Stepan Semenovich Rakov ( 1908 - 1981 ) - major general of the Soviet Army , participant in the Great Patriotic War , head of the Caucasian Suvorov Officer School ( 1956 - 1966 ).
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| Date of Birth | December 19, 1908 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | with. Ermolaevka , Cain County , Tomsk Province , Russian Empire [1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | December 15, 1981 (72 years old) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | infantry Airborne troops | |||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1930 - 1966 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Part | North Caucasian Suvorov Military School , | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position | served as chief of staff of the brigade, division, corps, head of the Suvorov School | |||||||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | Soviet-Finnish War The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Retired | since 1957, major general. He lived and worked in Vladikavkaz | |||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Born December 19, 1908 in Ermolaevka, Ubinsky District, Novosibirsk Region, in a working class family. Russian. Member of the CPSU since 1931. He graduated from the 4th grade of a rural school (1919), a general school for adults (1928), a secondary school as an external student (1938), the Omsk Infantry School (1934), and the Military Academy named after M.V. . Frunze (1941), Military Academy of the General Staff with a gold medal (1950).
Army Service
In the Red Army since October 1930. The service began as an ordinary. After graduating from the school, he was the platoon and company commander of the 73rd Infantry Division of the Siberian Military District . The war found him in the position of chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the 178th Infantry Division on the North-Western Front.
From April 1942 until the end of the war - in turn: the chief of staff of the 381st , 29th , 16th infantry divisions on the Kalinin, 1st and 2nd Baltic, Leningrad fronts. In the battles near Rzhev in September 1942 he was wounded in the arm and shell-shocked.
Since 1950 - First Deputy, since 1953 - Commander of the 51st Guards Airborne Division.
In September 1956 he was appointed deputy commander of the rifle corps in the Moscow Military District
in January 1958 he became the head of the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Officers' College .
In October 1966, he was transferred to the reserve.
After the Army
He lived in Moscow. He died on December 15, 1981.
Rewards
- Order of Lenin (10.26.1955) [2]
- two orders of the Red Banner (09/02/1944 [3] , 11/15/1950 [2] );
- Order of Suvorov III degree (05.16.1945) [4] ;
- Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (01/03/1944) [5] ;
- two orders of the Red Star (01/30/1943 [6] , 11/10/1945 [2] );
- medal for military services (11/03/1944) [2] ;
- medal “In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin” (April 6, 1970 [7] );
- medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (May 9, 1945 [8] ) [9]
- jubilee medal “Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (May 7, 1965) [10] ;
- anniversary medal “Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” [11] ;
- medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg" ;
- medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
- medal "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy" [12] ;
- anniversary medal "40 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" [13] ;
- anniversary medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (December 26, 1967) [14] ;
- anniversary medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (January 28, 1978) [15]
Memory
- In Moscow, a monument to the general.
See also
- North Caucasian Suvorov Military School
Notes
- ↑ Now a village in the Ubinsky district of the Novosibirsk region , Russia
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Awarded in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 06/04/1944 "On awarding orders and medals for the length of service in the Red Army"
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 690155 , d. 5636 , l. 4 ).
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 686196 , d. 5542 , l. 2 ).
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” (archive materials of TsAMO , f. 33 , op. 690306 , d. 254 , l. 35 ).
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 682525 , d. 3 , p. 16 ).
- ↑ Order to ZakVO No. 36 of 04/06/1970.
- ↑ Decree of the PVS of the USSR of 09/09/1945.
- ↑ Archive props on the website “ Feat of the People ” No. 1535411661
- ↑ Decree of the PVS of the USSR of 05/07/1965.
- ↑ Decree of the PVS of the USSR of 04.25.1975.
- ↑ Decree of the PVS of the USSR of 02.22.1948.
- ↑ Decree of the PVS of the USSR dated 12/18/1957.
- ↑ Decree of the PVS of the USSR dated 12.26.1967.
- ↑ Decree of the PVS of the USSR of 01.28.1978.
Literature
- Sidzhakh Kh. I. Scarlet epaulettes of the Kuban and the Caucasus. - Maykop: OJSC Polygraph-South, 2003. - S. 138-139. - 320 p. - ISBN 978-5-7992-0768-7 .
- Sidzhah, Khazretby Iskhakovich . The book "We were the first Suvorovites."
- Sidzhah, Khazretby Iskhakovich . Historical and reference collection "We are Suvorov-Caucasians."
Links
- Award sheet to the Order of the Red Banner
- Award sheet to the Order of Suvorov 3 degrees
- Award sheet to the Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree
- Award sheet for the Order of the Red Star
- KRASNODAR - CAUCASUS SUVOROVSK MILITARY SCHOOL
- My great-grandfather is a general
- Major General RAKOV Stepan Semenovich
- "North Caucasian Suvorov Military School" (SK IED).
