Kozmin Alexander Ivanovich (December 5, 1913, the village of Yuzovka , Bakhmut Uyezd , Yekaterinoslav Province , Russian Empire , now the city of Donetsk , Ukraine - February 24, 1988, Moscow ) - Soviet military leader, Colonel General (1970).
| Alexander Ivanovich Kozmin | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | December 5, 1913 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Yuzovka , Bakhmut Uyezd , Yekaterinoslav Province , Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | February 22, 1988 ( 74) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | Ground forces of the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1936 - 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Commanded | 24th motorized rifle division ; 4th Guards Rifle Corps ; 31st Army Corps | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940) The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Awards and prizes |
Foreign awards
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| Retired | since 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Biography
Russian. He graduated from high school. He worked as the head of the Krasnoye Luchsky city book distribution office in the Stalin Region .
Drafted into the Red Army on November 7, 1936 by the Stalin District Military Commissariat of the Stalin Region. He graduated from junior lieutenant courses in 1938. As part of the 34th Infantry Regiment of the 75th Infantry Division, he participated in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 .
By June 1941, Senior Lieutenant A. I. Kozmin served as an assistant chief of staff of the same regiment in the Belorussian Special Military District , in the Brest Region of the Belorussian SSR . The participant of the Great Patriotic War from the first day, together with the division, fought in the 4th Army of the Western Front . Participated in the tragic Bialystok-Minsk battle , was surrounded. He was considered missing [1] , but managed to remove from the encirclement a detachment of Red Army soldiers of 90 people and carried the Battle Banner of the regiment on his body.
In 1942 he graduated from regiment commander courses, after which he was appointed deputy commander of the 50th Rifle Regiment of the 15th Guards Rifle Division on the South-Western , Stalingrad and Don Fronts. In July-October 1942 he fought as the commander of the 47th Infantry Regiment of the same division. At the head of this regiment participated in the Battle of Stalingrad .
In 1943 he graduated from the crash course of the Military Academy of the Red Army named after M.V. Frunze with a gold medal . In 1943 he was chief of staff of the 18th Infantry Brigade of the 98th Infantry Division of the 37th Airborne Corps , then commander of the 20th Brigade of the same corps. From January 1944 until the Victory, he commanded the 302nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 98th Guards Rifle (from the end of 1944 - airborne) division . The division was formed in the Moscow Military District , from June 1944 it fought on the Karelian Front , from February 1945 on the 2nd Ukrainian and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts as part of the 9th Guards Army . He participated in the liberation of Hungary , Austria and Czechoslovakia . He distinguished himself in the Svir-Petrozavodsk offensive operation (for crossing the Svir River and breaking through the Finnish defense strip on the very first day he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner - order of August 3, 1944 [2] ), in the Vienna , Graz-Amstetten and Prague offensive operations. For breaking the German defense in western Hungary at the end of March 1945 he was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner by order of November 2, 1945 [3] .
Moreover, in the award sheet for the award of this order there is a note on the representation of the Guard Lieutenant Colonel A. N. Kozmin to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in the spring of 1945 [4] , but no corresponding award sheet has yet been found.
After the war, he served as chief of staff of the airborne division , from June 1954 to January 1958 he commanded the 24th infantry (from 1957 - 24th motorized infantry) division . In 1959 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR with a gold medal. From January 1959 - commander of the 4th Guards Rifle Corps , from May 1960 - commander of the 31st Special Army (from May 1961 - 31st Army) corps in the Transcaucasian Military District . From December 1962, he was head of the combat training department of the headquarters of the Leningrad military district , and from October 1965, he was the head of the combat training department of the headquarters of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany . From June 1968 to April 1974 he served as senior military representative of the Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the countries participating in the Warsaw Treaty Organization in the Polish Army .
After being at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces of the USSR from April to October 1974 he was transferred to the reserve.
Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU (was a member of the party already in 1941).
He was buried at Kuntsevsky cemetery [5] .
Military ranks
- lieutenant (1938),
- senior lieutenant (04.16.1940),
- captain (1941),
- major (06/11/1942),
- lieutenant colonel (05/07/1943),
- Colonel (04/29/1952),
- Major General (08/27/1957),
- lieutenant general (04.13.1964),
- Colonel General (07/29/1970).
Rewards
- Order of the October Revolution
- three orders of the Red Banner
- Order of the Patriotic War , 1st degree
- Order of the Red Star
- USSR medals, including "For the defense of Stalingrad" , "For the capture of Vienna"
- Legion of Honor Order (USA)
- two orders of Virtuti Military ( Poland )
Notes
- ↑ List of missing commanding officers who were in parts of the Western Special Military District. // HBS "Memory of the people"
- ↑ Award sheet and order on awarding in the OBD "Memory of the people"
- ↑ award sheet in the OBD "Memory of the people"
- ↑ The reverse side of the award sheet in the OBD "Memory of the People"
- ↑ Information on the website “Elite of the Armed Forces”
Literature
- Kalashnikov K.A., Dodonov I.Yu. High command staff of the USSR Armed Forces in the post-war period. References (1945-1975). Volume 1. Ust-Kamenogorsk: Media-Alliance, 2013. - ISBN: 978-601-7378-16-5. - S. 132-134.