Pavel Petrovich Korsun

Pavel Petrovich Korsun ( Russian Павел Петрович Корзун * August 15 ^{. Jul} / 27. August 1892 ^greg. In the village Kleschewo in Slutsk , Oblast Minsk ; † 16th September 1943 in the village Beresowaja Luka at Gadjatsch , Poltava oblast ) was a Soviet lieutenant general (1942) and commander of several major formations during the Great Patriotic War .

Life

Korsun was born in Belarus on 1892. He served in the Imperial Russian Army from October 1913 and joined the 2nd Courland Uhlan body regiment in Suwalki . He fought as a sergeant in World War I , his regiment became part of the 2nd Cavalry Division of the 12th Army in 1915 and was initially deployed on the Northwest Front and then on the North Front. With the dissolution of his regiment in February 1918, he too was demobilized.

In the Red Army

He joined a separate battalion of the Red Army in April 1918 , which was formed in Vitebsk and then converted into a separate cavalry regiment on the Red Western Front. From August 1918 he worked in the food warehouse in Smolensk . Since March 1919 he took part in the Russian Civil War , was appointed platoon leader of an independent squadron at the headquarters of the Eastern Front and fought against the white army of Admiral AV Kolchak . In 1920 he graduated from the cavalry school in the headquarters of the Eastern Front. From January 1920 he fought in Turkestan , first as leader of a squadron of the 2nd Uzbek cavalry brigade, then as chief of the 2nd Uzbek cavalry regiment and as deputy commander of the 4th Uzbek cavalry regiment. From June 1921 he was deputy commander of the 4th Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Turkestan Rifle Division, then from March 1922 he briefly commanded this regiment himself and from May again as deputy commander. From August 1922 to March 1923 he was in command of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of Bukhara Group . During this time he took part in the battles against the Basmachi in Ferghana , Bukhara and Tajikistan . In 1924 he graduated from the Higher Cavalry School in Leningrad . Since September 1924 he commanded the 47th and 77th Cavalry Regiments of the 6th separate Altai Cavalry Brigade on the Turkestan front, from December 1924 he was temporarily the commander of this brigade. From 1925 he commanded the 77th Cavalry Regiment of the 10th Stavropol-Terek Cossack Division in the North Caucasus military district . In 1929 he completed the advanced training courses for cavalry leaders of the Red Army in Novocherkassk . From May 1932 to November 1934 he was Deputy Inspector of the Red Army Cavalry. In 1936 he completed several specialty courses at the Frunze Military Academy and was then appointed deputy commander of the 10th Terek Cossack Division.

Since August 1937, the 9th Cavalry Division commanded the 4th Cavalry Corps of the Special Military District of Kiev . Since August 1939 he was a lecturer in general tactics at the Frunze Military Academy. In March 1941 he was appointed commander of the 219th Motorized Rifle Division in the Kharkov Military District.

In World War II

With the outbreak of World War II , the 219th Motorized Division as part of the 25th Mechanical Corps (General SM Kriwoschein ) arrived on the central front in July 1941 and took part in hostilities in the Propoisk area . Korsun was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for his personal commitment . In the fighting from July 18-21, 1941, he showed extraordinary fearlessness, perseverance and great assertiveness. However, during the Battle of Gomel , the front command was dissatisfied with his actions and he was accused of inaction. On August 19, 1941, by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Central Front, Lieutenant General MG Yefremov , Major General Korsun was removed from command of the 219th Motorized Rifle Division and received the following order: "Immediately hand over command of the division to Major General Skugarev and come yourself to the headquarters of the front. "

From the report of the Chief of Staff of the 21st Army , Major General WN Gordow , it emerged on August 20, 1941: “Comrade Korsun behaved extremely bravely. Wounded in the morning, he stayed in the ranks and continued the fight until dark. After dark, he was wounded a second time and was evacuated. Major Lunyev, who was appointed in his place, was also badly wounded, so that Major Konovalov had to be appointed as the successor to Korsun. ”After receiving hospital treatment in October 1941, he was briefly deputy commander of the 38th Army on the Southwest Front and then led a cavalry corps named after him during the Battle of Rostov . In January 1942 he was appointed commander of the 8th Cavalry Corps. In this position he led defensive battles near Voronezh in the spring of 1942 as a result of the Battle of Moscow . From May 1942 to July 1943 he was in command of the 3rd Army of the Brjansk Front , which was defending east of Orel along the Suscha River .

In early August 1943, Korsun was appointed commander of the 47th Army on the Voronezh Front . During the Belgorod-Kharkov operation , this army played an important role in repelling German counter-attacks in the Akhtyrka region . On September 16, 1943, Lieutenant General Korsun died during the Sumy-Priluki offensive (in the first stage of the Battle of the Dnieper ) during the liberation of Ukraine on the left bank in a mine explosion on the front line near the village of Berezovaya Luka in the Poltava region . He was buried in the city park of Gadjach . The then head of the political department of the 47th Army, Colonel M. Ch. Kalashnik, remembered Korsun as one of those military leaders whose character perfectly coexisted with the high demands and sincere sympathy for the subordinates.

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SURNAME	Korsun, Pavel Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Корзун, Павел Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Village Kleschewo, space Slutsk
DATE OF DEATH	September 16, 1943
Place of death	Beresovaya Luka village, Gadjach area ,