Boris Sergeyevich Bacharow

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Boris Sergejewitsch Bacharow (Борис Сергеевич Бахаров; born September 10, 1902 in Demjansk , Novgorod Governorate ; † July 16, 1944 in the village of Shakuny near Pruschany , Brest Oblast ) was a Soviet major general of the armored forces .

Life

Boris Bacharow was born in Demyansk in Novgorod Oblast in 1902 . From October 1918 to May 1919 he completed a technical course at the Nikolayevsk School in Petrograd. In October 1917 he was a member of the Red Guard and the Rybinsk Division. In May 1919 he joined the Red Army and served in the 10th Reserve Rifle Regiment in Krasnoye Selo , where operations against troops under General NN Yudenitsch took place. In August 1919 he fell ill with typhus and in October was sent to the 691st military hospital on the Western Front to be cured. In May 1920 Bacharow was sent to the intelligence battalion of the 10th Rifle Division and took part in the Soviet-Polish War . After the Russian Civil War he was demobilized in May 1921 but drafted into the Red Army again in February 1924. He was regimental clerk in the headquarters of the 59th Rifle Regiment (the 20th Rifle Division) and in October 1924 appointed to the political council of a company. In October 1925 he was sent to the military school, after which he returned to the 59th Rifle Regiment in August 1926 and served successively as a political officer of a company and as a military commissar of a regiment. In May 1929 he was sent to study at the Frunze Military Academy , after which in May 1932 he was appointed chief of the operations department of the 4th Mechanized Brigade in the Belarusian Military District. In the same year he completed the technical extension courses for tank commanders in Leningrad . In May 1936 he was appointed commander of the Training Battalion of the 10th Mechanized Brigade, and in November 1937 he assumed the same position with the 18th Mechanized Brigade. From October 1938 until the beginning of the Second World War he acted as chief of the armored forces of the Kharkov military district . In November 1939 he was appointed commander of the 52nd Panzer Brigade and in March 1941 commander of the 50th Panzer Division.

In World War II

When the war broke out in June 1941, he was in command of the 50th Panzer Division in the 25th Mechanized Corps on the Western Front . On July 15, Colonel Bacharow led an advance behind the German lines in the area of ​​the Bychow railway stadium. He attacked a German convoy from an ambush and destroyed 35 trucks and 12 cannons. During the Battle of Smolensk , his armored division took part in the defensive battles, the 50th Armored Division was decimated and renamed the 150th Armored Brigade in September, which was assigned to the mobile group of Major General AN Yermakov during the Battle of Bryansk . In December the brigade took part in the successful Jelezer operation and on December 6th was able to enter the liberated Jelez from the north as the first unit , after which the 150th tank brigade participated in the encirclement of the German XXXIV. Army Corps .

In June 1942 Bacharow was appointed chief of staff and in July commander of the 17th Panzer Corps, on September 11 of the same year he was appointed commander of the 18th Panzer Corps and on October 14, 1942 major general. His 18th Panzer Corps took part in the fighting of the Voronezh-Kastornoye operation and in the third battle for Kharkov in the spring of 1943 . In the summer of 1943, the 18th Panzer Corps under Bacharow took part in the Battle of Kursk as part of the 5th Guards Armored Army . After his tank units withdrew on July 12 during the Battle of Prokhorovka without the permission of higher authorities, he was removed from the post of corps commander on July 25, after which he was appointed deputy commander of the 9th Panzer Corps.

In September 1943 he was appointed commander of the 9th Panzer Corps that took part in the fighting during the Chernigov-Pripyater and Gomel-Rechitza operations, as well as the Battle of the Dnieper . For the share of its troops in Operation Bagration and the liberation of Bobruisk , the 9th Panzer Corps was given the honorary name "Bobruisker" and for the liberation of Baranowitschi it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner . On the morning of July 16, 1944, the German group near Pruschany on the road to Brest was surrounded by Bacharov's tank corps. Major General Bacharow decided not to let the Germans out of the encirclement and went to the front line at 7 a.m. to check the defense of the 23rd tank brigade near the village of Shakuny. He was killed by a direct hit from a German anti-tank gun. Major General Bacharov was buried on Bobruisk's Pobedji Victory Square, and a T-34 tank model was installed on his grave.

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SURNAME Bacharow, Boris Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бахаров, Борис Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet major general of the armored forces
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Demyansk
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1944
Place of death Shakuny village near Pruschany