Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Ogarkow

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Nikolai Ogarkov

Nikolai Ogarkov ( Russian Николай Васильевич Огарков * October 17 jul. / 30 October  1917 greg. In Molokovo , Tver province , † 23 January 1994 in Moscow ) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union , and from 1977 to 1984 Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army .

Life

Ogarkow grew up in a rural family, graduated from the Workers' Faculty ( RabFak ) in September 1937 in the field of energy and then studied for about a year at the Moscow Building Technology Institute. In 1938 he began his service in the Red Army , graduated from the Astrakhan Infantry School and in 1941 from the Kuibyshev Military Academy for Engineers .

Second World War

Ogarkov was in the fighting force from June 1941 and took over the post of regimental engineer on the Western and Karelian fronts . From December 1942 he became an assistant to the chief of staff of the engineer troops of the 32nd Army and from August 1943 an assistant to the chief of the operational department of the staff of the engineer troops on the Karelian front. From May 1944 he was division engineer of the 122nd Rifle Division on the Karelian and 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts.

post war period

Nikolai Ogarkow (5th from right) at the reception of the members of the Committee of Defense Ministers of the Warsaw Pact on October 20, 1983 in Berlin by Erich Honecker

In 1947 he finished studying again at the Kuibyshev Military Academy for Engineer Troops and in 1959 the Military Academy of the General Staff . From 1945 to 1946 Ogarkow was an assistant to the chief of staff of the engineer troops of the Transcarpathian military district, from 1947 to 1948 deputy head of department in the leadership of the engineer troops of this military district and from 1948 to 1949 senior officer in the operational management of the staff of the commander in chief of the Far Eastern armed forces. From 1949 to 1953 he was then head of that operational management department and on September 4, 1950 he was promoted to colonel . From 1953 he was deputy chief and finally from 1955 chief of this leadership and deputy chief of staff of the Far Eastern military district. On July 11, 1957, he was appointed major general . From 1959 to 1961, Ogarkow commanded a motorized rifle division in the Group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany (GSSD). This was followed by a position as chief of staff and deputy commander of the armed forces of the Belarusian Military District and on February 22, 1963, he was promoted to lieutenant general .

From 1965 to 1968 he was the commander of the armed forces of the Volga Military District. Meanwhile, he was promoted to Colonel General on October 25, 1967 . For the next six years he worked as deputy chief of staff and from March 1974 to January 1975 as deputy defense minister of the USSR . On October 5, 1973, Ogarkov was appointed Army General and on January 14, 1977 Marshal of the Soviet Union. He was Chief of the General Staff and 1st Deputy Minister of Defense from 1977 to 1984.

By order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on October 28, 1977, he was awarded the title of " Hero of the Soviet Union " for "the great contribution to the development and improvement of the Soviet armed forces" . From September 1984 to June 1988 he headed the armed forces of the Western armies as commander in chief and from 1988 to 1992 he was part of the group of inspectors general of the Ministry of Defense. From January to September 1992 Ogarkov advised the chief of staff of the United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States and until his death he was an advisor in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation . After his death, Ogarkov was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Ogarkow had been a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1971 and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet . He attached great importance to the development of theory for the control of strategic nuclear weapons and missile defense . In fact, he created a center for operational-strategic research on the General Staff. In 1983 Ogarkow appeared on television with a report about the downing of a South Korean passenger plane .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Ogarkow on Heroes of the Country ( Memento from April 11, 2013 on WebCite ), accessed on May 24, 2010 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Огарков Николай Васильевич on www.marshals.su , accessed on May 24, 2010 (Russian)
  3. ^ Died Nikolai Ogarkow , Der Spiegel , May 1994, accessed on May 24, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Ogarkow, Nikolai Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Огарков, Николай Васильевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet military, Marshal of the Soviet Union
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Molokovo
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1994
Place of death Moscow