Vladimir Mikhailovich Zmachinsky ( Polish. Włodzimierz Zmaczyński ; August 14, 1902 , Kiev - September 23, 1966 , Moscow ) - Soviet engineer, Major General of the engineering forces of the USSR Armed Forces.
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zmachinsky | |||||||||||
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polish Włodzimierz Zmaczyński | |||||||||||
Date of Birth | August 14, 1902 | ||||||||||
Place of Birth | Kiev , Russian Empire | ||||||||||
Date of death | September 23, 1966 (64 years) | ||||||||||
Place of death | Moscow , USSR | ||||||||||
Affiliation | the USSR | ||||||||||
Type of army | engineering troops | ||||||||||
Years of service | 1919-1954 | ||||||||||
Rank | major general | ||||||||||
Battles / Wars | Russian civil war The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||
Awards and prizes |
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Biography
Born in a Polish family in Kiev. Parents - Michael and Casimir. In 1904, his father died, and Vladimir moved with his mother to Petersburg , graduated from 5 classes of a real school . From January 1919 he worked in the Commissariat of Security, from December 1919 - a member of the RCP (b) . He studied at the Petrograd Institute of Ways and Messages, and later served in the Red Army. Member of the civil war in Russia and the Soviet-Polish war, was wounded. In 1921 he was demobilized [1] .
In 1924 he graduated from the engineering school, in 1925 - the school of commanders in Leningrad. In 1926-1932 he worked as an engineer at the construction of roads and drainage facilities. He continued to serve in the Red Army as a commander of a training platoon, a regimental school of junior commanders, a company commander and a battalion commander. Student of the Kuibyshev Military Engineering Academy [2] in 1934-1940, chief engineer of the Western Military District since 1940 [1] .
Since 1941 - the commander of the detachment on the Western Front of the Great Patriotic War, the chief of staff of the sapper brigade. Since the fall of 1942 - lieutenant colonel. Since 1943 - lecturer at the officers' school of engineers. In April 1944, he was sent to the Polish Army, worked as a senior lecturer on sapper training at the Higher Infantry School in Ryazan. From the autumn of 1944, he was a colonel of the sapper troops, and from September 1945, he was head of the combat training department in the Military Engineering Department of the Polish Ministry of National Defense. From March 1946, Deputy Head of the Engineering Department of the Polish Ministry of National Defense, from December 27, 1949 - Head of the 4th Division of the General Staff of the Polish Army. From February 1, 1951 - Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Sapper Forces of the Military Technical Academy of Warsaw [1] .
May 31, 1954 by order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR was promoted to major general. In the autumn of 1955 he returned to the USSR [1] .
Awards
Poland
- Officer Cross of the Order of the Revival of Poland (1945)
- Golden Cross of Merit (1946, 1954)
- Silver Cross of Merit (1946)
- Silver Medal "Armed Forces in the Service of the Motherland" (1954)
USSR
- Order of the Red Star (1945)
- Order of the Red Banner
- Medal "For Military Merit" (1944)
- Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Królikowski, 2010 , s. 331—333.
- ↑ Our stories and memories. Episodes from the life of ancestors (rus.)
Literature
- Janusz Królikowski. Generałowie i admirałowie Wojska Polskiego 1943-1990. - Toruń, 2010. - T. I: AH.