Pavel Borisovich Dankevich (1918-1988) - Soviet military leader, participant in the Soviet-Finnish and World War II, commander of the 347th Fighter Aviation Regiment during World War II, Colonel General (1967) [1] .
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| Date of Birth | October 3, 1918 | |||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Ostrogozhsk , Voronezh province , RSFSR | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | May 28, 1988 (69 years old) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR | |||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||||||
| Type of army | Air Force Air defense Strategic Missile Forces | |||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1936-1974 | |||||||||||||
| Rank |  Colonel General | |||||||||||||
| Commanded | 347th Fighter Aviation Regiment ; 1st Air Army ; 48th Air Army ; 43rd missile army ; | |||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | Soviet-Finnish War World War II : • Battle of Kursk • Oryol operation "Kutuzov" • Chernihiv-Pripyat operation • Belarusian operation "Bagration" • Lublin-Brest operation • Wisla Oder operation • Warsaw-Poznan operation • East Pomeranian operation • Berlin operation Caribbean crisis : • Operation Anadyr | |||||||||||||
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Biography
Born on October 3, 1918 in the city of Ostrogozhsk.
In the Armed Forces of the USSR since April 1936. He graduated from the Voroshilovgrad Military School of Pilots (1936) and the Air Force Academy. K.E. Voroshilova (1955).
Member of the Soviet-Finnish and World War II . On the fronts of World War II - from December 1941, he fought on the Crimean, North Caucasian, Central and 1st Belorussian fronts. He passed positions from a junior pilot to the commander of the 347th Fighter Aviation Regiment (he was appointed commander of the regiment in July 1943). On the fronts of the war he personally shot down 6 and in group 1 German planes [2] .
After the war, Pavel Dankevich served as deputy commander of the aviation division, corps for the flight (June 1949 - November 1951) in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , commander of the aviation corps. From November 1955 - deputy commander, and from July 1956 - commander of the air defense air army. From April 1958 to April 1961 - commander of a special Far Eastern Air Army . From April to August 1961, the commander of the 48th Air Army . Since August 1961 - the commander of the 43rd Missile Army (Vinnitsa) [3] . During Operation Anadyr (1962), First Deputy Commander of the Group of Soviet Forces in Cuba .
In April 1963, Dankevich was appointed deputy commander in chief of the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Rocket Forces) for combat training - the chief of combat training, was a member of the Military Council of the Strategic Missile Forces from 04/18/1963 to 07/15/1974.
Since August 1974, he has been a military consultant to the Institute of Military History of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
He died on May 28, 1988 in Moscow, was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery .
Rewards
He was awarded the Orders of Lenin (1946, 1963), Red Banner (1943, 1944, 1956), Suvorov 3 degrees (1945), Red Banner of Labor (1969), World War 1 degree (1944, 1945), Red Star (1940, 1947, 1951), Soviet medals and foreign awards [4] .
Sources
- Nosov V.T. Strategists. Commanders of missile armies, commanders of missile corps. - CIPC, 2008.
- “Military Encyclopedic Dictionary of Strategic Missile Forces” / Ministry of Defense of Russia .; Editor-in-chief: I. D. Sergeev , V. N. Yakovlev , N. E. Solovtsov . - Moscow: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 1999 .-- 632 p. - 8500 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-315-X . . - S.142.
- Anokhin V. A. Bykov M. Yu. All Stalin's Fighter Aviation Regiments. The first complete encyclopedia. - M .: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 550 .-- 944 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
Notes
- ↑ Dankevich Pavel Borisovich // Aviation encyclopedia in persons / Otv. A.N. Efimov . - Moscow: Bars, 2007 .-- S. 203. - 712 p. - ISBN 978-5-85914-075-6 .
- ↑ M. Yu. Bykov. All Asa of Stalin 1936-1953 .. - Popular science publication. - M .: Yauza-press LLC, 2014. - 1392 p. - (Elite Air Force Encyclopedia). - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0712-3 .
- ↑ Commanders of the Vinnitsa Rocket
- ↑ Colonel General DANKEVICH Pavel Borisovich