Nikolai Grigoryevich Lyashchenko
Nikolai Grigoryevich Ljaschtschenko ( Russian Николай Григорьевич Лященко ; May 3 . Jul / 16th May 1910 greg. In Sima ; † 10. October 2000 in Moscow ) was a Soviet Army General and Hero of the Soviet Union .
Nikolai Grigoryevich Lyashchenko was born in Sima in what is now Irkutsk Oblast , where his Ukrainian parents were exiled. After the October Revolution in 1917, the family moved to Kyrgyzstan , where Lyashchenko first attended secondary school and later worked as a rider in a stud in Ananyevo, later in Prschewalsk and was active in the trade union . During the Soviet-Chinese border war , Lyashchenko volunteered for the Red Army in autumn 1929 . After the end of the conflict he was posted to the military school in Tashkent for training , which he successfully completed in 1932 with promotion to lieutenant. During this time he was also involved in the prostration of the Basmachi .
He served in the Siberian Military District since 1932 and, meanwhile promoted to major, fought as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republican government from May 1937 to October 1938 . After his return he attended a course at the military academy "MW Frunze" . From May 1941 he was deputy regimental commander in the Odessa military district . In the Great Patriotic War he first commanded a rifle regiment and from May 1942 a rifle division. As a division commander, he was involved in various operations, including a. in Rostov-on-Don , when the Leningrad blockade was blown up , in the fighting for Tallinn and in East Prussia . For his services in the reconquest of Vyborg , he was promoted to major general in 1944. Towards the end of the war he commanded the 90th Rifle Division of the 2nd Belarusian Front . In this function he achieved the surrender of the city of Greifswald without a fight , of which he later became an honorary citizen .
As a representative of the Soviet high command, Lyashchenko signed the so-called Barber-Lyashchenko Agreement on November 13, 1945 , in which the border between the British and Soviet occupation zones was established and an exchange of territory between Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein was agreed.
After various posts in the army and the termination of the General Staff Academy in February 1948, Lyashchenko commanded various units before he was appointed First Deputy Commander of the Turkestan Military District in early 1958. He held this position until November 1963, when he was appointed commander of the Volga Military District. In December 1965 he returned as the commander of the Turkestani Military District, where he stayed until August 1969 when he became the Commander of the Central Asian Military District. After the end of his active service in November 1977 he worked in the group of inspectors general of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR , where he dealt significantly with pre-military education.
Lyashchenko had been a member of the WKP (B) / CPSU since 1931 and a candidate of the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1966 . In 1971 he became a full member of the Central Committee and a member of the Supreme Soviet .
He was honored three times with the Order of Lenin , with the Order of the October Revolution , four times with the Order of the Red Banner , the Order of Suvorov , the Order of Kutuzov , three times with the Order of the Red Star and other domestic and foreign awards. On October 4, 1990, by decree of the President of the Soviet Union, he was awarded the Golden Star (No. 11628) as “Hero of the Soviet Union”.
Lyashchenko died on October 10, 2000 in Moscow, where he was buried in the Kunzewoer cemetery .
Web links
- Лященко Николай Григорьевич , warheroes.ru (Russian)
- Лященко Николай Григорьевич , voina.com.ru (Russian)
- Лященко Николай Григорьевич , biograph.ru (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Lyashchenko, Nikolai Grigoryevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lyaschenko, Nikolai G .; Лященко, Николай Григорьевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet army general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sima |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 2000 |
| Place of death | Moscow |