Ivan Pavlovich Pichugin ( 1901 - 1944 ) - Soviet military leader, major general (02.01.1942) [1] .
| Pichugin Ivan Pavlovich | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | January 22, 1901 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Church Village Tobolsk province Russian empire | |||||
| Date of death | August 6, 1944 (43 years old) | |||||
| Place of death | Lviv region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR | |||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire the USSR | |||||
| Rank |  major general | |||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||
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Biography
He was born on January 22, 1901 in the village of Tserkovnoye in the Tobolsk province, now Garinsky district of the Sverdlovsk region.
In 1920, he was drafted into the Red Army in the city of Turinsk, Tobolsk province, and enlisted in the 33rd Siberian Rifle Spare Regiment in the city of Omsk . In November of the same year he graduated from the regimental school and since March 1921 he was the foreman of the Omsk military food division. He did not take part in the battles of the Civil War .
Since June 1922, Pichugin served as the squad leader in the 253rd rifle regiment. From April 1923 to October 1924 he trained at the Omsk Military-Political School of the Siberian Military District, after which he was appointed to the 3rd Verkhneudinsky Rifle Regiment of the 1st Pacific Rifle Division in Vladivostok . From September 1926 to August 1927 he was at the Siberian repeated courses in Irkutsk , after which he returned to the regiment and was appointed platoon commander. Since October 1930, he commanded a company of the 104th infantry regiment of the Peter and Paul Regiment of the 35th OKDVA Infantry Division in the city of Nizhneudinsk , and from November 1933 - the battalion in the 105th infantry regiment of the same division. From November 1937 to August 1938 he studied at the Higher Rifle and Tactical Courses " Shot "; He returned to the division and was appointed commander of the 104th rifle Peter and Paul regiment. In October 1940, Pichugin took command of the 101st Mountain Rifle Division as part of the Special Rifle Corps of the Far Eastern Front, which is deployed in Kamchatka .
With the outbreak of World War II, Colonel I.P. Pichugin continued to command this division in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , which was reorganized into the 101st Infantry Division on June 17, 1942. In the same month, he was appointed commander of the 3rd Rifle Division , which during the war years served on the USSR-Manchuria border. In January 1944, already in the rank of Major General, Pichugin left for the General Headquarters reserve and at the end of February was appointed commander of the 9th Poltava Guards Airborne Division . On June 25, 1944, the division of the 5th Guards Army was withdrawn to the reserve, and on July 13 it was redeployed to the 1st Ukrainian Front , and participated in the Lvov-Sandomir offensive operation.
Major General Pichugin died in battle in the Lviv region on August 6, 1944, and was buried in Lvov [2] on the Hill of Glory [3] .
Rewards
- He was awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (posthumous) and medals.
Literature
- Divisional Commanders, Volume 1. Moscow, Kuchkovo Field, 2011.