Dobysh, Fedor Ivanovich

Beginning of the path

Fedor Ivanovich Dobysh was born on March 5 (February 21, old style ) in 1906 in a village of Kokhanovo of the Cherikovsk district of the Mogilev province of the Russian Empire (now the Cherikovsky district of the Mogilev region of the Republic of Belarus ) into a poor peasant family. Belarus . He graduated from the village parish school . The Dobysha family had six more children, and in order to feed a large family from an early age, Fyodor Ivanovich had to work in his father's farm. When he was 18 years old, he went to work in Klimovichi , where he got a job as a carpenter assistant at the commune farm. After working in Klimovichi for about a year, Fyodor Ivanovich went to Donetsk , where he was hired by workers in a construction bureau at Rutchenkova station. In 1926, the construction of the Dnieper hydroelectric station began . Attracted by high earnings for laborers, Fyodor Ivanovich left for Zaporozhye and settled in Dneprostroy . But there weren’t enough skilled workers at the construction site, and he was offered to get a specialty as a locksmith in an evening school for workers organized by the Dneprostroy leadership. Since 1927, Fyodor Ivanovich was already on the staff of the organization as a fitter. After some time, he was put in charge of a compressor unit at one of the liquid air plants. At the same time, Fyodor Ivanovich entered the evening department of the Zaporizhzhya Electromechanical Institute.

The life of F. I. Dobysh changed dramatically in October 1928, when he was drafted into the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army . He was to serve in Borisov in the 4th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Belorussian Division of the Belorussian Military District . On November 5, 1928, the Red Army soldier Dobysh was already a cadet of the regimental school. In 1929, Fyodor Ivanovich became a member of the CPSU (b) and was even elected to the city council of the city of Borisov. In October 1929, he graduated with honors from a regiment infantry school, and as an excellent student in combat and political training, he was sent to study at the Belarusian Belorussian Military Central Command named after the Central Executive Committee of the BSSR in Minsk . At the end of his studies, the young officer is appointed to the post of platoon commander of the 98th Rifle Regiment of the Belarusian Military District, which is based in Bykhov . The Dobysh platoon is quickly becoming the best in the unit and the regiment command recommends Fyodor Ivanovich for further training. In May 1932 he was sent to Moscow to take one-on-one courses at the All-Russian Central Executive Committee . After graduating in November 1932, F.I. Dobysh returned to the regiment and took command of a rifle company. Co-workers predict a brilliant career for Fedor Ivanovich, but he again decides to drastically change his fate.

In the early 30s, the Red Army was in dire need of personnel for the Red Air Fleet . In February 1933, F.I. Dobysh was offered to go to aviation, and Fedor Ivanovich agreed. According to the special set of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, he was sent to the 2nd Borisoglebsk flight school of flight commanders . After graduating from a flight school, F. I. Dobysh was appointed to the post of commander of the R-6 reconnaissance aircraft of the 4th long-range reconnaissance aviation squadron of the Belarusian Military District, which was deployed in Smolensk . In July 1935, F.I. Dobysh was promoted to senior pilot and appointed aviation commander. In October 1936, senior pilot F.I.Dobysh took command of the 11th high-speed bomber squadron of the Belarusian Military District, which was based at the Engelhardt airfield at the eponymous railway station near the village of Engelhardt, Smolensk Region . In the spring and summer of 1937, Fyodor Ivanovich underwent retraining on a high-speed front-line bomber SB . A turbulent time came: a civil war was going on in Spain , on July 7, 1937, after the incident on the Lugouqiao Bridge ( Marco Polo Bridge ), the Second Sino-Japanese War began , the country lived in the anxious expectation of an imminent big war.

In the sky of China

In the early days of September 1937, F.I. Dobysh was urgently summoned to Moscow. In anticipation of the order, he was settled in the army barracks, on the basis of which the formation of detachments of internationalist volunteers took place. It became clear that a long state business trip was ahead. Only one thing was unclear - Spain or China . At a meeting of the selection committee, Fyodor Ivanovich was offered to become an instructor in the Air Force of the Kuomintang of the Republic of China and to train Chinese pilots in combat work on SB bombers. On September 15, 1937, senior pilot F.I. Dobysh flew to Alma-Ata , where he joined Operation Zeta . At the first stage, Fyodor Ivanovich was to prepare for the flight to China two groups of Soviet I-16 fighters. Recalling these events, he subsequently wrote:

We prepared the fighters for the flight together with the group commander Smirnov. They determined the order of take-off, gathering a group in the air and landing. The airfield network along the route was poorly developed. Most airfields are field, poorly equipped. Some of them were located 2 thousand meters or more above sea level. Coatings of airdromes made of sand or coarse pebbles made it difficult to land I-16 aircraft.

