General Naumov Mikhail Ivanovich: biography, awards and interesting facts

Mikhail Naumov - General of the Great Patriotic War, commander of a partisan cavalry squad. Active participant in the confrontation of the Nazis in the territory of occupied Ukraine. He was one of the main leaders of the partisan movement. In 1943 he was awarded the title of Hero of the USSR. In this article a brief biography of the general will be presented.

Job

Mikhail Ivanovich Naumov was born in the village of Bolshaya Sosnova in 1908. Since 1927, a young man worked in a coal mine (Perm region) as a pipe fitter. Then he worked as a secretary of the Komsomol, a propagandist, deputy chairman of the district consumer society. From 1928 he joined the Party of the CPSU.

Service

In 1930, Mikhail Naumov went to the frontier troops of the USSR OGPU. He studied at the school of junior commanders in the town of Shostka. He was a member of the Red Army. After graduation from the military chemical school, he was appointed chief of the NKVD regiment. In 1937 he completed his studies at the Moscow border school. In 1938 he became commander of the 4th motorized rifle regiment in Kiev. In 1940 he headed the training battalion of the border troops (the city of Chernivtsi). We go further.

Guerrilla movement

The head of the 94th Skolensk Frontier Detachment is the position where Mikhail Naumov was at the beginning of the war. The Second World War caught the future general unawares. In the first days of the fighting, he was surrounded and wounded. Michael had to stay with the local residents to recover. The next six months the young man lived in the occupied lands. And after recovery he went to the Khinelskie forests in Orlovschina.

In early 1942, Mikhail Naumov went to the partisans Chervonogo district (Sumy region). He joined the detachment as an ordinary soldier, and after a while became commander of the unit. Then the future general became the head of the operational center of the partisan detachments.

Cavalry Connection

In early 1943, on the orders of the chief, who headed the Ukrainian headquarters of the guerrilla movement, and on instructions from the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks), three groups and four detachments were allotted. Of these, a cavalry formation of 650 men was formed. The new subdivision of partisan groups was headed by Mikhail Naumov. Before his cavalry detachment several tasks were set: to raid the southern outskirts of the Sumy region, to liquidate the movement of enemy trains on the sections of Sumy-Kharkov and Sumy-Konotop. And the ultimate goal is to conduct a military operation in the Kirovograd region.

Sabotage activities

In February 1943, headed by M.I. Naumov cavalry uniting guerrillas went to raid from Fatezh region (Kursk region). For 65 days of raids they passed almost 2,400 kilometers in several occupied territories of Zhytomyr, Kiev, Vinnitsa, Odessa, Kirovograd, Kharkov, Poltava, Sumy regions of Ukraine, and also in the Polesskaya region of Belarus. The cavalry unit conducted 47 diversionary and combat operations. The most significant of them became Andreevskaya, Shevchenkovskaya and Yunkovo-Sumskaya. As a result of military operations, many units of army equipment were destroyed, as well as hundreds of German officers and soldiers.

New rank

In March 1943, for military services to the country in organizing the movement of the partisans Naumov, Mikhail received the Gold Star medal and the Order of Lenin. Well, and, naturally, he was awarded the title of Hero of the USSR.

Also, Mikhail Ivanovich was awarded for the successfully conducted steppe raid. In April 1943, he became a major general. Naumov was almost the youngest military with such a title. And in general, his assignment to the senior lieutenant can be called a unique case.

After the raid the partisan detachments went to the area of Khrapouni (Polesie region, Belarus). There the soldiers were rearmed, reformed and prepared for further military operations. And the commander of the joint MI. Naumov had to fly to Moscow for treatment.

It should be noted that the raid carried out by partisan detachments under the command of Mikhail Ivanovich to the southern steppe lands of Ukraine was of immense political significance. First of all, in terms of organizing the struggle of local residents against the occupiers.

Second raid

In mid-1943, the Ukrainian headquarters of the partisan movement set up a new task for the Naumov division: the fighters were to raid the Zhitomir and Kiev regions. And then move to the Kirovograd land for a new battle.

The second raid lasted from July 12 to December 22. On the enemy's rear, the guerrilla unit of the hero of this article passed about 2500 kilometers. It forced 23 rivers. The largest of them: Teterev, Sluch, Ubork, Pripyat. Spent 186 combat operations. The most significant were Emilchinskaya and Rachkovskaya in the Zhytomyr region. Many enemy officers and soldiers were destroyed there, as well as food, ammunition, and weapons were seized. The number of the union of Mikhail Ivanovich grew from 355 to 1975 partisans.

In December 1943, Naumov's units merged in the area of Gorodnitsa with the Red Army.

The third raid

Being in the liberated territory, the guerrilla unit was rearmed and completed. After a short rest, the detachments received a new order from the head of the Ukrainian headquarters. Under the command of Naumov they were to enter the Drogobych region to conduct combat operations. In January 1944, the guerrillas made the third raid. Moving forward with battles over the rear of the enemy, the detachments passed through Lviv, Drogobych, Ternopil, Rivne regions of Ukraine, and Lublin voivodship (Poland). The unit conducted 72 diversionary and military operations. In March 1944, Naumov's division met with the Red Army.

It is worth noting that Mikhail Ivanovich was the only organizer of the cavalry uniting of partisans in Ukraine. Naumov preferred precisely a maneuver war. Therefore, the raids became his element. He repeatedly criticized the partisan commanders, who from 1941 to 1944 were based only in swampy and wooded massifs, avoiding raids over flat areas.

Life after WWII

In 1945 the war was over. But Mikhail Naumov decided to continue his service. To begin with, he graduated from the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy. Then he headed the border troops of the Pacific district and went to serve in the Baltic States. In 1953, Mikhail Ivanovich was appointed Acting Minister of Internal Affairs. The next seven years he led the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. He also took an active part in the liquidation of militant groups of nationalists. Since 1960 he moved to the reserve.

Several times Naumov Mikhail was elected a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR and a delegate to the Communist Party of Ukraine. He was a member of the Writers' Union.

He spent his last years in Kiev. He died in 1974. The grave of the general is in Kiev at the Baikovo cemetery.

Memory and rewards

In Ukraine, in the city of Sumy, there is a memorable sign "Border guards of all times". On it the name of M.I. Naumova. Also in honor of the general is named the patrol ship of the Russian Internal Troops and streets in such cities as Nesterov, Perm and Kiev.

The hero of this article was awarded many medals and the following orders:

• The Patriotic War (1st degree).
• The Red Star.
• Lenin.
• Bogdan Khmelnitsky (1st degree).
• Red Banner (2 copies).

Interesting Facts

During the war years, General Mikhail Naumov:

• Three times led the raids of his cavalry unit.
• Passed along the enemy's rear about 10,000 kilometers.
• Conducted 366 major operations and fights.
• He destroyed several thousand Banderites, Polizei, as well as Hungarian and German soldiers.