Ivan Mefodyevich Managarov

Ivan Mefodyevich Managarov

Ivan Mefodjewitsch Managarow ( Russian Иван Мефодьевич Манагаров ; born May 31, ^jul. / 12. June  1898 ^greg. In Jenakijewo ; † 27. November 1981 in Yalta ) was a Soviet colonel general and was in World War II as a Hero of the Soviet Union awarded.

Life

Ivan Managarow was born in 1898 northeast of Jusowka in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate in what is now Donetsk Oblast . He did not complete secondary school and was already working as an unskilled worker at Coal Mine No. 20 in Jusowka at the age of 10 , after his family moved to Jenakijewo, in the rolling mill of the Jenakiev metal company located there.

Military career

When the war began, he joined the tsarist army in September 1914 and was initially trained with the 5th Reserve Cavalry Regiment in Balakleja . He then served in the reconnaissance platoon of the 9th Finnish Rifle Regiment as part of the XXII. Army Corps and was awarded three crosses of the Order of St. George. Seriously injured in June 1915, he left the ranks of the imperial army and returned to Jenakijewo, where in July 1917, as a veteran, he was elected by the workers as deputy commander of the Red Guard formed there . In February 1918 he joined the Red Army , received command of a regiment of the 1st Proletarian Rifle Division in May 1918 and took part in the defense of Tsaritsyn . In March 1919 he was appointed commander of the 1st Ural Regiment. In May 1919 he took over the 22nd Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Division and in July 1919 he occupied the position of deputy commander of the 2nd "Tamaner" Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division garrisoned in Stavropol . He then took part in the fighting of the Red Army in the south, southwest and in the Caucasus against troops under Krasnov and Denikin . In July 1920 he was sent to the Budjonny Cavalry School for further training and participated as a student in the fighting against the uprising under Nestor Makhno . For his successful fight against the counterrevolution he was awarded an honorary diploma by the Revolutionary War Council. After graduating from the cavalry school in Taganrog , he was posted to the command of the 21st Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Division in the Leningrad Military District in September 1923 . In March 1925, the 46th Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Cavalry Division took over in Turkestan and took part in combat operations against the Basmaths . In April 1926 he became a staff officer in the 47th Cavalry Regiment of the 11th Cavalry Division in Troitzk. In 1928 he studied at the Military Political Academy and in 1931 was appointed Commissioner of the 7th Mechanized Regiment of the 7th Cavalry Division in Minsk . In May 1932 he became the commander of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Proskurow . From January 1936 to June 1938 he completed a topographical teaching trip to China and the Mongolian People's Republic . He then took over command of the 8th Cavalry Division of the 1st Red Banner Army in Far East Asia in July 1938 and was promoted to major general on June 4, 1940 .

In the German-Soviet War

After the German invasion (June 1941) he stayed in the Far East for the time being, where he was given command of the 26th Rifle Corps in November 1941. Returned to Europe in January 1942, he took command of the 16th Cavalry Corps in the Moscow Military District. From March 1942 he commanded the 7th Cavalry Corps of the 61st Army, which was deployed on the right bank of the Oka River near the town of Belev . In April the corps had been withdrawn into the reserve of the Bryansk Front . In December 1942 Managarov was appointed commander of the 41st Army on the Kalinin Front and participated in the Rzhev Vyazma operation . By March 1943, his troops had liberated 317 settlements, including the town of Bjeloj . From March to December 1943 and again from March 1944 he commanded the 53rd Army , in between he rose to Lieutenant General on August 29, 1943. His troops took part in the Battle of Kursk in July 1943 and in the Battle of the Dnieper in autumn , where they participated in the liberation of Poltava and Kremenchug . The 53rd Army also took part in the liberation of Kirovograd in January 1944 , after which Managarov's troops were involved in the Korsun-Shevchenkovsk Operation (February 1944) and the Uman-Botosan Operation . After the breakthrough offensive of the 2nd Ukrainian Front between Jassy-Kishinev (August 1944), his army took part in the occupation of Cluj . During the operations in Hungary, Managarov's army was concentrated as a reserve in the Budapest area and occupied Bratislava in 1945 . This was followed by the successful crossing of the Morava and the occupation of Brno . On April 28, 1945, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union , the Order of Lenin and the Medal of the Golden Star, and on May 29, 1945 he was promoted to Colonel General . In June 1945 the 53rd Army was relocated to the Far East and assigned to the Transbaikal Front. During Operation Auguststurm , he took part in the Chingan - Mukden offensive in August 1945 . For the occupation of the cities of Hinggan , Dandong and Chaoyang , he was awarded another Order of the Red Banner .

post war period

After the war, Managarov commanded the 53rd Army until it was disbanded in December 1945. From March 1946 he completed higher leadership courses at the Higher Military Academy of the General Staff and in February 1947 was commander of the 4th Army in the Transcaucasus military district . In June 1949 he took over the position of air defense commander in the Kiev district . Between 1949 and 1953 he commanded the air defense forces. In the course of his career he was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution three times, the Order of the Red Banner three times, the Suvorov and Kutuzov orders, 1st class, and other medals. In September 1953 he retired for health reasons. He died in Yalta in 1981 and was buried in the old cemetery there.

Web links

• Biography on www.warheroes.ru (Russian)