- F.I. Prey. Heading east

On September 27, 1937, the senior pilot Dobysh, through the intermediate airfields of Kulja and Shiho, safely brought 20 fighters to Lanzhou Airport in Gansu Province as a leading group. Following him, he successfully surpassed the second group of 10 I-16s, after which he returned to Alma-Ata to prepare for the flight of SB bombers. The next flight was prevented by the weather for a long time, and a group of 8 SBs left Almaty only in mid-November. Bad weather followed the Soviet pilots throughout the flight, and the bombers arrived at the Nanjing airfield, from which they had to conduct combat work, on the evening of November 30, 1937. Fedor Ivanovich was appointed the commander of the link in the detachment of P. Muravyov.

In the early morning of December 2, 1937, two SB groups took off from the Nanjing airfield and headed for Shanghai . The first group of 18 bombers under the command of M. G. Machin , which included F.I.Dobysh, attacked the Japanese airfield, the second group of 9 aircraft attacked the enemy ships, which were on the roads of Shanghai port. The strike results had grave consequences for the Japanese military. According to Chinese intelligence, the enemy lost 30-35 aircraft. Fuel depots were blown up, hangars were set on fire. One major Japanese cruiser was sunk, and six other warships were seriously damaged. The bombers returned to their airfield without losing a single plane.

On the same day, Japanese troops launched an attack on Nanjing, and Soviet pilots had to hurriedly change the airfield. Nanchang was chosen as the new location. Throughout December, SB groups continued to bomb the Japanese infrastructure and troop concentrations. In the pauses between sorties, Soviet specialists trained the Chinese pilots. In December, they prepared 40-45 combat-ready crews on SB planes. Fyodor Ivanovich by the middle of December was appointed commander of a detachment of SB bombers, whose crews consisted only of Chinese . On December 15, 1937, the Dobysh detachment took part in a raid on the Nanjing airfield, during which about 40 Japanese bombers were destroyed. In the second half of December 1937, the Dobysh detachment launched a bomber attack on a group of enemy transport and warships on the Yangtze River . As a result, 3 enemy ships were sunk and several more ships received various injuries.

In the winter of 1938, despite a slight decrease in the activity of Japanese troops, the combat sorties of Soviet pilots continued with the same intensity. They marked the Day of the Red Army and Navy with a simultaneous raid on the airfields of Shanghai and Taipei , which were located in the rear of the enemy. A few days later, F.I. Dobysh took part in the raids on the Tianjin - Pukou railway and the crossings through the Yellow River . Assessing the actions of Soviet pilots during his stay on a special business trip, Fedor Ivanovich subsequently wrote:

Due to the intensity of combat sorties and the use of skillful tactical maneuvers, we were able to somewhat compensate for the quantitative superiority of Japanese aviation, to restrain its offensive impulse, and even to stop the Japanese offensive in separate directions together with ground forces.

- F.I. Prey. Heading east

At the end of May 1938, the term of the trip of F. I. Dobysh came to an end. In June, Fyodor Ivanovich returned to Moscow, where he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner , awarded the military rank of "captain" and was appointed assistant commander of the 31st High-Speed ​​Bomber Regiment , stationed in Smolensk. For many years, information about the participation of Soviet pilots in the Sino-Japanese war was a state secret. Only in the mid 80-ies of XX century, the recollections of the participants in the hostilities in China were published in the collection “In the Sky of China. 1937-1940 ". Among the published materials is the autobiographical novel by F. I. Dobysh, “Heading East”.

