Kryukov Vladimir Viktorovich Biography

The tombstone of Kryukov Vladimir Viktorovich is the commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Pomeranian Red Banner Order of the 2nd degree of the building of the 1st Belorussian Front, the Guard Lieutenant General. Born on July 15 in the settlement of Buturlinovka Bobrovsky district of the Voronezh province, now a city in the Voronezh region. From a peasant family. In the year he graduated from a real school in the city of Ryazan.

He entered the Russian imperial army volunteering in December. In the year he graduated from the training team of the reserve regiment in Ryazan and the 2nd Moscow school of warrant officers. He participated in the First World War on the Western Front since September: the platoon commander of the Siberian Rifle Regiment, then the head of the horse intelligence of the Siberian Rifle Regiment.

Made into the rank of lieutenant. In December, demobilized. He returned to Ryazan, soon entered the Red Guard detachment. Since June, - Deputy Commander of this detachment, then commanded him a hundred. As part of the detachment, he participated in battles on the Don and on the Southern Front. In the Red Army since October. He served as an adjutant of the headquarters of the Krasnogvardeisky detachment in Baku, since December - the platoon commander of a separate cavalry division of the 2nd Infantry Division.

Since September, the commander of the squadron, the chief of the economic team, the assistant chief of staff of a separate cavalry brigade in the Sir In Rifle Division. Since May, the assistant commander and commander of the squadron of the Military Commissariat of the Caucasus District of the Southern Front Nalchik, then the head of the consolidated detachment of special purposes, participated in battles with banditry in the North Caucasus.

Since September, the commander of a separate squadron at the guard battalion in the city of Kropotkin. Since January of the year - commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Separate Cavalry Brigade of the Inner Guardians of the Republic. A participant in the Civil War on the Southern Front against the troops of General A. since March is the commander of a separate squadron in the Russian Rifle Brigade of the North Caucasus Military District.

From August to the year - assistant to the commander of the Cavalry Regiment of the Cavalry Division, then sent to study. Since September of this year-the head of the regimental school of the Civil Code of the Cavalry Regiment of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the North Caucasus Military District. Since June, he served in the Cavalry Division: the head of the regimental school of the Cavalry regiment, the chief of staff of the Caval regiment since March-the chief of the 1st operational part of the headquarters of the 6th Chongar Cavalry Division in the Belarusian military district.

Since June, he is the commander of the Cavalry Salski Red Banner Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Division. Since October, a teacher of tactics in the red -banned cavalry courses of improving the command personnel of the Red Army Novocherkassk. Since February, he participated in the Soviet-Finnish war of the years as commander of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division.

Since May, the commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade of the Leningrad Military District Khanko. Kryukov was awarded the military title "Major General". Member of the CPSU B from the year. Kryukov was appointed commander of the motorized division, meeting the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in this post. The division fought since the beginning of July against the Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus, suffered heavy losses, then was evacuated to Lake Ladoga.

Since September, in the Army on the North and Leningrad fronts, the Division of the Strikova division participated in the very first attempts of the blockade of Leningrad in the Kolpino direction, then in the Tikhvin defensive and Tikhvin offensive operations. From January 12 to February 3, V. Kryukov commanded the Cavalery Corps on the Western Front. The Dovator participated in the Bryansk and Sevsky offensive operations in the last of them in February-March of the year the corps suffered heavy losses, was almost completely destroyed and displayed for reorganization.

The commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps The 1st Belorussian Front of the Guard General Lieutenant Kryukov V. In the first of them, the corps, having crossed the Pilitsa River, played a decisive role in the liberation of the capital of Poland-Warsaw and other Polish cities, destroyed and captivated more than three thousand Nazis.

In the second operation, the corps, in cooperation with tank units, caused a great damage to the enemy and on March 5, Polsin Polchin-Podruy took possession of the Polish city. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 6, for the exemplary execution of the command missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the guards, Lieutenant General Vladimir Viktorovich, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star Hero.

After his disbandment since December - at the disposal of the commander of the Cavalry of the ground forces, from May - the head of the S. Supreme Cavalry School named after S. since June - again at the disposal of the Commander -in -Chief of the Ground Forces, from October - deputy commander of the Guards Rifle Corps.Kryukov was arrested in Moscow, and 10 days later, in the city of Kazan, his wife, a performer of Russian folk songs, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Lidia Andreevna Ruslanova, was arrested.

The official accusation, among other things, was the “robbery and the assignment of trophy property on a large scale”, namely, that at the end of the war, devastating the apartments of the runaway Germans, General Kryukov transferred furniture, paintings, and jewelry to Moscow. Kryukova and L. Ruslanova were seized: the car "Horch A", two "Mercedes", "Audi", diamonds, as well as emeralds, sapphires, pearls, kilograms of silver products, a picture of Russian artists Shishkin, Repin, Serov, Surikov, Vereshchagin, Levitan, Vrubel, Makovsky, Khovazovsky, and Makovsky, Khovazovsky, and Kovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Yivazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, Khovazovsky, ivas other, 35 ancient carpets, ancient tapestries, many antique services, fur, sculptures made of bronze and marble, decorative vases, a large number of books, thousands of rubles in cash and more.

He served in time in Kraslag. By the Decree of the Presidium of August 14, he was restored in the rights to awards. After the release, he was treated, in November he was aimed at studying. In the year, V. Kryukov graduated from the highest academic courses at the Higher Military Academy named after K. Voroshilov now the Military Academy of the General Staff. Since March of the year - Deputy Head of the Military Legal Academy for Tactical and Drill Training.

Since April, Lieutenant General Kryukov V. lived in Moscow. He died on August 16. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Lieutenant General was awarded 3 Orders of Lenin photo from the site “Goskatalog.