Vasily Andrianovich Asafiev ( March 17, 1907 , Verny , Semirechensk Region - 1968 , Tarusa , Kaluga Region ) - Soviet military leader, colonel (1942).
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||||
| Type of army | infantry | ||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1928 - 1954 | ||||||||||||
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| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||||
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Biography
Born March 17, 1907 in the city of Verny (now - Alma-Ata , Kazakhstan ). Russian [1] .
Military Service
October 1, 1928 he enrolled as a cadet at the Joint Central Asian Military School. V.I. Lenin in the city of Tashkent , after which in June 1931 he was appointed platoon commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Turkestan Infantry Division in the city of Fergana . In May 1932 he was transferred as the head of the sniper team of the 299th Infantry Regiment of the 100th Infantry Division in the city of Shepetovka . Since July 1933, he commanded a rifle and training company in the 4th Turkestan rifle regiment in the city of Vasilkov, Kiev region, then he was commander of a rifle company and a battalion in the 184th Turkestan rifle regiment. Since October 1938 - student of the Military Academy of the Red Army. M.V. Frunze. After the 2nd year in April 1940 he was appointed deputy commander of the 164th Infantry Regiment of the 33rd Infantry Division of PribOVO in the city of Vilkaviskis [1] .
World War II
With the outbreak of war, Captain Asafiev took command of the regiment and, as part of the same division of the 16th Rifle Corps of the 11th Army of the North-Western Front, participated with him in a border battle , covering the direction of Gumbinnen , Kaunas . For 17 hours on June 22, 1941, the division kept its defense line, only by the end of the day its units were forced to retreat to the Pilviskiai area, where they occupied the defense at the border of the Šešupė River . Then, on the orders of the command of the 11th Army, she organizedly fought back to Kaunas and further to Jonava. On June 25, its units took part in a counterattack from the Jonava region to Karmelava and Kaunas. However, he did not bring the desired results, and the division was later forced to withdraw to the Idritsa and Sebezh region . Since July 10, the division conducted stubborn battles as part of the 27th army of the North-Western Front, was surrounded twice, and then broke through to Toropets, Sakhnovo, Loknya and further to Kholm. After leaving the encirclement, she was assigned to the Valdai region for replenishment [1] .
On October 14, 1941, Major Asafiev was appointed commander of the 940th Infantry Regiment of the 262th Infantry Division , which was being understaffed. In early December, the division became subordinate to the Kalinin Front and fought in the 31st Army on the outskirts of the city of Kalinin . Commanding the regiment, Asafiev participated in the Kalinin offensive operation and the liberation of the city of Kalinin. Subsequently, the division in the army conducted offensive battles in the Rzhev direction. By the end of December, she reached the Volga River in the area northeast of Zubtsov . In winter and spring of 1942, its units in the 31st and 39th (from January 16) armies took part in the Rzhev-Vyazemsky offensive operation (in the Sychevsky direction) [1] .
In June 1942, Lt. Col. Asafiev was admitted to the post of deputy commander of the 262nd Infantry Division and fought with her as part of the 39th and 41st armies in the area of the city of Bely . In early July, she fought surrounded for 5 days, but managed to reach the main forces of the 41st Army, losing all the material part of artillery, part of mortars and machine guns, all vehicles. Since July 19, 1942 the division has been in reserve of the Supreme Command . After replenishment in September, she became part of the 41st Army. At the end of November, its units took part in offensive battles to eliminate the Losmyansk-Red-city enemy resistance knot, providing the right flank of the army operating in the direction of Bely, Dukhovschina. Then they fought in the area of the city of Bely [1] .
In January 1943, Asafiev was appointed commander of the 74th separate rifle brigade , part of the 22nd army of the Kalinin Front. The brigade fought northwest of Rzhev ; in March 1943, it participated in the Rzhev-Vyazemsky offensive operation [1] .
In June 1943, Colonel Asafiev was transferred to the deputy commander of the 56th Guards Rifle Division, which was formed in the vicinity of the city of Gzhatsk on the basis of the 74th and 91st Stalin volunteer individual rifle brigades. In August, the division as part of the 19th Guards Rifle Corps took part in the Spas-Demensky offensive operation , and fought stubborn battles north of Spas-Demensk . At the end of August, its units during the Yelninsky-Dorogobuzh offensive operation crossed the Ugra River and, rapidly pursuing the enemy, with their decisive actions contributed to the main army forces in the liberation of the city of Yelnya . In September, the division, breaking through the fortified enemy defense strip under Art. Nezhoda, by swift roundabout maneuver, participated in the liberation of the city of Smolensk . By order of the Supreme High Command of September 25, 1943, she was given the name Smolenskaya. In October - November, the division conducted stubborn battles in the Orsha direction. At the end of December 1943, she was relocated from near Orsha to the area of Lake Senchitskoye (southeast of Velikiye Luki ), where she became part of the 2nd Baltic Front . In early January 1944, the division was transferred to the area of Lake Sviblo (southeast of Idritsa), where it fought heavy offensive battles in the area west of Novosokolniki (Maevo station), the city of Pustoshka and on the Velikaya River in order to expand the bridgehead northwest of Novorzhev . In April - July she was on the defensive west and south of Novorzhev, she did not conduct active hostilities. From mid-July 1944, as part of the 10th Guards Army of the 2nd Baltic Front, took part in the Rezhitsa-Dvinsk offensive operation [1] .
