Timofeev, Vyacheslav Arsenievich

He was born on October 14, 1897 in the village of Staroe Semenkino, now in the Klyavlinsky district of the Samara region of Russia, into a Russian family ^[2] . Before serving in the army, he worked in Samara at the Shersnev iron-foundry and pipe plant. He joined the RSDLP (b) in 1914. At the beginning of 1916 he moved to Petrograd and worked as a mechanic at the military armature-electric plant and the Old Lessner plant. For participation in the strike on April 17 on the Vyborg side, he was arrested and deregistered ^[2] .

World War I and Revolution

May 15, 1916 was called up for military service and sent to the 180th Infantry Regiment in Petrograd. In September, he deserted from the regiment and went to the Urals, to the Nevyansk plant, where he lived under the name Vyacheslav Ivanovich Yakovlev. In January 1917 he moved to Perm and began working as a mechanic at the Lessner plant under the name Mikhail Ustinovich Drozd. After the February Revolution, he again moved to Petrograd. Soon for anti-war agitation, he was arrested by the Provisional Government and imprisoned first in the Petrograd Central Prison , then in the Butyrka Prison in Moscow. After the October Revolution, Timofeev was released from prison and went to Samara, where he joined the Red Guard detachment of the pipe plant ^[2] .

Civil War

At the end of 1917, together with the factory detachment, he was sent near Orenburg to suppress the anti-Soviet protests of the White Cossacks A.I. Dutov and the revolt of the white whites In May 1918 he moved from the Samara combined detachment to the Red Army . Then he was seconded as an agent to the Samara branch of the military counterintelligence of the Eastern Front . In July 1918 he was wounded and undergoing treatment, then in September he was appointed adjutant of the Southern Group of Forces of the 1st Army . In this position, he fought near Syzran . Since October 1918, he served as military commissar of the Oryol Regiment of the Inzen Revolutionary Division . A month later, she was relocated to the Southern Front and, as part of the 8th Army, fought near Voronezh , Buturlinovka and Lugansk . Since May 1919, Timofeev served as an instructor in the political department of the army. He participated in the August counter-offensive of the Southern Front, in the battles on the approaches to Kharkov , in the Voronezh-Kastornenskaya , Donbass , Rostov-Novocherkassk operations, in the defeat of Denikin’s troops in the North Caucasus. Since April 1920 - Commissioner of the headquarters of the Don-Azov military flotilla , since July - Commissioner for food supply of the North Caucasian Military District and OKKA ^[2] .

Interwar years

Since March 1923, Timofeev served as deputy military commissar and WRID military commissar of the Higher School of Shooting and Bombing . Here was a flight training. Since August, he served as military commissar of the Aeronautical School in Petrograd. From April 1924 to July 1925 he studied at the Leningrad Higher School of Letnabs. Upon its completion, he was appointed an observer pilot in the 5th separate reconnaissance air squadron, then renamed the 24th air squadron of the Air Defense Forces . Since December 1926 - chief of staff of the 32nd air detachment of the 7th air brigade in the city of Zinovievsk . In December 1928, he was appointed commissar of the 8th military pilot aviation school in the city of Odessa . In 1930, he externally passed the test for the course of this school and in May he was enrolled as a student of the Military Academy of the Red Army named after M.V. Frunze . In October, transferred to the command department of the Air Force Academy of the Red Army. Professor N. E. Zhukovsky . In August 1932 he graduated from it and was sent for an internship by a pilot-instructor at the 7th military school of pilots in the city of Stalingrad ^[2] .

Since June 1933, he commanded the 89th heavy bomber squadron as part of the MVO Air Force. In April 1935 he was credited to the reserve of the Red Army with a secondment to the disposal of the Main Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet . But this transfer order was canceled, and in August Timofeev was appointed commander and commissar of the 50th heavy bomber squadron of the 101st OKDVA air force brigade. In February 1936, Colonel Timofeev was appointed commander and commissar of the 64th high-speed bomber aviation brigade of the Air Force ZabVO . By a resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of May 25, 1936, he was awarded the Order of Lenin ^[2] for outstanding personal success in mastering combat aircraft and skillful leadership in combat training.

On June 11, 1938, he was arrested by the NKVD and was under investigation in Chita Prison. June 17, 1938 dismissed from the army under art. 43, p. "B". June 27, 1940 released from custody in connection with the closure of the case and reinstated in the personnel of the Red Army. In October 1940 he was appointed chief of the Postavy Military Aviation School for the pilots of the Air Force of the Red Army Zapovo ^[2] .

