General Beloborodov Afanasy Pavlantievich: biography, photo, family

General Beloborodov, whose biography is described in this article, is Russian by nationality. He was a famous Soviet military leader. Twice he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Afanasy Pavlantievich commanded the forty-third army, which freed Vitebsk from the Germans. Participated in the assault of Koenigsberg. He rose to the rank of General of the Soviet Army. He was a member of the Communist Party from 1926.

A family

On January 18, 1903, the future general-Beloborodov Afanasy Pavlantievich was born in the Irkutsk province, in the village of Akinino (now Baklashi). His family was simple, peasant. Father is baptized as Palladium. But the neighbors renamed it Pavland, more familiar to them.

Therefore, Athanasius wrote down the documents under this patronymic. Mother - Lina Konstantinovna. Father - Pavlant Dmitrievich. Athanasius was brought up in a large family. He was the youngest child. Had brothers and sister.

Childhood

At ten years old Athanasius independently plowed the land, mowed the grass and went to harvest. Passed cattle, was able to recognize edible mushrooms and went fishing. I was cleaning around the house, helping my mother, and I was working with neighbor's kids.

Youth

Youth for Athanasius began with a partisan detachment, which he went to at sixteen years in 1919. Though he did not stay in the detachment for long, he firmly decided that he would become a military man. In 1920, the partisan detachment joined the Red Army and was sent to the 8th Irkutsk Rifle Regiment of the first Chita division. But soon Afanasy Pavlantievich fell seriously ill and was released home. In April 1920, he returned to his native village.

Education

In 1923 he entered the Infantry School in Irkutsk. A year later it was abolished, and Afanasy Pavlantievich was in the eleventh Nizhny Novgorod. He graduated in the twenty-sixth. Then enrolled in Leningrad for military courses to them. Engels. He graduated from them in 1929. Then he entered the Moscow Military Academy. Frunze. He graduated in 1936.

Learning was always given to Athanasius easily. Most of all he was attracted to topography and military tactics. But in mathematics he was weak. But Athanasius understood that she needed him for a military career. And densely sat down for textbooks, excluding for the holidays even the weekend.

Return to military service

The future General Beloborodov returned to the Red Army only in 1923. From 1926 he was the commander of the infantry platoon of the Sixth Khabarovsk Regiment in the Siberian Military District. After graduation, he was appointed political officer of the rifle company of the thirty-sixth Trans-Baikal Division in the 107th regiment.

During the battle, after the death of the company commander, Mr. Zhalainor took command of himself. Under his successful leadership, the railway bridge was seized. Then Afanasy Pavlantievich received his first Order of the Red Banner. Was left commander of the company.

Since 1936, the future general Beloborodov, whose photo is in this article, became an assistant to the chief, and then the immediate head of the headquarters of the 66th Division in the Far East. Since 1939 he was appointed chief of the operetta of the thirty-first infantry corps. And since June of the same year - the forty-third building.

In 1940 he was in command of the corps. In 1941, he became head of the combat training department on the Far Eastern Front. A few months later, in the same year, already in the rank of colonel, commanded the 78th Infantry Division.

She was part of the sixteenth army, when the soldiers showed themselves heroically on the Western Front, in the direction of Istrin. And the division for courage and excellent combat training was transformed into the ninth Guards. It was a very rare case, when for 3 weeks of operations the division so rose in its status.

The document on renaming it into the Guards was signed personally by Stalin, the People's Commissar of the Soviet Union. Joseph Vissarionovich noted courage, courage, heroism and perseverance of the whole composition. Beloborodov's special merits were singled out separately in the order. He received the rank of Major-General.

Then his division liberated Istra, and in January 1942 was transferred to Vyazma direction and joined the forty-third army. Conducted military defensive operations on the South-Western Front, on the Seversky Donets.

Since October of the same year, General Afanasy Beloborodov took command of the 5th Guards Corps, who participated in the battles on the Kalinin Front during the Velikie Luki operation. And in 1943 he began to command the second corps, which participated in battles in the Smolensk region and in the Nevelsko-Urban operation. And also in offensive battles in Belarus.

In 1944, Beloborodov was already in command of the Lieutenant-General in command of the forty-third army. She broke through the enemy defenses during the Vitebsk-Orsha operation and crossed the Northern Dvina. Together with the thirty-ninth army, the Vitebsk fascist group was defeated.

