Andrei Wassiljewitsch Chruljow

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Andrei Wassiljewitsch Chruljow

Andrei Vasilyevich Chruljow ( Russian Андрей Васильевич Хрулёв ; born September 18 . Jul / the 30th September  1892 greg. In Bolshaya Aleksandrovka , in today's Rajon Kingissepp , Leningrad Oblast ; † 9. June 1962 in Moscow ) was a Soviet general and politician. In 1942/43 he was Minister of the USSR as People's Commissar for Railways .

Life

He was part of the Red Army since 1918 and became a political officer in the 1st Cavalry Army of the Red Army during the Civil War  . After the war he remained in military service, in the 1930s in the logistics staff of the Defense Commission. After his staff positions in logistics during the raids on Poland, the Baltic States and Finland, he was appointed lieutenant general in August 1941 to head the rear services of the Red Army.

Khrulyov's restructuring included the introduction of logistics staffs for each individual front , as well as the reduction of the depots and logistics units within the units from the division level downwards, as well as the attempt, wherever possible, to use women in the logistics area and to transfer the men freed up as a result to the combat units. Because of his organizational talent, he was promoted to People's Commissar for Railways in 1942; he was also able to increase the performance of the Soviet railways and improve the fuel supply by prioritizing the emergency trains. Due to the German advance in the summer of 1942, the transport system almost collapsed again, so that Chruljow was replaced by his predecessor Kaganowitsch and his position as head of the rear service was resumed.

In 1942/43 he was also Minister of the USSR as People's Commissar for Railways .

In 1951 he resigned from military service as an army general and was subsequently deputy minister of the USSR for building materials, road construction and construction.

Under pressure from the Soviet general staff, he was buried in an urn in the Kremlin wall against the original resistance of Khrushchev .

The St. Petersburg Military Academy for Rear Services and Transport "AWKhruljow" , as well as the order "General Armii Chruljow" donated in 2004 for merited logisticians of the Russian armed forces are named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Evgeny Dema: Veliki truschenik woiny . In: Krasnaya Zvezda . tape 7 , no. 510 , February 24, 2003 ( redstar.ru ( memento of July 30, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed February 3, 2010]).
  2. ^ Walter Scott Dunn: The Soviet economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945 . Praeger Publishers, 1995, ISBN 0-275-94893-5 , pp. 52 f .
  3. ^ A b Mark Harrison: Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 05215293790-275-94893-5 . S. 176 ff .
  4. ^ Yevgeny Schirnow: "Sidel-sidel, utrom prosnulis, a on umer" . In: Kommersant-Wlast . February 1, 2002 ( kommersant.ru ).
personal data
SURNAME Chruljow, Andrei Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Хрулёв, Андрей Васильевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolshaya Alexandrowka
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1962
Place of death Moscow