Veniamin Vasilievich Kalinin (1914-1994) - participant of the Great Patriotic War , major general .
| Kalinin Veniamin Vasilievich | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Melekhovo village, Uglich uyezd , Yaroslavl province , Russian Empire [1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Kharkov | ||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire the USSR | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Major general  | ||||||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | Soviet-Finnish War
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Biography
Born in 1914 , in the village of Melekhovo, now in the Golovinsky rural settlement , Uglich district , Yaroslavl region .
In the Red Army since November 1936.
Member of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, in which military distinctions he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner .
Member of the CPSU (b) since 1939.
From the first days in the Great Patriotic War, he fought in various command posts on the Karelian Front; since May 1942, he commanded the 2nd Tank Battalion of the 56th Tank Brigade of the 3rd Tank Army. on the Voronezh Front, renamed in October 1943 to the 1st Ukrainian Front, where he commanded a motorcycle battalion, and then the 50th separate motorcycle Kiev-Berlin Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Regiment of the 3rd Guards Tank Army [2] , with which he liberated Prague . [3]
For the liberation of Prague was personally mentioned in a letter of thanks in an order of the Supreme Commander [4]
After the war, he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR for many years, in 1962-1970 he headed the Kharkov Regional Military Commissariat.
Retired Major General .
He lived in Kharkov . He worked in Kharkov DOSAAF . [5] From 1990 to 1994, he headed the committee of veterans of military service and law enforcement agencies in the Kharkiv Regional Organization of Veterans of Ukraine. [6]
Rewards
- four orders of the Red Banner (03/22/1940, 02/11/1945, 05/16/1945, 12/30/1956 [7] )
- Order of Kutuzov III degree (02/05/1944)
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree (04/06/1985 [8] )
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree (08/08/1943)
- two orders of the Red Star (08/08/1944, 11/19/1951 [7] )
- Medals of the USSR including:
- “For Military Merit” (11/05/1946 [7] )
- "For the defense of the Soviet Arctic"
- “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”
- “For the capture of Berlin”
- “For the liberation of Warsaw”
- "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Other countries:
- Military Cross ( Czechoslovakia )
- Dukel Commemorative Medal ( Czechoslovakia )
Memory
- The author of the memoirs in the chapters of the book T-34: the path to Victory: Memories of tank builders and tankers / Comp. K. M. Slobodin, V. D. Listrova; Foreword by A. A. Epishev. - X .: Prapor, 1985 .-- 235 p. [9]
Notes
- ↑ Now Golovinsky rural settlement , Uglich district , Yaroslavl region
- ↑ 50th Separate Motorcycle Regiment
- ↑ Order No. 368 of May 9, 455
- ↑ Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection. M., Military Publishing, 1975.
- ↑ Driving → 1974 → 06
- ↑ Military Service and Law Enforcement Veterans Committee Archived September 3, 2014 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ 1 2 3 Awarded in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 04.06.1944 "On the awarding of orders and medals for the length of service in the Red Army"
- ↑ Awarded in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 11, 1985 "On the Awarding of the Order of the Patriotic War by Active Participants of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"
- ↑ T-34: path to victory