Avksenti Mikhailovich Gorodnyansky

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Avksenty Mikhailovich Gorodnjanski (Russian: Авксентий Михайлович Городнянский * 3 / 13. March 1896 in the village Taly, today District Kantemirowski region Voronezh ; † 27. May 1942 in Barwenkowo , space Kharkov ) was a Soviet army leader and lieutenant general .

Life

Early military career

Gorodnjanski was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War in August 1915 and, after completing basic training, served in the 203rd Oryoler Reserve Battalion from November 1915. He was then transferred to the 419th Atkarsk Infantry Regiment on the Western Front and from June 1916 fought with the 501st Sarapuler Infantry Regiment of the 126th Infantry Division in the Romanian theater of war , where he was appointed platoon leader . He was wounded in August 1917 and after a hospital stay he did not return to his unit in September. On April 1, 1918, he volunteered for the Red Talowka Partisan Detachment and was soon elected leader of this department, after which he fought against the Austrian and German invaders.

In the Red Army

In August 1918 he joined the Red Army and completed the Orjol infantry course. He completed his studies in April 1919 and joined the 1st Samara Jäger Regiment and fought in the civil war, first as deputy and then as leading company commander. In July 1919 his regiment near Orenburg was restructured into the 200th Rifle Regiment of the 67th Rifle Brigade. It led first a company and then a battalion against the white Ural Army under WS Tolstow , then on the southern front against the White Guards under PN Wrangel in northern Tauria and in the Crimea . Since 1919 he was a member of the RCP and since 1921 he served in the same brigade in Simferopol . In July 1922 he was sent to study and in 1924 he completed the III. Comintern named shooting and tactics advanced training courses "Wystrel" of the Red Army. From May 1924 he served in the 8th Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Rifle Division (Feodosia), where he became adjutant to the head of the regimental school, then deputy head of the division's economic section. In January 1934 he was transferred to the Volga Military District and deputy commander of the 1st Tatar Rifle Regiment, from June 1934 he commanded the 10th Territorial Rifle Battalion of the 4th Territorial Rifle Regiment in Ufa as a major . He was promoted to colonel in December 1936 and commanded the 292nd Mountain Rifle Regiment from January 1937. In September 1937 he was transferred to the head of the regiment from Ufa to Kamchatka and accepted into the Pacific Fleet. On January 21, 1939 he was appointed brigade commander and since September 1938 he commanded the 101st Rifle Division of the independent 2nd Red Banner Army in the Petropavlovsk area on the Far Eastern Front . On June 4, 1940, he was appointed major general and in October 1940 he was appointed commander of the 129th Rifle Division in the same army.

In the Patriotic War

At the beginning of the Second World War, the 129th Division was transferred to the western front to the 19th Army and took part in the Battle of Smolensk . Under the command of General AM Gorodnyansky, the 129th Rifle Division fought tough street battles in Smolensk for more than two weeks . For this, Gorodnyansky was awarded the Order of Lenin on August 9th . On August 31, 1941, he was appointed commander of the 13th Army on the Brjansk Front . In September took part in the unsuccessful Roslavl-Novosybkov operation . At the beginning of the German attack on Moscow during the Oryol-Bryansk defense operation, the 13th Army was surrounded south of Bryansk on October 9 . However, the army commander managed to maintain control of the troops, organize the defense and the breakout. Although with considerable losses but maintaining the combat strength, the 13th Army broke through the encirclement on October 23 and immediately occupied a new line of defense between Belew and Lgow . In November 1941, the 13th Army was transferred to the Southwest Front, whereby the troops had to withdraw step by step to the city of Yefremov . At the beginning of December, General Gorodnjanski successfully led the army in the Jelets operation : he assembled an attack group from the reserve on the southwest front, which broke through the German defense and liberated the city of Jelets . In early January 1942 he was appointed commander of the 6th Army on the Southwest Front and took part in the Barvenkovo-Losowaya operation . On March 27, 1942, he was appointed lieutenant general. During the Battle of Kharkov in May 1942, the 6th Army under Gorodnjanski broke through the German defense and in a few days advanced to a depth of 50 km. Soon, however, as a result of misjudgments by the high command of the Southwest Front, its own troops were surrounded and smashed. Unable to blow up the encirclement, Gorodnjanski was killed in the eruption between May 26 and 27, according to some statements, or he committed suicide from other sources. He was buried by the Germans on the Orlinoyarsk farm in the Petrovsky district of the Kharkov region. After the liberation of the Kharkov region, the commander's remains were excavated and buried in the Pushkin cemetery in Kharkov .

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SURNAME Gorodnyansky, Avksenti Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Городнянский, Авксентий Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Taly village, today Kantemirovsky district, Voronezh region
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1942
Place of death at Barwenkowo