Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov Biography
Alley of Glory in Zaporozhye Chuikov Vasily Ivanovich-commander of the 8th Guards Army on the 3rd Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian Fronts, Guard Colonel General. By nationality Russian. He graduated from four classes of the parish school and, at the age of 12, went to work in Petrograd, became a student in a Shorn workshop. In the year, he served Yunga of the Miner detachment in Kronstadt.
Since April, in the Red Army, the cadet of the first Moscow military instructor courses of the Red Army in Moscow, participated in the suppression of the rebellion of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in Moscow in July. Member of the RCP B C from the year. Member of the Civil War since the summer of the year. He commanded a company in the brigade of R. Sivers on the Southern Front against the Don Army of General P.
Then - assistant commander of the Rifle Regiment in the 5th Infantry Division on the Eastern Front. In the spring of the year, at the age of 19, he became the commander of the Rifle Regiment of the 5th Infantry Division, at the head of it fought on the eastern and western fronts, was awarded the 2nd orders of the Red Banner, with a nominal golden clock and gold weapons.
Frunze, in the year - her eastern faculty, after which in July he was sent by a military adviser to China. Since September, he is the head of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the special Red Banner Far Eastern Army V. Since November - the head and military commissar of intelligence courses for the improvement of the Komsomol at the reconnaissance of the headquarters of the Red Army.
Stalin was transferred from intelligence to the command service in the troops. Since December, the commander and the military commander of the 4th separate mechanized brigade, since April - the commander of the 5th Rifle Corps, and since July - the commander of the Bobruisk army group of troops was later reorganized into the 4th army. At the head of this group, he participated in the liberation of Western Belarus in September.
He participated in the position of commander of the 9th Army and not very successfully in the Soviet-Finnish war of the years. Then he returned to the post of mowing 4th Army in the Belarusian special since July - in the Western Special Military District. In the Great Patriotic War since May-the commander of the 1st Reserve since July-I am an army, and then an operational group of the Army.
Since September, he commanded the Army, who became famous for the heroic defense of Stalingrad.
In April, May-the year commanded the 8th Guards Army, which successfully operated in Izum-Barvenkovo and Donbass operations, in the battle of the Dnieper, the Nikopol-Krivorozh, Bereznato-Snegirevskaya, Odessa, Belorussian, Warsaw-Predazan and Berlin operations. After the war, he was a deputy from the year, from the year - the first deputy, and from the year - the Commander -in -Chief of the Soviet Troops in Germany.
Since May, he commanded the troops of the Kyiv military district. Since the year V. he is the author of several books, including the “beginning of the path”, “days in the fire of the battles”, “unprecedented feat”, “Stalingrad’s guards go west”, “The end of the Third Reich”. He died on March 18 in Moscow. According to the will, he was buried in the hero city of Volgograd on the Mamaev Kurgan at the foot of the Motherland Monument.
On the grave of V. Chuikov there are always fresh flowers. Military titles:.