Tikhon Pavlovich Kargopolov ( 1896 - 1972 ) - Soviet military leader, Lieutenant General of the Signal Corps (1944) of the Soviet Army .
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| Place of Birth | Bereznyagi village, Bogucharsky district , Voronezh province , Russia | ||||
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||
| Type of army | Signal Corps | ||||
| Years of service | 1918 - 1959 | ||||
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| Battles / wars | Civil war in Russia , The Great Patriotic War | ||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 Military ranks
- 4 notes
- 5 Sources
Biography
Tikhon Pavlovich Kargopolov was born on September 1, 1896 in the village of Bereznyagi (now the Petropavlovsk district of the Voronezh region ). He graduated from the city school and six classes of a real school (external). In 1918, Kargopolov went to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army . He participated in the battles of the Civil War. After graduation, he continued to serve in the Red Army as part of military communications units. In 1929 Kargopolov graduated from the Shot courses, in 1931 - advanced training courses for commanding officers at the Military Technical Academy of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army [1] .
Since September 1933, Kargopolov served as deputy head - the military commissar of the Leningrad Joint Military School of Communications, and later served as the head of this school. Since January 1935, he served as chief of staff of the Podbelsky Military Engineering and Technical Academy, and since May 1936, he was chief and military commissar of the S. K. Ordzhonikidze Ulyanovsk Military Technical School. After the arrest of the head of the Academy of Communications named after Podbelsky Wilhelm Evgenievich Garf , the NKVD authorities arrested Kargopolov among his other colleagues, but was released after some time. Since September 1938, he served as a senior lecturer at one of the departments of the MV Frunze Military Academy [1] .
Since December 1939, Kargopolov led the communications troops of the 13th Army , and since August 1940, he headed the communications department of the Military Electrotechnical Academy . In August 1941, he was sent to the army as the chief of communications of the North-West direction. From February 1942, Kargopolov headed the Communications Directorate of the Volkhov Front , and since June of the same year, the Combat Training Directorate of the Red Army’s Main Communications Directorate [1] .
After the war, Kargopolov continued his service in the Soviet Army. From April 1946, he served as head of the Combat Training Directorate of the Head of Communications of the Ground Forces of the USSR Armed Forces, from August of the same year, chairman of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Communications Troops, and from January 1949, deputy chief of weapons and supplies to the chief of communications troops. Later, he continued to serve in high positions in the Office of the Chief of the Communications Forces. In April 1959, Kargopolov resigned as lieutenant general of the communications troops. He lived in Moscow . He died on February 8, 1972, was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow [1] .
Rewards
- Order of Lenin (02.21.1945)
- three orders of the Red Banner (04/07/1940, 11/03/1944, 06/20/1949)
- Order of the Patriotic War , 1st degree (02/02/1943)
- medals [1] .
Military ranks
- brigade commander (11/26/1935)
- division commander (04/01/1940)
- Major General of the Signal Corps (06/04/1940)
- Lieutenant General of the Signal Corps (11.2.1944)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Kargopolov T.P. (unavailable link) . Ulyanovsk Military School of Communications. Date of treatment April 25, 2015. Archived July 13, 2015.
Sources
- I write solely from memory ... The commanders of the Red Army about the disaster of the first days of World War II: In 2 vols. Volume 1. / Comp., Ed. foreword, comment and biogr. essays S. L. Chekunov. - M.: Russian Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Science, 2017. - 560 pp., Ill. - ISBN 978-5-91244-208-7 , 978-5-91244-209-4 (t. 1). - S.20-44. [one]