Biography of Rybalko

A bust in Kyiv Rybalko Pavel Semenovich-commander of the 3rd Guards Tank Army of Voronezh since October-1st Ukrainian Front, Lieutenant General-Colonel General. Born on October 23, on November 4, in the village of Maly Projop, the Lebedinsky District of the Sumy Region Ukraine in the family of a factory worker. In the year he began to work at a sugar factory, then he was a student of the turner and attended a Sunday school.

From the year he lived in Kharkov, worked as a turner at a steam locomotive factory. In the year he was drafted into the Russian imperial army. Member of the First World War, private. He fought as part of the infantry division near Przemysl on the Southwestern Front. In July, he arbitrarily left the army and returned to his homeland. Since December, in the Red Guard, since February, in a partisan detachment, he fought against German and Austro-Hungarian intervention, as well as the troops of the hetman of Skoropadsky and the chieftain of Petliura.

In August, he was captured by the Germans, in December he was released. He returned to his homeland again and worked in the Lebedinsky Military Commissariat. In the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army since March. Member of the Civil War. Since March, the commander of the combat detachment of the county Cheka, since June-the company commander of the Lebedinsky Infantry Regiment, since September-the commander of this regiment, from May-the Commissioner of the Cavalry Regiment of the Cavalry Division of the 1st Horse Army, then the Commissioner of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Cavalry Division of the 1st Cavalry Army.

Denikin on the Kuban, then on the Western Front - with the Belopoliki in the Lviv direction, under Zamoschal in October fought with the troops of General P. Wrangel in the North Tavria, at the end of the beginning of the years he fought with banditry with the armed formations of N. Makhno in Ukraine, Belov and Przhevalsky in the Kuban. In the years-he continued to serve in the Cavalry Division in the North Caucasus Military District as deputy commissar of the Cavalry Regiment, Commissioner of the Civil Defense Regiment.

From August to September, the Commissioner of the Civil Code of the Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Special Cavalry Brigade of the Moscow Military District. From July to October, the commander of the squadron of the Civil Code of the Cavalry Regiment of the 5th Separate Kuban Cuban Cavalry Brigade in the Siberian Military District, from October to October of the year-commander and commissar of the division of the Separate Cavalry Division in the Ukrainian Military District, from October to August-commander and commander of the Cossack regiment and temporarily executing the position of commander of the 1st.

Cavalry brigade of the 2nd Cavalry Division of the Ukrainian Military District. From August to the year-the commander and commissar of the 7th Cavalry Chernihiv regiment of the Chervonny Cossacks of the 2nd Cavalry Division of the Ukrainian Military District, at the same time studied at the rifle-tactical courses of the consumption of the Red Army of the Red Army, the name of the Comintern Frunze, the Cavalry branch of the main faculty.

From May to February - at the disposal of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Red Army, military adviser in China; from February to June-assistant commander of the 8th Turkestan Mountain Cavalry Division of the Central Asian Military District; from June to October, a military attache at the USSR embassies in Poland; in April-December the year-a military attache in China; From December to September - at the disposal of the intelligence department of the General Staff.

From September to May - at teaching: head of the intelligence department of the Higher Special School of the General Staff of the Red Army. He repeatedly wrote reports with a request to send him to the front. Member of the Great Patriotic War since May. In May-July of the year-deputy commander of the 3rd Panzer Army; In July-October of the year-commander of the 5th Panzer Army of the Bryansk Front.

From October to April of the year-commander of the 3rd tank army of the reserve of the Supreme High Command, then Voronezh and South-Western fronts. From April 27 to May 1, the commander of the Army of the South-Western Front. From May to April of the year-commander of the 3rd Guards Tank Army, the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, then the Bryansk, Central, Voronezh, 1st Ukrainian Fronts.

A participant in the Battle of Stalingrad from July 25 to October, the Ostrogozh-Rossoshansky offensive January, the Kharkov offensive from February 2 to March 3, the Kharkov defensive operations of Marta, the Oryol Strategic offensive operation from July 12 to August 18, the battle of the Kursk, Kyiv offensive November, the Kyiv defensive November-December, Zhitomyr-Berdichyevsky offensive offensive.

From December 24 to January 14, Proskuryakov-Chernivtsi offensive from March 4 to April 17, Lviv-Sandomir strategic offensive from July 13 to August 29, Sandomiro-Silez from January 12 to February 3, Berlin from April 16 to May 8, Prague of Prague of Operations. The name P. Rybalko was 22 times in the orders of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief.By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 17, for the successful forcing of the Dnieper River, a strong fixation of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper River and the leaf and heroism of Lieutenant General Pavel Semenovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

The troops under his command also distinguished themselves at the final stage of the war - in the Berlin and Prague operations. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 6, for the exemplary implementation of the combat missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders of the guard, Colonel General Pavel Semenovich was awarded the second medal of the Golden Star.

From April to April - the first deputy commander of the armored and mechanized troops of the Soviet Army, from April to August - commander of the armored and mechanized troops of the Soviet Army. He lived in Moscow. He died on August 28. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

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