Biography Mikhail Konstantinov
The tombstone of Konstantinov Mikhail Petrovich is the commander of the 7th Guards Cavalry of the Brandenburg Order of the Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front, the Guard Lieutenant General. Born on October 22 on November 4, in the city of Usman of the Tambov province, now the Lipetsk region, in the family of the employee.
He graduated from a real school and labor school. He worked as an accountant in the Usman district food committee. In the Red Army since May. Member of the Civil War, Red Army soldier, cadet of the Borisoglebsky cavalry courses of the Komsomol on the Southern Front. After their end in February, the platoon commander of the same courses in the Volga Military District. He fought on the South and Turkestan fronts in consolidated cadets.
Since November, the commander’s assistant and the temporarily acting commander of the squadron in the 3rd Orenburg Cavalry School, graduated from it with the same exterior in the year. In the years - the platoon commander, the assistant commander and squadron commander in this school. In the years he graduated from cavalry courses for the improvement of the command personnel of the Red Army in the city of Novocherkassk.
Since September, an assistant to the squadron commander of the United Kazakh Military School of the CIC of the Kazakh SSR, then the instructor of the Kyrgyz branch of this school, from the year - the squadron commander in the same place. Since September,-the commander of the squadron, assistant chief of staff and chief of staff of the Civil Code of the Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Turkestan Cavalry Division of the Volga Military District.
Since November, the head of the regimental school of the Turkestan Cavalry Regiment of the 7th Turkestan Cavalry Brigade of the Central Asian Military District of Kulyab, in April-May, the regiment participated in the battles with the Basmachi. Since February, he is the chief of staff of the Cavalry Regiment, since September, the commander of the 7th Uzbek, then of the Mountain Cavalry Regiment of the 6th Uzbek Mountain Cavalry Division in the same district.
Since July, he has been an assistant commander, since October this year-the commander of the Tajik Mining and Cavalry Division of the Central Asian Military District, and since September-the commander of the Mining and Cavalry Division there. Konstantinov was awarded the military rank of Major General. In March, Major General M. Konstantinov was appointed commander of the 6th Kuban-Terian Cossack Chongar Cavalry Cavalry Division named after S.
Budyonny 6th Cossack Cavalry Corps named after I. Stalin, Western Special Military District. Member of the Great Patriotic War since June. In the battle on June 29, in the area of the capital of the Belarusian SSR of the city of Minsk, the commander of the 6th Cossack Cavalry Division, Major General Konstantinov, was seriously wounded, covered in the occupied territory, and after the cure until September, he commanded partisan detachments in Belarus.
Since September, he was at the disposal of the Central Headquarters of the Partisan movement. Since December, M. Konstantinov is a listener of the K. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy, now the Military Academy of the General Staff, and at the end of its accelerated course was appointed commander of the Civil Code of the Cavalry Corps in February. Since July - Deputy Commander of the Troops of the Steppe Front for Cavalry.
He participated in the Battle of Kursk. Konstantinov was appointed commander of the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps, and commanded them to the victorious completion of the Great Patriotic War. The corps under his command acted as part of the Y, Y, Swer Armies on the Belarusian, 1st and 2nd Belarusian fronts. Konstantinov was awarded the military rank of Lieutenant General. The commander of the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps The 1st Belorussian Front of the Guard, Lieutenant General M.
Konstantinov, perfectly led the actions of the corps during the Warsaw-Sagnian offensive operation. He skillfully organized the advance of the corps entrusted to him, introduced into a breakthrough on January 16 of the year, which was knocked out by the Germans from the city of Tomashuv, participated in the liberation of the Polish city of Lodz on January 19 and, in the subsequent environment of the Radomsko-Lodzinsky enemy group.
In this operation, the corps captured and destroyed up to 11 thousand German soldiers and officers. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 6, for the skillful leadership of the Cavalry Corps and the decisiveness and courage of the guard, Lieutenant General Konstantinov Mikhail Petrovich, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star Held.
For the differences in the invasion of the Brandenburg province of Nazi Germany, the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps was assigned the honorary name "Brandenburg". After the war, General M. Konstantinov continued military service, commanding the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps. Since December, he was at the disposal of the commander of the Cavalry of the Red Army S. Budyonny, since May-at study at the highest academic courses at the Higher Military Academy named after K., at their end in May, Lieutenant General M.
Konstantinov was appointed head of the 2nd department of planning for combat training of the Ground Forces.Since July, M. Konstantinov is the head of the 2nd year of the main faculty of M. Military Academy from July-Assistant Commander, and since July-commander of the troops of the Northern Group of Poland forces. Since April-1st Deputy Commander of the Troops of the Leningrad Military District.
Since July, the Guard Colonel General M. Konstantinov is in reserve. He lived in the hero city of Leningrad now St. Petersburg. He was elected the first chairman of the city organization of war veterans. He died on May 30. He was buried in the theological cemetery in St. Petersburg.
Colonel General was awarded with three orders of Lenin, 6. A memorial plaque was installed on the building of the Pedagogical College in Usman.