Vasiliev, Ivan Dmitrievich

Ivan Dmitrievich Vasiliev was born on September 21 ( October 3 ), 1897 (according to other sources, October 15 ^{[1] [2]} ) in St. Petersburg in a working class family.

He graduated from the 7th grade of the gymnasium.

World War I and Civil War

In May 1916, he was drafted into the ranks of the Russian Imperial Army , after which he was trained at a four-month course at the Pavlovsky Military Infantry School , after which he was sent to the 9th Infantry Regiment ( 3rd Infantry Division ), in which he took part in the fighting on the Romanian front , being the junior company officer, elected company commander. After the February Revolution, he became an elected battalion commander. At the end of December 1917, Second Lieutenant Vasiliev, together with a group of soldiers of the regiment in Petrograd , where at the end of February 1918 joined the Red Guard detachment and was appointed to the post of the quarterly Polustrovsky Commissariat, and then being the commander of the Red Guard detachment, took part in the protection of the city.

In December 1918 he was sent to the 1st Communist Food Squad named after Badayev, intended to carry out an additional reconnaissance in Ukraine . As a member of the food detachment, being a member of the collegium under the commissar of the detachment, head of the distribution and non-staff military unit, he took part in military operations against armed forces under the command of ataman N. A. Grigoriev in the territory of Krivorozhsky district , as well as against armed forces in the area of ​​the cities of Borzna and Chernihiv . In the same year he joined the RCP (b) .

In May 1919 he became ill with typhus , after which he was treated in a hospital in Kupyansk . After recovering in June of that year, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent to the 7th Army . Since September of the same year, being the company commander and battalion in the 2nd Infantry Division , he took part in military operations against troops under the command of General N.N. Yudenich in the area of Narva and Petrograd, as well as in battles for the cities of Gatchina , Tsarskoye Selo , Gdov and Yamburg . December 20 in the battle in the village of. Bottoms on the Plyussa River Vasiliev was wounded, after which he was treated in the Nikolaev hospital in Petrograd. After recovering in July 1920, he was placed at the disposal of the Political Directorate of the White Sea Military District , where he served as inspector for errands, commander and assistant commander for the political part of the territorial battalion, head of the personnel department and at the same time chief of staff of the territorial parts of the Arkhangelsk province . At the same time he graduated from accelerated methodological courses at the Political Administration of the White Sea Military District in Arkhangelsk .

Interwar

In July 1921 he was sent to study at the Higher Tactical Rifle School of command personnel , after which he was sent to the Petrograd Infantry School in 1922 , where he served as platoon commander, assistant company commander, junior tactical leader, battalion commander.

In September 1925 he was sent to study at the Military Academy of the Red Army , after which in July 1928 he was sent to the United Belarusian Military School , where he was appointed to the post of teacher of tactics, in October of the same year - to the post of head of the educational department of the same school.

In January 1931 - to the post of deputy chief of the 1st department of the headquarters of the Belarusian military district , but in November of the same year he was sent to study at the operational department of the MV Frunze Military Academy with retirement. After completing his studies in May 1932, he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the Kiev Mechanized Brigade ( Ukrainian Military District ), which was soon transformed into the 2nd separate mechanized brigade , and then relocated to the Far East and included in OKDVA . In May 1934 he was appointed commander and military commissar of the same brigade. In August 1936, "for success in the combat and political training of the brigade," Vasiliev was awarded the Order of Lenin .

In February 1937, he was appointed commander of the armored forces of the Primorsky OKDVA Group of Forces, however, on February 11, 1938 he was arrested on charges of art. 58-1b, 58-7, 58-8, 58-9, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR , after which he was under investigation in the regional prison of the city of Voroshilov , but was released on October 29, 1939 due to the dismissal of the case; in November, he was reinstated The Red Army and in December of that year was appointed to the post of teacher of tactics of the Higher Military School of Staff Service, in July 1940 - to the post of deputy commander of the 14th Panzer Division , and in March 1941 - to the post of commander of the 46th Panzer Division ( 21- th mechanized corps , Moscow Military District ).

World War II

With the outbreak of war, on June 23, he was appointed commander of the 14th Panzer Division, which conducted military operations during the Lepel counterattack , and then Daugavpils , Pskov and Novgorod directions.

