Aleksandr Liziukow

Aleksandr Ilyich Lysiukov (Russian: Александр Ильич Лизюков, born on March 26, 1900 in Gomel, died on July 25, 1942 near the village of Miedwieżje in the Siemiłuck district in the Voronezh region) - Soviet Major General, Hero of the Soviet Union (1941). < / p> Curriculum vitae

He graduated from the sixth grade of high school, from April 1919 served in the Red Army, from 1919 he belonged to RKP (b). From October 1919, as a platoon commander, he participated in the civil war, in June 1920 he became the commander's commander, then commander of the battery in the 7th Infantry Division, and in September 1920 the chief of artillery forces of the 12th Army, then head of artillery and deputy commander of the armored train No. 56 "Kommunar". He took part in the battles with the army of Denikin, ataman Petlura, with the Polish Army, the fight against the insurgent movement in the Kiev Governorate and insurgents Antonov in 1921. In 1923 he graduated from the military school in Petrograd, and in 1927 the Military Academy. Frunze, in which he later lectured, later became lecturer in the tactics of the Faculty of Mechanization and Automation of the Military and Technical Academy of the Red Army, from January 1933 to June 1934 he commanded a battalion in the Moscow Military District, from June 1934 to March 1936 he was commander-commissar of the heavy armored regiment in Leningrad Military District, then commander of the 6th Independent Armored Brigade named after Kirov in the Leningrad Military District. On February 8, 1938, he was arrested by the NKVD on charges of planning a terrorist act against the USSR authorities, subjected to interrogations, released on December 3, 1939 and rehabilitated, and returned to service in the Red Army in February 1940. From April 1940 to March 1941 he lectured at the cathedral tactics of the Military Academy of Mechanization and Automotive Red Army them. Stalin, then he became the deputy commander of the 36th Panzer Division of the 17th Mechanized Corps of the Western Special Military District to the rank of colonel. On June 26, 1941, he was appointed head of the defense staff of Borisov, in July 1941 he commanded a group of troops operating in the Smolensk region, and in late July 1941 he became the commander of the 1st Moscow Mechanized Division of the 16th Western Front Army, which in September 1941 was called "gwardyjska". He took part in the battle of Moscow, from December 1941 to April 1942 he commanded the 2nd Gwardian Infantry Corps on the North-West Front; on January 10, 1942 he was made Major General; from April to June 1942 he commanded the 2nd Armored Corps on the Brinski Front, then the 5th Panzer Army on this front. He died in combat. Honors Bibliography

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