In the same year, General Beloborodov commanded the forty-third army in several operations: Mamel, Polotsk, Riga and Shauliai. In 1945 he fought in East Prussia. Participated in three operations: Koenigsberg, Insterburg and Zemland. Since 1945, Athanasius led the first Red Banner Army. Participated in the composition of the first Far Eastern front in the defeat of the Japanese army.

Troops Beloborodov acted on the main front and in the very first days during the offensive broke through the well-fortified Mishan and Dunin districts. After this, the Soviet army, under the leadership of Afanasy Pavlantievich, launched an offensive at a fast pace on Harbin. After his release, Beloborodov became the city chief of the garrison and the first Soviet commandant.

Postwar years

After the war, General A. Beloborodov commanded the first Red Banner Army in the Far East. Since 1946, the Fifth Guards Division in the Central Group of Forces has passed under it, and in 1947 Athanasius led the thirty-ninth army in China. In 1983, for several months, he became head of the military training department of the ground forces. Since 1953, Mr .. was the head of the Higher Rifle tactical courses "Vystrel" them. Shaposhnikova modernization of the officers of the SA.

Since 1954, Athanasius was appointed Chief Military Adviser of the Ministry of National Defense of Czechoslovakia. In the autumn of 1955, he commanded the troops of the Voronezh Military District, and in the spring of 1957 he headed the Main Directorate of Personnel of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. In 1963 he was appointed commander of the Moscow Military District.

Beloborodov was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1966 to 1971. He was elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of the third and seventh convocations.

Car accident

In the autumn of 1966 Beloborodov (army general) returned from the motorized rifle Taman division and got into a car accident. His car "Seagull" crashed into the asphalt ice rink. As a result, Afanasy Pavlantievich suffered numerous serious injuries. He had to stay in the hospital for more than a year. But then he again returned to military service. And since 1968 he became a military inspector and adviser to the Group of Geninenspectors of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union.

Personal life

General Beloborodov Afanasy Pavlantievich married Zinaida Fedorovna Lankina. She graduated from the Pedagogical Institute and worked as a chemistry teacher. When they went to live in Port Arthur after the duty of Afanasii Pavlantievich, they found a director there for a Russian school. Zinaida Fedorovna never complained about nomadic life. Although often had to live in dugouts.

In 1930, Alyosha's son was born. Received a higher education. He died at the age of seventy. The second son, Vladimir, became the candidate of economic sciences, the responsible secretary of the association of international organizations, enterprises and associations. Lives in Moscow. In 1941, Afanasy and Zinaida Beloborodov were born another son, Alexander. But the time was hard, cold and hungry, and he died in infancy. Athanasius never saw his youngest son. In 1966 Zinaida Fedorovna died.

Death of the General

Afanasy Pavlantievich Beloborodov lived in Moscow. He died on the first of September of the ninetieth year. According to the left will, was buried in Istra district, at the Memorial Cemetery "Snegiri". Nearby is the mass grave of the fallen fighters of his division, who gave their lives for the defense of Moscow.

Awards

General Beloborodov Afanasy Pavlantievich was awarded many medals. As well as domestic orders:

• Five of them. Lenin;
• October revolution;
• The Five Red Banner;
• Suvorov (1 and 2 degrees);
• Kutuzov (2 items);
• The Patriotic War (1 st.);
• For service to the Motherland (3 items).

That's not all. General Afanasy Pavlantievich Beloborodov was awarded many foreign medals. And also with orders:

• White Lion (Czechoslovakia);
• For services to the Fatherland (German Democratic Republic);
• The military flag (Yugoslavia);
• The Polar Star (Mongolia).

Everlasting memory

In Irkutsk, opposite the Eternal Flame, there is a bust of General Beloborodov and a memorial plaque. His name is given to the streets in Vitebsk, Moscow, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk. An annotation board is delivered in Belarus. In the Irkutsk region, in with. Baklas, a memorial plaque is installed and there is a museum of General Beloborodov, and his name is the school. General Beloborodov is an honorary citizen of Istra, Irkutsk, Krasnogorsk (MO) and Vitebsk.

Unfortunately, Afanasy Pavlantievich's home in Baklashi has not survived to our days. But his fellow-countrymen still remember him. And not only as a general, but also as a patron. After the war, Afanasy Pavlantievich repeatedly visited his native village and made a lot of efforts to restore it.

For example, the local dilapidated wooden school due to the efforts of Beloborodov was rebuilt into brick. In 2003, a memorial plaque was built into its facade, and the educational institution itself has long been known as the general.