Valerian Alexandrovich Frolov

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Valerian Alexandrovich Frolov ( Russian Валериан Александрович Фролов ; born May 26 . Jul / 7. June  1895 greg. In St. Petersburg , † 6. January 1961 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet Colonel-General (1943) and commander in the Great Patriotic War .

Life

Walerian Frolow was born in 1895 in the family of a small employee. In May 1915 he was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and received his basic training from July in the 180th Reserve Infantry Regiment (Petrograd), then in the reserve battalion of the Life Guard of the Moscow Regiment, where he was trained in the training platoon. Since April 1917 he took part in the First World War as part of a regiment on the Southwest Front . At the front, he quickly achieved the rank of sergeant and was appointed platoon leader after being wounded. In February 1918 he was demobilized.

In the Red Army

In February 1918 he was one of the first to join the Red Army and began his service in the reserve battalion in Vyborg , on the basis of which the 1st Moscow Revolutionary Regiment was soon formed. Frolov became platoon leader in this regiment and fought on the Karelian Isthmus as part of the red northern front. In December 1918 he became company commander and a few months later battalion commander in the 48th regiment of the 6th Rifle Division (Red 7th Army). He took part in the campaign in Estonia and in the defense of Petrograd against the troops of General NN Yudenitsch in the Narva operation (November – December 1919). In the Soviet-Polish war he fought in the Polotsk and Lepel area and accompanied the advance of the Red Army to Warsaw . On September 6, 1920 he was seriously wounded by a grenade explosion near Grodno and suffered from the consequences for the rest of his life. After a long time in hospital, he returned to his regiment in December. In the winter and spring of 1921 he participated as battalion commander in the overthrow of the White Guards in Lepel and Senno. In the spring of 1921, the 6th Rifle Division was relocated to the Orjol Military District , where Frolov continued to function as battalion commander of the 48th Rifle Regiment. In March 1922 he returned to the Western Military District (Belorus Military District from October 1926), where he successively commanded companies in the 49th, 50th and 6th Rifle Regiments. In 1924 he graduated from the Comintern Higher Tactical Infantry School in the General Staff of the Red Army. Since November 1924 he was head of the training regiments and since October 1926 battalion commander of the 5th Rifle Regiment (2nd Rifle Division) in the military district of Belarus . From November 1928 he completed 6-month preparatory courses at the military-political Tolmachev Academy of the Red Army, after which he entered the Frunze Military Academy in June 1929 . After graduation, he was appointed commander of the 46th Rifle Regiment (16th Rifle Division) in the Leningrad Military District in May 1932. On February 17, he was promoted to colonel. Since April 1936 he acted as adjutant to the head of the air defense department of the city of Leningrad. In November 1936 he was appointed chief of staff of the 54th Rifle Division of the Leningrad Military District and in June 1937 commander of the 16th Rifle Division. He was promoted to major general on February 17, 1937. From October 1937 to September 1938 he took part incognito in the Spanish Civil War. After returning to the USSR, on January 21, 1939, he was given the military rank of division commander, at the same time he was appointed commander of the 1st Rifle Corps of the Leningrad Military District. From October 1939 he was in command of the Murmansk Army Group, which was renamed the 14th Army in October 1939. From December 1939 to March 1940 he took part in the fighting of his army in the theater of war in the Arctic during the Soviet-Finnish War . For his positively rated troop leadership in the course of the last hostilities and their successful conclusion, he was appointed corps commander on December 23, 1939 and lieutenant general on June 4, 1940 .

In World War II

When the Second World War broke out, Frolov was at the head of the 14th Army and defended the Murmansk area . In cooperation with the Northern Fleet , the offensive of the German XIX. Stop Mountain Corps and preserve the ice-free port of Murmansk for the Red Army. From September 1941 to February 1944 he was in command of the Karelian Front . His troops defended a front of more than 1,200 kilometers from the Barents Sea via Uchta and Powenez on Lake Onega and along the Swir River to Lake Ladoga . Half of the Finnish Army and the German 20th Mountain Army were tied up on the front . Soviet attacks such as the Medweschjegorsk and Kestenger operations and the Murmansk offensive followed at regular intervals . On April 28, 1943 he was promoted to colonel general. In February 1944 VA Frolov was appointed deputy commander of the Karelian Front. In February 1944 Army General K. A. Merezkow was appointed the new Commander in Chief of the Front and Frolov was downgraded to Deputy. In the summer of 1944, the troops at the front took part in the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk operation and in the pursuit of the enemy to Kandalaksha and Kesteng, as well as in the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation . As a result, the state border in the north-west of the USSR was restored, Finland withdrew from the war as a result of the defeat. In November 1944 the front was disbanded and Frolov was downgraded in his position.

post war period

From December 1944 to May 1948 he was in command of the troops in the White Sea Military District . In 1949 he completed higher academic courses at the Voroshilov Military Academy. From May 1949 to June 1951 he commanded the troops of the Arkhangelsk military district . From July 1951 until the dissolution of this military district in April 1956 he was again commander of the troops of the White Sea military district. After his recall, he was available to the USSR Ministry of Defense from October 1956 as an advisory reserve. He died in 1961 and was buried in the Bogoslovskoye Cemetery in Leningrad.

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SURNAME Frolov, Valerian Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Фролов, Валериан Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet colonel general
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1961
Place of death Leningrad