Andrei Grigorievich Serga ( 1896 - 1970 ) - officer of the Russian , Ukrainian and Soviet army , colonel (1939); Hero of the First World War and Civil War, participant in the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese Wars.
| Andrey Grigoryevich Serga | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ukrainian Andrei Grigorovich Serga | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | November 28 ( December 10 ) 1896 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | metro station Kitaigorod, Kobelyak district , Poltava province , Russia, now Tsarichansky district , Dnipropetrovsk region | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||
| A place of death | Moscow , RSFSR , USSR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire Ukrainian State , Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian SSR the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | infantry , tank troops | |||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1915 - 1917 1918 - 1919 1920 - 1952 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Commanded | NSh 7th MK | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Awards and prizes | Awards of the Russian Empire:
Soviet awards:
Foreign awards:
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 | Photo: Andrey G. Serga in September 1917 and in 1951 |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 World War I
- 1.2 Civil war
- 1.3 The interwar period
- 1.4 World War II
- 1.5 After the war
- 2 Awards
- 3 notes
- 4 Sources
Biography
Born November 28, 1896 in the town of Kitaygorod, Kobelyak district, Poltava province (now the village of Kitaygorod, Tsarichansky district, Dnipropetrovsk region , Ukraine ) in a petty bourgeois family. Ukrainian .
He studied at the Poltava Commercial School, of which he finished 6 classes in 1915 , and at the same time, since 1913 , he was engaged in tutoring .
World War I
May 2, 1915 was drafted into the army . In February 1916 , graduating from the 1st category in the crash course of the Vilna Military School , he was released as ensign and on August 16 arrived at the South-Western Front with the 99th marching company from the 200th infantry reserve regiment. Enrolled in the lists of the 272nd Gdovsky Infantry Regiment of the 68th Infantry Division . He held the positions of a junior company officer and the head of the foot reconnaissance team, and participated in battles.
By order of the troops of the IXth Army No. 66 dated January 30, 1917, Ensign Andrei Serga was awarded the Order of St. George of the 4th degree:
| “... for the fact that in a battle on November 2, 1916 in the Forest Carpathians during an attack of height 1327, commanding two platoons of foot reconnaissance, sent to strengthen the left flank of the attacking chains, under heavy machine-gun and gun fire, bombarded with hand grenades, despite being wounded "a fragment of a grenade in the head, burst into the enemy’s trench and captured the operating enemy machine gun from the battle." |
By order of the 272nd Gdov Infantry Regiment No. 329 dated August 31, 1917, Lieutenant Serga was awarded the 4th degree military cross with a laurel branch for heroism (for awarding officers):
| “In the battle of July 27, p. during the capture of fortified enemy trenches on the northwestern slope of the hill. 1510, the second lieutenant Serga encouraged his subordinates with an example of excellent courage, carried them along and, with a bayonet fight, contributed to the success of the attack with personal courage, and 9 soldiers were captured by a team of foot scouts. ” [1] |
While on the Romanian front , in September 1917, Staff Captain Serga was elected as the soldier of the 272nd Gdovsk Infantry Regiment as battalion commander. In revolutionary activity from February to October 1917 and during the October Revolution did not participate.
In January-February 1918, the regiment was disbanded and A.G. Serga, having been discharged from the army, returned to his homeland.
Civil War
In the summer of 1918 , for concealing his officer rank and evading military registration, he was arrested by the hetman authorities , but was soon released and mobilized into the Ukrainian army. He served as company commander of the 35th Kremenchug regiment of the army of the Ukrainian State. After the anti-Hetman uprising , from December 1918, he served in the army of the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic as an officer in the post of adjutant of the battalion, and served as commander of the battalion. I did not take part in battles with the Red Army , because during the offensive of the Red Army I was in Galicia , at the front of the fight against the Poles .
At the end of 1919 , after the defeat of the Ukrainian army and the emigration of the UPR government to Poland, Serga voluntarily sided with the Ukrainian SSR with a group of Petlyur officers. After being checked by the special department of the 12th Army , and then by the special department of the Southwestern Front in Kharkov , Serga was enlisted in the Red Army and was appointed commander of the cadet battalion. Then he commanded the rifle and cadet regiments and the combined division of cadets. He took part in the defeat of the army of Baron Wrangel , in the suppression of “Makhnovism” and “Antonovism” . In battles he had a wound in the arm.
