Viktor Timofeevich Obukhov

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Viktor Timofejewitsch Obuchow ( Russian Виктор Тимофеевич Обухов ; born April 3, 1898 in Nikolskaya , Orenburg governorate , † November 26, 1975 in Moscow ) was a Soviet colonel general who served as the commander of the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps “Stalingrad.” gained notoriety during the German-Soviet War .

biography

Obukhov joined the Bolsheviks in 1918 and was a soldier in the Red Army . He took part in the Russian Civil War. During the civil war he was a machine gunner, chief of a reconnaissance unit and commander of a cavalry regiment. He took part in fighting on the Siberian, southern civil war front as well as in Turkestan. The Soviet commander Mikhail Frunze Obukhov gave his Mauser pistol to guide his regiment during the conquest of Bukhara .

In 1924 Obukhov graduated from the Higher Cavalry School in Leningrad. In 1934 he finished his studies at the Mikhail Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. In the same year he volunteered to work in the Chinese province of Xinjiang . In 1939 he took part in the fighting on the Chalchin-Gol river in eastern Mongolia during the Japanese-Soviet border conflict . From December 1939 to December 1940 he was head of the Borissow cavalry school. He then became the commander of various tank units in quick succession. On June 4, 1940, he was promoted to major general of the armored forces. Since he had been spared the purge of the Red Army , Obuchov was one of the few experienced officers in the Red Army at the beginning of the German-Soviet War.

After June 22, 1941 Obuchow took part as commander of the Soviet 26th Panzer Division in the Association of the 20th Mechanical Corps ( 13th Army ) in the Battle of Białystok and Minsk and the Battle of Smolensk . He was able to evade capture by the German troops in both tank battles and his division was one of the few Soviet units that remained capable of acting in the critical situation during the German attack. In July 1942 he was appointed deputy commander of the newly formed 4th Panzer Army . During the initial phase of the Battle of Stalingrad , he was in command of the 3rd Mechanized Corps, which was incorporated into the Soviet 65th Army (General Batow ) in October 1942 .

On May 4, 1943, he was appointed commander of the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps. With this corps he took part in the battle of Kursk . During the Soviet follow-up offensives in the course of the Battle of the Dnieper , he was seriously wounded on August 19, 1943. However, a little later he took part in the fighting for the Soviet bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper near Kanew . On November 5, 1943, Obuchow was promoted to lieutenant general.

In the period up to June 10, 1944, the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps was in reserve before it was assigned to the 5th Guards Panzer Army . After the start of the Soviet summer offensive in Belarus (→ Operation Bagration ), the corps under Obuchow's command crossed the Beresina near Borisov on June 28, 1944 against the resistance of the 5th German Panzer Division and played a major role in the reconquest of Molodechno, Vilnius, Schaulen, Mitau and Riga. At Schagarren , the corps fended off a German counterattack (→ Doppelkopf company ). For crossing the Berezina on July 4, 1944 Obuchow received the Order of Hero of the Soviet Union . Until the end of the German-Soviet War, the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps belonged to the Soviet units that besieged the German Kurland basin . The unit was then moved to the Far East, where it took part in Operation August Storm .

After the Second World War Obukhov remained in command of the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps. In 1952 he graduated from the Military Academy of the Soviet General Staff and was appointed the first deputy commander of the Red Army armored forces. In 1953 he was promoted to colonel general. In 1965 he left the Red Army with honor due to age.

Publications

  • Ради нашего счастья. ( For our happiness ); Publishing house ДОСААФ Moscow, 1972

literature

  • А. В. Окороков: Русские добровольцы (AW Okorokov: Russian volunteers ); Awuar Consulting Moscow, 2004; ISBN 5-902235-05-7
  • В. П. Россовский: Золотые Звезды Оренбуржья. Биографический справочник. (WP Rossowskij: Orenburg's Golden Heroes , Biographical Directory); South Ural Publishing House Chelyabinsk 1989
  • Герои Советского Союза. Краткий биографический словарь. (Heroes of the Soviet Union. Short Biographical Dictionary), Volume 2; Military Publishing House of the USSR Moscow, 1988
  • Н. Ливанов: Оренбуржцы в боях за Родину. (N. Liwanow: Orenburg in struggles for the homeland); South Ural Publishing House Chelyabinsk 1978

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decree of the Defense Commissariat of the USSR of 4.06.40 № 945 on the assignment of ranks to senior officers in the Red Army (accessed October 9, 2010, in Russian)
  2. ↑ http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/spravochnik/personalii/kom_td.htm (accessed on October 9, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Obukhov, Viktor Timofeevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Обухов, Виктор Тимофеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet colonel general
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Nikolskaya , Orenburg Governorate
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1975
Place of death Moscow