Eremenko WPT biography

Father - Ivan Vasilievich. Mother - Maria Ivanovna. Wife - Nina Ivanovna. Children: Son - Andrey Andreevich, reserve colonel; Son - Vladimir Andreevich, captain of the 1st rank of reserve; Daughter - Tatyana Andreevna, economist. In the year he was drafted into the royal army. With the outbreak of World War I, he participated in the battles against the Kaiser troops as an ordinary, and then the commander of the department.

After the February Revolution of the Year, he was elected to the regimental committee. Upon returning from the Romanian Front, he quits from the army. From the end of the year - in the Red Army. Consistently holds the positions of the chief of brigade intelligence, the chief of staff of the regiment, the assistant commander of the regiment of the Cavalry Division of the 1st Horse Army, participates in battles against Polish interventionists, troops of Wrangel and Gangs of Makhno.

After graduating from the year in Leningrad, the Higher Cavalry School subsequently, the cavalry courses for the improvement of the command personnel are appointed by the commander of the Cavalry Regiment of the Cavalry Division. Then he graduates from political courses at the V. Military-Political Academy named after V. Lenin, and in the year - the Military Academy named after M.

commands the Cavalry Division, the Cavalry Corps. The head of the 6th Cossack Corps takes part in a campaign in Western Belarus and Lithuania. Since the year-the commander of the mechanized corps, commander of the troops of the North Caucasus Military District, commander of the 1st Red Banner Army in the Far East, and in the year of the army of the Trans-Baikal Military District.

On the eighth day of the Great Patriotic War, he responds to Moscow and is appointed deputy commander of the Western Front. Participates in the leadership of the military operations of troops in the Battle of Smolensk. In early August, the 2nd Army and the 2nd Panzer Group of the enemy with blows against the troops of the Central Front, covering the Bryansk, Gomel and Chernihiv directions, achieved significant success.

There was a threat of a breakthrough in the bands of the actions of the reserve and central fronts and the release of large tank formations of Guderian to the southern borders of Moscow. In order to eliminate this threat and a reliable cover for the direction to Bryansk at the junction of two fronts - the reserve and central rate on August 14 decided to form the Bryansk Front and appoint it to the commander of A.

Called to the rate to receive instructions directly from the Supreme, the new front commander kept with great dignity, resourcefully answered all questions. Yes, he said, the enemy, of course, is very strong and stronger than we expected, but of course it is possible to beat him. It is only necessary to be able to do this to Stalin to the liking of such a confidence of the military leader.

Having outlined the situation, the Supreme said that the mandatory task of the troops of the Bryansk Front is to not only reliably cover the Bryansk direction, but at all costs to timely break the main forces of the Guderian tank group. Andrei Ivanovich very confidently stated that “in the next days, of course” will defeat Guderian. Stalin especially liked this statement.

However, in connection with a sharp change in the operational situation on the Southwestern Front, supplanted on the Left Bank of the Dnieper and, in fact, which was under the threat of the environment both from the south and the north, the initial task of the Bryansk Front was significantly adjusted. Now General Eremenko had to strike Guderian not on his forehead, but in the rapidly elusive flank of his group.

To solve such a problem, a significant strengthening was necessary especially after the disbandment of the Central Front of the Southern Flang of the Bryansk Front. Stalin in a telephone conversation with Andrei Ivanovich, putting a new, adjusted task in front of him, emphasized: “If you promise to defeat the scoundrel of Guderian, then we can send a few more aviation regiments and how much the Battery of the RS he asked for the“ yard united with the 3rd, to subordinate to him.

” The promises given to Stalin in fact were much more difficult. The actions of a hastily chopped group of the southern flank of the Bryansk Front did not bring the expected results. The right wing of the German Army Group Center under the command of Field Marshal von Bock, sharply turning south, has achieved new successes. The corps of Guderian with a blow to the Romny managed to go to the rear of the South-Western Front.

This was the period when the chief tank general of the Wehrmacht was at the zenith of skill and luck, which was also enough to pierce the defense of the Bryansk Front in the operation that had begun in the autumn of the Typhoon operation and soon be under Tula. However, on the approaches to the arms of Russia, the collapse of this favorite Fuhrer began. As for A. Eremenko, he, as well as to a number of other Soviet military leaders, obviously did not immediately come to an understanding of what experienced military professionals they had to join in confrontation, that they could not be defeated not only with courage, but by contrasting a fairly high level of training of troops and their management, the ability to organize operations, taking into account various factors.

Providing overwhelming superiority in the direction of strikes, the German 2nd Army and the 2nd Panzer Group from October 6Parts in half -reduction, with heavy battles, went east. Eremenko organizes counterattacks, as a result of which it was possible to recapture Mtsensk from the enemy and a number of other settlements. On the Belev line, Ponyri, Mtsensk, the enemy’s advance was stopped.

The day after delivery to Moscow, he had an operation in the Central Military Hospital. On the night of October 15, I. visited him in the ward The weeks of staying in the hospital were painful for the military leader, deprived of the opportunity to counteract the ongoing onslaught of the Nazis to the capital. Upon recovery, he is appointed commander of the 4th Shock Army and in January of the year successfully acts at the head of it during the North-Western Front of the Toropetsk-Kholm operation.

