Moskvitin, Peter Fedorovich

Born on December 19, 1901 in the village of Yurasovo, Bakhmacheyevsky volost, Ryazan district, Ryazan province.

Before serving in the army, Pyotr Moskvitin worked at the Trading House Maria sausage factory in Petrograd . In the Civil War, June 19, 1919, he voluntarily joined the Red Army and served as a Red Army soldier, then as an assistant commissar in the 3rd military food detachment. Participated in battles on the Southern Front. Since February 15, 1921 he studied at 30 Ryazan courses, later reorganized into the 15th Ryazan Infantry School. As part of the cadet brigade, he took part in the suppression of Antonov’s anti-Soviet uprising in the Tambov province.

After the Civil War, in September 1924, he graduated from high school and was appointed to the 27th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Don Infantry Division , where he served as platoon commander, company commander and political instructor. In March 1930, enrolled as a student in the Military Academy of the Red Army. M.V. Frunze, after which, from May 1933, served as chief of staff and temporarily served as commander of the 158th Infantry Regiment of the Volga Military District . In April 1935, he was sent to the Siberian Military District as the chief of the 1st (operational) unit and assistant chief of staff of the 78th infantry division ; since August 1938, he served as chief of staff of this division. Since March 1939, Moskvitin served in the district headquarters as head of the 2nd department. Since December, in the rank of major, he temporarily served as the head of the Novosibirsk Military School . In March 1940 he was appointed head of the Primary and Pre-draft Training Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Red Army, and in October of the same year he was enrolled as a student at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army.

World War II

With the outbreak of World War II, in July 1941, Colonel P.F. Moskvitin from the Academy was appointed under the Commander-in-Chief of Western Forces for special assignments. On August 21, he was appointed commander of the 161st Infantry Division (with the rank of colonel ), who, as part of the 20th Army, was engaged in defensive battles northwest of Yelny. On September 8, 1941, the division was assigned to replenish, on September 18 it was transformed into the 4th Guards Rifle Division , then it was transferred to the Sinyavino area as part of the 54th separate army and participated in the operation to break the blockade of Leningrad . Having fallen in mortar fire on September 24, Moskvitin was wounded and was treated at the Novosibirsk military hospital until August 23, 1942, and then was at the disposal of the Main Directorate of Personnel of NCOs. In September, he was appointed assistant commander of the troops of the South Ural Military District for universities. Since January 1943, in the rank of Major General, he served as head of the Department of Military Training of Students of Civilian Educational Institutions, and since December, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Military Training of Students of the Main Directorate of General Military Education of Non-Commercial Organizations of the USSR. From August to December 1944, Pyotr Fedorovich was at the disposal of Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko on the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts, then he was appointed commandant of Bucharest in Romania.

After the war

After the war ended, from December 1945, Pyotr Fedorovich Moskvitin served as senior lecturer at the Higher Military Academy. K.E. Voroshilova. September 22, 1951 was dismissed due to illness.

He died on September 26, 1960 in Moscow. He was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery (8th section, 6th row, 3rd place). ^[2]

• He was awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov 2nd degree, World War 1 degree, as well as medals, including "XX years of the Red Army".

• In Yelnya P.F. Moskvitin is a monument. ^[3]

• Divisional Commanders, Volume 4. Moscow, Kuchkovo Field, 2015.

• Moskvitin Petr Fedorovich