Konstantin Dmitrievich Golubev

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Konstantin Dmitrjewitsch Golubew ( Russian Константин Дмитриевич Голубев ; born March 27, 1896 in Petrowsk , Saratov Oblast , † June 9, 1956 in Moscow ) was a Soviet lieutenant general (1942) and army leader during the Great Patriotic War .

Life

Konstantin Golubev joined the Imperial Russian Army in August 1915 during the First World War. From March 1916 he served in the 185th Reserve Regiment and became a corporal . In 1916 he graduated from the war school for NCOs in Telavi . After graduating in June 1916, he served as a non-commissioned officer in the 187th Reserve Regiment. Since December 1916 he took part in the fighting on the Southwest Front as a company commander of the 64th Kazan Infantry Regiment (16th Infantry Division) in the 11th Army section . In July 1917, Lieutenant Golubev was wounded and captured during the Kerensky Offensive . He was taken to an Austrian military hospital, then to the prisoner-of-war camps in Zalaegerszeg , Theresienstadt and Reichenberg . In July 1918 he was released from captivity.

In the Red Army

He joined the Red Army in September 1918. During the Russian Civil War he first attended the Saratov infantry and later the machine gun weapons course. From August 1920 he commanded the 6th Rifle Regiment of the independent Cadet Brigade. In 1921 he took part in fighting on the Eastern Front and in the operation to Tbilisi . In July 1921 he commanded the Cadet Brigade in the Separate Caucasian Army and in February 1922 the 2nd Moscow Cadet Brigade in the Red 11th Army. Since July 1923 he was adjutant to the chief of the district department of military educational institutions and assistant to the inspector of higher education institutions of the Caucasian Army. In 1926 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. From June 1926 he was commander (from April 1927 commissioner) of the 23rd Rifle Regiment of the 8th Minsk Rifle Division of the Belorus military district . From January 1928 he was chief of staff of the 29th Rifle Division and from June 1929 head of the Aschenbrenner Infantry School in Moscow. At the same time he completed a three-month advanced training course for higher commanders at the Frunze Military Academy. From February 1933 he was commander (from August 1935 also military commissioner) of the 22nd Rifle Division of the North Caucasus military district and was promoted to brigade commander on November 26, 1935 . Since March 1936 he was head of the 2nd section of the Directorate for Combat Training of the Red Army. On February 22, 1938, he was appointed division commander. In October 1938 he was sent to study at the Academy of the General Staff in Moscow and from February 1939 he worked as a lecturer and then as a group leader of the department of military operations at the Frunze Military Cadet, where he rose to professor in 1939. He was selected as a military science candidate that spring and promoted to major general on June 4, 1940 .

In World War II

On March 18, 1941, he was appointed Commander of the 10th Army of the Special Western Military District. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the 10th Army fought in the Grodno area during the Bialystok Battle . After an unsuccessful counter-attack by the mechanical cavalry group IW Boldin , the 10th Army was surrounded by the German Panzer Group 3 on June 27 . When he broke out from the encirclement on June 30th, the column of the headquarters came under German fire and was smashed. Golubev and several high-ranking commanders, including the future Marshal GI Kulik , managed to escape to a border guards rifle division that was able to break through. As part of this small detachment, Golubev managed to escape from the pocket on July 19 into the defense zone of the 21st Army on the Dnieper. On July 26, Golubev was appointed commander of the 13th Army of the Central Front , which at the time was taking part in the Battle of Smolensk . On August 25, he was removed from his position and recalled as the People's Defense Commissioner of the USSR. On October 29, 1941, KD Golubew took command of the 43rd Army , which operated from October 10, 1942 - on the Kalinin Front and from October 10, 1943 on the 1st Baltic Front to the west.

Under the leadership of Golubev, the 43rd Army took part in the counteroffensive to the Battle of Moscow and in the spring of 1942 in the Rzhev-Vyazma operation , and in the summer of 1943 in the Smolensk operation . On June 13, 1942, he was made lieutenant general . In the spring of 1944 Golubev was seriously wounded in the fighting near Vitebsk and, after being cured from May to October, was available to the high command. From October 1944 until the end of the war, Golubew was the first deputy commissioner of the Council of People's Commissars for the repatriation of kidnapped Soviet citizens from Germany.

Strange anecdotes about Golubev emerged from the memoirs of Marshal of the Soviet Union A. I. Yeremenko : “The commander of the army, Lieutenant General Golubev, cared little about the troops, but focused on his person. For his personal needs he kept one and sometimes two cows (for milk and butter), three to five sheep (for grilling), a few pigs (for sausages and ham) and several chickens. This happened with the knowledge of the command and also the front troops. Golubev was considered a cowardly man, his quarters were 25-30 km from the front, a fortified place with an area of ​​1-2 hectares, which was surrounded by double-row barbed wire. In the middle was his five-walled bunker, similar to an old boyar tower. This quarter had four modern rooms and a cellar with two rooms, so that there was enough space for adjutants and servants. Another house was also built for liaison officers, orderlies, kitchens and security forces. The basement and the access corridor were better equipped than the Moscow subway. A small smoking facility had been built there. Golubew loved smoked meat: sausages, ham and, above all, fish are hoarded for him, he himself knew the craft of smoking well. "

post war period

After the war until 1949 he remained Commissioner of the Council of People's Commissars (in February 1949 his position in First Deputy Council of Ministers was renamed). Since August 1949 he was a lecturer at the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy. In January 1953 he was recalled, two years later, in March 1955, he was reactivated as a cadre of the Soviet Army and appointed Scientific Secretary of the Academic Council of the Voroshilov Military Academy. Konstantin Golubew died in Moscow on June 9, 1956 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

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SURNAME Golubew, Konstantin Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Голубев, Константин Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrovsk , Saratov region
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1956
Place of death Moscow