Vsevolod Fyodorovich Yakovlev

Vsevolod Fyodorovich Yakovlev

Vsevolod Fedorovich Yakovlev ( Russian Всеволод Фёдорович Яковлев ., Scientific transliteration Vsevolod Fjodorovič Yakovlev , born April 4 ^{. Jul} / 16th April  1895 ^greg. Near Novgorod ; † 2. April 1974 in Moscow ) was a Soviet general .

Life

Yakovlev was born in the small village of Okrojewo in Novgorod Province in 1895 . He was drafted into the Tsarist Army in February 1915 and took part in the fighting in the southwest during World War I. In 1916 he attended officer training and was then used as a company commander. When the October Revolution broke out , he had attained the rank of captain of staff .

In 1918 Yakovlev joined the Red Army and in 1919 the Communist Party . In the following Russian civil war he took part as battalion and regimental commander in the fighting in the south and west of the country, as well as in the suppression of unrest in Siberia .

After the civil war, Yakovlev continued to serve as regimental commander, but also as a commissar and commander of various rifle divisions . During this time he also received further training. He attended the Lenin Military Political Academy in 1930 and the Frunze Military Academy in 1934 . In 1937, Yakovlev was promoted to command of the 19th Corps. Shortly thereafter, he also reached the highest level of military leadership. From January to April 1938 he commanded the Belarusian Military District , from April 1938 to October 1939 the Baikal Military District and then the Kalinin Military District . But a short time later he also took part in the war against Finland as commander of the 7th Army . In addition to a promotion to lieutenant general , he received the post of deputy commander of the troops of the special Kiev military district in 1940 .

When the German-Soviet War broke out in 1941, Yakovlev was appointed commander in the hinterland of the south-western front , and later as its deputy chief of staff. At the end of 1941 he commanded the 4th Army in the Battle of Tikhvin off Leningrad until November 1941 . In this battle his army was crushed and the city of Tikhvin was initially lost. The later Marshal of the Soviet Union K.A. Merezkow wrote of him: “General Yakovlev was a combative, experienced troop leader. In a difficult situation, however, he had lost command of the army, whereupon he was removed from his post. At his request, he was left as Deputy Army Commander-in-Chief in the Army as he was also in charge of the Southern Operational Group. "

In January 1942, Yakovlev was given command of the 52nd Army, with which he took part in the Battle of the Volkhov . As deputy commander of the steppe front , he also took part in the fighting in the Kursk area from August 1943 before he was appointed commander of the Belarusian military district in October of the same year .

After Jakowlew had served as the commander of the Stavropol military district in 1946 , he retired from active service in 1947.

literature

• Яковлев, Всеволод Фёдорович , in: Советская военная энциклопедия , vol. 8, Москва 1980. ( online version )

Individual evidence

1. ^ KA Merezkow: In the service of the people , Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin (East) 1972, p. 247 f.