Mikhail Nikolayevich Sharochin

Mikhail Sharochin

Mikhail Nikolayevich Scharochin ( Russian Михаил Николаевич Шарохин ; born November 11, ^jul. / 23. November  1898 ^greg. In Ivanovskoe, government Yaroslavl , Russian Empire ; †  19th September 1974 in Moscow , Russian Soviet republic , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet-Russian Colonel General and Hero of the Soviet Union .

Life

Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Sharochin was born in the village of Ivanovskoye in the Yaroslavl Governorate (now in Danilov Raion in the Yaroslavl Oblast ). In February 1917 he was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and took part in the First World War as a soldier . In November 1917, Sharokhin joined the Red Army and took part in the Russian Civil War as a soldier . In 1920 he joined the RKP (B), which later became the CPSU . In 1939 he graduated from the military academy of the General Staff of the Red Workers 'and Peasants' Army .

During the Great Patriotic War , General Sharochin commanded the 3rd Army on the Kalinin Front from February 1942 , the 37th Army on the Steppe Front from August 1943 (including Operation Jassy-Kishinev ) and from October 1944 the 57th Army on the 3rd Ukrainian Front Front (including the Apatin-Kaposvarer Operation , Vienna Operation and Lake Balaton Offensive ).

On April 28, 1945, Mikhail Sharochin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the skillful organization of battles, the clear management of army troops in promoting the rivers Dnepr , Southern Bug , Dniester and Danube and the courage he showed in the process.

After the war, he remained in the army and retired from active service in 1960. He was married to Vera Michajlowna Sharochina, b. Zukanova (1906-1979). Sharochin died in 1974 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Awards

Promotions

• June 4, 1940: Major General
• May 21, 1942: Lieutenant General
• April 19, 1945: Colonel General

• Hero of the Soviet Union (April 28, 1945)
• 3 × Order of Lenin
• 4 × Order of the Red Banner
• Suvorov Order, 1st class
• Bogdan Khmelnitsky Order, 1st class
• Order of Kutuzov II class
• Order of the Red Star
• Anniversary medal "In memory of the 100th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
• Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"
• Medal "For the Defense of Moscow"
• Medal "Victory over Germany"
• Medal "20th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 "
• Anniversary medal "XX Years of the Red Workers and Peasants Army" (1938)
• Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Fleet"
• Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Medal "On the 250th anniversary of Leningrad"
• Military Order for Valor ( People's Republic of Bulgaria )

Mikhail Sharochin on a Soviet postal stationery envelope (1978)

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Sharokhin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Шарохин Михаил Николаевич , warheroes.ru (Russian)
• Шарохин Михаил Николаевич , encyclopedia.mil.ru (Russian)
• Article Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Sharochin in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D123223~2a%3D~2b%3DMichail%20Nikolajewitsch%20Scharochin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Шарохин Михаил Николаевич , divizia-rkka.ru (Russian)
2. ↑ Шарохин Михаил Николаевич , pamyat-naroda.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Шарохин Михаил Николаевич , hrono.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Шарохин Михаил Николаевич , wwii-soldat.narod.ru (Russian)
5. ↑ Шарохин Михаил Николаевич , geroi-danilov.ru (Russian)
6. ↑ Наградной лист , podvignaroda.ru (Russian)
7. ↑ ^{a b} Шарохин Михаил Николаевич , novodevichiynecropol.narod.ru (Russian)
8. ↑ Шарохин Михаил Николаевич , ruspekh.ru (Russian)
9. ↑ Фамилия Шарохин , rosgenea.ru (Russian)