Fyodor Nikititsch Remesow

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Fyodor Nikitich Remezov ( Russian Фёдор Никитич Ремезов , born May 26, jul. / 7. June  1896 greg. In the village Kaslinsk, Ujesd Yekaterinburg , Perm province , † 6. June 1990 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet lieutenant general and military leader during the Great Patriotic War .

Life

Although he attended a public school in 1907, he did not continue his education until more than ten years later in 1918 by completing four months of general education courses.

Early career

On June 13, 1918, an Eastern Front was created by the Red Army in the Urals to stop the advancing parts of the Czechoslovak Corps . Two days later, on June 15, Fyodor Remesov joined the Red Army and served in the 1st Mountain Rifle Regiment of the 2nd Ural Rifle Division. During the Russian Civil War he took part as a soldier and company commander in the fighting against the armed forces of the White Guard under Admiral AV Kolchak . He became the commander of a separate battalion of the 33rd Kuban Division in the 9th Army, which fought on the southern front against the White Guard under General Pyotr Wrangel and participated in the suppression of the uprising in Vitebsk province .

In 1919 he completed the Vyatka commanding course and in 1921 attended the higher tactical war school in the General Staff of the Red Army. In the interwar period Remesow worked successively as an adjutant, then as a senior assistant to the chief of operations in the staff of a rifle division, and as chief of staff in a rifle regiment. From 1930 he was head of a section of the Volga military district and from April 1931 commander of a rifle regiment, in 1932 he studied at the Frunze Military Academy .

He was promoted to colonel on February 17, 1936 . He rose only slowly in his career, because he had not served like many other comrades in the 1st Red Cavalry Army , where many commanders got promotions faster, nor was he one of the comrades of KE Voroshilov or SM Budyonnys , who had many comrades in arms helped to higher posts. It was only after the mass repression of 1937–1938 , which led to a considerable decline in the Red Army command personnel, that Remesow's career accelerated.

In June 1937 he was appointed commander of the 45th Rifle Division of the 8th Rifle Corps in the Special Military District of Kiev and on February 17, 1938 he was appointed brigade commander. On July 15, he became commander of the 15th Rifle Corps and on July 22, commander of Shitomir Army Group . At the end of September and beginning of October 1918 the troops of his army group were on alert with concentration west of Nowograd-Wolynski, in order to possibly help Czechoslovakia, which was attacked by the German Reich . Only after the occupation of the Sudetenland by Germany, the combat readiness was lifted. On July 23, 1938, he was appointed division commander and on February 9, 1939, corps commander. On July 22, 139 he was appointed commander of the troops of the Transbaikal Military District, which were directly involved in the Battle of Chalchin Gol . On May 4, 1940 he was appointed lieutenant general and on May 11 the commander of the troops of the Military District Oryol appointed. As expected, he moved to his new place of employment with his family, wife Olga Pawlowna (born 1900) and daughter Ljuba (born 1927).

In the Patriotic War

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Remesov temporarily commanded the 20th Army in the Oryol military district between June 25 and early July 1941 . Then from July 8th he succeeded the fatally wounded Lieutenant General PM Filatov , commander of the 13th Army on the Western Front . He fought heavy defensive battles with the German Panzer Group 3 in the Minsk fortress area and had to retreat to Borissow behind the Berezina River , then swerving south, passing his troops across the Dnieper to the Kopys and Novy Bychow line for defense. Since July 10th, the 13th Army, under the command of Remezov, took part in the Battle of Smolensk . On the morning of July 12th, Lieutenant General Remesov tried to organize a counterattack and was seriously injured when he personally led a counterattack by the 24th Rifle Corps. From September 4 to October 18, 1941 Remesov was the commander of the troops in the North Caucasus Military District . In October 1941 he took over command of the 56th Army , newly established on the Transcaucasus Front , which defended the city of Rostov-on-Don . His decision on October 17 to attack advancing German tanks in the area of ​​the Koschkino station (near Taganrog ) enabled the cadets of the Rostov Infantry School and the 31st Rifle Division to strike back. The 56th Army received a necessary respite, but had to evacuate the city on November 20 and 21 under pressure from German forces and return to the left bank of the Don . During the Rostov offensive operation , together with the 9th Army, Rostov was able to be freed from November 29th. In mid-December, the 56th Army advanced to the Mius River and was concentrated north of the city of Taganrog, where it went into defense. On December 24th, the commander of the southern front, Tscherevichenko, and three days later, Remesov, were unexpectedly recalled on instructions from the Stavka . In January 1942 FN Remesow was appointed commander of the Southern Urals military district. His main task at this time was the preparation of reserve units and the formation of new formations and units for the fight against the German invasion. From April 15, 1942 until the end of the war in May 1945, he was finally commander of the 45th Army on the Transcaucasus Front. These army troops had the task of covering the state border of the USSR with Turkey and protecting the connections with Iran , where, according to the Treaty of 1921, Soviet troops were stationed, the headquarters of the 45th Army was in Yerevan . In August 1942 Remesow was injured again in a plane crash, but soon returned to his position. At the end of the war, the 45th Army was withdrawn from Iran and disbanded.

After the war

In the summer of 1945 he became head of a faculty of the Frunze Military Academy, from January 1953 he was deputy head of the Dzerzhinsky military academy and from May 1953 deputy commander of the troops of the Moscow military district. After retiring in 1959, he lived in Leningrad. On April 6, 1985, on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class.

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SURNAME Remesow, Fyodor Nikititsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ремезов, Фёдор Никитич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaslinsk village, Ujesd Yekaterinburg , Perm Governorate
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1990
Place of death Leningrad