Soviet-Finnish War

At the end of the 30s, military specialists returning from special state business trips enjoyed special trust in the leadership of the Red Army and quickly moved up the ranks. Captain Dobysh was no exception. Three months after taking up the post of deputy commander of the 31st Bomber Aviation Regiment, Fyodor Ivanovich received the rank of major and was appointed commander of the regiment. On September 17, 1939, an operation was launched to send troops into Western Ukraine and Western Belarus . Formally, the 31st high-speed bomber aviation regiment did not take part in the operation, but on September 28 it was transferred to the Bolbasovo airfield near Orsha , where, “just in case”, it was in full combat readiness for two months. On November 25, the regiment returned to its airfield in Smolensk, but on November 30, 1939, the Soviet-Finnish War began.

The beginning of the Winter War was unsuccessful for Fedor Ivanovich. At the end of December 1939, his regiment received orders to follow to the airfield of the Chernevo Kalinin (now Pskov ) region. However, due to bad weather conditions, a day late for a day, only the regiment commander himself and a group of 7 aircraft arrived at the place of deployment. The remaining bombers of the regiment, stuck due to the weather in Velikiye Luki , flew in small groups to Chernevo until mid-January 1940. By the time of the first sortie, Major F.I. Dobysh had only 36 crews at his disposal.

On January 5, 1940, the 16th high-speed bomber aviation brigade , which included the regiment of F.I.Dobysh, was to strike at the city of Mikkeli , where the headquarters of the Finnish army was located. However, immediately after takeoff during the construction of squadrons in battle formation, two aircraft collided and fell to the ground. In the course of the combat mission, eight SBs of the 1st Squadron of the regiment lost their orientation and, instead of the intended target, struck the targets in Pieksämäki . Even more severe consequences were the raid of the 16th air brigade on military facilities in Lappeenranta . As a result of the incorrectly planned return route, the bombers were intercepted by Finnish fighters, who rose from the airdrome of the airdrome lying right on the course, and were literally shot by the enemy. And although the main blow fell on the 54th regiment , the Dobysh regiment lost two cars and several more got various injuries. Fedor Ivanovich received several penalties on the party line, but he knew how to quickly learn from his own mistakes. Subsequently, the regiment acted exemplary. Striking at the enemy’s fortified areas, its transport hubs, military-industrial, economic and political facilities, the 31st High-Speed ​​Bomber Aviation Regiment of Major F. I. Dobysh in difficult weather conditions that accompanied the Finnish campaign throughout, dropped 11,807 aerial bombs and shot down air battles of 17 Finnish fighters. Major F.I. Dobysh repeatedly personally led the regiment to carry out combat missions. The regiment no longer had non-combat losses and aircraft accidents until the end of the war. For the able leadership of the unit entrusted to him after the end of the Soviet-Finnish War, Fyodor Ivanovich was awarded the Order of Lenin and promoted to lieutenant colonel .

World War II

The Great Patriotic War found Lieutenant Colonel F.I.Dobys in Latvia , where the 31st High Speed ​​Bomber Aviation Regiment as part of the 18th High Speed ​​Bomber Aviation Brigade was introduced on June 2, 1940, even before the ultimatum was presented to the Government of the Republic of Latvia . The regiment was stationed at Vainode airbase, and before the war joined the 6th mixed aviation division of the Baltic Special Military District . The regiment was armed with 60 SB bombers. On June 22, 1941, the material base of the 6th mixed aviation division was practically destroyed at airfields. Lieutenant Colonel F.I. Dobysh was one of the few commanders who managed to withdraw his unit from the blow of German aviation. Acting from the first day of the war as part of the 7th mixed aviation division , 44 surviving regiment bombers in the first month of the war became the main striking force of the Northwest Front Air Force. On June 22, 1941, crews of SB bombers of the 31st High-Speed ​​Bomber Regiment made 75 sorties to bombard the advancing enemy forces in the Kalvaria region. On June 23, 1941, they already bombed a column of German troops near Taurage , and on June 24, 1941 they struck the German city of Tilsit in East Prussia . On July 4, 1941, a regiment bombed German troops near Rezekne .

