Valkov, Alexey Georgievich

Alexei Georgievich Valkov was born on December 20, 1901 in the Durasovo farm of the Ichalkovskaya volost of the Lukoyanovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod province. Mordvin . In the Red Army from May 1920 to September 1938 and from February 1939 to November 18, 1953 ^[2] . Member of the CPSU (b) since 1920 ^[3] .

Education ^[2] :

• Teaching courses in Alatyr (1919);
• Egorievsk Theoretical School of the Red Air Fleet (1924);
• 1st military school of pilots named after A.F. Myasnikov (1925);
• Higher Air Force Shooting and Bombing School (1926)
• KUNS at the military academy of command and naval staff of the Air Force of the Red Army (1941).

Civil War

After completing the three-year Pedagogical courses in the city of Alatyr during the Civil War, he worked as a teacher in the villages of Lobaski and Durasovo, Lukoyanovsky district, Nizhny Novgorod province. In April 1920, he became an investigating agent of the Politburo in the town of Pochinki, Lukoyanovsky Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Province, and in May he became a cultural worker in the division school of the 1st infantry 1st Junior Infantry Division: the Southern Front Division, voluntarily joining the Red Army. In November, he became a teacher at that division school. As part of the division, he fought against the troops of General Wrangel near the city of Orekhov in the Tauride province and near Nikopol of the Ekaterinoslav province . After the dissolution of the division in December 1920, he served in the 15th Inzen Infantry Division as a political instructor, a teacher of a political school. Since 1922 he served in the 45th Infantry Regiment as a political fighter . In December 1922, he was seconded to the Egorievsky School of the Red Air Fleet, after which he was sent to the 1st Military Pilot School , and then from 1925 to the Higher Air Force Shooting and Bombing School in the city of Serpukhov , which he graduated in 1926.

Then he served in the 2nd military school named after OSOOAVIAHIM of the USSR as a pilot-instructor. Since the end of 1927 - in the combat units of the Air Force, first as a flight commander in the 18th separate aviation unit of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District. He went through all the steps of the commander: from the squad leader (1930) to the commander of the 9th high-speed bomber regiment of the 29th bomber air brigade (June 1939). Then he commanded the 99th high-speed bomber regiment of the 23rd air division in Rzhev . Since March 1941 r. served as deputy commander of the 77th mixed aviation division of the MVO Air Force in r. Tula.

World War II

With the outbreak of the war, Valkov as deputy commander of the 77th mixed aviation division. In August 1941, he was sent to the Advanced Training Courses for commanding officers at the Military Academy of the command and navigational staff of the Red Army Air Force , graduating from which in December 1941 he left for the Western Front . In March 1942 he was appointed deputy commander of the Air Force of the 10th Army , and in May - deputy commander of the 232nd Assault Aviation Division , and from September 1942 he was admitted to command this division, from which he went all the way to his appointment in September 1944. Head of combat training of the Office of the Kiev Military District. During this period, for the shown examples of courage and heroism, the 232nd Assault Aviation Division on September 3, 1943, was renamed by the Order of the USSR NCO ^[4] to the 7th Guards Assault Aviation Division , under the leadership of Colonel Valkov, took part in the Velikolukskaya operation , Operation Iskra , Rzhev-Vyazemsky , Oryol strategic offensive , Smolensk strategic offensive , Spas-Demensky offensive , Elninsko-Dorogubzhsky , Smolensk-Roslavl , Orsha , Iasi-Chisinau operations .

Post-war years

After the war, Colonel Valkov continued to serve in the same position. In May 1947, he was appointed deputy commander of the 6th assault aviation corps of the 24th Air Army of the Group of Soviet Occupation Troops in Germany . From February 1949 he was appointed commander of the 75th assault aviation corps . In March 1951 he was transferred to the post of deputy commander of the 68th assault aviation corps of the 57th Air Army of the Carpathian Military District . In November 1953 he was transferred to the reserve.

• Order of Lenin (05.26.1936) ^[2] ;
• Order of Lenin (1946) ^[5] ;
• Order of the Red Banner (??. 02.1943) ^[6] ;
• Order of the Red Banner (11/03/1944) ^[5] ;
• Order of the Red Banner (1951) ^[5] ;
• Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (10/13/1943) ^{[2] [3]} ;
• medals ^[2] .

• Team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / V.P. Goremykin. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014 .-- T. 2. - P. 446. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0341-0 .