Viktorov, Ivan Mikhailovich

Ivan Mikhailovich Viktorov was born on January 5, 1899 in the village of Gribtsovo, now Naro-Fominsk District, Moscow Region.

Civil War

In June 1918 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent to the 1st Moscow Kremlin machine gun courses, after which in 1919 he was appointed to the post of commandant of the city of Verkhnedneprovsk , and was appointed to the post of head of the machine gun team of the 363rd Infantry Regiment ( 41- I’m a rifle division ) and took part in hostilities on the Southern Front against troops under the command of A. I. Denikin on the Psel River in the areas of Sudzhi , Glukhov , Oboyan , Sevsk and Dmitriev . Since December 1919, he took part in the advance of the Southern Front, as well as in the liberation of Akhtyrka , Kharkov , Poltava and Pavlograd , and in February 1920 - in the Odessa operation .

In the summer of 1920, he was appointed head of the machine gun team of the 508th Infantry Regiment ( 57th Infantry Division ), after which he took part in hostilities in the Brest-Lithuanian direction during the Soviet-Polish war , and then in the hostilities in Belarus against troops under the command of General S. N. Bulak-Balakhovich .

Interwar Time

In 1921 he was appointed assistant chief of the machine gun team of the 10th Rifle Regiment ( 2nd Rifle Division , Moscow Military District ), and then in the same year he was appointed platoon commander of the 1st Cherepanovsky Battalion of the CHON ( Siberian Military district ).

Since 1922, Viktor served in the 61st Infantry Regiment (21st Infantry Division) as platoon commander, assistant commander and machine gun command assistant, assistant battalion commander, company commander and again assistant battalion commander.

In 1925 he graduated from the Siberian repeated courses of the middle command staff.

In 1930, he was appointed battalion commander of the 118th Infantry Regiment ( 40th Infantry Division , OKDVA ).

In 1931, Ivan Mikhailovich Viktorov was sent to study at the MV Frunze Military Academy , after which in 1934 he was appointed to the post of chief of the 1st part of the headquarters of the 50th Infantry Division ( Belarusian Military District ), in 1937 - to the post of chief of the 1st division headquarters of the 2nd Rifle Corps , in 1937 - to the post of chief of staff of the 43rd Rifle Division ( Leningrad Military District ), and in 1938 - to the post of chief of staff of the Bobruisk Army Group of Forces , being on which he took part in the campaign in the western Belarus .

In 1940 he was appointed to the post of senior lecturer of the general tactics department of the MV Frunze Military Academy , and then in the same year to the post of senior lecturer of the K.E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy .

Great Patriotic War

In January 1942 he was appointed to the post of chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the 52nd Army ( Volkhov Front ), in March 1942 - to the post of chief of staff of the 52nd Army, and in June - to the post of chief of staff of the 54th Army. From April 7 to April 18, 1944, he temporarily served as commander of the 119th Rifle Corps , which took part in defensive battles in the Pskov - Ostrovsky area in the area of ​​the towns of Rozhanka, Tarakanovo, Kiseli and Nemyvo.

In July 1944, Viktorov temporarily served as deputy commander of the 67th Army , and on July 27 he was appointed deputy commander of the 1st shock army . For exemplary performance of tasks, Major General Ivan Mikhailovich Viktorov was awarded the Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree.

While in the position of deputy commander of the 1st shock army, in March 1945 he temporarily commanded the 123rd rifle corps , which successfully conducted a private military operation, as a result of which the army took tactically advantageous lines. Soon Viktorov took part in the blockade and destruction of the enemy group on the Courland Peninsula .

Post War Career

Since September 1945, Viktorov was in the reserve of non- profit organizations with secondments to work at the K.E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy , where in January 1946 he was appointed to the position of senior lecturer.

Since April 1947, he served as head of the 2nd department of the Office for the Study of the Experience of War of the General Staff of the Armed Forces , and in October 1948 he was appointed head of the department of military geography of the Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs .

In July 1950 he was sent to study at higher academic courses at the Higher Military Academy named after K.E. Voroshilov, after which from July 1951 he was at the disposal of the USSR Ministry of State Security .

In January 1952, Major General Ivan Mikhailovich Viktorov went into reserve. He died on May 23, 1980 in Moscow . He was buried at the Golovinsky cemetery.

• Order of Lenin ;
• Two Orders of the Red Banner ;
• Order of Kutuzov 1st degree (02.21.1944);
• Order of the Red Star ;
• Medals ^[1] .

The team of authors . Great Patriotic: Komkory. Military Biographical Dictionary / Under the general editorship of M. G. Vozhakina . - M. Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006. - T. 1. - S. 120-121. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .