Ekaterina Sergeevna Katukova

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Yekaterina Sergeyevna Katukowa ( Russian Екатерина Сергеевна Катукова * December 31, 1913 . Jul / 13. January  1914 greg. In Moscow , † 5 February 2015 in Trudovaya in Mytishchi ), née Ivanova ( Russian Иванова ), was a Russian ZK - typist , Field shearress and writer .

Life

Jekaterina, daughter of the railway worker Sergei Filaretowitsch Ivanov (* 1885) and the factory worker Anna Jefimowna, b. Kitajewa (1890–1979), grew up together with three sisters and two brothers in poor circumstances.

After finishing secondary school in 1931, Ekaterina was seconded from the Komsomol to the apparatus of the Central Committee of the CPSU (Central Committee), where she worked as a typist . According to her memory, she also had to represent Stalin's personal typist.

In 1933, Yekaterina married the employee of the military department of the Central Committee Alexei Sakharovich Lebedev, Komkor and hero of the Russian Civil War and two-time Red Banner Order holder . With him she received a two-room apartment next to the Moscow Arbat . During the Great Terror , Lebedev was arrested on a complaint in February 1938 and shot six months later for preparing a conspiracy (rehabilitated in 1957). Ekaterina was also arrested as a member of an enemy of the people. She spent a year and a half in the Butyrka together with the wives of the rocket designer Sergei Pawlowitsch Koroljow , the politician Jan Ernestowitsch Rudsutak , the scientist and politician Otto Juljewitsch Schmidt , the wife and daughter of Marshal Vasily Konstantinowitsch Blücher and many other well-known scientists and cultural workers. She was released on August 17, but it wasn't until December that she got a job as a stenographer for All Union Radio in the Latest News section , which was under the political administration of the Red Army . In addition, she completed a Feldscher training.

After the beginning of the German-Soviet war , Yekaterina belonged to the group of journalists in 1941 who were supposed to report on the fighting of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade under tank general Mikhail Yefimovich Katukov near Oryol and Mtsensk . After an interview with Katukov and an informal dinner, Katukov suggested she stay with him, which she saw as an opportunity to escape her status as an enemy of the people. She joined the CPSU in 1941 and served alongside Katukov until the end of the war. As a guard sergeant in the medical service, she brought in the wounded and was wounded twice herself. In the battle for Moscow she almost lost her left hand at Wolokolamsk .

After the war, Ekaterina and Katukov married and stayed together until Katukov's death. They did not have children, but they took on the sons Anatol and Igor from Jekaterina's sister.

Ekaterina received an invitation to the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 on Red Square , where her husband was in the column of the 1st Belarusian Front , and to the reception in the Kremlin . Then Katukow was appointed head of the Soviet Military Administration (SMA) in Saxony, based in Dresden . Yekaterina learned German and completed a four-year course at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the CPSU . The dismantling stop at the Meißner Porcelain Manufactory and thus its preservation was attributed to her influence , as a memorial plaque reminded us of. In 1951 Katukov was appointed to the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces , so the couple returned to Moscow.

After her husband's death in 1976, Ekaterina began to write to commemorate her husband Katukov. However, her book Memorable was not published because of her direct and objective portrayal of senior management personnel in the army and administration, especially since she was not ready for changes. It was only possible to publish it in 2002 with the help of the Vladimir Chivilichin Foundation. With Yekaterina's help, a museum on the history of the T-34 tank was established in Sholokhovo near Mytishchi . In 1977 her apartment and the dacha were set up as the Marshal Katukov Museum. She also helped found war glory museums in schools in Moscow and the surrounding area, in Voronezh , Lipetsk and other places.

Ekaterina was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery at the side of her husband Katukov.

Honors

Works

  • Memorable . Ed. R. Polikaschina, I. Wesnina, Wladimir-Tschiwilichin-Stiftung, Moscow 2002, ISBN 5-00-004249-2 (Russian).
  • So it was (memories of the wife of army commander MI Katukov) . Kyzyl, AST, Moscow 2005, ISBN 5-17-026790-8 (Russian).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oppressed members of the Red Army (Russian, accessed February 28, 2016).
  2. ↑ Klaus Jochen Arnold : Dismantling in the Soviet Occupation Zone and Berlin 1945 to 1948 - subject inventory . Brandenburg State Main Archive, Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam 2007, p. 95.
  3. ↑ a b Order list: Katukowa Jekaterina Sergejewna (Russian, March 2, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Katukowa, Ekaterina Sergejewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ivanova, Jekaterina Sergejewna (maiden name); Катуко́ва, Екатери́на Серге́евна (Russian); Иванова (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Central Committee stenographer, field shearer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2015
Place of death Trudovaya near Mytishchi