Filipp Michailowitsch Cherokmanow

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Filipp Mikhailovich Tscherokmanow (Филипп Михайлович Черокманов; born November 3 jul. / 15. November  1899 greg. In the village Marowka, Rajon Issa , Oblast Pensa , † 8. June 1978 in Voronezh ) was a Soviet lieutenant general (1944) and Hero of the Soviet Union (1943).

Life

Cherokmanov was born in 1899 in the village of Marowka (today the Issa ( Penza ) district ) in a farming family. In 1917, before the October Revolution , he worked as a farm worker and shepherd for the landowners Roschnowski in the village of Solovtsovo (Issa district).

In the Red Army

Cherokmanov joined the Red Army in May 1919 and served as a soldier in an independent Wolski battalion. He completed the machine gun course in Penza and then took part in the Russian Civil War. In 1920 he graduated from the regimental school with the 22nd Rifle Regiment in the Volga military district . In April of the same year, Cherokmanov was appointed deputy head of the Penza Food Administration. In January 1921 he was appointed platoon leader of the 1st Penza Rifle Regiment of the 1st Rifle Division of the Volga Military District and in this position participated in the suppression of the uprising in Tambov . At the end of 1922 he attended an infantry course with the 112th Rifle Division of the Volga military district and then served in the 1st Rifle Regiment of this division as a platoon commander and since October 1924 in the same division in the 3rd Rifle Regiment successively as adjutant, company commander and as Battalion commander .

In 1926 he joined the ranks of the CPSU . From October 1933 he was in command of a battalion in the 183rd Rifle Regiment, head of the division school for young commanders and adjutant to the chief of the operations department of the 112th division. After he had completed the higher shooting course "Wystrel", he was appointed major and chief of staff of the 183rd Rifle Regiment in the same division in 1936 and in April 1937 the post of assistant to the head of the personnel department of the Volga military district was transferred to him. In October of the same year he took over the post of head of the inspectors' group in the military council of the same district. In February 1938 he was appointed commander of the 157th Rifle Regiment (the 53rd Rifle Division). From November 1938 to May 1939 he completed advanced training courses for senior commanders at the General Staff Academy of the Red Army in Moscow.

In the Patriotic War

On December 29, 1939, he was promoted to colonel after he had already received command of the 148th Rifle Division in October 1939. As part of the 13th and 3rd Armies , the 148th Rifle Division fought in the defense of Belarus from June 1941 and in the Battle of Smolensk in July . During the fighting near Shumyachi, the division was fighting German tanks. Cherokmanov was wounded and almost fell into German captivity. At night he escaped to the “Krassny Krimski” collective farm, where he was hidden by the collective farmer NF Koslow. A month later, after his wounds were almost healed, he crossed the line and made his way to the Soviet troops. Of 16 September 1941 to February 1942, he commanded again the 148th Rifle Division, which during the Jelezer operation on December 9 Yelets the city and on December 25, 1941 Livny freed. From February 10, 1942 to June 27, 1943 he commanded the 6th Guards Rifle Division, which defended positions in the Kursk front arc in the Ponyri area . He was appointed major general by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on May 3, 1942 . In July 1943 he was appointed commander of the 27th Rifle Corps of the 65th Army . During the Chernigov-Pripyat operation , his 27th rifle corps crossed the Desna and Sosch rivers with minimal losses . On October 15, 1943, two rifle divisions of his corps began to cross the Dnieper near the village of Lojew in the Gomel district , where the bridgehead could be strengthened by October 16, 1943. With Decree No. 1703 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 30, 1943, Cherkmanov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union including the award of the Order of Lenin (No. 15130) and the Order of the Golden Star.

The 27th Rifle Corps took part in the Order of the Golden Star in 1944 and the Lemberg-Sandomierz offensive that followed and liberated the cities of Berestechko , Radechow and Yaroslav on the San section one after the other . His troops and other parts of the army secured the Vistula bridgehead at Sandomierz and took part in the Vistula-Oder operation in early 1945 . By a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on February 11, 1945, Major General Cherokmanov was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General . The 27th Rifle Corps, as part of the 13th Army (Colonel General NA Puchow ), took an active part in the Cottbus-Potsdam operation and was among the first to cross the Elbe .

post war period

After the war, Cherokmanov continued to command the 27th Corps until March 1947. After completing higher academic courses at the Voroshilov Military Academy in March 1948 , he was appointed commander of the 29th Guards Rifle Corps. Since February 1951 he was deputy commander of the 3rd shock army in the group of the Soviet occupation forces in Germany and since November 1951 he was commander of the 7th Guard Army in the Transcaucasus military district . In July 1955, he was appointed first deputy commander of the troops of the Turkestani Military District. In August 1957, Lieutenant General Cherokmanov retired. He then lived in Voronezh , where he died in June 1978 and was buried in the Kominternowski cemetery.

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SURNAME Cherokmanov, Filipp Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Черокманов, Филипп Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Marovka village, Issa district
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1978
Place of death Voronezh