Sergei Georgievich Trofimenko

Sergei Georgievich Trofimenko ( Russian Сергей Георгиевич Трофименко * 22. September 1899 in the village Rewny (Rajon Nawlja , Oryol Governorate ); † 16th October 1953 in Moscow ) was a Soviet Colonel General and Hero of the Soviet Union .

Life

Sergei Trofimenko was born in the Brjansk Province in 1899 into a working class family. At the beginning of the 20th century his family moved to Lgow . After the death of his father, at the age of 10 he had to work in the Bryansk railway depot as a delivery man and windshield wiper for steam locomotives and then attended a two-year workshop for metalworkers. He took an active part in the revolutionary events in Bryansk in 1917. In the railway depot he was one of the organizers of the Komsomol cell, and in 1918 he joined the Communist Party.

In the Red Army

After the approach of the White Guards under General Al Denikin , he joined the Red Army in 1919 . During the Russian Civil War he served as an ordinary soldier, then as a platoon commander and as an assistant to a machine gun crew in the 41st Rifle Division of the Red 14th Army. He fought on the southern, southwest and western fronts against the troops of Denikin, Petljura and Pilsudski . In September 1923 he became the leader of a machine-gun platoon, and from February 1924 he became the military commissar of the 132nd Donetsk Rifle Regiment (44th Rifle Division) in the Ukrainian military district. In 1926 he completed the higher tactics and shooting course "Wystrel". Since September 1926 he was in command of a battalion of the 7th Caucasian (later 135th Rifle) Regiment of the 45th Rifle Division in the same military district . In 1932 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy . From May 1932 he was chief of staff of the 61st Rifle Division in the Volga military district and from December 1935 he was chief of the operations department in the general staff of the Volga military district, then from June 1937 in the same position in the military district of Kiev . In 1937 he graduated from the higher military academy of the General Staff of the Red Army. Since July 1938 he was chief of staff of Army Group Zhitomir and from September 1939 he was in the same position in the 5th Army of the Special Military District of Kiev.

In World War II

In September 1939 Trofimenko took part in the invasion of western Ukraine and took over the post of deputy chief of staff of the 7th Army in Karelia in the Soviet-Finnish war . On June 4, 1940, he was promoted to major general. In August 1940 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the North Caucasian Military District and from January 1941 to the command of the troops of the Central Asian Military District. When the German invasion of the Soviet Union broke out, Trofimenko continued to command in Central Asia, where from August to October 1941, in addition to the 58th Rifle Corps, the 53rd Army was stationed to secure the border to Central Asia. From December 1941 to March 1942 he was in command of the Medweschjegorsk Task Force (1941–1942) of the Karelian Front .

On June 13, 1942 he was appointed lieutenant general, from March to June 1942 he was commander of the 32nd Army and from July 1942 to January 1943 - the 7th Army and from January 1943 to the end of the war in 1945 he was Commander in Chief of the 27th Army . His troops took part in the 1942 defensive battles in Karelia and in the Demjansk operation . In 1943 his troops fought in the Battle of Kursk and took part in the Belgorod-Kharkov Operation and the liberation of Ukraine . During the Jassy-Kishinev (August 1944) the 27th Army carried out the main attack on the 2nd Ukrainian Front in the direction of Jassy , broke through the German defenses and enabled the introduction of the 6th Panzer Army for a strategic breakthrough. Then the 27th Army developed its offensive on Romanian territory, which in nine days extended over an advance distance of 250 km, which split the hinterland of the German Army Group in southern Ukraine and in quick succession the cities of Adjud , Focsani , Buzau and Ploiesti into Soviet hands fell. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 13, 1944, Triofimenko was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union including the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star No. 4262 for his latter services. From autumn 1944 until the end of the war in May 1945, the troops of his 27th Army took part in the Debreczen , Budapest , Balaton , Vienna and Amstetten .

post war period

From 1945 to 1946 he commanded the Soviet troops in Tbilisi , then from 1946 to 1949 he was the commander of the Belarusian and from 1949 to 1953 of the North Caucasian military district. In 1949 he completed the higher academic courses at the Voroshilov Military Academy. He was elected member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR at the 2nd and 3rd convocation (1946-1953) . Trofimenko died in Moscow in October 1953 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Awards

4 Order of Lenin
3 Order of the Red Banner
2 Suworoworden 1st class
Kutuzov 1st class
Bogdan Khmelnitsky Order 1st Class

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personal data
SURNAME	Trofimenko, Sergei Georgievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Трофименко, Сергей Георгиевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet colonel general
DATE OF BIRTH	September 22, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Village Rewny, Rajon Nawlja , Oryol Governorate
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1953
Place of death	Moscow