Georgi Fyodorowitsch Sakharov

Georgi Fjodorowitsch Sakharov ( Russian Георгий Фёдорович Захаров ; * 23 April ^July / 5 May 1897 ^{greg. In} the village of Schilowo, Saratov province ; † January 26, 1957 in Moscow ) was a Soviet army general and in the Second World War 1944 commander of the 2. Belarusian front .

Life

Adolescence

His poor childhood in a peasant family of thirteen was bleak. Without a school, barely eleven years old, his father brought him to Saratov to work. As an errand boy in a nail factory, as a helper in a shoe factory and tailoring, most recently as a packer in a warehouse for about five years, he had a difficult childhood and youth. He received his primary school education on the side at a Sunday school in Saratov, where he completed the exams with the second performance group at the local secondary school.

Early military career

After the outbreak of the First World War , he entered the tsarist military service at the end of 1915. After graduating from Junker School in Chistopol , he was promoted to ensign in 1917 and appointed to Reserve Regiment No. 240. In July 1917 he served in the 1st Infantry Regiment as a NCO and platoon leader. In October 1917 he was made a lieutenant . He took part in the fight against the white Ural Cossacks on the Eastern Front. He became a member of the Red Army and fought against the White Guards on the Eastern Front from August 1919 . During the Russian Civil War he commanded a company in the 51st separate infantry battalion in the 4th Red Army from August 1919. In April 1920 he attended the officer infantry course in Saratov and was then wounded in fighting in the Urals. He was sent to Vladikavkaz to heal , where he was entrusted with the command of the 1st Infantry Battalion. In 1922 he was sent to Moscow to attend the Comintern's "Wystrel" shooting course. In 1929 he became Political Commissar of the 2nd Regiment of the Moscow Proletarian Division, at the same time he attended the evening course at the Frunze Military Academy . After graduating from this academy in 1933 he was appointed deputy commander of the 17th Rifle Division, which was then commanded by Colonel IS Konev . From August 1932 he was deputy head of the military and economic service and then assistant to the head of the logistics department of this division.

From May 1935 he was head of the engineering offices of the operational-tactical section at the Kuibyshev Military Academy. On February 17, 1936 he was promoted to major , went to Leningrad and was appointed Chief of Staff of the 1st Rifle Corps, which was then commanded by General Tolbuchin . Since March 1937 he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the 19th Rifle Corps. In 1937, by decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, he was sent to study at the Military Academy of the General Staff. In the pre-war years he was promoted to colonel in 1938 , to brigade commander on April 11, 1939, and to major general on June 4 . After graduating from the Academy, he served as Chief of Staff of the Urals Military District from April 1939 , where he remained until the beginning of World War II.

In World War II

After the German invasion, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 22nd Army defending in the Newel area (Major General FA Yershakov ) in June 1941 . In August 1941 he became chief of staff of the Brjansk Front and in October 1941 commander of that front. From December 1941 he served as deputy commander of the Western Front . When Colonel AK Kononenkow, the chief of operations of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps, ordered incompetent actions on the runway, which led to many injuries and organized General Below's breakthrough to Vyazma , Sakharov remained in the second season with the 325th Rifle Division. In May 1942 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the North Caucasus Front . In August 1942 he became Chief of Staff of the Southeast Front . From October 1942 to February 1943 he served as Deputy Commander of the Stalingrad and the Southern Front . During the most critical period from December 15 to 20, 1942, Sakharov was invariably at the headquarters of his command. In February 1943 he was appointed commander of the 51st Army on the Southern Front and took part with his troops in the Mius operation . On July 30, 1943 he became the commander of the 2nd Guards Army on the southern front and proved himself in the reconquest of the Crimean peninsula and Sevastopol . In July 1944, in preparation for Operation Bagration, he became the commander of the 2nd Belarusian Front. His troops had been operating the Bialystoker Operation since July 5, 1944 , which ended with the liberation of the city on July 27. At the head of this front he took part in the Lomsha-Rushan operation and on July 28, 1944 received the rank of army general. In November 1944 he became commander of the 4th Guard Army operating in Hungary . In April 1945 he was still deputy commander of the 4th Ukrainian Front .

After the war, Sakharov was from autumn 1945 on the post of commander of the troops of the South Urals, which was renamed the East Siberian Military District in 1946. From 1950 to 1953 he was in charge of the artillery courses for officers of the Red Army. Since September 1954 he was chief of the main department for combat training of the ground forces. From 1950 to 1954 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet at the third Congress. He died in Moscow in 1957 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

literature

Ф. Васильев: Генерал армии Г. Ф Захаров - Воен.-ист. журн., Moskva 1967

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SURNAME	Sakharov, Georgi Fyodorowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Захаров, Георгий Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet army general
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saratov
DATE OF DEATH	January 26, 1957
Place of death	Moscow