With a corps in June 1941 on the Karelian Isthmus and in the Vyborg area, he entered the Great Patriotic War .

From August 5 to September 1, 1941 he commanded the 42nd Army on the Leningrad Front . Army troops fought fierce battles in the Leningrad defensive operation . In the battles he was shell-shocked and sent to a cure in the Leningrad hospital.

On August 31, without completing treatment, V. I. Shcherbakov was appointed commander of the 8th Army (September 1 - September 24, 1941). During a fierce battle in collaboration with the KBF forces, troops under the command of Shcherbakov defended the city ​​of Oranienbaum and Oranienbaum bridgehead , which played an important role in the battle of Leningrad .

However, on September 24, 1941, Army Commander-in-Chief General of the Army G.K. Zhukov and member of the Military Council A.A. Zhdanov were removed from their posts “as not recovering” and at the same time was appointed commander of the 11th rifle division (September 27, 1941 - March 6, 1942 ) The division fought on the same Oranienbaum bridgehead, holding the front in the area of Old Peterhof .

Commanding the 11th Infantry Division, as part of the 54th Army, he took part in the battle in the vicinity of Pogoste station .

Since March 1942 he was deputy commander of the 23rd Army of the Leningrad Front.

From March 1942 until the end of the war he commanded the 14th Army , which fought on the Karelian Front and participated in the defense of Murmansk and the Arctic . The army units under his command conducted intense defensive battles with numerically superior forces of the Nazi forces in the Murmansk and Kesteng directions, disrupting the plans of the German command to capture Murmansk in 1942 during the Murmansk operation .

Army troops under the leadership of the commander V.I.Shcherbakov, in collaboration with the Northern Fleet, carried out the successful Petsamo-Kirkenes operation of 1944. At that time, the army consisted of 8 rifle divisions, 5 rifle divisions, 1 tank, 2 engineer brigades, a rocket launcher brigade, 21 artillery and mortar regiments, and 2 heavy self-propelled artillery regiments. (97 thousand people., 2212 guns and mortars, 107 tanks and self-propelled guns). As a result, German troops were driven out of the Soviet Arctic, and the northern regions of Norway were liberated.

After the war ended in August 1945, after the army was disbanded, it was at the disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR. From October 1945 to February 1947, V. I. Shcherbakov served as deputy commander of the troops of the Baltic Military District . In 1947, he graduated from academic courses at the Higher Military Academy of K.E. Voroshilov . In February 1947 he was appointed commander of the Arkhangelsk Military District , commanded by May 1949.

From May 1949, he was the commander of the troops of the Gorky Military District ; from October 1953, he was first deputy commander of the troops of the Voronezh Military District .

Since August 1957 - retired.

He was elected a deputy of the Supreme Council of the USSR of the III convocation (1950-1954).

A street in Murmansk and a larger fishing trawler were named after Shcherbakov’s commander. The memorial plaque was erected in St. Petersburg on the house where Lieutenant General V.I. Shcherbakov (44 Kuznetsovskaya St.) lived from 1957 to 1981.

• Shcherbakov V.I. The Arctic is my fate. - Murmansk, 1994.
• Shcherbakov V.I. On the coastal flanks: memoirs of the commander. - St. Petersburg: Lomonosov Printing House, 1996 .-- 216 p.: Phot.

• Colonel (1935)
• brigade commander (02/10/1939)
• major general (06/04/1940)
• lieutenant general (04/28/1943)

• Order of Lenin (02.21.1945);
• Four Orders of the Red Banner (02/05/1940, 02/06/1942, 11/03/1944, 06/20/1949);
• Order of Suvorov 1st degree (11.2.1944);
• Order of the Red Star (07.24.1981);
• Medals
• Commander of the Order of St. Olav (1945, Norway ) ^[1]

• Shcherbakov Vladimir Ivanovich

• Team of authors . The Great Patriotic War. The commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / Under the General Ed. M. G. Vozhakina . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2005 .-- 408 p. - ISBN 5-86090-113-5 .
• I write solely from memory ... The commanders of the Red Army about the catastrophe of the first days of World War II: In 2 vols. Volume 1. / Comp., Ed. foreword, comment and biogr. essays S. L. Chekunov. - M.: Russian Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Science, 2017. - 560 pp., Ill. - ISBN 978-5-91244-208-7 , 978-5-91244-209-4 (t. 1). - S. 56-61. ^[2]
• Not just a name - a biography of the country. Prince 3. - Murmansk, 1990.
• Kola Encyclopedia. 5 t. T. 5. U - I / Ch. ed. V.P. Petrov. - Murmansk: RUSMA (IP Glukhov A. B.), 2016 .-- 576 p. : ill., portr. - 1,500 copies