By the beginning of World War II, the material base of the Red Army Air Force was very outdated and did not meet the requirements for it. SB bombers were inferior to German aircraft in all respects. Forced to act without cover from fighters and attack aircraft, they became an easy target for pilots of the Luftwaffe and anti-aircraft artillery. On July 15, 1941, the 31st High-Speed ​​Bomber Aviation Regiment, which was severely bloodless and lost almost all aircraft, was rearmament and reorganization. In a short time, the regiment pilots, together with their commander, mastered not only the new Pe-2 bomber, but also the dive bombing technique. Throughout the war, Fyodor Ivanovich paid special attention to this technique. Having mastered it perfectly, he demanded this from his subordinates. In the regiments of the division, which was subsequently commanded by F.I.Dobysh, even groups of sniper-pikers were formed, which made it possible to use divisions of the division to destroy small targets (mainly tanks) and during street battles, where the accuracy of strikes was especially required.

On September 9, 1941, the 31st bomber aviation regiment, which became diving, was included in the 55th mixed aviation division of the Karelian Front . On September 25, 1941, he was transferred to the 7th separate army and supported its actions in the Medvezhyegorsk and Kondopoga directions and in subsequent defensive battles on the Svir River . In the first ten days of November, the regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Dobysh was transferred to the Tikhvin direction and supported the advance of the Red Army during the Tikhvin strategic offensive operation , as a result of which the enemy was driven back for the Volkhov . In contrast to the Tikhvin operation, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 350 of December 6, 1941, the 31st diving bomber aviation regiment was transformed into the 4th Guards , and Lieutenant Colonel F. I. Dobysh was ordered by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on January 1, 1942 awarded the second order of Lenin. After the completion of the Tikhvin operation, the regiment returned to the 7th separate army, which continued to maintain its position on the border of the Svir River. January 24, 1942 F. I. Dobysh was awarded the next military rank - Guard Colonel .

In June 1942, the Supreme High Command Headquarters decides to form the first bomber aviation corps as part of two bomber aviation divisions. In August of the same year, Fyodor Ivanovich was entrusted with the formation of the 263rd Bomber Aviation Division , of which he was officially appointed commander on September 14, 1942. The formation of the corps was completed in October 1942 and on October 20 it was included in the 3rd Air Army of the Kalinin Front . In November – December 1942, the division of Colonel F. I. Dobysh participated in Operation Mars , and upon its completion they joined the Velikolukskaya operation , during which Great Luke was liberated. The regiments of the Dobysh division also participated in street battles for the city of Velikiye Luki, as well as the assault on the Velikiye Luki fortress, delivering targeted attacks on German defense units. In mid-January 1943, the 1st Bomber Aviation Corps was transferred to the 14th Air Army of the Volkhov Front and took part in Operation Iskra . The breakthrough of the siege of Leningrad was achieved as a result of tremendous exertion of forces and at the cost of enormous losses. The cavalier of the four highest orders of the USSR F. I. Dobysh was subsequently especially proud of the modest medal "For the Defense of Leningrad . " On February 21, 1943, the air corps, which included the Dobysh division, became part of the 6th Air Army of the North-Western Front and participated in battles near Demyansk and Staraya Russa . On March 15, 1943, units of the Dobysh division attacked the airfield of Grivochka , where 15 U-88 planes were destroyed. In total, during the period of hostilities on the Kalinin, Volkhov and North-Western fronts, the 263rd Bomber Aviation Division made 1036 sorties to bombard enemy troop accumulations, its front line of defense and military infrastructure. 5420 tons of aerial bombs, 1,141,000 units of campaign materials were dropped on purpose. The division destroyed, burned and destroyed 69 tanks, 186 vehicles with troops and cargo, 32 warehouses with ammunition and fuels and lubricants, 10 field artillery batteries, 4 anti-aircraft artillery batteries, 1 railway train, one railway bridge and up to two enemy infantry regiments. In aerial combat 21 German aircraft were shot down and another 20 were destroyed at airfields. For the indicated period of time, 62 pilots of the unit were awarded high government awards. Colonel F.I. Dobysh repeatedly personally led the division into battle, having completed 107 sorties. By order of the USSR NCO No. 128 of 03/18/1943, the 263rd Bomber Aviation Division was transformed into the 1st Guards .

