Jakow Timofejewitsch Tscherewitschenko

Yakov Timofeyevich Tscherewitschenko ( Russian Яков Тимофеевич Черевиченко , born September 30 ^{. Jul} / 12. October 1894 ^greg. In the village Nowoselowka, District Proletarski in Rostov ; † 4. July 1976 in Moscow ) was in the Second World War, a Soviet colonel general and army leaders.

Life

Jakow Timofejewitsch was born as the son of farmers in the village of Novoselowka near Proletarski, Rostov Oblast . From 1910 he graduated from two classes at a rural school. From 1912 he worked as a carpenter for a carpenter in his district.

Early military career

In 1914 he joined the Russian army when the First World War broke out , trained in 1915 and served on the Romanian front in 1916 . He left the army in November 1917, returned home and joined a partisan unit in the Don region in early January . He joined the Red Army in October 1918 and led a cavalry platoon in the 1st Cavalry Regiment as deputy commander in the Russian Civil War , after which he was leader of a platoon in the 13th and 19th Cavalry Regiments (4th Cavalry Division). Since June 1919 he had command of a squadron and also became a member of the CPSU . He took part in the fighting against the White Guards under Denikin , Wrangel and Mamontow , fought the Machnos formations and threw down numerous peasant revolts. Chervichenko was wounded five times in the civil war. Since September 1919 he fought in the 1st Cavalry Army , became deputy commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade and in October 1919 a squadron commander of a brigade of the 4th Cavalry Division and from November 1920 he commanded the 19th Cavalry Regiment. In 1921 he completed the Taganroger Cavalry Course and from February 1923 to October 1924 the Higher Cavalry School in Leningrad . In June 1926 he became the commander of a separate cavalry squadron of the 4th Cavalry Division. In August 1927 he became the commander and political commissary of the 91st Cavalry Regiment of the 12th Cavalry Division and in November 1931 of the 76th Cavalry Regiment of the same unit. From October 1933 to December 1935 he completed military and political training at the Tolmachev Military Political Academy and at the Frunze Military Academy . From December 1935 he commanded the 63rd Cavalry Regiment in the Moscow Military District. Since April 1936 he acted as deputy commander and from June 1937 as commander of the 31st Cavalry Division. On February 17, 1938, he was appointed Brigade Commander and on March 8, Commander of the 3rd Cavalry Corps in the Special Western Military District. On November 4, 1939, he was appointed major general and on June 4, 1940, lieutenant general . During the campaign in Bessarabia and northern Bukovina in June and July 1940 he was in command of the independent cavalry group of the 12th Army on the Southern Front. In July 1940 he was appointed commander of the Odessa Military District and was promoted to Colonel General on February 22, 1941.

In the Patriotic War

At the beginning of the war he commanded the 9th Army of the Southern Front on the border of the Republic of Moldova . During the Munich enterprise his troops fought defensive and retreat battles in the south of Ukraine ( Tiraspol , Melitopol ). On September 29, 1941 he was recalled as army leader and made available to the Southwest Front under Tymoshenko as a deputy. After defending the Kharkov area , at the beginning of October 1941, he briefly took command of the 21st Army , whose troops had to retreat during the Donbass operation. From October 5 to December 12, 1941 he was in command of the Southern Front , but remained subordinate to Tymoshenko. From November 28, 1941, Rostov-on-Don , which had been vacated a week earlier, could be recaptured in the Rostov offensive operation. From December 24, 1941 to April 2, 1942, he was in deputy command of the Brjansk Front , whose troops were able to free Livny , Novosil , Skuratowo and Orlovka in the counter-offensive and advance to Orel and Brjansk . From April 1942 he was deputy commander of the North Caucasus Front , from September 1942 leader of the Maritime Group of the North Caucasus Front and then commander of the Black Sea Group of the Transcaucasus Front . From October 1942 to February 1943 he commanded the 5th Army on the Western Front , and from February to April he was available to the Supreme Army Command. From April to September 1943 he was deputy commander of the Northwest Front and from October 1943 to January 1944 commander of the Kharkov military district, which had just been defeated. From January 1944 he was again available to the High Command and served as a military councilor on the 2nd Belarusian (June to December 1944) and 1st Belarusian (February to April 1945) front. From April 27, 1945 he was in command of the 7th Rifle Corps, which took part in the Battle of Berlin as a reserve of the 3rd Shock Army under General Kuznetsov .

post war period

After the end of the war, as the successor to General Perevjortkin , he commanded the 79th Rifle Corps, which had stormed the center of Berlin . From June 1946 he commanded the 29th Rifle Corps and in 1948 became deputy commander of the Taurien military district . He retired in April 1950. He was still working on a military-patriotic document and became chairman of the council of veterans of the 1st Cavalry Army.

Awards:

2 Order of Lenin (1940, February 21, 1945)
4 Order of the Red Banner (1923, February 22, 1930, March 11, 1944, 1948)
Order of Kutuzov 1st class (July 29, 1944)
Suvorov Order 2nd Class (1945)

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SURNAME	Tscherewitschenko, Jakow Timofejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Черевиченко, Яков Тимофеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet colonel general
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Proletarsky near Rostov
DATE OF DEATH	4th July 1976
Place of death	Moscow