Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov

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Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov

Semyon Bogdanov ( Russian Семён Ильич Богданов , scientific transliteration. Semen Il'ič Bogdanov ; * 17 . Jul / 29. August  1894 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 12. March 1960 in Moscow ) was marshal of armored troops and in 1945 chief of the Soviet military administration in Brandenburg .

Life

Son of a worker at the Putilov works in Saint Petersburg, where he himself completed his apprenticeship as a mechanic and worked there and later in Reval for twelve years. Bogdanov did his military service in the Tsarist army from 1915 and took part in the October Revolution on the side of the Bolsheviks in 1917 . In June 1918 he became a professional soldier in the Red Army and joined the 4th Rifle Regiment (Kostroma). In June 1920 he fought at Tukhachevsky's western front as part of the 56th Rifle Division on the border with Poland. In 1921 he took part in the suppression of the Antonovskoye peasant uprising. In September 1925 he became battalion commander in Rifle Regiment 135 of the 45th Rifle Division. In 1930 he attended the Comintern training course "Shot" and in October of the same year took over the leadership of the Rifle Regiment 134, which was motorized in May 1932. In 1936 he attended a newly introduced course for motorized units at the military academy and was promoted to colonel . In January 1938 he was given command of the 9th Mechanized Brigade. On May 1, 1938, he was arrested as part of the Stalin Purge , imprisoned and sentenced to two years in prison on October 27, 1939. Due to the lack of cadres, he was released early and was given command of the 32nd mechanical brigade in November 1940.

In the German-Soviet War

In March 1941 he had received command of the 30th Panzer Division of the 14th Mechanical Corps (Major General Oborin) on the western border near Brest . In July 1941 he was appointed leader of the armored troops of the Moscow military district for a week, but then received the post of deputy commander of the 5th Army deployed in the area north of Kiev .

On July 21, 1942 he was promoted to major general of the armored forces, in the same year he became a member of the CPSU . On September 26, 1942, he was appointed commander of the 6th Mechanical Corps of the 2nd Guards Army as part of the southern front , which was renamed the 5th Guards Panzer Corps in January 1943 as a result of his successful fight at Kotelnikowo . From March 11 to August 24, 1943, Bogdanov commanded the 9th Panzer Corps , which was assigned to the 13th Army (General Puchow) on the central eastern front. On July 6, 1943 he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General . From September 1943 to July 1944 and from January to May 1945 he was in command of the 2nd Guard Panzer Army . As part of the 1st Ukrainian Front , his major unit fought in the Korsun-Shevchenkovsk operation in the spring of 1944 and pushed through to Uman . On April 24, 1944, Bogdanov was promoted to colonel general of the tank troops, on July 23, he was seriously wounded and stayed in the Lublin hospital for 5 months . In January 1945 operational again, he led his army as part of the 1st Belarusian Front during the Vistula-Oder operation on the border of the German Empire. At the beginning of February he formed a bridgehead with troops from Bersarin's 5th Shock Army north of Küstrin and took part in the Battle of East Pomerania in early March , in the Battle of the Oder in mid-April 1945 and then in the attack on Berlin .

For his achievements in the Patriotic War, he was named Hero of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1944 and again on April 6, 1945 , and was awarded the Orders of Lenin and Suvorov .

post war period

After the war he received the rank of Marshal of the Armored Forces on June 1, 1945. Until 1947 he was head of the SMAD state administration in Brandenburg, then commander of the tank and mechanized units of the Soviet occupation forces in Germany. From November 1948 to 1951 he was in command of the armored forces of the Soviet Army. In April 1953 he was given command of the 7th Panzer Army in the Belorus military district . From May 1954 to May 1956 he was director of the war academy named after Stalin for armored and motorized units. Bogdanov was also a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1946 to 1958 and served as a deputy in the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . Bogdanov retired in May 1956 and spent his last lifetime in Moscow until 1960, he was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

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SURNAME Bogdanov, Semyon Ilyich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Богданов, Семён Ильич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head of the Soviet military administration in Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1960
Place of death Moscow