In April 1943, the 1st Bomber Corps was deployed at Buturlinovka airfield near the city of Buturlinovka, Voronezh Region . The corps was formally included in the 2nd Air Army , but before the battle on the Kursk Bulge was in the reserve of the Voronezh Front. The 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division of Colonel Dobysh was 50% understaffed by young and not experienced in flying Pe-2 pilots. During April, May and June 1943, Fyodor Ivanovich conducted a large training work in the division. Divisions of the division made 2927 training flights with a total flight time of 1628 hours. The results of the training became visible during the Battle of Kursk , during which division pilots, having completed 1030 sorties, destroyed 47 tanks, 432 vehicles with military cargo, 16 warehouses with ammunition and fuel, 13 artillery batteries, crushed 41 firing points, damaged 6 trains, destroyed 146 buildings. On August 3, 1943, the air corps, which included the Dobysh division, was transferred to the 5th Air Army of the Stepnoy (from October 20, 1943 - 2nd Ukrainian ) Front and supported the advance of the Red Army during the Belgorod-Kharkov and Poltava-Kremenchug operations. Having completed 685 sorties and dropped 450 tons of aerial bombs on enemy targets and concentrations of his troops, the regiments of the 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division ensured the fast pace of advance of the front units, contributed to the liberation of Belgorod , Kharkov , Poltava and Kremenchug , the crossing of the Dnieper , and success in holding battles. and the expansion of the bridgeheads , a breakthrough of the East Wall . The 1st Bomber Aviation Corps (from February 5, 1944 - the 2nd Guards ) until the beginning of July 1944 participated in all operations of the 2nd Ukrainian Front ( Pyatikhatskaya , Znamenskaya , Kirovogradskaya , Korsun-Shevchenkovskaya and Uman-Botoshanskaya operations). The 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division participated in the liberation of Alexandria , Znamenka , Kirovograd , Zvenigorodka , Korsun-Shevchenkovsky and Uman . The pilots of the division showed massive heroism during the liberation of Kirovograd, for which the division was given the honorary name "Kirovogradskaya" on January 9, 1944. In total, during the stay in the Steppe and the 2nd Ukrainian Fronts (from 03/03/1943 to 07/06/1944), the division of Colonel F. I. Dobysh made 4445 successful sorties and dropped 2668 tons of bomb cargo. As a result, 191 tanks, 1041 motor vehicles, 67 guns of various calibers, 214 wagons, 8 railway trains, 5 bridges, 35 depots with ammunition and fuel and lubricants were suppressed, and 39 mortar and anti-aircraft batteries were suppressed. Losses of the enemy in manpower amounted to 1,430 people killed. In air battles, the crews of the division shot down 109 enemy aircraft. Lt. Col. F. I. Dobysh made 44 sorties during this period.

On July 6, 1944, the 2nd Guards Bomber Aviation Corps (on December 26, 1944 was renamed the 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Corps ) was transferred to the 1st Ukrainian Front and incorporated into the 2nd Air Army. Since July 14, 1944, corps units participated in the Lviv-Sandomierz operation, and in August 1944, in the Iasi-Kishinev operation , during which they assisted the 2nd Ukrainian Front during the liberation of Iasi . In January - March 1945, the corps supported the actions of the 1st Ukrainian Front in the course of the Sandomierz-Silesian , Lower Silesian and Upper Silesian operations. As part of it, the 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division under the command of Colonel F.I.Dobysh took part in the liberation of the southern regions of Poland , the Silesian Industrial Region, the elimination of the encircled enemy groups near Oppelniy and in Breslau , and provided forcing with ground units of the Oder River. In total, by mid-April 1945, the division completed 7,672 combat sorties and dropped 6420 tons of bombs. Fedor Ivanovich by this time had made about 170 sorties, of which 64 were in the position of division commander.

On April 16, 1945, "for the excellent leadership of the division and the successes achieved in improving the efficiency of bombing, for the introduction of innovations, for the courage, bravery and heroism shown in battles with the German invaders and personally accomplished combat sorties," the commander Dobysh was introduced by the commander of the 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Corps Colonel D. T. Nikishin for the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union ^{[1] [2]} , this view was supported by the commander of the 2nd Air Army Colonel General S. A. Krasovsky ^[3] , but higher her command lowered the status of the award to the Order of Suvorov 2nd degree .

At the final stage of the war, the Dobysh division participated in the Berlin operation and the assault on Berlin . The combat path of the division ended on May 11 in the sky of Czechoslovakia during the Prague operation .

During the war, Commander Dobysh was mentioned four times in thanksgiving orders of the Supreme Commander ^[4] .

On June 24, 1945, Colonel F.I. Dobysh led the combined column of pilots of the 1st Ukrainian Front at the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow.

