Shapiro, Samuil Grigorievich

Born in a Jewish employee's family. Father, Grigory Moiseevich Shapiro, served as an agent and collector in the Blanca brick factory, his mother was a housewife, died in 1913. From the end of 1918 he was a member of the underground Odessa organization of the Bolsheviks and the Communist Youth Union . During the period of the Austro-German occupation and French intervention until April 1919, on behalf of the city Committee of the RCP (b) , he conducted organizational and propaganda work. He also studied at the commercial school of G.F. Faig from 1917 to 1919. On May 8, 1919 he was called up by the Odessa city military commissariat in the Red Army, took part in the Civil War. In 1924 he graduated from the command military school. In 1928 he graduated from the Military Technical Academy , served in technical units. In 1941−1943, head of the Main Directorate of Military-Industrial Construction under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR . In 1943, at his own request, he was sent to the front, where he commanded the 62nd Separate Engineer-Engineer Brigade as part of the 6th Army of the South-Western ( 3rd Ukrainian ) Front RGK . Here, at the head of his brigade, he participated in the liberation of his hometown of Odessa and entered it on April 10, 1944. For this operation, the brigade was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and became known as the Red Banner; in the order she was noted as especially distinguished. In June 1944 he was transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front , where he was appointed chief of the engineering forces of the 69th Army (commander V. Ya. Kolpakchi ), as part of which he participated in all major operations: Belorussian, Vistula-Oder, Berlin and ended the war on the Elba River near the city of Magdeburg , where a meeting of Soviet and American troops took place . After the war, the chief of the engineering forces of the Baku Military District , the chief engineer of the apartment-maintenance department of the Soviet Army, the assistant (according to other sources, deputy ^[1] ), the commander of the troops of the White Sea Military District for the construction and deployment of troops. Dismissed to the reserve on August 8, 1953.

• foreman (November 1935);
• Major General (January 27, 1943).

Soviet:

• two orders of Lenin;
• Order of Kutuzov 1st degree;
• Order of Suvorov 2nd degree;
• three orders of the Red Banner;
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor;
• Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree;
• Order of the Red Star;
• medal "XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army"
• medal "For Military Merit" (1944);
• Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" (1944);
• medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw" (1945);
• medal "For the capture of Berlin" (1945);
• medal "For the victory over Germany" (1945).

Polish:

• Order of the “Grunwald Cross” 3rd degree;
• medal "For Odra, Nisu and the Baltic";
• medal "For Warsaw" (1945).

Also eight anniversary and commemorative awards.

• Usovsky A.V. God Save Stalin! Tsar of the USSR Joseph the Great. Publisher: Yauza-Press , 2013. ISBN 978-5-9955-0511-2 .
• Edited by V. Zhigailo School of military engineers. - M .: Military Publishing House , 1980.
• Engineering troops of the front city. - L .: Lenizdat , 1979.

• Short biography
• School of military engineers in the years 1701-1960