Krasnopevtsev, Semen Alexandrovich

In 1915 he graduated from the Konstantinovsky Military School , participated in the First World War ; second lieutenant ^[1] .

Civil War

In 1918 he joined the Red Army , he was appointed commander of a platoon. Member of the Civil War . In 1920 he participated in the Soviet-Polish war , commanded a battery, then a division, a regiment ^[1] .

Between the wars

After the war, in 1926 S. Krasnopevtsev graduated from the KUKS ^[2] , from November 1926 - Assistant Commander of the 11th Field Heavy Artillery Regiment for the combat unit, from November 1928 - Assistant Commander of the 16th Corps Artillery Regiment, 1932 graduated from the Academy. Frunze , from June 1933 - Assistant Chief of Artillery of the 7th Rifle Corps . From May 1934 - Senior Head of the Department of Artillery, from January 1937 - Senior Lecturer of the Department of Weapons and Equipment of the Academy. Frunze. During the Soviet-Finnish War , from December 1939 - Senior Assistant Chief of Artillery of the 13th Army ^[1] . After the war, in 1940, he was appointed deputy commander of the 2nd Air Defense Corps . Since 1940 - a member of the CPSU (b) ^[3] .

Great Patriotic War

Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War , in July 1941, S. A. Krasnopevtsev became commander of artillery of the Luga task force ^[4] , from July 1941 - chief of artillery headquarters of the Northern Front , from September 1941 - chief of artillery headquarters of the Leningrad Front , from November 1941 of the year - the commander of the artillery of the 8th army , participated in the Leningrad strategic defensive operation . From April 1942 - commander of the artillery of the North Caucasus direction (since May 1942 - the North Caucasus Front ), participated in the Battle for the Caucasus . From November 1942 - the commander of the artillery of the 2nd Guards Army of the Southern Front , participated in the Battle of Stalingrad . From March 1943 - commander of the artillery of the Southern Front (from October 20, 1943 - the 4th Ukrainian Front ), participated in the Donbass operation , the Battle of the Dnieper , the Nikopol-Krivoy Rog offensive operation , the Crimean operation . From May 1944 - commander of the artillery of the 3rd Baltic Front , participated in the Tartu and Baltic operations ^[1] . Ss Biryuzov recalled:

I knew him even at the time when I was studying at the academy. He taught us an artillery course and was rightly considered a great master of his craft.
During the period of joint service on the Southern Front, I had the opportunity to once again see this, as well as the amazing courage of Semyon Aleksandrovich. But he did not like to really engage in staff affairs, delve into the documents. I remember asking him once:
- How are you planning an artillery offensive?
He only shrugged his shoulders:
- There, in the headquarters, something is being done. The chief of artillery headquarters will report to you, and I, I apologize, hurry to the troops ...
F. I. Tolbukhin more than once complained:

- What is this for the commander of the artillery? Will go to the shelves, and even in the anti-tank, and lives there for days. Whenever he calls, everything is not in place. Such indifference is not always appropriate for the front artillery commander.

- Biryuzov S. S. When the guns rattled

After the war

After the war, S. A. Krasnopevtsev commanded the artillery of the Kiev Military District , was chief of staff of artillery and deputy commander of artillery of the Soviet Army, then commander of artillery of the Leningrad military district ^[5] .

He died on April 25, 1954 , buried in Leningrad at the Theological Cemetery .

• Kombrig - 02/05/1939
• Major General of Artillery - 06/04/1940
• Lieutenant General of Artillery - 06/07/1943
• Colonel-General of Artillery - 04/03/1944

During the service of S.A. Krasnopevtsev was awarded prizes ^[3] :

• two Order of Lenin
• Four Orders of the Red Banner - 05/16/1944
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 1st degree - 02/11/1944
• Order of Suvorov 2nd degree - 12/22/1943
• Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree - 03/31/1943
• Order of the Red Star
• Medal "XX years of the Red Army" - 1938

• The gunners. - M .: "Young Guard", 1939. (collection)
• Artillery in the main types of combat (corps, division, regiment). - M .: “Voenizdat”, 1940. (group of authors)
• Artillery of mechanized connections // Military thought. 1938. № 1.
• More on the formulation of artillery tasks // Red Star. 1938. April 21.
• Artillery in the suppression of the depth of defense // Red Star. 1938. June 24th.
• Artillery in overcoming the barrier line // Red Star. 1940. June 18
• On the organization of the firing shaft // Red Star. 1941. January 3.
• The interaction of artillery with aircraft in the breakthrough of the defensive line // Military thought. 1941. No. 1.

• Biryuzov S. S. When the guns thundered. - M .: Military Publishing, 1961.
• Army air defense forces. - M .: Military publishing house, 1968.
• "Winter War": the work on the bugs (April-May 1940). Materials commissions of the Main Military Council of the Red Army to summarize the experience of the Finnish campaign. - M.-SPb .: “Summer Garden”, 2004

• Publicly accessible document bank "People's feat"
• World War II - supplement to the official website of the Ministry of Defense (inaccessible link)
• Biography in V. Berdnikov's photo album
• Biography on Prose.ru