Ivan Michailowitsch Tschistjakow

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Ivan Mikhailovich Chistyakov ( Russian Иван Михайлович Чистяков , born September 14, jul. / 27. September  1900 greg. In Otrubniwo in Kashin ; † 7. March 1979 in Moscow ) was a Soviet colonel general , who in World War II as a Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded .

Life

Early military career

In May 1918 he became a member of the Red Army and took part in the Russian Civil War. In July 1918 he participated in the suppression of the peasant uprising in Tula province . Then he fought on the Don against the White Guards under General Krasnov , where he was badly wounded. In 1920 he completed a training course as a machine gunner in Rostov and moved to a machine gun battalion on the North Caucasus Front. There he fought opposing partisans on the Kuban and Terek , and in Dagestan . In 1921 he became platoon leader in the 124th Rifle Regiment of the 14th Rifle Division. In June 1921 he served in a rifle regiment of the 13th Rifle Division deployed in Dagestan. From July 1922 to July 1936 he occupied various positions in the 37th Rifle Regiment of the 1st Rifle Division in the North Caucasus military district . He commanded a succession MG-train, a machine gun - Company , a rifle battalion and was from 1932 deputy commander of the regiment. In between he graduated from the local infantry school in 1925. From 1927 to 1929 he attended various training centers for tactical training in Moscow and completed the course for commanders set up by the Comintern at the higher rifle training facility “Wystrel”. In July 1936 he was posted to the Far East and appointed chief of operations on the staff of the 92nd Rifle Division deployed there. In December 1936 he became the commander of the 275th Rifle Regiment and in November 1937 he took command of the 105th Rifle Division in the 1st Red Banner Army . He was promoted to colonel in 1938 and from July 1939 served as deputy commander of the 39th Rifle Corps in the same army in the Primorye region . In February 1940 he was appointed head of the Vladivostok Infantry School. In March 1941 he became the commander of the 39th Rifle Corps, after the German invasion he returned to Moscow.

In the Patriotic War

From August to November 1941, because of the war, he completed advanced leadership courses at the General Staff Academy in an accelerated form . From December 1941 to January 1942 he was in command of the independent 64th Marine Brigade in the Bely area, which was used in the section of the 20th Army (General Vlasov ) in the counter-offensive in the Wolokolamsk area. He was promoted to major general on January 17, 1942 , received the Order of the Red Banner and took over command of Panfilow's 8th Guards Rifle Division on the Western Front . Between April 1942 and September 1942 he commanded the 2nd Guards Rifle Corps in the 3rd Shock Army in the formation of Konev's Kalinin Front . During the Battle of Stalingrad , he commanded the 1st Guard Army from September 1942 to October 1942 and then the 21st Army on the Don Front . After the successful participation of his troops in the containment of the German 6th Army , his 21st Army was renamed the 6th Guard Army on April 22, 1943 . Chistyakov was promoted to lieutenant general on January 18, 1943 and took part in the Kharkov attack operation (February 1943), the Battle of Kursk (near Prokhorovka ) and the liberation of Kharkov (August 1943) in the area of ​​the Voronezh Front . In June 1944 the 6th Guards Army in the area of ​​the 1st Baltic Front (Army General Baghramjan ) took part in Operation Bagration . The successful breakthrough towards Lepel closed the German LIII. Army corps in the Vitebsk area . This success earned him promotion to Colonel General on June 28 and the title Hero of the Soviet Union on July 22 . From October 1944 to May 1945 his army in Latvia was involved in the blockade of the German Army Group Courland .

post war period

After being recalled to the Far East, he commanded the 25th Army in Manchuria until October 1945 . At the end of August 1945, his superior, Marshal Kirill Merezkow , instructed him to choose a location for the new headquarters of the 25th Army. Chistyakov chose Pyongyang , which is why this settlement rose to become the capital of North Korea . Returned to Europe in April 1947, he led the 28th Army in the Belarusian Military District in 1948 . In 1949 he completed the higher teaching courses at the Higher Military Academy of the General Staff and then commanded the 8th Guard Army in the Group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany . Since 1954 he was the first deputy in command of the Transcaucasus Military District . In 1957 he was appointed to the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defense. He was several times a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR , first in the second assembly (1946-1950) and then in the fourth convocation (1954-1958). He was retired in 1968 and died in Moscow in 1979, where he was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

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