Anikushkin, Fedor Georgievich

Fedor Georgievich Anikushkin was born on March 20, 1901 in the village of Kotovskaya, Khopersky district, Don region ^[1] , now Uryupinsky district, Volgograd region .

Civil War

On June 1, 1918, Anikushkin joined the ranks of the Red Guard and was sent as an ordinary soldier to the Uryupinsky Red Guard detachment. At the end of July he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent by the Red Army to the 2nd Don Soviet Combined Regiment, and in September - the Red Army to the Borisoglebsky Cavalry Improvement Crew . As part of these units, Anikushkin took part in hostilities against troops under the command of A.I. Denikin on the Southern Front .

In May 1920, he was sent to study at the political education courses of the Orenburg fortified region , and in December, to study at a flying school in Petrograd . In March 1921, as part of the 3rd consolidated cadet regiment, Anikushkin took part in the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising , after which he continued his studies at political education courses in Orenburg , after which he commanded a platoon and a company in May of the same year.

Interwar

In October 1921, Anikushkin was appointed platoon commander of the 35th battalion of the Cheka . He took part in battles against rebels in Siberia . In December of the same year he was sent to study at the 18th Orenburg Infantry School of the Red Army commanding staff, after which from September 1923 he served in the 65th Novorossiysk Rifle Regiment ( 22nd Rifle Division , North Caucasian Military District ), where he served the platoon commander , and was also successively appointed to the positions of assistant chief of the machine gun team, company commander , chief of the regiment’s training unit and battalion commander .

In September 1925 he was sent to study at the shooting and tactical courses " Shot ", after which in October 1926 he returned to the 65th Novorossiysk Rifle Regiment, where he served as company commander and head of the regimental school. In June 1931, Anikushkin was sent to study at the F.E.Dzerzhinsky Military Technical Academy , but in February 1932 he stopped studying and was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 27th Infantry Regiment ( 9th Infantry Division , North Caucasian military district ).

In February 1933, he was sent to study at the command department of the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army I.V. Stalin , after which he served in the headquarters of the 10th separate mechanized brigade ( Belarusian Military District ) since 1937 , where he served as chief 1 -th unit and chief of staff of the brigade.

In December 1938 he was appointed to the post of assistant chief of staff of the 11th separate tank brigade , in August 1939 - to the post of chief of staff of the 34th light tank brigade , then - to the post of chief of staff of the 48th motor transport brigade , and in November 1939 - to the post of chief of staff of the 35th Tank Brigade ( Leningrad Military District ), while on which he took part in hostilities during the Soviet-Finnish War .

In June 1940, Anikushkin was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 1st Mechanized Corps , in August - to the post of commander of the 18th Light Tank Brigade , and in March 1941 - to the post of commander of the 37th Panzer Division ( 15th Mechanized Corps , Kiev Military District )

World War II

With the outbreak of World War II, Colonel Anikushkin continued to command the division as part of the Southwestern Front , in which the division provided for the retreat of the 6th Army . Since August 1941, after the dissolution of the division, Anikushkin served as deputy commander of the 26th army tank forces on the Southwestern Front. On September 20, Anikushkin was wounded and, while in a field hospital in the town of Orzhitsa ( Poltava region ), was surrounded, from which he left with a group of commanders on October 25 in the area of ​​the city of Chuguev .

In December, he was appointed commander of the 129th Separate Tank Brigade ( 13th Army ), in August 1942 - to the post of Deputy Commander of the 38th , and then - to the post of Deputy Commander of the 3rd Tank Army . From February 1943, Anikushkin commanded the first 29th , and from May - the 25th tank corps . The 25th Panzer Corps under the command of Major General Anikushkin took part in the course of the Oryol , Kiev Defensive , Zhytomyr-Berdychiv , Rivne-Lutsk , Proskurov-Chernivtsi and Lviv-Sandomir operations , during which they liberated the cities of Novograd-Volynsky , Korets , Chervonoarmiysk Zholkva and Kamenka-Strumilovskaya .

In August 1944, Fyodor Georgievich Anikushkin was appointed deputy commander of the armored and mechanized forces of the Red Army, and since November, he served as deputy commander of the Kharkov Military District for armored and mechanized troops.

Post-War Career

After the war, Anikushkin was in his former post. In January 1946 he was appointed to the post of commander of the 1st Panzer Division ( Baltic Military District ), and in October 1951 - to the post of commander of armored and mechanized troops of the Baltic Military District.

Major General of the tank forces Fedor Georgievich Anikushkin resigned in June 1953 . He died on June 8, 1976 in Moscow .

• Order of Lenin (02.21.1945);
• Six Orders of the Red Banner (1942, 08/27/1943, 01/10/1944, 01/31/1944, 11/03/1944, 1948);
• Order of Kutuzov 2 degrees (08/11/1944);
• Order of the Red Star (02/14/1943);
• medal "XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army" ;
• Medals.

Team of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006. - T. 2. - S. 98-100. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .