Chistov, Vladimir Afanasevich

Vladimir Afanasevich Chistov was born in 1899 in the village of Verkhmen, Minsk province .

Civil War

December 14, 1918 joined the Red Army , in 1919 he graduated from the Smolensk infantry command courses, in 1919-1920 he took part in the Soviet-Polish war on the Western Front . From April to May 1919 he participated in defensive battles near Minsk as part of the Minsk Infantry Command Course , from March 1920 he commanded a platoon in the 431st Infantry Regiment ( 48th Infantry Division , 15th Army) , and from August 1920 - Chief foot reconnaissance of the 431st rifle regiment, participated in the Kiev operation , the Warsaw battle , after the defeat of the Red Army, the regiment retreated to Belarus with battles. After the armistice, V. A. Chistov fought with the troops of S. N. Bulak-Balakhovich and other gangs on the territory of Belarus.

Between Wars

After the end of the Civil War, V. A. Chistov continued to serve in the 48th Infantry Division in the Moscow Military District : from April 1921 - Assistant Adjutant and Adjutant of the 425th Infantry Regiment, then Assistant Chief of Staff of the 142nd Infantry Regiment, Company Commander, head of the regimental school. In 1930 he graduated from the Shot courses , from December 1931 - the head of the tactics of the 1st Soviet United Military School named after All-Russian Central Executive Committee , then the commander of the battalion of this school. In 1933 he studied at KUKS motorized mechanics at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army named after I.V. Stalin , after graduation he returned to the Joint Military School. All-Russian Central Executive Committee leader of tactics. Since May 1934 - Assistant to the Head of the Department of Management of Universities of the Red Army, in 1936 he graduated from the evening department of the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze, from August 1938 - Head of the 2nd Division of the 4th Division of the Combat Training Directorate of the Red Army, from March 1940 - Head of the 1st Division of the Directorate of Universities of the Red Army. Since September 1940 - Head of the Riga Infantry School .

World War II

On June 22, 1941, a combined detachment was created on the basis of two battalions of the Riga Infantry School, the 28th motorized regiment and courses of political officers, Colonel V. A. Chistov was appointed commander of the detachment. The detachment patrolled the streets of Riga , was engaged in the fight against German saboteurs in the area of Libava . In July 1941, the school was evacuated to Sterlitamak of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( Ural Military District (UrVO)).

On August 31, 1941, V. A. Chistov was appointed commander of the 379th Infantry Division , which was forming in the Ural Military District. In early December 1941, the division became part of the 30th Army of the Western Front , participated in the battle for Moscow , and from February 1942, in the Battle of Rzhev .

July 9, 1942 V.A. Chistov becomes deputy commander of the 30th Army (May 1, 1943 was transformed into the 10th Guards Army ) on the Western Front. From May 14 to May 21, 1943 V.A. Chistov - vr. etc. Commander of the 10th Guards Army, at these posts continued to participate in the operations of the Battle of Rzhev.

In August 1943, V. A. Chistov was appointed commander of the 19th Guards Rifle Corps of the 30th Army of the Western Front, participated in the Smolensk Operation , then in the Leningrad-Novgorod Operation , during which, on February 13, 1944, he was seriously wounded and evacuated to the hospital.

After recovery, in 1944 V.A. Chistov graduated from the accelerated course of the General Staff Academy and was appointed commander of the 7th Rifle Corps of the 3rd Shock Army of the 2nd Baltic Front (from December 31, 1944 as part of the 1st Belorussian Front ). He participated in the Wisla-Oder , East Pomeranian and Berlin operations. During the Berlin operation, the advance of the corps was not fast enough, on April 27, 1945 V.A. Chistov was replaced by J.T. Cherevichenko , and was appointed his deputy. In this position until the end of the war.

After the war

In July 1945, V.A. Chistov was appointed commandant of Halle , from October 1945 - head of the commandant service of the Merseburg district of the Soviet military administration in Germany , from April 1946 - head of department and assistant to the head of the commandant service of the Brandenburg province , from October 1947 of the year - deputy head of the Soviet military administration of the state of Brandenburg . Since August 1949 - at the disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate; since November 1945 - the head of the main faculty of the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze. In November 1953 he retired.

Vladimir Afanasevich Chistov died in 1958, in Moscow, was buried in the Vvedensky cemetery .

• Colonel
• major general - 05/21/1942

• Order of Lenin - 02.21.1945 (for length of service)
• three Orders of the Red Banner - 01/05/1942, 11/3/1944 (for length of service), ...
• Order of Suvorov 2nd degree - 04/06/1945
• Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree - 09/28/1943
• Order of the Red Star
• Medal "XX years of the Red Army" - 1938
• other medals

Great Britain: Order of Distinguished Service - 12.1942
Poland: Order of the Grunwald Cross

• Public electronic document bank “Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment March 28, 2013. Archived March 30, 2013. Database No. 12097137 ( unopened ) (unreachable link) . Date of treatment March 28, 2013. Archived March 4, 2016. , 46545402 ( unopened ) (link not available) . Date of treatment March 28, 2013. Archived March 4, 2016. , 12063208 ( unopened ) (link not available) . Date of treatment March 28, 2013. Archived March 4, 2016. .

• Team of authors . The Great Patriotic War. The commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / Under the General Ed. M. G. Vozhakina . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2005 .-- 408 p. - ISBN 5-86090-113-5 .

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