Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Lizyukov Alexander Ilich was born in the first year of the twentieth century, and lived only 42 years.He was killed in battle with the rank of Major General and forever entered the history of the Great Patriotic War as a brave hero who is not afraid to give their lives for their country.
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Alexander Lizyukov future general was born in the Belarusian city of Gomel in the family of a village teacher, who later became director Ilya Lizyukova.The family had two sons: the elder Eugene, who later became a guerrilla commander, and Peter Jr. also promoted to the rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union.My mother died early, Alexander was nine years old.Perhaps it was partly the cause of a unique choice of a military career.
Civil War
joined the Army, General Alexander Lizyukov future continued training.He began with artillery commander courses ended in Moscow.12 Infantry Division Army South-Western Front - it was the first purpose of which was the future General Alexander Lizyukov.Biography of the hero in the Civil War period, replete with new appointments and the victories in the battle against General Anton Denikin and Ataman Petliura.
In 1920 he was appointed chief of artillery armored "Kommunar".He participated in battles in the war with Poland, which ended in 1921.During the fighting the train was captured by the Polish army.Then the next General Alexander Lizyukov took part in suppressing the uprising in Tambov.A little later, in the fall of 1921, he was sent to continue his military education in Petrograd.In 1923 he graduated from the High School armored.
military career
armored After graduating high school, he received a new assignment - the so-called train of Trotsky.In September, he assumed the post of deputy commander of the armored train in the Far East.For several years, the future general Alexander Lizyukov served on several armored trains.A little later, he continued, and his military education.In the fall of 1924, Alexander Ilyich entered the Academy named after Mikhail Frunze, who prepared the senior officers.Study lasted three years, during which time he tried his hand as an author, essayist, and poet.
The vast majority of his journalistic work he devoted to the military-technical topics.In addition, he participated in the preparation and release of the magazine "Red Dawns".In his poetic works he mostly expressed revolutionary views and unequivocal attitude to overthrow the government.From poems printed here can result in the following lines: "Our home workers / peasants and Fatherland / strangled, not undermine / No bourgeois, no brazen pan!"
Teaching and personnel activities
Once Alexander Alexander Lizyukov graduated from the Higher Military Academy, and he tried his hand at teaching.Within a year, he taught cadets armored skill in Leningrad.Then he worked for a year in the same place on a teaching assistant.Then he was transferred to the Military Academy named after Dzerzhinsky at the Faculty of motorization and mechanization of teaching tactics.After that he was appointed to the propaganda department of the technical staff of the armed workers and peasants of the Red Army, where he was responsible for publishing the editorial.
Two years later, he received a new assignment in the Moscow Military District, where he was appointed commander of a tank battalion.A year later he had entrusted a tank regiment.However, at this career stage, he not only commanded a regiment, but also fully responsible for its formation.His professional military skills were so impressive that in the incomplete 36 years, was promoted to the rank of colonel and appointed commander of a tank brigade named after Sergei Kirov in Leningrad Military District.
His skills in training were highly appreciated, and he was awarded the Order of Lenin.
Foreign and arrest
In 1935, the future general Alexander Lizyukov was awarded particularly high confidence - he was sent to France as a military observer, where the Soviet delegation studied military maneuvers.However, three years later, during the period of severe repression, and the biography of General Lizyukova (which at the time was not yet general) made a sharp turn - this trip was one of the counts of the anti-Soviet conspiracy.NKVD arrested him at the beginning of February 1938.The basis of the fabricated case went to the testimony of one of his colleagues Innocent Khalepsky.Future General expelled from the party, dismissed from the Red Army and stripped titles.He was forced to give the confessions.In order to "beat" the testimony to him neodnakratno applied interrogation.
addition to the conspiracy, he also confessed to being about to commit a terrorist act with the aim of killing Commissar Kliment Voroshilov and other top leaders of the country.According to the NKVD, he was planning to drive a tank on the Mausoleum.Two years without two months he spent in prison of the NKVD, with nearly one and a half years he spent in solitary confinement.In December 1939, a military court acquitted him.In 1940, he returned to teaching, and in the spring of 41st returned to the ranks of the army.
Great Patriotic War and the death of
War met on vacation.After the attack of Nazi connections he was assigned to the Western Front.The first place for military action was the city of General Borisov in Belarus.In July, he was a head of the city's defense.And already in the first months he was prestavlen the highest award - Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin.In January, 42-year he was promoted to Major General.From the very beginning of the war and until his death, he was in the midst of the most zhetochayshih battles and clashes.General met his death in battle in the Voronezh region: its tank burst into the enemy lines, was hit.Monument to General Lizyukova was built only in May 2010 on the ground of his last battles in Voronezh.
