Ivanov, Leonid Andreevich

Leonid Andreyevich Ivanov was born on August 8, 1895 in Chisinau.

World War I and Civil War

In May 1915 he was drafted into the ranks of the Russian Imperial Army and sent as a private to the 12th Ulan Cavalry Regiment, after which he took part in the hostilities in Bessarabia . After graduating from the training team with the same regiment with the rank of senior non-commissioned officer in August 1917, he was elected a member and deputy chairman of the regimental committee .

In November 1917, from the soldiers of the regiment, Ivanov organized a Red Guard detachment of 250 sabers, which took part in the hostilities against the Haidamaks , Romanian and German troops in the areas of the cities of Tiraspol , Razdelnaya , Balta and Odessa .

In March 1918, Ivanov, together with the detachment, was sent to the Crimea , where he was appointed to the post of commandant of the Perekop fortified area and at the same time to the post of food commissioner. With the approach of the Red Army in April, he joined the army with the detachment, after which he was appointed to the post of assistant commander of the 4th Dnieper regiment of the Taman army , and then to the post of deputy chairman of the Cheka in Krasnodar . During the fighting, Kizlyar was seriously injured.

After the cure, Ivanov served in the detachment under the command of Kochergin , then he was appointed to the post of commander of the 96th Kuban cavalry regiment , which since December 1919 took part in the hostilities against troops under the command of General A. I. Denikin in the Don region and in areas of Rostov-on-Don , Bataisk and the village of Olginsky . Since May 1920, a regiment under the command of Ivanov guarded the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov from Yeysk to Kurchansky estuary , and since July of the same year participated in the hostilities of the 2nd Cavalry Army .

In October he was appointed chief of staff of the 16th Cavalry Division , which took part in hostilities during the Perekop-Chongar operation , as well as in the liberation of Dzhankoy and Simferopol .

In December 1920, he was seconded to the 6th Chongar Cavalry Division , and in February 1921 he was sent to study at the Higher Cavalry School in Petrograd , after which in May 1922 he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 35th Egorlyksky Cavalry Regiment, which deployed in Armavir , and then in Gomel .

Interwar

In October 1924 he was appointed head of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the 11th Cavalry Division (North Caucasian Military District), stationed in Pyatigorsk .

In October 1927, he went into the reserve due to an illness, after which he worked as the director of the enterprises of the Resort Management in Kislovodsk . In 1937 he graduated from the cavalry advanced training courses for command personnel .

World War II

In July 1941, Captain Leonid Andreyevich Ivanov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army , after which he was appointed assistant chief of the 2nd division headquarters of the 53rd cavalry division , which was on the formation in the city of Voroshilovsk , and then served as assistant chief and chief of staff 44- go cavalry regiment, and since September, served as chief of intelligence of the same cavalry division. Since mid-July, the division as part of the operational group under the command of General I.I. Maslennikov , and then the cavalry group under the command of General L.M. Dovatora took part in the fighting during the Smolensk battle , and since October - during the Vyazemskaya , Mozhaysko-Maloyaroslavetskaya and Klinsko-Solnechnogorsk defensive operations , and also conducted heavy hostilities in the area of ​​the city of Bely . For excellent military operations, courage and bravery of the personnel in battles, the 53rd Cavalry Division was transformed into the 4th Guards Division by order of the USSR NPO of November 26, 1941, and Ivanov was then appointed to the post of deputy commander of this division. In December, during a counteroffensive near Moscow, the division took part in the Klinsko-Solnechnogorsk offensive operation , conducting military operations on the outskirts of Volokolamsk , and then in the Rzhev-Vyazemsky offensive operation . In mid-February 1942, the division was withdrawn to form in Novo-Petrovsky district ( Moscow region ).

In May 1942, Colonel Ivanov was appointed to the post of deputy commander of the 15th cavalry corps on the rear, in December of that year - to a similar position in the 5th guards cavalry corps , and in July 1943 - to the post of deputy commander of the 63rd rear infantry corps . From July 11 to 26, he served as the corps commander, who at that time was in formation in the Chkalov region ( South Ural Military District ). Soon, the corps took part in hostilities during the Melitopol and Crimean offensive operations .

On November 26, 1944, Colonel Ivanov was placed at the disposal of the deputy chairman of the Allied Control Commission in Bulgaria for the post of commissioner of this commission in the Burgas region .

Post-War Career

After the war he was in his former position.

In August 1946, Colonel Leonid Andreyevich Ivanov resigned. He died on April 15, 1955 in Kislovodsk .

• Order of Lenin ;
• Two Orders of the Red Banner ;
• Medals.

Team of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006. - T. 1. - S. 231-232. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .