Fyodor Mikhailovich Kharitonov

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Kharitonov (Russian Фёдор Михайлович Харитонов; born January 12 . Jul / 24. January  1899 greg. In Wassiljewskoje in Rybinsk , government Yaroslavl ; † 28. May 1943 in Moscow ) was a Soviet lieutenant general and military leader in World War II .

Life

Kharitonov was born on 1899 in the village of Vasilyevskoye (now in the urban area of ​​Rybinsk). In his home village he completed a four-year school, later worked in a company in the city of Rybinsk and was socially committed. In 1918 he joined the Communist Party and in the spring of 1919 he volunteered in the Red Army .

In the Red Army

During the Russian Civil War in April 1919 he was drafted into the 2nd Yaroslavl Regiment of the Red Army. With parts of his regiment he fought on the red eastern front against the troops of Admiral AV Kolchak . In September 1919 he was wounded and captured in a battle near Uralsk . On the second day, he escaped from custody and returned to his regiment. He was cured in a hospital, then worked until February 1920 as head of the state control department and instructor of the information department of the district committee of the CPSU in Rybinsk. After that he was sent to Ukraine , where he worked on the Alexandrovsk City Revolutionary Committee . During the advance of General PN Wrangel's troops , he joined the communist special unit at the headquarters of the Red 13th Army in June 1920 and was wounded again in the fighting with the Wrangel troops. After the treatment he took on important political positions in Rybinsk until 1922. First he was head of the state control department, then head of information for the political department in the district council. In February 1922 he was appointed adjutant to the Rybinsk District Military Commissar, and from September 1924 he served as District Military Commissar. In January 1927, he was transferred to Ryazan Province as military commissar of the Spassky District Military Registration and Recruiting Office. Since December 1928 he was head of the office of the Ryazan provincial district and from November 1929 senior political officer of the military commissariat of Ryazan province.

From November 1930 to August 1931 he completed the higher tactics and shooting course of the Comintern "Wystrel" in Moscow. He then took over the post of battalion commander in the 243rd Rifle Regiment (81st Rifle Division) in the Moscow Military District. In October 1931 he was appointed commander of the 16th Rifle Regiment of the 6th Rifle Division in the same military district. Since May 1937 he commanded the 2nd special regiment for airborne missions. In June of the same year he was appointed chief of staff of the 17th Rifle Division and in August 1939 as chief of staff of the 57th Rifle Corps. In November 1939 he was awarded the rank of Brigade Commander . In June 1940 he was promoted to major general and in August 1940 he was appointed head of the Troop Training Department at Moscow Military District Headquarters. After he had completed further leadership courses at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army in the spring of 1941, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Airborne Corps in the military district of Kharkov in May 1941 .

In the Patriotic War

Since July 17, 1941, Major General Kharitonov was Deputy Chief of Staff of the Southern Front and took on special tasks of the Front Military Council. He organized the defense in the Belaya Tserkov region to Uman and led successful battles against the tanks of the attacking German Panzer Group 1 near Christinowka for 10 days . When the German troops advanced against Zaporozhye , he brought order to the retreating units of the 274th Rifle Division and organized the defense of the city. On September 9, 1941, Major General Kharitonov was appointed commander of the 9th Army , whose troops defended the crossings on the Dnieper south of Nikolayev as far as Kachowka. In late September and October 1941, his army took part in the defense of the Donbass . Kharitonov was able to escape the German pursuers at Mariupol , stopped again at Kuibysheve and withdrew to Taganrog in early October , where the three armies of the southern front tried to hold the line between Pavlograd and the Sea of ​​Azov . The 9th Army was almost destroyed during the Battle of the Sea of ​​Azov . During the Battle of Rostov , the 9th Army counterattacked the southern front as part of a counterattack planned by Tymoshenko . By November 29, the 9th and 56th Armies had repulsed the enemy and Rostov was soon back in Soviet hands.

From January 1942, his troops took part in the Barvenkovo-Losovaya operation . The 9th Army defended the area between Isjum and Barvenkowo and attacked Slavyansk and Dolgenkaya via the southern outskirts of Barvenkowo and the Golaja Dolina area . Kharitonov moved his headquarters from Kamenka to the Peskov region (on the left bank of the Seversky Donets ) without coordinating this intention with the front-line commander General RJ Malinovsky . After the unsuccessful attacks by the troops of the Southwest Front in May 1942, Major General Kharitonov was removed from his position and, at the urging of the command of the Southwest Front, brought to justice. He was accused of having performed an unauthorized operation, but he was able to exonerate himself from his testimony. In July 1942 he took command of the 6th Army of the Voronezh Front , which successfully operated in the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad operation . In December 1942 he was given the rank of lieutenant general and his troops were involved in the counterattack of Operation Saturn in the central section of the Don . In January 1943 his troops fought successfully in Operation Ostrogoschsk-Rossosh and then took part in the battles to liberate the Donbas and in the defense against the German counter-offensive in the area south of Kharkov. Chartionov had to leave his position surprisingly and died of a serious illness on May 28, 1943. He was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

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SURNAME Charitonov, Fyodor Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Харитонов, Фёдор Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Rybinsk , Yaroslavl Governorate
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1943
Place of death Moscow