Rogozny, Zinovy ​​Zakharovich

Born in Orsha, in a Jewish family.

Civil War

In April 1919 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent by the Red Army to the 1st shock Communist battalion, and in August - to study at the Smolensk courses of command personnel, after which he was appointed in December as the chief of communications of the battery in the 2nd light artillery division . In April 1920, he was sent to the combined heavy howitzer artillery division ( 45th Infantry Division ), where he was appointed to the post of chief of communications of the battery, and then to the position of platoon commander, while on which he took part in hostilities on the Western Front .

Interwar

In December 1920, he was sent to study for courses of the commanding staff of the 14th Army , after which in April 1921 he continued to serve in the 45th Rifle Division ( 14th Rifle Corps , Ukrainian Military District ) as platoon commander and assistant commander artillery battery 45 th howitzer artillery battalion, platoon commander of a training artillery school, from June 1922 the year - on the positions of platoon commander, assistant commander and commander of an artillery battery of the same division, and since October 1924 the year - on posts early lnika regimental school and division commander of the 45th Light Artillery Regiment.

In October 1925 he was sent to study on artillery advanced training courses for command personnel deployed in the city of Detskoe Selo , which he graduated in September 1926 . Member of the CPSU (b) since 1926.

In February 1928, he was appointed battery commander at the Odessa Artillery School . In October of the same year he was sent to study at the MV Frunze Military Academy , after which he was appointed in May 1931 to the post of chief of staff of the 14th corps artillery regiment, in November of that year - to the post of chief of 2- Sector of the Office of the Chief of Artillery of the Ukrainian Military District , and in February 1932 - to the post of Chief of Artillery of the Office of the Head of Works No. 99 of the same district.

In November 1934 he was sent to study at the operational department of the MV Frunze Military Academy, after which he was appointed in June 1935 to the post of chief of artillery of the 45th Infantry Division, and in October 1936 - to the post of chief of the 1st department of the 1st department of the headquarters of the artillery of the Kiev military district , and since January 1938 served as chief of artillery, first the 81st , then the 15th rifle divisions of the same district. In April, he was appointed to the post of chief of district courses of junior artillery lieutenants of the Kiev Military District, and since January 1939 he again served as head of artillery of the 81st Infantry Division.

In August 1939, Rogozny was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 15th Rifle Corps , after which he took part in hostilities during a campaign in Western Ukraine and the Soviet-Finnish War .

World War II

With the outbreak of war he was in his former position. The corps took part in hostilities in the area of ​​the cities of Kovel and Korosten .

On July 22, Rogozny was appointed to the post of commander of the 64th Rifle Corps , which conducted defensive military operations on the outskirts of Kiev in the vicinity of the city of Vasilkov . On August 26, he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 40th Army , in February 1943 - to the post of chief of staff, and then - to the post of deputy commander of the 69th army , which conducted military operations in the area of Kharkov and Poltava .

In June 1943 he was appointed commander of the 48th Rifle Corps , which took part in the Iasi-Chisinau offensive operation , as well as in the liberation of the cities of Valka , Znamenka and Iasi . In January 1945, the corps took part in the offensive military operations to break through the Sandomierz bridgehead , and in February - to break through the Oder bridgehead . By April 20, the 294th Infantry Division , which was part of the corps, occupied the city of Weissenberg , but was surrounded by enemy attacks. For the unorganized and premature withdrawal of the division without taking into account the circumstances and conditions for such an operation, he was removed from his post, after which he was placed at the disposal of the Military Council of the 1st Ukrainian Front .

Post-War Career

After the war ended, he was at the disposal of the Main Directorate of Personnel of NCOs and in January 1946 he was appointed head of the Directorate of Combat and Physical Training of the Southern Group of Forces , in January 1948 he was appointed head of the department of combat training, and since April he served as commander of the Separate Mechanized Army .

From October 1948 he was at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces and in February 1949 he was appointed to the post of head of the military and physical training department of the North Caucasus Military District , and in July - to the same position in the Don Military District .

In February 1951, he was appointed to the post of head of the military department of Kiev State University , but did not take up the post and the order of appointment was canceled. In September of the same year he was appointed head of the department of military disciplines of the military medical faculty of the Saratov Medical Institute .

In November 1954, went into stock. He died on January 12, 1990 in Kiev .

• Order of Lenin (02.21.1945);
• Five Orders of the Red Banner (04/07/1940, 11/06/1941, 08/27/1943, 11/3/1944, 04/30/1954);
• Order of Suvorov 2 degrees (04/06/1945);
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degree (09/13/1944);
• Two orders of World War 1 degree (04/28/1943, 03/11/1985);
• Medals.
• sign "50 years of stay in the CPSU"

• Major - February 5, 1936;
• Colonel - February 17, 1938;
• Major General - June 4, 1940.

• Team of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006. - T. 1. - S. 475-476. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .
• I write solely from memory ... The commanders of the Red Army about the catastrophe of the first days of World War II: In 2 vols. Volume 2. / Comp., Ed. foreword, comment and biogr. essays S. L. Chekunov. - M.: Russian Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Science, 2017. - 560 pp., Ill. - ISBN 978-5-91244-208-7 , 978-5-91244-209-4 (t. 1). - S.96-97 (extract from the track record).

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