Dashevsky, Yakov Sergeevich

Born April 18, 1902 in Kherson ^[2] .

He graduated from a 4-year Jewish school, worked as a metal fitter and a lathe at the agricultural implements factory in Kherson , and since June 1919, he was a telephone operator in the Office of Water Transport of the Lower Dnieper and Black Sea.

Interwar Period

In May 1921, he voluntarily joined the Red Army and was sent as a cadet to the Military Electrotechnical School in the city of Sergiev Posad , during its reorganization in 1926 he was transferred to the Leningrad Military School of Communications. In September, he graduated from the latter and was appointed to a separate communications company of the 14th Rifle Corps of the UVO in the city of Kiev as a platoon commander of a training school.

From February 1930 he served in the same position in a separate communications company of the 45th Infantry Division . In March, he was sent to intelligence KUKS under the 4th Directorate of the Headquarters of the Red Army , after which, since July, he served in the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army as Assistant Chief of Unit and Head of Sector of the 3rd Division.

In 1931, the VKP (b) joined.

From March 1933 to May 1934, he studied at the Military Academy of the Red Army named. M.V. Frunze (graduated from the 1st category), then again served in the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army as head of sector of the 3rd department, assistant to the head of the 5th department and deputy chief of the 6th department.

Since June 1939, Major Dashevsky was a senior lecturer in radio engineering at the KUKS communications of the Red Army, and since November, a junior teacher at the Military Electrotechnical Academy of the Red Army. Marshal of the Soviet Union S. M. Budyonny .

In December 1939 he was sent to the North-Western Front , where he was a communications officer of the General Staff at the 8th Army , and since January 1940, he was chief of staff of the 155th Rifle Division . By the Decree of the USSR AFP of May 19, 1940, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for military distinctions. At the end of hostilities in March 1940, he was enrolled as a student at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army .

Great Patriotic War

With the beginning of World War II, Dashevsky was released from the academy and on July 10, 1941 he was appointed chief of staff of the 273rd rifle division of the OdVO , formed in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk . Since August 5, she joined the Reserve Army (from August 14 - as part of the Southern Front ) and participated with her in heavy battles at the Dnepropetrovsk bridgehead. In the same month, Colonel Dashevsky took command of the 273rd Infantry Division. On August 25, the Reserve Army was reorganized into the 6th (2nd formation) , and as part of it, the division took part in defensive battles along the left bank of the Dnieper northwest of Dnepropetrovsk . On September 28, Colonel Dashevsky was wounded in the leg on the Samara River and was surrounded. For three days he lay in the shock, then was picked up by local peasants from the state farm. Petrovsky and until October 19 was hiding with them with his handler. After that, he changed into civilian underwear with him and went to Konstantinovka and then to Artyomovsk . October 29, 1941 went to the location of parts of the 15th Infantry Division, Colonel A. F. Slyshkin , from where he was transferred to the headquarters of the 12th Army .

After verification, he was treated in Voroshilovgrad and Stalingrad hospitals. After recovery, on February 1, 1942, he was appointed commander of the 333rd Infantry Division , which, as part of the 9th Army, fought hard to capture the settlements of Nikolskoye and Khristishche (near the town of Slavyansk ). Since March 12, its units waged offensive battles in the direction of the railway. Cherkasy station, in stubborn battles, they captured the village of Znamenka in the Stalin region. In April, the division occupied the defense at the turn of Barvenkovo ​​- Nikopol. During the battle that began in Kharkov on May 17, 1942, the enemy went on the offensive, broke through the defense of the division and forced it to retreat to the left bank of the Seversky Donets River .

May 13, 1942 Dashevsky was awarded the rank of Major General .

From May 25, Major-General Dashevsky served as chief of staff of the 9th Army of the Southern Front. On June 24 he was seconded to the Military Council of the front and in July he was appointed deputy chief of staff of the front for the TLU. From August 8, 1942, he served as chief of staff of the Don Operational Group of the North Caucasus Front , and from August 25 - the Northern Group of Forces of the Transcaucasian Front . In these positions he took part in the battle for the Caucasus , in the Armaviro-Maykop , Novorossiysk , Mozdok-Malgobek and Nalchik-Ordzhonikidze defense operations. On November 18, 1942, he was removed from his post and placed at the disposal of the front commander, then in December he was appointed deputy commander of the 47th army .

On February 3, 1943, he served as chief of staff of this army. In January - the first half of March 1943, as part of the North Caucasus Front (from February 6), he participated with her in offensive battles in the Novorossiysk region in the direction of the Krymskaya village.

From March 7 to 16, 1943, Major General Dashevsky temporarily commanded the 58th Army of the same front, which at that time took part in the Krasnodar offensive operation. With its completion and the return of the former commander, Lieutenant General Konstantin S. Melnik, he was placed at the disposal of the Military Council of the Transcaucasian Front, then the GUK NPO .

From April 7, 1943 until the end of the war, he served as chief of staff of the 51st Army . He fought with her as part of the troops of the South, from October 1943 - the 4th Ukrainian , from July 1944 - the 1st , and since February 1945 - the 2nd Baltic Fronts. In July - September 1943, its troops as part of the Southern Front conducted offensive battles on the Debaltsevsky and Zaporizhzhya, and in October - Melitopol directions. Since October 20, the army was subordinated to the 4th Ukrainian Front, and in early November, it part of the forces crossed the Sivash and took possession of the bridgehead on its southern shore. In the spring of 1944, her units took part in the Crimean offensive operation , in the liberation of Sevastopol . On May 20, the army was withdrawn to the Supreme Command Headquarters reserve and regrouped in the Polotsk and Vitebsk area . From July 1, she became part of the 1st Baltic Front and participated in the Belarusian and then Baltic offensive operations (in the Panevezys-Mitavian and Siauliai-Memel directions). At the beginning of 1945, its formations occupied the defense in the Libyan direction, in late January - early February they conducted a private operation to expand the bridgeheads on the right bank of the Barta River. In February - April, the army in the 2nd Baltic Front (from February 2) fettered the enemy, preventing its evacuation from Courland.

Post War Career

After the war, July 9, 1945, Lieutenant-General Dashevsky served as chief of staff of the Ural Military District .

In January 1946 he was transferred to the Higher Military Academy. KE Voroshilova, where he served as senior lecturer, and from July 1947 - deputy head of the department of operational art, from September 1956 - course head and senior teacher of the department of strategy and operational art, from February 1958 - again deputy head of the operational department art.

Author of many works on operational art.

May 17, 1965 dismissed, lived in Moscow.

He died on August 25, 1972, was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery (Columbarius of Novaya, Novoye Territory -125 section, place 19-1) ^[3] .

the USSR

• Order of Lenin (1946)
• four orders of the Red Banner (04/01/1943 ^[4] , 11/03/1944, 12/09/1944, 1952)
• Order of Kutuzov I degree ^[5] (05/16/1944)
• Order of Kutuzov II degree ^[6] (09/17/1943)
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky II degree ^{[7] [8]} (03/19/1944)
• Order of the Red Star (05/19/1940)
• Medals, including:
  • "For the defense of the Caucasus"
  • "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

• The publicly available electronic bank of documents "The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

• The team of authors . Great Patriotic: Komdivy. Military biographical dictionary. - M .: Kuchkovo Pole, 2014. - T. 3. - p. 792-794. - 1000 copies - ISBN 978-5-9950-0382-3 .