Biography of Marshal Voronov
Born on April 22, May 22 in St. Petersburg in the family of a bank employee, then a rural teacher. From the year he worked as a clerk for a private juror. He graduated from the real mere marshmallow school, externally passed exams for the course of 8 classes of the gymnasium in the year. Member of the February Revolution of the Year in Petrograd. Since November, he worked at the State Bank.
In the Red Army since March, a volunteer. In September, he graduated from the 2nd Petrograd artillery Soviet team courses, and in October, military administration and political leadership courses in Moscow. Since September, the platoon commander of the 1st Mortir Artillery Division, since March, is the assistant commander of the 2nd howitzer artillery battery of the 6th Infantry Division, since May - the assistant commander and commander of the artillery battery in the Russian Rifle Division, and during the civil war he participated in the battles against Yudenich’s troops and on the Western Front against the Polish army.
In July, in a battle surrounded in the area of the village of Juzefs near Novo-Minsk, Poland battery fought to the last shell, at the end of the battle was wounded and shell-shocked by a close break in the shell, and was captured. Contained in the hospital in Warsaw, then in the camp of prisoners of war of the Tukhol. In April, he was released. After the treatment in the hospital since July, he is the senior assistant to the commander of the 4th educational light-hug battery, assistant to the battery commander of the 2nd light-artillery division on the Western Front.
Since January, he commanded the artillery battery in the Omsk Rifle Division. Member of the RCP B C from the year. In the year he graduated from the Higher Artillery School of Command Studies of the city of Children's village near Leningrad. Since October, the assistant commander and commander of the light artillery division, since November - the commander of the training artillery division in the Omsk Rifle Division.
In October, he was aimed at studying. After graduating from the Academy since May, the commander and commissar of the artillery regiment of the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division. Since November, the artillery chief of the same division. In the year he went to Italy to military maneuvers. In April, Voronov N. during the national revolutionary war of the Spanish people, from June, under the pseudonym "Colonel Voltaire", was a military adviser in the troops of the Spanish Republican Army.
Since June, Voronov N. at this post, he made a great contribution to the development of the theory of the combat use of artillery, the improvement of combat training and the organizational and staff structure of artillery formations and units. In the summer of the year, N. Voronov participated in the hostilities on the Khalkhin-Gol River, carried out planning and managing artillery on a scale of the army group of troops.
In the fall of the year and in the summer of the year, during the liberation campaigns of the Soviet troops to Western Belarus, Western Ukraine and Bessarabia, he led the transfer of the newly created artillery units on mechanical thrust that made marches over long distances. During the Soviet-Finnish war, he was on the Karelian Isthmus, led the organization of artillery military operations when breaking through powerful long-term defense on the Mannerheim Line.
From July 27, N. From March 27, N. For outstanding merits to the Motherland of N., during the Great Patriotic War, N. Voronov was repeatedly, was a representative of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command on the fronts, took a direct part in the planning, preparation and leadership of operations on the Leningrad, Volkhov, Donskoy, Voronezh, Bryansk, North-West, North-West, North-West Western, Kalinin, 3rd Ukrainian, 1st Belarusian fronts, carried out general management of the liquidation of the Nazi group surrounded near Stalingrad.
The chief marshal of artillery N. Voronov continued military service and in the post -war period, being up to a year commander of the artillery of the Armed Forces of the USSR. From December to October - President of the Academy of Artillery Sciences. Under his leadership, research was conducted in the field of artillery sciences, including the combat use of missile forces.
Since October - Head of the Military Artillery Command Academy, the city of Leningrad. For the skillful leadership of the troops, courage, courage and heroism manifested in the fight against the Nazi invaders, and to commemorate the flight of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 7 of the year of May 7, the main marshal of artillery, Voronov Nikolai Nikolaevich, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and Medals "Golden Star".
He lived in the city of Gero Moscow. He died on February 28. His ashes are buried on Red Square in the Kremlin wall. Brigade commander