Matveenko, Peter Iosifovich

Born on December 11, 1892 in the village of Golenki (now - in the Bakhmach district of the Chernihiv region ). Ukrainian ^[2] .

Military Service

World War I

In 1913 he was called up for service in the Russian Imperial Army and sent to the city of Lutsk in the 44th Kamchatka Infantry Regiment . With the outbreak of war, its composition fought on the Western Front . For military merits, he was awarded four St. George crosses and promoted to ensign . In November 1916, he was sent to the preparatory team of the Kiev schools of ensigns, then in February 1917 he was enlisted as a junker in the 3rd school of ensigns . After graduating in June, he was promoted to ensign and appointed to the shock battalion of the Western Front. In July - August, the company commander participated in battles near Minsk, Molodechno, Dvinsky. In September, he went on vacation to his homeland and did not return to the unit ^[2] .

Civil War

In February 1918, after the arrival of German troops, organized a partisan detachment. It included in the battles in the areas of the villages of Gruzkoye, Putivl, Vorozhba, Kornevo, Melnya, Belgorod. In June, with the appointment of a new squad leader, he left for his homeland. Upon arrival, he was arrested by the Gaydamak punitive detachment and was detained for about two months in the Golensky volost punishment cell, and was repeatedly beaten and tortured. On the night of July 20, 1918, he escaped from arrest and until October was treated in a hospital in the city of Kursk . After recovering, he voluntarily entered the Red Army and was appointed platoon commander in the 4th Glukhovsky regiment, which then joined the 1st Ukrainian Soviet Division N. A. Shchors . Participated in battles on the train. Kazatin village - Zhmerynka . In 1919, Matveenko joined the CPSU (b) . In March 1919, the regiment was disbanded, the personnel went to staff the 21st Infantry Regiment, and Matveenko was appointed commander of the company in it. In June, the regiment was renamed the 8th Ukrainian Soviet Rifle Division as part of the same 1st Ukrainian Soviet Division ( T.V. Chernyak brigade). Subsequently, he was renamed first in the 398th, then in the 419th Infantry in the 47th Infantry Division. In his composition, he served until May 1920 as commander of a platoon, company, battalion, assistant commander of the regiment. Participated in battles with the White Poles . In May, the division was encircled in the area of ​​Cape Malin, and after leaving, its remnants joined the 7th Vladimir Division , where Matveenko served as assistant commander of the regiment and battalion commander of the 55th Infantry Regiment of the 19th Brigade. In its composition, N. I. Makhno fought against armed groups ^[2] . For military distinctions in these battles, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner (RVSR Order No. 490: 1920) ^[3] .

The interwar period

After the war, he continued to serve in the same division until July 1923, then he was appointed commander of the battalion of the 21st Infantry Regiment in the fight against banditry in the Poltava province. From October 1924 to August 1925 he was studying at the Shot courses , then returned to the regiment to his former position. Since February 1926, he commanded a battalion in the Kiev military-political school, then the 13th Balakleevsky separate battalion of local rifle troops. In 1930, until May, he was in advanced training courses for senior command personnel in Moscow, after which he was appointed commander and commissioner of the 2nd separate Vyatka territorial regiment. Since January 1932, he served as commander and military commissar of the 150th Noginsky, and since March 1934 - the 91st Astrakhan Rifle Regiments. In April 1935 he was appointed military commissar in the Fastovsky District Military Commissariat, and in October 1938 the brigade commander Matveenko was transferred to the same position in the Nikolaev Regional Military Commissariat ^[2] .

World War II

At the beginning of the war in the same position. In October 1941, Major General Matveenko was sent to study at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army. K.E. Voroshilova , after completing her crash course in April 1942, was appointed assistant to the chief of the operational group on troop manning of the North Caucasian Directorate. Since June, he served as deputy commander of the 49th Infantry Division of the Moscow Defense Zone . At the end of August, she was sent to the Stalingrad Front , where she became part of the 66th Army and fought hard battles with the enemy, breaking through to the Volga north of Stalingrad. On September 20, 1942, he temporarily took command of the division. Parts of the division under his command as part of the 24th Army of the Don Front were fighting in the Samofalovka area (northwest of Stalingrad ). In battles, Major General Matveenko repeatedly went directly to the battle formations of the units, showed courage and endurance during combat work. On October 10, he was wounded and hospitalized. After recovering in December 1942, he returned to the 49th Infantry Division, which at that time was part of the 24th Army of the Don Front . In the post of deputy. the commander of this division participated in the battles to destroy the enemy’s encircled Stalingrad group . At the end of the hostilities in Stalingrad in February 1943, the division went to the 16th Army on the Western Front and fought defensive battles in the life direction. In July - August, she took part in the Orel offensive operation as part of the 50th Army , during which she crossed the Zhizdra River. Then the division entered the 10th army and participated in the Smolensk offensive operation (it advanced from the Kirov region to Roslavl, Snigirevka, Chausy ). By early October, she went to the Pronia River east of Mogilev . During this operation, on September 12, Major General Matveenko was wounded and hospitalized, after being cured in November, he was appointed military commissar of the Nikolaev regional military commissariat and remained in this position until the end of the war ^[2] .

Post-war time

After the war, he continued to lead this draft board. In August 1948, he was dismissed. ^[2]

He died on August 28, 1967 . He was buried in the city of Nikolaev in the City Necropolis ^[4] .

the USSR

• Order of Lenin (02.21.1945) ^[5]
• three orders of the Red Banner (1920 ^[6] , 11/03/1944 ^[5] , 06/24/1948 ^[5] )
• Order of the Red Star (06/06/1943) ^[6]
• medals, including:
  • "XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army" (1938)
  • “For the defense of Stalingrad”
  • “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (08/27/1945) ^[7]

Russian empire

• Cross of St. George 1st degree
• St. George Cross 2nd degree
• 3rd degree cross of St. George
• 4th degree cross of St. George

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