Alexander Nikolaevich Tevchenkov ( 1902 - 1975 ) - Lieutenant General of the Soviet Army , participant in the Civil War , the Polish Campaign , the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese Wars.
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| Place of Birth | village Podlesnoye, Mosalsky district , Kaluga province , Russia | ||||||||||
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||
| Type of army | political worker | ||||||||||
| Years of service | 1919-1922; 1924-1966 | ||||||||||
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| Battles / wars | Civil war in Russia , Polish campaign of the Red Army , World War II Soviet-Japanese war | ||||||||||
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Biography
Alexander Nikolaevich Tevchenkov was born on April 13, 1902 in the village of Podlesnoe [1] . He was brought up from the age of two to three in the family of an uncle or aunt as his own son. Cousin - Katicheva (married) Pelageya Pavlovna (... - 05.05.1983). A cousin - Alexander Pavlovich. In 1919 - 1922 he served in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army , participated in the battles of the Civil War on the Eastern Front . In 1922 he was demobilized, but two years later he was again drafted into the army. In 1926 he graduated from the military-political school, after which he served in party and political positions in the army [2] .
In 1933 he graduated from the Military-Political Academy named after V.I. Lenin . Since September 1936, he served as the chief of the political department and then the military commissar of the division. Later he was the military commissar of the 37th Infantry Regiment, participated in the Polish campaign. In October 1939 he headed the political department of the Odessa Military District , then served as head of the Office of Political Propaganda of the same district [2] .
During the Great Patriotic War A.N. Tevchenkov held a number of high party and political positions in the army: he was the head of the political departments of the 9th , 60th and 3rd shock armies, a member of the Military Council of the 4th shock army . Since July 1943, he led the political department of the Steppe (later transformed into the 2nd Ukrainian ) front. Under his leadership, all party political work was carried out in units of the armies and the front during the most important operations of the Soviet troops, including the Battle of Kursk , the liberation of the Ukrainian and Moldavian SSR, Romania , Hungary , and Austria . Later he was a member of the Military Council of the 2nd Ukrainian and Transbaikal Fronts, in the last post he participated in the Soviet-Japanese War [2] .
After the war he continued to serve in the Soviet Army: in 1945-1947 he was a member of the Military Council of the Trans-Baikal-Amur Military District , and since 1947, he was a deputy commander of the Far East for political affairs. In 1951 - 1956 he held the post of deputy for political affairs of the head of the Main Military Construction Directorate of the USSR Ministry of War, in 1956-1966 - the head of the faculty of the V. I. Lenin Military-Political Academy. He retired with the rank of lieutenant general. He lived in Moscow . He died on July 2, 1975 [2] , was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow.
Rewards
- Three Orders of Lenin ;
- Two Orders of the Red Banner ;
- Two orders of Kutuzov 1st degree;
- Order of Suvorov 2 degrees;
- Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree;
- Medals [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Podlesnoe (see on the map of 1989 ) did not survive; now - the territory of the rural settlement "Lyubun Village" , Spas-Demensky district of the Kaluga region.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Soviet military encyclopedia : [in 8 vol.] / Chairman. Ch. ed. Commission A. A. Grechko [t. 1, 8] , N.V. Ogarkov [vol. 2-7] . - M .: Military Publishing House of the USSR Ministry of Defense , 1976-1980.