Zverev, Grigory Alexandrovich

Born in the family of a boiler worker. He graduated from the two-year city school, the infantry command courses of Yekaterinoslav ( 1922 ), passed the exams for the infantry school course ( 1924 ). He graduated from the Higher Rifle Tactical Advanced Training Courses for the Commanding Personnel “Shot” ( 1930 ), the Military Academy named after MV Frunze ( 1940 ).

• Since 1919 he served in the Red Army, participated in battles against the white troops of General P.N. Wrangel .
• Since 1926 - member of the Communist Party.
• Since 1926 - company commander of the 224th Infantry Regiment of the 75th Infantry Division .
• In 1931 - 1933 he was the head of the 2nd department at the headquarters of the Letichevsky fortified area.
• In 1933-1936, the chief of staff of the 224th Infantry Regiment.
• In 1936-1937 - commander of the 289th Infantry Regiment.
• Since 1937 - Chief of Staff of the 19th Infantry Regiment.
• Since 1938, it was in the development of the NKVD , it was repeatedly planned to be arrested on suspicion of participating in a military conspiracy - three arrested colleagues gave testimony to it, two of which refused to testify, and one was shot.
• In 1939 - 1940 he participated in the campaign of the Red Army in Western Ukraine , in the Soviet-Finnish war. He commanded the 2nd Infantry Division of the Finnish People’s Army (FNA), which has been in the 7th Army’s area of ​​operations on the Karelian Isthmus since December 1939. The division was located in the second echelon. In March 1940, the division was sent to the front line, during the storming of Vyborg it carried out mainly auxiliary tasks, was engaged in covering the rear and flanks of the formations and units of the 7th Army moving forward.
• Since May 1940 - Chief of Infantry of the 146th Infantry Division of the Kiev Military District
• Since March 1941 - commander of the 190th Infantry Division , which was part of the 6th Army.
• In August 1941, the 190th Infantry Division under the command of Colonel Zverev was surrounded near Uman , its commander was wounded and taken prisoner on August 11, 1941. He was kept in camps near Uman and Vinnitsa . He posed as an ordinary Shevchenko, a Ukrainian by nationality, was released and, having made his way from Ukraine to the Bryansk forests, went in the fall of 1941 to the location of the Red Army near Orel .
• After leaving the encirclement, he was arrested, accused of espionage, imprisoned, then released.
• Since January 1942 , he was the commander of the 8th Semipalatinsk Rifle Division , and then was appointed downgrading as the commander of the 323rd Rifle Brigade . In this capacity, he was engaged in the formation of marching regiments, sent to the front.
• Since the fall of 1942 - on the Voronezh Front, deputy commander of the 127th Infantry Division.
• Since March 1943 - commander of the 350th Rifle Division , military commandant of Kharkov . In the same month he was again surrounded, when breaking out of it he was severely shell-shocked and captured on March 22 .

In March - July 1943 he was held in prisoner of war camps in Ukraine and Poland . In the summer of 1943 he expressed a desire to join the "Vlasov" movement, in July he was released and sent to the Dabendorf ROA school , he was involved in the inspection of prisoner-of-war camps and work teams. At the end of 1944, he selected volunteers for the armed forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) in Norway - in total, he attracted about 300 people.

Since February 1945 - Major General and Commander of the Second Division of the Armed Forces KONR . He led the formation of the division on the basis of various Russian volunteer units in the German service. The division included three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a supply regiment, two anti-tank anti-aircraft battalions, two separate combat engineer battalions, and one separate communications battalion. The total number is 11,865 people. The division was part of the Southern Group of the Armed Forces of Cond.

At the beginning of May 1945 he was with his division in Austria . At the same time, he fell into a severe depression, aggravated by the fact that his wife decided to commit suicide, took poison and slowly died ^[1] .

May 5 received an order from F.I. Trukhin to assemble the 2nd division into a fist near the village of Lipnice, where the headquarters was located, and did not fulfill it. On the night of May 6–7, Trukhin’s new order was followed to transfer the division to the area of ​​deployment of the KONR Armed Forces headquarters and officer school of Major General M. A. Meandrova , but this order is not complied with. On May 8, he arrived at a meeting at the headquarters of the KONR Armed Forces and gave assurances that he would fulfill the third order, but the division remained in place. May 9 buried his wife ^[1] .

In the context of the approaching units of the Red Army, he dissolved the division and fled to the territory controlled by the American armed forces, which, however, allowed their Soviet allies to carry out special operations to detain "Vlasov" and on "their" territory . I tried to kill myself with a shot in the right temple. He survived, having lost his right eye. On the same night captured ^[1] .

Since 1945 he was held in prison in Moscow. He pleaded guilty to the investigation and trial. Sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR . August 1, 1946 hanged in the courtyard of Butyrskaya prison . The remains of the executed were cremated and buried in the nameless moat of the Donskoy Monastery ^[2] .

• Aleksandrov K. M. Officer Corps of the Army of Lieutenant General A. A. Vlasov: Biographical Reference. - SPb., 2001.
• Zalessky K. A. Who was who in World War II. Allies of Germany. - M .: AST , 2004 .-- T. 2 .-- 492 p. - ISBN 5-271-07619-9 .

• Biography Zvereva G. A. on the site "Chronos"
• The fate of Colonel Zverev