Berezkin, Mikhail Fedorovich

Born into a poor peasant family. Up to 5 years old, he was brought up by his grandfather, and then his parents took him to Kiev , where they worked at that time (mother was a servant, father was a mechanic ). At the age of 16, he graduated from the Kiev Higher Primary School and began to help his father in plumbing. In early 1917 he went to his relatives in Siberia , where he worked as a carpenter and in the fishing industry . In 1918 he returned to Kiev and went to study at a railway school .

In April 1919, he dropped out of school, joined the RKP (b), and in May 1919 enrolled in the Red Army as a demolition man in the 1st Ukrainian Red Hearing Division. As part of the armored division, he participated in battles with the troops of Petliura , then the commander of the armored car “Victory”. In August 1919 in Kiev he was captured by Denikin's troops, and after his release he worked in the Surazh district of the Gomel province as an agitator-organizer, and then as a political commissar of a military hospital . In 1920 he was appointed Assistant Commissar of the Kiev Military Clinical Hospital . In 1921 - deputy head of the political part of the 1st separate brigade of the Kiev VO . In April 1921 - head of the organizational part of the political department of the 44th Infantry Division , a member of the party commission of the division. In 1922 - Commissioner of the 132nd Donetsk Rifle Regiment of the 44th Kiev Rifle Division ^[2] . From late 1923 to early 1924, he worked in the political administration of the 5th Army . In 1927-1929, he was a military commissar of the 45th rifle division . In the years 1930-1931 - Commissar Rifle Corps. In 1935–1936 - Assistant Head of the Red Army Air Force Directorate for political affairs.

Voted for the Leningrad opposition during the 14th Congress of the RCP (b) and at a meeting of the party activists of the Volodarsky District . In January 1935, he was severely reprimanded with a warning “for hiding participation in the Zinoviev opposition” from the party board at the Military-Political Academy named after N. G. Tolmachyov . Head of the grain department of the Bauman state farm in the Zaaminsky district of the Uzbek SSR in 1936. Head of the Political Department of the Kharkov VO in 1937. Commander of the air forces of the North Caucasus Military District until the autumn of 1937.

Fired from the Red Army in October 1937. On December 15 of the same year, he was arrested and until February 15, 1941, was under investigation in the NKVD . Justified by the court, February 3, 1942 reinstated in the party ( party membership number 4250856) ^[3] . Since 1941 - Director of the Red Star knitting factory in Moscow. At the same time - the propagandist and agitator of the Kirov RK VKP (b).

The corps commissioner M. F. Berezkin, fully justified by the court, repeatedly appeals to various higher authorities with a single request — to restore him quickly in the Red Army personnel and to give him the opportunity to put into practice a rich stock of knowledge and skills of organizational and educational work. He sent a similar content of the letter: in 1941 to Marshal S.K. Tymoshenko , People’s Commissar of Defense, General PF Zhigarev , Commander of the Red Army Air Force, and Red Army Commissar of the 1st Rank, Chief of Political Directorate of the Red Army L. 3. Mehlis , in 1942 - To secretaries of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) G. M. Malenkov and A. S. Shcherbakov , Deputy Commissar of Defense , Army Commissar of the 1st rank E. A. Shchadenko ; in 1943 - again to the head of the Main Directorate of Political Affairs (twice), secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) I. V. Stalin . Not hoping to get more command post wrote:

“... If I can’t serve in the army in command and political work, I ask you to allow me to be accepted as an ordinary fighter. I am 42 years old, the age of the draft ... "

At the same time, Mark Fedorovich did not insist on political work, recalling the experience of command activities in the army, and also that he had passed the course of driving BT , T-26 and T-27 tanks to "excellent". But all to no avail!

From December 23, 1943 - Acting Head of the Administration of the Civil Air Fleet of the AzSSR , in 1944-1945 - Head. In 1945–1947, he was Deputy Head of the Capital Construction Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, Deputy Head of the Material and Technical Supplies Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR. From 1947 to 1951 - Head of the Krasnoyarsk Department of Civil Air Fleet.

• corps commissioner , November 20, 1935. ^{[4] [5]}
• Lieutenant Colonel , December 23, 1943.
• Colonel

• Cherushev N. S. Strike on their own: the Red Army: 1938-1941. M .: Veche, 2003. - 480 p. - (Military secrets of the XX century). - ISBN 5-94538-366-X .
• Cherushev N. With. From Gulag - in battle. - M .: Veche, 2006. - 512 s, il. (Military secrets of the XX century). - Circulation 5000 copies. - ISBN 5-9533-1588-0 .

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