Ivan Efimovich Petrov

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Ivan Yefimovich Petrov ( Russian Иван Ефимович Петров ., Scientific transliteration Ivan Efimovič Petrov ; born 18 jul. / The thirtieth September  1896 greg. In Trubchevsk , Oblast Bryansk , † 7. April 1958 in Moscow ) was a Soviet Army General and Hero of the Soviet Union .

Life

Petrov came from a working class family and attended a teachers' college until 1916. After that, he entered the military school and in 1917 became an ensign in the Tsarist army of Russia. In 1918 Petrov joined the Communist Party and the Red Army with which he took part in the civil war. He was involved in the suppression of the anarchist uprising in Samara and the Ural Cossacks Beltschechows. During the Polish-Soviet War , Petrov was the regimental commissar.

After the civil war, Petrov was given command of an independent cavalry division, and later of a regiment and a brigade. 1931–1933 he was commander of the 1st Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division, 1933–1940 head and commissioner of the Tashkent United Military Schools (from 1937 Tashkent Infantry School) and from 1940 infantry inspector for Central Asia. On June 4, 1940, when the ranks of general in the Red Army were established, Petrov was promoted to major general. In March 1941, Petrov was appointed commander of the newly formed 27th Mechanized Corps in Central Asia.

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union , the formation of the corps was accelerated and relocated to the Brjansk Front . After the decision to dissolve the MechKorps on July 8, 1941, the 27th MechKorps was dissolved on July 15. Petrov was given command of a cavalry division. On August 20, 1941, he was appointed commander of the 25th Chapayevsk Rifle Division and was responsible for the defense of Odessa. On October 5, 1941, he was subordinated to the coastal army, which led the evacuation of Odessa to the Crimea . In this capacity, Petrow defended Sevastopol in the Battle of Sevastopol 1941-1942 for which he was promoted to Lieutenant General on October 14, 1942 .

From March 1943 he was Chief of Staff and from May Commander of the North Caucasus Front . For his service in the Novorossiisk-Taman operation of the liberation Taman Peninsula , Maikop , Krasnodar and Novorossiysk led, he was on 27 August 1943, Colonel-General and on October 9, 1943, Army General transported.

On November 20, 1943, the newly established Independent Coast Army was subordinated to him. After the failed landing on the Kerch peninsula in February 1944, Petrov was removed from his post and added to the Fuehrer's reserve as Colonel General.

Petrov was given command of the 33rd Army on the Western Front on March 13, 1944 , before being appointed commander of the 2nd Belarusian Front on April 12, 1944 and the 4th Ukrainian Front on August 6, 1944 . After his probation, he was returned to his old rank as Army General on October 26, 1944.

In March 1945, Petrov became Chief of Staff of the 1st Ukrainian Front . For his skillful leadership in the Berlin and Prague operations, his initiative and selflessness, Petrov was honored on May 29, 1945 as a Hero of the Soviet Union.

After the war he was in command of the Turkestan Military District and was First Deputy Inspector General of the Soviet Army from 1952 to 1953, then Chief of the Headquarters for Combat Training and Sports. Most recently, he was First Deputy Commander in Chief of the Land Forces and Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.

Petrov died on April 7, 1958 and was buried in the Novodevich Cemetery in Moscow .

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SURNAME Petrov, Ivan Efimovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Петров, Иван Ефимович (Russian); Petrov, Ivan Efimovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet army general
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Trubchevsk , Bryansk Oblast
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1958
Place of death Moscow