On August 24, 1944, Colonel Asafiev was appointed commander of the 200th Infantry Division . In the second half of September, as part of the 3rd shock and 42nd armies, it successfully operated in the Riga offensive operation . In late November - early December 1944, she was transferred to the 2nd Belorussian Front and entered the 70th Army . Since January 18, 1945, as part of the 114th and 96th rifle corps, it participated in East Prussian , Mlavsko-Elbing offensive operations to destroy the enemy's Torn group and in battles for the city of Tuchel . In mid-February, Asafiev was removed from command and placed at the disposal of the Military Council of the Front [1] .
March 8, 1945 he was appointed commander of the 313rd Infantry Division . As part of the 19th army, he participated with her in the East Pomeranian offensive operation , in the liberation of the cities of Stolp and Gdynia . Then, until April 4, units of the division defended the west coast of the Baltic Sea in the area of the cities of Kezlin and Kohlberg, from May 1 they participated in the Berlin offensive operation , in battles on the coast of the Baltic Sea in the area of the island of Wolin . For the battles to capture the cities of Schlachau, Stegers, Hammarstein, Baldenberg, Bublitz, the division was awarded the Second Order of the Red Banner (5.4.1945), and for the capture of the city of Stolp, the Order of Suvorov, 2nd Art. (5.4.1945), and for the liberation of Gdynia - the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd art. (17.5.1945) [1] .
During the war, Commander Asafiev was personally mentioned five times in letters of thanks in the orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief [2] .
Post-war time
Since July 1945, it was at the disposal of the Military Council of the SGV [1] .
Since October 1945 - Deputy Commander of the 126th Rifle Division of the Tauride Military District [1] .
Since March 1946 - deputy commander in the 263rd Infantry Division [1] .
In October 1946 he was transferred as a teacher in the tactics department of the Military Transport Academy of the Red Army. L. M. Kaganovich in Leningrad [1] .
Since January 1947 - the commissar of the Kamensky RVK of the Kirovograd region [1] .
From May 15 to November 25, 1950, he underwent training at the Kuibyshev refresher courses for officers of local military command bodies [1] .
In November 1951 he was appointed military commissar of the Alexandria RVC of the Kirovograd region [1] .
On August 31, 1954, Colonel Asafiev was dismissed due to illness [1] .
Rewards
- Order of Lenin (11/03/1953) [3]
- three orders of the Red Banner (09/18/1943 [4] , 06/11/1945 [5] , 06/20/1949 [3] )
- Order of Kutuzov II degree (04/10/1945) [6]
- two orders of the Red Star (02.21.1942 [7] 03.11.1944 [3] )
medals including:
- “ For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. "
- “ For the capture of Konigsberg ”
- Orders (thanks) of the Supreme Commander in which V. A. Asafiev was noted [2] .
- For the capture of the cities of Chojnice (Konitz) and Tuchola (Tuchel) - large communication centers and strong strongholds of German defense in western Poland. February 15, 1945. Number 280
- For the capture of the city of Stolp - an important junction of railways and highways and a powerful stronghold of the German defense in Northern Pomerania. March 9, 1945. Number 297
- For the capture of the cities of Anger (Meve) and Starogard (Preisish Stargard) - important strongholds of the German defense on the outskirts of Danzig. March 7, 1945. Number 294.
- For the assault on the city of Gdynia - an important naval base and a large port on the Baltic Sea. March 28, 1945. Number 313.
- For the capture of the city of Svinemünde - a large port and naval base of the Germans on the Baltic Sea. May 5, 1945. No. 362.
Memory
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 The team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / Ed. Coll .: N. B. Akberdin, I. I. Basik, S. A. Botzvin, n. I. Nikiforov, I. A. Permyakov, M. V. Smyslov . - M .: “Kuchkovo Field”. Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation , General Directorate of Personnel, State Institution for Work with Personnel, Institute of Military History of the Military Academy of the General Staff. The Central Archive ., 2014 .-- T. III. Commanders of rifle, mountain rifle divisions, Crimean, polar, Petrozavodsk divisions, Rebolsky divisions, fighter divisions. - S. 128-130. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0382-3 , UDC 94, BBK 63.3 (3) 722.78.
- ↑ 1 2 Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection. M., Military Publishing, 1975.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Awarded in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 04.06.1944 "On the awarding of orders and medals for the length of service in the Red Army"
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” (archive materials of TsAMO , f. 33 , op. 682526 , d. 1352 , p. 12 ).
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” (archive materials of TsAMO , f. 33 , op. 686196 , d. 6381 , l. 16 ).
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 686046 , d. 40 , p. 12 ).
- ↑ Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 682524 , d. 165 , p. 54 ).
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Literature
- Team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / Ed. Coll .: N. B. Akberdin, I. I. Basik, S. A. Botzvin, n. I. Nikiforov, I. A. Permyakov, M. V. Smyslov . - M .: “Kuchkovo Field”. Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation , General Directorate of Personnel, State Institution for Work with Personnel, Institute of Military History of the General Staff Military Academy. The Central Archive ., 2014 .-- T. III. Commanders of rifle, mountain rifle divisions, Crimean, polar, Petrozavodsk divisions, Rebolsky divisions, fighter divisions. - S. 128-130. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0382-3 , UDC 94, BBK 63.3 (3) 722.78.