The biography of Evgeny was Shapil

The tombstone of Monument Shapovalov Evgeny Petrovich-commander of the guards motorized rifle brigade of the 7th Guards Tank Corps of the 3rd Guards Panzer Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Guard Lieutenant Colonel. Born on December 25 in the city of Taganrog of the region of Donskoy, now the Rostov region. From the family of the worker. He graduated from elementary school. He worked as a shoemaker.

In July, he was transferred to the Red Army and was aimed at studying. He studied at the School of Chervonnaya elders Kharkov, in August he was transferred to the Cavalry School named after S. Budyonny Elizavetgrad, graduated from it on years. From the year - the commander of the cavalry and machine -gun platoon in the Mm Cavalry Regiment of the 3rd Bessarabian Cavalry Division of the Ukrainian Military District in October, the commander of the equestrian platoon in the Mr.

Infantry Division of the same district Belaya Church. Since April, he has been an assistant to the squadron commander in political unit, the political instructor of the regimental school in the Cavalery Regiment of the 9th Cavalry Division, Gaisin, Vinnitsa region. Since February, the Political Committee of the squadron, commander and political instructor of the squadron of the Cavalry Regiment of the 5th Stavropol Cavalry Division named after M.

Blinova Zhytomyr. Since August, the assistant chief of staff of the Civil Code of the Cavalry Regiment Berdichev, since October - chief of staff of the Civil Code of the Cavalry Regiment Izyaslav of the 3rd Bessarabian Cavalry Division named after G. Since August, the commander of the Khvaleriysk Regiment of the Kyiv Special Military District Zhytomyr. Since October, the commander of the Separate Intelligence Battalion of the Rifle Division Belaya Church.

Member of the CPSU B from the year. In the battles of World War II, Major E. Shapovalov since June. He fought in the same position in the 5th Army of the Southwestern Front, a participant in the defensive border battle in Western Ukraine and the Kyiv defensive operation. Miraculously leaving the encirclement after the Kyiv catastrophe of the troops of the South-Western Front, sent to the rear for the hasty formation of new units.

Since November, the chief of staff of the Cavalry Division of the Central Asian Military District Chardjou, the Turkmen SSR, in November -December acted as the commander of this division. Since March, the deputy commander of the cavalry division of the same Kushka district. In September, the division was sent to the front, transferred to the army of the Stalingrad Front. In its ranks in December, the division entered the battle during the Kotelnikov defensive operation of the Battle of Stalingrad - a reflection of the offensive of the German Army Group Don Field Marshal Manstein for the release of the Paulus army in Stalingrad.

Then, as part of the Stalingrad and Southern Fronts, the division participated in Kotelnikovskaya and Rostov offensive operations. Frunze, in October of the year - staff courses at this academy. Since October - chief of staff, since April - commander of the guards motorized rifle brigade. The commander of the Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 7th Guards Tank Corps, 3rd Guards Tank Army, the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Guard Lieutenant Colonel E.

Shapovalov distinguished himself in April-May in the Berlin offensive operation. The brigade, when crossing the Neis, spr, the channel, and in street battles, destroyed from above the enemy soldiers, 26 guns, 7 tanks, 2 armored vehicles, vehicles, captured from above soldiers and officers, captured 7 warehouses, liberated a large camp of prisoners of war of about 20 thousand people.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 31, for the exemplary command, the brigade and the personal courage and heroism of the guard shown to Lieutenant Colonel Evgeny Petrovich Shapovalov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal. After the war, he continued to serve in the Soviet Army.

Since July, he was the commander of the Guards Motor Rifle Regiment into which the former I, the Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade in the 7th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet occupation forces in Germany was reorganized.

Since April - Deputy commander of the 6th Guards Personnel Mechanized Regiment in the same place. Since November, - Deputy commander of the 6th Guards Mechanized Division in the GSVG. Since July - Deputy commander of the 2nd Guards Tank Division of the Leningrad Military District. In the year he graduated from academic courses for the improvement of command personnel at the Military Academy of armored and mechanized troops of the Soviet Army named after I.

Stalin, then served in the same position. Since October, the commander of the Guards Mechanized Division of the Trans -Baikal Military District. Since March, Major General E. Shapovalov is in stock. In years he was the director of the state farm in the Fastovsky district of the Kyiv region. From a year in retirement. He lived in the city of hero Kyiv. He died on November 8.

He was buried in Kyiv at the Lukyanovsky military cemetery. Major General was awarded two orders of Lenin, four orders of the Red Banner, medals, foreign orders and medals. The biography is supplemented by Anton Bocharov. Koltsovo, Novosibirsk region.