In September 1941, he was appointed to the post of chief of the Solikamsk aerosledging school , in October 1942 - to the post of chief of staff of the 2nd Mechanized Corps ( Kalinin Front ), and on December 19 of that year - to the post of commander of the 19th Guards Rifle Division , which led offensive military operations during the Velikiye Luki operation .

On February 3, 1943, Colonel Vasilyev was appointed commander of the 19th Panzer Corps , which soon took part in the fighting during the Battle of Kursk , the Battle of the Dnieper and the Melitopol Offensive Operation . At the end of October 1943, the corps fought on the territory of Northern Tavria , during which the enemy troops retreated to the city of Kakhovka ( Kherson region ). Soon, in the area of ​​the village of Perekop, the corps under the command of Vasilyev crossed the Sivash , creating a bridgehead for the offensive in the Crimea . During the fighting in October near the city of Armyansk, Vasilyev was seriously injured, after which he was treated in a hospital.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 3, 1943, for the skillful command of the tank corps, courage and heroism shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders, tank lieutenant general Ivan Dmitrievich Vasiliev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Golden Medal Star . "

After recovering in January 1944, he returned to the post of commander of the 19th Panzer Corps, which from April of that year conducted offensive military operations on the Perekop Isthmus during the Crimean offensive operation , during which he was re-wounded on April 10, 1944 in the Armyansk region. In June of the same year, the corps was relocated to the Baltic states , where it soon took part in hostilities during the Belarusian and Baltic offensive operations , as well as in the blockade of the enemy troops in the territory of Courland .

In July 1945, Vasiliev was sent to the Far East and was appointed commander of the 10th Mechanized Corps ( 25th Army , 1st Far Eastern Front ), which soon took part in the fighting during the Manchu offensive during the Soviet-Japanese War . For the exemplary execution by parts of the corps of command assignments in military operations against enemy troops in the Far East, during the breakthrough of the Dunninsky fortified area , the liberation of the city of Girin, the corps was awarded the Order of the Red Banner .

Post-War Career

After the war, Vasiliev was in his former position. The 10th Mechanized Corps in January 1946 was transformed into the 10th Mechanized Division .

In June 1946 he was appointed to the post of head of the Combat Training Directorate of the commander of armored and mechanized forces of the Soviet Army , in June 1948 - to the post of head of the Military Academy of Armored and Mechanized Forces , in May 1954 - to the post of deputy chief of the 10th Directorate of the General Staff , in October 1954 - to the position of Inspector General for Armored and Mechanized Forces of the 10th Directorate of the General Staff, and in September 1956 - to the position of Deputy Chief of Armor nkovy troops of the Soviet Army.

Colonel General Vasiliev in January 1958 was appointed senior military adviser to the head of the Military Academy of the National People’s Army of the GDR , in September 1959 - to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff of the Joint Armed Forces of the States Parties to the Warsaw Treaty - Deputy Chief of the 10th Directorate of the General Staff of the USSR Armed forces for military equipment and armament of armored forces, and in January 1961 - as head of the 2nd management of the 10th Main Directorate of the General Staff - s mestitelya Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the United States - participants of the Warsaw Pact.

Colonel-General of the tank forces Ivan Dmitrievich Vasiliev resigned in March 1963 . He died on February 24, 1964 in Moscow . He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery (section 6, row 4, grave 4).

• Major General ( February 7, 1943 );
• Lieutenant General of Tank Forces ( October 27, 1943);
• Colonel General of the Tank Forces ( February 18, 1958 ).

• The Gold Star Medal (No. 1243; 11/3/1943);
• Three Orders of Lenin (08/17/1936, 11/3/1943, ...);
• Three Orders of the Red Banner (08.27.1943, 11.3.1944, ...);
• Two orders of Kutuzov 1st degree (06/29/1945, 09/08/1945);
• Order of Suvorov, 2 degrees (1943);
• Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (05.16.1944);
• Order of the Red Star ;
• Medals.

In honor of I. D. Vasiliev, the microdistrict in Armyansk ( Crimea ) is named.

• Team of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006 .-- T. 2 .-- S. 116-118. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .
• Shavrov I.E. 19th Red Banner Perekop Tank Corps. - Moscow: Jaguar, 1995

• Vasiliev, Ivan Dmitrievich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Biographies on the site of the Mehkorpus.
• Vasiliev Ivan Dmitrievich on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation