Sergei Sergejewitsch Varenzow

Sergei Sergeyevich Warenzow ( Russian Сергей Сергеевич Варенцов * July 28 ^{. Jul} / 10. August  1901 ^greg. In Dmitrov , Russian Empire ; † 1. March 1971 in Moscow ) was a Soviet officer of the Red Army and the Soviet Army , who at 6 May 1961 became chief marshal of the artillery . In the course of the affair of the colonel in the military intelligence service GRU Oleg Vladimirovich Penkowski , who also worked as an agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the American CIA , he was demoted to major general on March 12, 1963 .

Life

Sergei Sergejewitsch Varenzow joined the Red Army in 1919 and took part in the Russian Civil War and in the suppression of the Kronstadt sailors' uprising. This was followed by numerous assignments as an officer and staff officer, for example in the 25th Rifle Division in the Kiev military district and the 41st Infantry Division in the Kharkov military district , before he was employed in the People's Commissariat for Defense. From March to November 1941 he was in command of the artillery of the 6th Rifle Corps and as such took part in the Battle of Kiev (23 August to 26 September 1941). In the further course of the German-Soviet War (June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945), after his promotion to Major General on November 9, 1941, between November 1941 and September 1942 he was the artillery commander of the 40th Army deployed on the Southwest Front . With this he took part in the Battle of Kharkov (May 12 to 28, 1942) and the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad operation (June 28 to July 24, 1942).

Then Warenzow acted for a short time between September and October 1942 as commander of the 60th Army and then from October 1942 to October 1943 as commander of the artillery on the Voronezh Front . As such, he was promoted to Lieutenant General of the Artillery on February 4, 1943 and a few months later to Colonel General of the Artillery on October 20, 1943 . In this role he was involved in the Ostrogoschsk-Rossosh operation (January 13 to January 27, 1943). He was then transferred to the 1st Ukrainian Front in October 1943, where he was also the artillery commander until July 1945. During this time he was involved in the Battle of the Dnieper (August 26 to December 20, 1943), the Cherkassy Kessel Battle (January 24 to February 17, 1944), and the Proskurov-Chernivtsi Operation (March 4 to April 17 1944), the Lviv-Sandomierz Operation (July 13 to August 29, 1944) and later the Vistula-Oder Operation (January 12 to February 3, 1945), the Battle of Berlin (April 16 to May 2 1945) and the Prague Operation (May 6-11, 1945).

After the end of the Second World War , Colonel General Sergei Sergejewitsch Warenzow was commander of the Central Group of the Armed Forces between July 1945 and January 1947 and from January 1947 to June 1950 commander of the artillery of the Carpathian Military District. He then acted briefly between October 1951 and January 1952 as the commander of the artillery of the Transcaucasian Military District. He was thereupon from January 17, 1952 to March 12, 1955 chief of the main directorate for artillery and at the same time in personal union between January 1952 and May 1953 deputy commander-in-chief of the artillery. After his promotion to Marshal of the Artillery on March 11, 1955, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Artillery and held this post until January 1961. Thereupon he took over the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Missile Forces and Artillery of the Soviet Union in January 1961 and was appointed as such on May 6, 1961 promoted to chief marshal of the artillery . In the course of the affair of the colonel in the military intelligence service GRU Oleg Vladimirovich Penkowski , who also worked as an agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the American CIA , he was demoted to major general of the artillery on March 12, 1963 . On March 12, 1963, he left active military service and retired.

honors and awards

Sergei Sergejewitsch Warenzow has received several awards for his many years of service, including the following:

• Order of Lenin (3 ×)
• Order of the Red Banner (3 ×)
• Suvorov Order
• Order of Kutuzo
• Order of the Red Star
• Medal "Victory over Germany"
• Medal "20th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 "
• Medal "For the capture of Berlin"
• Anniversary medal "XX years of the Red Workers and Peasants Army"
• Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Fleet"
• Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Web link

• Entry in The Generals of World War II (English)
• Entry in War Heroes (Russian)