With a foot, chained in a gypsum, he continued to command the troops from a stretcher for 23 days and agreed to send to the hospital only when the intensity of the fighting began to subside. A significant page in the biography of the commander was the Battle of Stalingrad. Standed on August 7, at the head of the troops of the Southeast Front, operating in the southern part of Stalingrad, Colonel General A.

Eremenko gathered in a powerful fist the reserves and had a counterattack on August 9. As a result, the Nazis' attempt was broken to break into the city from the southwest. The 4th Wehrmacht’s 4th Panzer Army was also forced to proceed to defense on the reached lines. The counterattack, organized by him on August 23 with the involvement of large aviation forces, was successful in order to break the enemy’s attempt to break through to Stalingrad from the northwest.

The Stalingrad Front, formed on September 28 as a result of the unification of the Southeast and Stalingrad fronts, under the command of A. Eremenko held the stronghold on the Volga before the deployment of a powerful counterattack here. On the counterattack, the Stalingrad Front transferred the forces of the Armies and left -fling formations on November 20, i.e.

on the first day the enemy defense was broken. The tank and mechanized frontal corps introduced into the battle were rapidly advanced towards each other. Cavalry and rifle formations, developing an offensive in the southwestern and southern directions, created the external front of the encirclement of the Stalingrad enemy group. In total, up to 22 divisions and from above separate parts were in the ring with a total number of thousand.

The Reich leadership hoped not only to release the surrounded, but also to restore the lost position on the Don and on the Volga. For this, it created on the southeastern section of the front, the Don Army Group, led by Field Marshal E., was transferred to its subordination to the Hollidt operational group, the 3rd Romanian army, the GOT Army group consisting of the 4th German Panzer and 4th Romanian armies, as well as the troops surrounded in the Stalinrad region.

Eremenko showed great efficiency in organizing the opposition of part of these forces - the shock group "GOT". He regrouped reserves in the lane of the army. Nevertheless, the 6th and Tank divisions of Goth, a tank blow, despite the losses, managed to break through to the Aksai River by the end of December 13, and capture the Verkhnekumsky farm to the advanced detachments.

Feeling an increase in the threat of a breakthrough of the enemy, the commander of the Stalingrad Front creates an operational group, headed by his deputy general G., a 4th mechanized corps, I am a rifle division, I am a flamethrower tank brigade and a jug for a fighter brigade. They are given the task of preventing the enemy’s breakthrough to the Myskov River in the Upper Komsky direction.

At the same time, A. Eremenko strengthened the yoke of the Mankovy Corps in the Kruglyakov region. The battles reached the highest tension. To distract part of the GOT group forces from this direction, on December 14, the 5th shock army was struck on Nizhnechirskaya together with the 7th Panzer Corps. However, possessing a great general advantage in power, the Goth group continued on an onslaught.

The position of the A army was still critical. In these conditions, at the insistence of A. Vasilevsky, the headquarters transferred the 2nd Guards Army of Lieutenant General R. Malinovsky, intended for the Don Front, and the 6th mechanized corps with the task of defeating the disobedient grouping of the enemy. The army of Malinovsky, who had already unloaded from trains in the rear of the Don Front, still had to overcome - km in a snowstorm and severe frosts.

While Eremenko’s troops waged defensive battles with the superior enemy forces in the interfluve of Aksai - Mamykov, the main forces of the army of Malinovsky unfolded on the northern shore of Myshkova. Here, decisive battles took place, which put an end to the further advancement of the enemy, tore off the plans of the Wehrmacht’s supreme command to release the troops of the 6th Army. Having freed Kotelnikovsky and Branding, they threw the enemy Goth group behind the Manch River.

The distance that separated the Paulus group from the external front of the environment increased to - km. Favorable conditions were created for its elimination. Eremenko considered this decision to be wrong and reported on this to the Supreme.But, as Andrei Ivanovich noted in the diary records, Stalin said: “What are you worried about, you played a major role in the Battle of Stalingrad, we have a more important task: to cut off the Caucasian group of the enemy on Rostov.” Stalin in personal terms showed noticeable attention to Andrei Ivanovich.

Apparently appreciated his unshakable faith in the ability to defeat the enemy and exceptional courage. A. Eremenko recalls with particular warmth a meeting with Stalin in the front -line setting during the preparation in the summer of the year of the Smolensk operation. The Supreme arrived at the Kalinin front, led by Andrei Ivanovich and preparing a blow to the enemy forces of the left wing, on August 5, in the village of good.

Here are brief fragments from the diary entry about this meeting. Comrade Stalin, who had previously walked around the room, stopped in the middle and took a report from me. He smiled somehow simply and warmly, shocked my hand affably and, staring at me intently, said: “You, apparently, are still offended by me for not accepting your proposal at the last stage of the Battle of Stalingrad to finish off Paulus.

You should not be offended.