Barinov, Joseph Fedorovich

Joseph Fedorovich Barinov ( October 26, 1891 - December 26, 1968 ) - Soviet military commander , lieutenant general (1944).

Joseph Fedorovich Barinov
Date of Birth	October 26, 1891 ( 1891-10-26 )
Place of Birth	Suneevo village, Ichkalov volost, Knyagininsky district , Nizhny Novgorod province , Russian Empire [1]
Date of death	December 28, 1968 ( 1968-12-28 ) (aged 77)
Place of death	Vladikavkaz , RSFSR
Affiliation	Russian empire RSFSR the USSR
Type of army	Ground troops
Years of service	1914 - 1955
Rank
Commanded	98th Infantry Division 233rd Infantry Division
Battles / wars	World War I Civil war in Russia The Great Patriotic War
Awards and prizes	Foreign countries:

The early years

Born October 26, 1891 in the village of Suneevo, Ichkalov volost, Knyaginsky district, Nizhny Novgorod province (now Perevozsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region ).

In 1903 he graduated from the parish school in the village of Suneevo.

In 1909, the city school in the city of Knyazhin.

In 1911 he passed the exam for a national teacher at the Nizhny Novgorod male gymnasium and worked at the Ichkalov school of the Knyaginsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod province.

World War I

In the First World War on September 3, 1914 he was mobilized for military service and enlisted in the 5th company of the 196th reserve battalion in the city of Tver.

In May 1915 he was enrolled in the 5th Moscow School of Ensigns.

On August 28, 1915 he graduated from it, was promoted to ensign and sent as a junior officer to the 135th reserve regiment in the city of Balashov, Saratov province.

In September 1916, with a marching company, he left for the city of Pinsk, where he was appointed to the 518th Alashkert Infantry Regiment of the 130th Infantry Division. In its composition, he fought on the Western Front as a junior officer, company commander and battalion commander.

In January 1918, he was demobilized as a second lieutenant. Since May, he worked in the Otradinsky volost executive committee as secretary of the food department, and in the same year joined the CPSU (B.).

Civil War

On October 3, 1918, he voluntarily entered the Red Army and was appointed military instructor of the Otradinsky Volost Military Commissariat.

Since June 1919 he served in the 180th Rifle Regiment of the 20th Penza Rifle Division as a company commander, battalion, pom. regiment commander on the combatant part. In the summer of 1919, he fought on the Eastern Front against the forces of Admiral A.V. Kolchak, participated in the Aktobe offensive operation . In the fall of 1919, the division was transferred to Tsaritsyn. As part of the 10th Army of the Southern Front, then the 1st Cavalry Army, he fought against the troops of General A.I. Denikin in the areas of Arched, Serebryakovo, the village of Ilovlinskaya. In April 1920, the division was transferred to Dagestan, then participated in the Baku operation , in the establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan and Armenia.

After the Civil War

In the post-war period, Barinov continued to serve in the 20th Penza Rifle Division as the head of the junior command staff school.

Since March 1922, he was the head of the brigade retraining courses for the middle command staff of the 6th separate Caucasian rifle brigade of the KKA, from May - pom. commander of the 8th Infantry Regiment.

Since May 1924 he served in the headquarters of the KKA in the posts of assistant chief of the combat training department, assistant chief of the army inspectorate.

From October 1927 to September 1928 he was studying in Moscow on the courses "Shot". After completing training, he returned to the headquarters of the KKA, where he was appointed deputy chief of the 5th department (combat training).

Since March 1930, he served as commander and commissar of the 1st Caucasian CEC of Adjaristan Regiment.

From May 1930 to March 1932 he was elected a member of the CEC of Adjaristan .

At the end of March 1932, Barinov left for the Far East as chief of staff of the 3rd collective farm division of OKDVA.

July 23, 1938 was arrested and was under investigation by the NKVD. By order of the troops of the Far Eastern Front, dismissed under Art. 44, p. "C". On December 25, 1939, he was released from arrest, reinstated in the personnel of the Red Army and transferred to the disposal of the Chief of Staff of the 2nd Separate Red Banner Army. In March 1940 he was appointed to the Khabarovsk Infantry School, where he served as an assistant to the head of the school for combat training, as deputy head and (since March 18, 1941) as the head of the school.

World War II

At the beginning of World War II, Colonel I.F. Barinov continued to lead this school.

On October 21, 1941, he was appointed commander of the Spassky Rifle Division of the 1st Red Banner Army, but did not take up the post.

Since November 19, 1941, he served as commander of the 98th Infantry Division . August 4, 1942 received the title of Major General.

Since August 15, 1942, the 98th division has been defending along the left bank of the Don in the area of Peskovatka and the Vertyachy farm . Since August 17, the division has been fighting the German group that seized the bridgehead in the area. During the week, its units held the occupied line, suffered heavy losses during fierce and bloody battles. In the morning of August 23, German troops dealt a powerful blow, crushed the defense of the division and began to rapidly move towards Stalingrad . The 98th Rifle Division, which was defending along the perimeter of the bridgehead during the first hours of the enemy offensive, was cut by a tank attack and fought surrounded by separate units during the week. Only a small part (about 700 people) managed to escape from the environment. After leaving the encirclement, the remnants of the 98th Infantry Division took up defense within the city's defensive contour , and with the start of battles for Stalingrad they participated in fierce and bloody battles within the city ^[2] . In September, the division was withdrawn to the reserve. For heavy losses in defensive battles on September 6, Major General Barinov was removed from command of the division and was at the disposal of the Military Council of the Don Front.

September 23, 1942 he was appointed commander of the 233rd Infantry Division . As part of the Don Front, he participated with her in Operation Ring . Its units were among the first to break into the territory of the Krasny Oktyabr factory in Stalingrad, where they met with units of the 13th Guards Rifle Division advancing from the Volga ^[3] .

From January 1943 until the end of the war he served as deputy commander of the 62nd , then 65th armies , whose troops fought as part of the Don, Central, 1st and 2nd Belorussian fronts. He took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, in the offensive in the Sev direction, the Battle of Kursk , the Chernihiv-Pripyat, Gomel-Rechitsa, Kalinkovich-Mozyr, Belorussian, Mlava-Elbing, East Prussian, East Pomeranian offensive operations ^[4] .

Together with the 65th Army, the combat route ended with participation in the Berlin strategic operation (April 16 - May 8, 1945). During the operation, the army crossed the Oder south of Szczecin and, developing the offensive in the direction of Friedland - Demmin, went to the coast of the Baltic Sea, north of Rostock. After the end of hostilities, the army guarded the coast of the Baltic Sea (from June 10, 1945 as part of the Northern Group of Forces ).

After the war

He served in the same position in the Northern Group of Forces .

In May 1946, in connection with the transformation of the 65th Army into the 7th Mechanized Army, he was appointed head of the Kalinin Suvorov Military School .

From February 1949 to 1955, he was the head of the North Caucasian Suvorov Officer Military School .

For some time he was in the position of military inspector-consultant of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the USSR.

Since February 1955 in stock. He lived in Moscow.

He died on December 26, 1968.