Pesochin, Mikhail Alexandrovich

Pesochin Mikhail Alexandrovich
Pesochin Mikhail Alexandrovich
Date of Birth	November 8, 1897
Place of Birth	native with. Alexandrovka, Samankovsky district, Ryazan province, now Sapozhkovsky district, Ryazan region
Date of death	May 3, 1945 (aged 47)
Place of death	Poland
Affiliation	Russian
Type of army	Ground troops
Years of service	from October 1917 to 02/11/1945
Rank	Major General
Commanded	779 joint venture (228 sd), 411th sd , 131st sd , 225th sd
Battles / wars	Cross-border battle north-west of Lviv, Uman defensive operation , Barvenkovo-Lozovsky offensive operation , Kharkov operation (1942) , Battle of Stalingrad , Krasnoborsk operation , Operation Iskra , Pskov-Ostrov operation , Tartu operation , Baltic , Riga , Wislo-Oder , Sandomierz-Silesian , Lower Silesian offensive operations.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Pesochin (11/08/1987 - 05/03/1945) - commander of the 225th Infantry Division of Novgorod , Major General .

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Biography

Pesochin Mikhail Alexandrovich native of. Aleksandrovka of the Samankovsky district of the Ryazan province (now Sapozhkovsky district of the Ryazan region). Russian. In the Russian Imperial Army from July to October 1917. Private . Member of the First World War and Civil War. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1928. In the Red Army from 08/18/1918.

Military education:

in 1921 he graduated from the 1st Simferopol cavalry courses;
in 1926 - Borisoglebsko-Leningrad cavalry school;
in 1934 - the cavalry KUKS RKKA in the city of Novocherkassk ;
in 1944 - advanced courses at the Higher Military Academy. K.E. Voroshilova.

In May 1938 he was sent to the Mongolian People's Republic as a military instructor in the 5th division of the MPRA. In April 1941, Colonel Pesochin M.A. appointed commander of the 799th Infantry Regiment of the 228th Infantry Division of Zhytomyr (KOVO).

At the beginning of World War II, he fought on the South-Western Front . The regiment under his command as part of the 228th Infantry Division participated in the Border Battle northwest of Lviv . Since July 25, 1941, the regiment participated in the Uman defensive operation , was surrounded.

In August 1941 he was appointed commander of the 411th Infantry Division of the Southwestern Front. In the battle of Kharkov, he was wounded and from July 7, 1942 he was cured in a military hospital. Since July 27, he commanded the 131st Infantry Division of the Stalingrad Front. Then, after the division was withdrawn from the reserve from Stalingrad and in the first half of 1943, he commanded the 131st division on the Volkhovsky (consisting of 55 army), and then the Leningrad front. From December 1943 he was studying at the Academy, after graduating in May 1944 he was appointed commander of the 225th Infantry Division .

11.2.1945, during the battle for Schödgau he was seriously wounded in the head. It was operated on, but a splinter damaged both hemispheres of the brain. Colonel Pesochin Mikhail Alexandrovich died of wounds on May 3, 1945 in a military hospital. The body was sent by plane to Lviv, where on 08.06.1945 it was buried at the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv on the Hill of Glory .

The title of Major General was awarded posthumously (04/06/1955).

Rewards

Order of Lenin (04/06/1945)
Order of the Red Banner - four ((two) 03/03/1942, 07/27/1944, 03/03/1944)
Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (10/12/1944)
"XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army" (1938)
Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" (1943)
Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" (1943)
Order of the MPR "Polar Star" (1939)

and etc.

Literature

K.S. Moskalenko “On the South-West Direction” , Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1979
THEIR. Baghramyan “So we went to the Victory”, Political Publishing House of Ukraine, 1988
Pavel Kodoknigov, “In that war; The second option ", the Middle Ural Book Publishing House, 1985
A.O. Avdeenko, Punishment without crime , Soviet Russia, 1991
A.A. Grechko, Years of War.- M .: Military Publishing House, 1976

Links

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