Petrakovsky, Anatoly Iosifovich

Anatoly Iosifovich Petrakovsky was born on December 28, 1901 in the village of Nizhnyaya Safronovka, now in the New Odessa region of the Nikolaev region, into a peasant family.

Graduated from 6 classes.

Pre-war time

In September 1922 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent by the Red Army to the 3rd Rifle Regiment as part of the Separate Caucasian Red Banner Army . In October 1923 he was sent to study at the Vladikavkaz infantry courses of the red commanders , after which in April 1924 he was appointed foreman in the 39th Rifle Regiment ( 13th Dagestan Rifle Division ), stationed in Derbent .

In September 1924 he was sent to study at the Vladikavkaz infantry school , after which in September 1927 Petrakovsky returned to the 13th Dagestan Infantry Division, where he served as foreman of the 39th Infantry Regiment, platoon commander, assistant company political commander, company commander, the chief of the food and feed supply of the regiment, the senior adjutant of the battalion and the commander of the battalion of the 37th infantry regiment. In 1932 he joined the ranks of the CPSU (b) .

As the battalion commander of the 554th Infantry Regiment ( 138th Infantry Division , 7th Army ), he took part in hostilities during the Soviet-Finnish War . On February 11, 1940, in a battle about 1.5 km west of the settlement of Khotinen, the battalion, under the command of Captain Petrakovsky, broke through two lines of wire fences and took up enemy positions, after which he repelled up to five enemy counterattacks, thereby keeping the captured lines.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 21, 1940, Captain Anatoly Iosifovich Petrakovsky was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 320) for exemplary performance of command missions and command of courage and heroism.

In February 1940, he was appointed commander of the 768th Infantry Regiment as part of the 138th Infantry Division, but since April of that year he was undergoing treatment and sick leave and after recovering in July was sent to study at the Military Academy named after M. V. Frunze .

World War II

In mid-August 1941, Colonel Petrakovsky was sent to the Kharkov Military District , where he was appointed commander of the 395th Infantry Division , which in October, after the formation was transferred to the 9th Army ( Southern Front ), after which it took part in combat actions near Mariupol during the Donbass defensive operation , and then - in the Rostov defensive and offensive and Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad defensive operations .

In July 1942, Petrakovsky was removed from office “for the systematic failure to comply with the orders of the commander of the 18th army and evasion of battle” and since August he served as commander of the operational group of the Pshad direction of the North Caucasus Front . In September, he was appointed deputy commander of the 47th Army , and in November of the same year, he was appointed commander of the Tuapse Defensive Region, which took part in defensive military operations in the Tuapse direction, as a result of which the enemy was blocked from access to the Pyatigorsk and Spinal passes.

In February 1943, he was appointed deputy commander of the 18th Army , which took part in hostilities during the Krasnodar offensive operation and the liberation of Krasnodar .

In June, he was appointed commander of the 317th Infantry Division , conducting combat operations on the Taman Peninsula . In August of the same year he was appointed commander of the 57th Rifle Corps , which took part in the fighting during the battle of the Dnieper , as well as in the Nizhnedneprovsk offensive operation .

From January 1944, Petrakovsky was treated for illness, after recovering from March, he was in the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command and in May of that year was sent to study at the K.E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy , after which in June 1945 he was appointed to the post of deputy commander of the 16th army . On August 5, the army was included in the 2nd Far Eastern Front , after which, during the Soviet-Japanese war, in cooperation with the North Pacific Naval Flotilla, it took part in the hostilities during the South Sakhalin and Kuril landing operations .

Post-War Career

After the war he was in his former position.

Since November 1945, it was at the disposal of the Main Directorate of Personnel of NCOs and was soon sent to the MV Frunze Military Academy , where he served as the head of the course and the head of the training department of the Advanced Training Course for the commanders of rifle divisions at this academy.

In April 1949 he was appointed to the post of head of the military department of the headquarters of the Soviet military administration in Germany , in March 1950 - to the post of head of the military department of the Manager of affairs of the Soviet Control Commission in Germany , and in January 1951 - to the post of head of the Directorate of Combat and Physical Training of the headquarters Odessa Military District . Since November of that year he was at the disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Soviet Army and in May 1952 he was appointed to the post of head of the military department of the Sverdlovsk Law Institute .

Major General Anatoly Iosifovich Petrakovsky resigned in November 1956 . He died on September 3, 1969 in Rostov-on-Don .

• Gold Star Medal
• Two Orders of Lenin ;
• Three Orders of the Red Banner ;
• Order of Suvorov 2 degrees;
• Order of Kutuzov 2 degrees;
• Medals.

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