World War II

In July 1941, the school was evacuated and joined the 1st Chkalov Aviation School, and Colonel Timofeev was appointed head of the 3rd Chkalov Aviation School ^[2] . Since March 1943, he served as deputy commander of the 307th assault air division . In May of that year he was appointed deputy commander of the 225th assault air division . Its units in the 15th air army of the Bryansk Front took part in the Voronezh-Kastornensky offensive operation , the Battle of Kursk , and the Oryol and Bryansk offensive operations. In October 1943, to disband the Bryansk Front, the division as part of the army was transferred to the Baltic Front and conducted combat work on the Vitebsk-Polotsk direction ^[2] .

In February 1944, Colonel Timofeev was appointed commander of the 197th assault air division . The division under his command conducted combat work on the 1st Belorussian Front as part of the 6th assault air corps of the 6th and 16th air armies and participated in the Belorussian , Minsk , Lublin-Brest offensive operations. For the successful fulfillment of the combat missions of the command during the offensive in the Kovel-Kholm direction, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and for the liberation of the city of Deblin she was awarded the name "Demlinskaya". Since January 1945, she took part in the Warsaw-Poznan offensive operation ^[2] .

In March 1945, Colonel Timofeev was transferred to the commander of the 300th assault aviation Tomashov Order of the Suvorov Division . Its units as part of the 9th assault air corps of the 16th Air Army of the 1st Belorussian Front successfully operated in the East Pomeranian and Berlin offensive operations. Until mid-April, they interacted with the troops of the 61st and 47th armies in capturing the cities of Kustrin and Stargart, then participated in breaking through the enemy’s defense in the Berlin direction, interacting with the 8th Guards Army , 8th Mechanized and 7th Tank Corps . From April 21 to 28, the division was redirected to support the fighting of the 33rd Army to destroy the enemy group in the area of Frankfurt ^[2] .

During the war, Commander Timofeev was personally mentioned five times in thanksgiving orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief ^[3] .

Post-war time

After the war, he continued to command this division in the GSOVG. Since April 1946 he was at the disposal of the Air Force personnel department. On June 13, 1946, Colonel Timofeev was sacked ^[2] . He was married to the Hero of the Soviet Union, the former pilot of his division, Anna Alexandrovna Egorova .

Order:

• Order of Lenin (02.21.1945) ^[4]
• two orders of the Red Banner (11/03/1944 ^[4] , 10/28/1967 ^[5] )
• Order of Suvorov II degree (05/29/1945) ^[6]
• Order of Kutuzov II degree (08/23/1944) ^[7]
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (09/23/1943) ^[8]

Medals:

• " XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army " (1938)
• “ For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. "
• “ For the capture of Berlin ”
• “ For the liberation of Warsaw ”
• " Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR "
• sign "50 years of stay in the CPSU"

Orders (thanks) of the Supreme Commander in which V. A. Timofeev was noted ^[3] :

• For the assault on the city and the fortress of Demblin (Ivangorod) - a large railway junction and a powerful stronghold of the German defense on the Vistula River. July 26, 1944. No. 150.
• For the seizure of the capital of Poland, the city of Warsaw - the most important strategic defense center of the Germans on the Vistula River. January 17, 1945. Number 223.
• Sohachev, Skierniewice and Lovic are important strongholds of the Germans' defense for capturing cities and large communications centers. January 18, 1945. Number 228.
• For mastering the largest industrial center of Poland, the city of Lodz and the cities of Kutno, Tomaszow (Tomaszow), Gostynin and Lęczyca - important communication centers and strongholds of the German defense. January 19, 1945. Number 233
• For the assault on the city and the Kistzhin fortress (Kyustrin) - an important communications hub and a powerful stronghold of the German defense on the Oder River, covering the approaches to Berlin. March 12, 1945. Number 300.

• Timofeev V. A. At an invisible post: Notes of a military intelligence officer. - 3rd edition. - M .: Politizdat, 1989.
• Timofeev V.A. Attack aircraft. Riga: Latgosizdat, 1953.
• Timofeev V.A. Fellow pilots. 1963.
• Girl from the village: collection / Vyacheslav Arsenievich Timofeev . - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1980. - 95 p. : ill. - (Library of the magazine "Soviet Warrior"; N 5/756).