By order of the Commander of All Armed Forces in Ukraine No. 487 dated April 13, 1921, the commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Kharkov Brigade of Cadets, Serg Andriy Grigoryevich was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR [2] :
| “For the fact that in the battle on December 14, 1920, near the village of Andreevka with the units of Makhno, he, with the skillful maneuvering actions of the regiment, took possession of the specified village. In the battle on December 19 of the same year at the Mezhirich colony, when the enemy burst into the colony with great forces, cutting off the outpost with two machine guns from its units, comrade Serga with the company on duty, examples of courage and courage, carrying the cadets of the company along with him, threw himself in bayonets on the enemy’s units and, after a short battle, threw them away, which saved the outpost with machine guns from captivity. Developing further success, he cleared the colony of enemy units and captured 3 guns, 2 machine guns, 200 horses and 200 prisoners. Information: Order of the Red Banner No. 4201. ” [3] |
The interwar period
After the Civil War, Serga served in the troops of the Kharkov Military District . Since 1922, he held command and teaching positions at the United School of Red Starshins in Kharkov. In 1929 he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Military Pedagogical School . From 1930 to 1932 he served as an assistant commander of the 67th Kupyansky Regiment of the 23rd Rifle Division in Chuguev .
In March 1931 , on suspicion of having links with the Ukrainian military organization , Serga was arrested by a special department of the Kharkov Military District, but was released from custody for lack of corpus delicti.
Since 1932 - Senior Lecturer of the Oryol Armored School. M.V. Frunze . In July 1939, he was awarded the next rank: " Colonel ." Since 1940 - Lecturer, Tactics Department, Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army. I.V. Stalin .
World War II
In September-November 1941 he took part in the defense of Moscow .
At the beginning of 1942 in Tashkent , where the academy was redeployed, Serga was again arrested by a special department of the Central Asian military district at the expense of one of his fellow teachers and was under investigation for more than a year. He was released, in the absence of corpus delicti, in July 1943 and returned to teaching at the academy.
In 1944, Colonel Serga was sent to the army . Initially, he was on an internship in the 6th Panzer Army as deputy commander of a tank corps for combatant units, and in the 3rd Guards Tank Army to study the Lviv-Przemyshlsky operation .
At the end of 1944 he was appointed chief of staff of the 7th Mechanized Corps , operating as part of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts ; took part in hostilities near Budapest , Szekesfehervar , Brno , Prague . Since August 1945, the 7th Mechanized Corps acted against the Japanese on the Transbaikal Front , in Mongolia and Manchuria .
In December 1944, for the able leadership of the corps headquarters, Colonel Serga was presented with the Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree, but received the Order of the Red Banner (Order on the troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front No. 0188 / n dated June 4, 1945 ). By order of the Commander-in-Chief of Soviet troops in the Far East No. 08 / n of August 31, 1945, Serga was awarded the Order of Suvorov , 2nd degree [4] . For his years of service in the Red Army, he was also awarded the Orders of Lenin and the Red Banner.
After the war
In May 1947, Colonel Serga returned to the Military Academy of Armored and Mechanized Forces named after JV Stalin to the post of senior lecturer in the department of tactics of higher connections.
Since 1946 - a candidate member of the CPSU (b) , since 1948 - a party member.
Since 1952 - retired. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 28, 1967 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star .
He died in 1970 in Moscow , where he was buried.
Rewards
- Order of St. George 4th degree (1917);
- 4th degree cross of St. George with a laurel branch (1917);
- Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR (1922);
- three orders of the Red Banner (1944, 1945, 1950);
- Order of Lenin (1945);
- Order of Suvorov 2nd degree (1945);
- Order of the Red Star (1967);
- Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic 4 classes;
- USSR medals.
Notes
- ↑ RGVIA. F. 2883. Op. 1. D. 248. L. 207ob.
- ↑ COLLECTION OF PERSONS AWARDED WITH THE RED BANNER ORDER (RSFSR). Serga Andrei Grigoryevich: Commander 1 page regiment: Prik. RVSR No. 144: 1922
- ↑ RGVA. F. 25899. Op. 3. D. 761. L. 1.
- ↑ Archival documents on the awarding of Colonel Sergi A. G. during the Great Patriotic War (on the site “Feat of the People”)
Sources
- Andrey Grigoryevich Serga
- GEORGIAN CAVALERS AT THE SERVICE OF THE FATHERLAND. COMBATING WAY OF COLONEL A.G. SERGY
- St George Knights of the Great War
- RGVIA. F.400. Op. 12. D.27612. L.144-145, 1917.