Mikhail Panov

Mikhail Fiodorovich Panov (Russian: Mykhail Фёдорович Панов, born on November 21, 1901 in the village of Owczinnikowo in Vitebsk province, May 8, 1979 in Moscow) - Soviet military commander, Lieutenant General, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945). Curriculum vitae He finished a rural school, worked in a factory in Petrograd and in the village council, from May 1919 served in the Red Army, initially as a soldier of the communist regiment on the Western Front of the civil war (fighting against the army of Judenicz). In 1921 he completed military and technical courses in Petrograd, and in 1924 a school of commanders, later he commanded a platoon of tanks and a heavy tank company, in 1929 he completed the courses of "Insignia" them. Comintern and became the commander of the regimental school of the 2nd Armored Regiment, from May to December 1929 he commanded a school battalion. From December 1932 to December 1933 he was the head of the technical section and assistant to the commander of the 5th Mechanized Brigade, in 1938 he graduated from the Military Academy of Automotive and Mechanization of the Red Army. Stalin and he became the commander of the 48th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Voroshilov, Ussuri, and in March 1941, commander of the 33th Armored Division of the 11th Mechanized Corps of the Western Special Military District. He took part in the battles with Germans, in October 1941 he became the helper of the General Inspector of the Chief Red Army Armored Authority, participated in the defense of Moscow, from November 1942 to April 1943 he commanded armored and mechanized troops of the 2nd Army of the Stalingrad Front Guard, in this position he took part in battle of Stalingrad, later became the commander of the 1st Gwardski Armored Corps on the Briański, Belarusian, 1 and 2 Belarusian fronts, participated in the Battle of Kursk, homelike-ruthenian and rogaczewsko-gobbinska operation, on June 7, 1943 he was granted the rank of general of the major armored forces. He distinguished himself during the Belarussian operation, including in battles in the region of Parycz and Mińsk, and later during the Pomeranian operation - the encirclement of Sopot and the acquisition of Oliwa. During the Berlin operation, Strasbourg, Frydland, Demmin, Ribnitz-Damgarten and Marlow took over the corps. From July 1945 to June 1946 he commanded the 1st Infantry Division, from June 1946 to March 1949 the 4th Armored Division of the Guard, and from March 1949 to September 1951 the 5th Gwardia Mechanized Army, in 1952 he completed higher academic courses at the Military Academy. Voroshilov. From January to December 1953 he commanded the armored and mechanized armies of the Leningrad Military District, from December 1953 to October 1954 50 Gwardian Infantry Corps, and from October 1954 to May 1958 the 7th Mechanized Army / 7th Panzer Army, later he was the first deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District and lecturer at the Armored Polish Academy, in February 1967 he ended his military service. He was buried at the Kuncewski Cemetery. Honors

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