Mishchenko, Strength Moiseevich

Mishchenko Sila Moiseevich was born in a family of Ukrainian peasants with. Yanovka (now Ivanovka) Malinsky district of Zhytomyr region.

In 1907 he graduated from a village school, and in 1914 - a church teacher's seminary. Then he entered the First Kiev Grand Duke Constantine Infantry School, which he graduated in 1915 . Member of the First World War on the German front in 1915-1917, was twice wounded, rose to the rank of captain. He was awarded the orders of Stanislav 3 degrees, Anni 3 and 4 degrees, Vladimir 4 degrees.

In June 1917 he joined the Bolshevik party. During the revolution, he served in Kiev in the Ukrainianized regiment named after P. Sagaidachny, was the commander of the first smoking. On January 16, 1918 he led his detachment to the side of the rebellious workers of the Arsenal and was unanimously elected a member of the revolutionary committee and military commander of the rebels. An active participant in the January uprising , after the suppression of which was captured by the Petliurites, was sentenced to death by a military tribunal, but was able to escape.

Then he joined the Red Army , was the commander of the Ukrainian regiment named after Sagaidachny, commander of the 4 smokers of the Red Cossacks, the commander of the partisan detachment, the commander and commissar of the Moscow-Saratov regiment.

In 1919 - Chief of Staff of the 2nd Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division of the Red Army. In 1920 - the headquarters of the 50 brigade of the 17th division, the commander of the 2nd brigade of the 1st division. An active participant in the Civil War and the Soviet-Polish War , he fought on the South-Western and Ukrainian fronts against the troops of the Central Council, Petliura and the Germans, on the Southern Front against Denikin, on the Western against the Poles, on the South against Wrangel. He was friends with V.I. Chapaev . For organizing the successful withdrawal of 50 brigades from Warsaw and containing the enemy’s onslaught, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner (RVSR Order No. 594).

At the end of the war, he entered the Military Academy in Moscow and graduated in 1921 . Then he worked here: a group lecturer, teacher, and. about. Deputy Head of the Political Academy; Head of the Museum of the Red Army and Navy.

In 1922 he graduated from the Law Department of 1 Moscow State. University and in 1924 - Department of External Relations. He continued his military service in the Caucasus : in 1924–1925 the chief of staff of the 13th Caucasian Rifle Division, the commissar of the headquarters, Wrede divisional commander, and from 1926 - the head of the military chemical defense department; Head of the 2nd department of the headquarters of the UVO of the Caucasian Red Banner Army. In 1928-1930 he was the head of the School of Chervona Elders at the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in Kharkov , then transferred to Moscow at the Frunze Military Academy, where, after completing the course of improvement of the command staff, he was engaged in teaching.

Since 1932 - the head of the Novograd-Volyn fortified area. Since 1935, a senior lecturer at the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze, since 1940 - head of the improvement course for the Academy staff.

Since 1935 - brigade commander , and since 1940 - major general .

On April 21, 1941, S. Mishchenko was arrested on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation against the policies of the party and the Soviet state." On September 17, he was sentenced to VMN and shot dead almost a month later ( October 16, 1941). He was posthumously rehabilitated on January 5, 1955 .

• January uprising in Kiev

• Cherushev N.S. , Cherushev Yu.N. The executed elite of the Red Army (commanders of the 1st and 2nd ranks, comkors, divisional commanders and their equal): 1937-1941. Biographical Dictionary. - M .: Kuchkovo field; Megapolis, 2012 .-- S. 462-464. - 496 p. - 2000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0217-8 .

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