Sviklin, Theodor-Werner Andreevich

Born on May 1, 1901 in the Jaun-Lamas estate of Auermundsky volost, Doblen district, Kurland province, Latvian .

From June to December 1917 he served as a private in the Russian Imperial Army in the 3rd Latvian Rifle Regiment located in the city of Valka . After the October Revolution , in December 1917, he was demobilized. From March 1918 he served in the Red Army -he was a Red Army special-purpose battalion in Nizhny Novgorod . From November 1918 to March 1919 - was treated in a hospital, suffering from typhoid . Member of the CPSU (b) since 1919 (on the tomb of the general at the Golovinsky cemetery in Moscow, the year of entry into the party - 1917). Since May 1920, Sviklin has been the political instructor of the 27th reserve rifle regiment in Nizhny Novgorod. From September 1921 he was deputy head of the Special Border Point No. 1 in the city of Olevsk . From June 1922 - political officer of the battalion of the 392nd Tarashchansky rifle regiment. From April 1923 - Secretary of the Commissar of the Mozhaisk Artillery Depot, from October 1924 - Assistant Chief for Political Affairs of the Serpukhov Artillery Depot. From September 1926 - Assistant Commander for the political part of the 7th Separate Transport Battalion, then the 131st Separate Artillery Division.

From January 1930, Sviklin became the commander and commissar of the 130th separate artillery division, which was later renamed the 121st artillery division. From May 1931 - Commander and Commissioner of the 8th Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment, since November 1932 - Commander and Commissioner of the 1st Separate Artillery Brigade. From April 1934 he commanded the air defense group of the Primorsk group of troops of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army .

On April 5, 1938, Theodor-Werner Sviklin was arrested under Article 44, point “b” and was in prison under investigation by the NKVD organs. On May 27, 1940, he was rehabilitated, reinstated in the personnel of the Red Army and was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Air Defense of the Military Academy of the Red Army to them. M. V. Frunze. From January 1941 - Head of the 2nd year of the 2nd Faculty of the Military Academy of the Red Army to them. M. V. Frunze.

Great Patriotic War

Since June 1941, Sviklin has been the head of the main department of the Higher Military School of Air Defense of the Red Army. Since September - head of the air defense department of the 32nd Army of the Western Front , since October, he served as commander of the 285th rifle division of the 54th Army of the Leningrad Front , colonel . From April 1942 - Acting Chief of Staff of the Volkhov Task Force of the Leningrad Front, then Head of the 2nd Shock Army of the Volkhov Front . From November 1942 - Commander of the 311th Infantry Division of the 54th Army of the Volkhov Front. In February 1943, in one of the battles he was seriously wounded and was treated in a hospital. After recovery, from December 1943 - Deputy Commander of the 59th Army of the Volkhov Front. From March 1944 - he served as commander of the 122nd infantry corps of the 59th, and then the 8th army of the Leningrad Front. In late May 1944, he was again in the hospital, after his recovery, in July 1944, he was appointed head of the Kharkov Infantry School .

Interesting Facts

• As deputy commander of the 59th Army, Swiklin planned and conducted one of the unique operations of the Great Patriotic War, when he offered to advance to the German positions on the ice of Lake Ilmen , overcoming for this more than 15 kilometers of absolutely open space. Sviklin's group was able to capture a bridgehead on the western shore of Lake Ilmen with a strike of a parachute on a snowmobile — the Germans did not expect such a maneuver of the Soviet troops, considering the smooth surface of the lake to be unsuitable for an offensive direction ^{[1] [2]} .
• The merits of the Soviet military leader include rescue from sending the “ Millennium of Russia ” monument to Germany: soldiers of the southern Sviklin task force were able to cut the roads leading from Novgorod and one of the greatest Russian monuments was saved from extinction ^{[1] [2]} .

After the war

From June 1945, Sviklin was Deputy Head of the Military Pedagogical Institute of the Red Army for academic and scientific work. From April 1948 - a student of the Military Academic Courses of the senior officers of the Red Army at the Higher Military Academy. K. Ye. Voroshilova; in September he was transferred to the main faculty of the Academy. After graduating from the Academy, in January 1951, he was sent to teach at the Military Academy. MV Frunze: from July 1951 - Deputy Head of the Department of Tactics of Higher Units, from November 1955 - Head of the Department of Air Defense.

From January 1959, Theodor-Werner Andreevich Sviklin was retired. He lived in Moscow, where he died on October 17, 1964 . He was buried at Golovinsky cemetery .

In 2010, the Novgorod war veterans offered to name one of the city streets in the name of Theodore Sviklin, an undeservedly forgotten hero of World War II ^[3] .

Family

• His wife is Klavdiya Petrovna Sviklin (nee Danilova, 1895–1983), a teacher of the Russian language, buried with her husband at the Golovinsky cemetery.
  • Daughter - Emilia Teodorovna Sviklina (Kalugina, 1920—2013), lived in Moscow.
    • Grandchildren - Kalugina Irina Yuryevna (born 1943), an engineer-economist, lives in Moscow; Yury Yu. Kalugin (1946–2003).
  • Daughter - Ninel Teodorovna Sviklina (Prokhorova, born 1924), lives in St. Petersburg.
    • Grandchildren - Prokhorova Elena Mikhailovna (born 1949), a physicist living in St. Petersburg; Prokhorov Pavel Mikhailovich (born 1958), lives in St. Petersburg.

• He was awarded the Order of Lenin, three Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov, 2nd degree and medals.

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