Post-War Career

In June 1946, F. I. Dobysh was awarded the rank of Major General of Aviation , and Fedor Ivanovich was appointed to the post of commander of the 5th Assault Aviation Corps . Then he studied at the Higher Military Academy named after K. E. Voroshilov , which he graduated in 1951. Since October 1951, Fyodor Ivanovich served as assistant commander of the 57th Air Army , and since March 1952, he was deputy commander of the 24th Air Army . In December 1955, Major General F.I.Dobysh was appointed commander of the 50th Air Army of Long-Range Aviation — the first and at that time the only strategic unit in the USSR. The army included the 160th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division , which included the 402nd and 291st Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiments, armed with Tu-4A strategic bombers. Fedor Ivanovich was already the direct leader in the process of reorganizing the 45th Long-Range Aviation Division into the 45th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division , which was equipped with Tu-16A strategic bombers and also became part of the 50th Air Army. Soon, F.I. Dobysh was awarded the next military rank - lieutenant general of aviation . It was Fyodor Ivanovich in 1958 who was entrusted with the formation of the first missile formations in the aviation units of strategic purpose. By the end of the year, Lieutenant General F.I.Dobysh formed 5 missile regiments armed with R-2 ballistic missiles. Another 3 regiments were transferred to the 50th Air Army from other units. On December 17, 1959, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the USSR , a decision was made to create strategic missile forces (Strategic Rocket Forces). The formation of the first missile army was supposed to be carried out on the basis of the 50th Air Army, Lieutenant General F.I. Dobysh. By the time the strategic missile forces were officially created, Fedor Ivanovich had formed 7 divisions consisting of 33 missile regiments equipped with medium-range missiles R-5M and R-12 . On November 22, 1960, by order of the Minister of Defense No. 0031, Lieutenant General Dobysh Fedor Ivanovich was officially appointed commander of the 50th Smolensk Missile Army. In 1962, Fedor Ivanovich was awarded the title of Colonel General.

Fedor Ivanovich Dobysh made a huge contribution to the formation and development of the Strategic Missile Forces. Under his leadership, a Western strategic grouping of medium-range missiles was deployed. Units of his army were deployed in the Baltic states , Belarus , in the Kaliningrad , Pskov , Leningrad and Murmansk regions and by 1963 had in service 351 missile launchers R-12, R-14 and R-5M. Army units, as the most prepared, took part in Operation Tulip, during which (September 6 and 8, 1962) two training and combat launches of medium-range missiles with nuclear warheads from the Chita area at the Novaya Zemlya firing range and Operation Anadyr were carried out during which the delivery and deployment of medium-range missiles in Cuba was carried out. Fedor Ivanovich paid much attention to the education of missile officers, improving their combat training. Only during the period from 1965 to 1968, units of the 50th missile army conducted 175 successful combat training launches of the R-12 and R-14 missiles at the Kapustin Yar training ground. The army of Colonel-General Dobysh was entrusted with testing the latest missile weapons, including the first 15P696 mobile missile systems armed with RT-15 missiles. Here, the first Signal automated missile control system was introduced. In 1970, Lieutenant General F.I. Dobysh put on alert the heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles UR-100 and R-16 .

Being the commandant of the Smolensk garrison since 1955, Fedor Ivanovich paid great attention to the post-war reconstruction of the city of Smolensk. He also conducted active social and political work. Repeatedly F.I. Dobysh was elected as a deputy of the Smolensk regional Council of People's Deputies, a member of the bureau of the regional committee of the CPSU , a delegate of three congresses of the CPSU and a deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of three convocations from the Smolensk region. On July 13, 1972, Colonel General F.I. Dobysh resigned. He lived in Moscow. November 29, 1980 Fyodor Ivanovich died. He was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery of the capital.

• The Order of Lenin - four times (04/07/1940; 01/01/1942; 1954 ^[5] ; 1966).
• The Order of the Red Banner - four times (03/05/1938; 08/23/1943; 1949 ^[5] ; 1971).
• Order of Suvorov 2nd degree (05/31/1945).
• Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree (09/23/1944).
• Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (03/23/1943).
• Order of the Red Star (11/03/1944) ^[5] .
• Medals, including:

medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" .

• Foreign orders.

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