Biography
Mikhail Katukov - the commander of the Great Patriotic War, whom the opponent officers called a trick-general. "By his mind and the action of victorious, the love of the people of Katukov, he wrote on the funeral day of the military team his former subordinate - Guardian Anatoly Erofeev.Childhood and youth
Marshal of armored troops was born in September 1900 in the village of Large Uvarovo Moscow province. By nationality, Russian.
Father Mikhail - the peasant Efim Katukov - participated in the Russian-Japanese war. Mother Maria Katukova (in the Maiden Tarasova), who born, besides Misha, still four children, died in 1918. The cause of the death of a woman was typhus. Efim Epifanovich married the second and got two more offspring - the daughter of the Zoya and the son of Alesh, who, the only one of all the brothers and sisters, survived Mikhail.
Unlike the peer and thesis - the poet Mikhail Isakovsky, who claimed that without the revolution, the whole life would be led by Napti, the future tanker still began to be knocked out into people. An intelligent teenager, with honors from graduated rural school, sent to St. Petersburg, where the young cathe officer for the age of 16 from the Messenger boy in the dairy shop was sent to the clerk.
Personal life
Mikhail Efimovich, twice married to widows, did not happen to acquire blood children. In his youth, the catuts took Ksenia Chumakov in his wife, adopted and raised her son Paul. The woman died in May 1941 in the Kiev Military Hospital.In the autumn of 1941, Colonel Katukov who commanded a tank brigade, met Catherine Sergeyevna Lebedeva. A woman who visited the stenograph of Joseph Stalin, and the wife of a military department of the Communist Party of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, came to the front with correspondents of All-Union Radiocomitte. The first spouse of Catherine was shot, she herself spent a year and a half in the dungeons. Lebedev rushed to the forefront to get rid of the mark of the family member of the enemy of the people, and graduated from the courses of nurses.
After a month, Mikhail Efimovich received the title of Major General, and the department headed by Katukov, the Division was renamed to the 1st Guards Tank Brigade. However, changes in the personal life of the commander occurred even faster.
Proposal to stay with him Mikhail Efimovich made Catherine in the first evening dating. Although at first a woman was not loved, but gratitude, she passed the whole war with the cattle, pulled off the wounded wounded and herself received two injuries. Mikhail and Catherine legalized the relationship in 1945.
After the war, Katukovy 6 years have lived in Germany. The dress wife of the Colonel Tank Forus, sewed the former Portnika Eva Brown.
Spouses took care of the nephews of Catherine Sergeyevna, Anatolia and Igor. After Mikhail's death, Mikhail Efimovich widow wrote 9 books about Marshal.
Military Career
Katukuvo military biography began in March 1919, when a guy who returned after the death of his mother in great Uvarovo, called in the Red Army. Already in March 1922, Mikhail commanded a platoon, and from December 1923 - Rota.
After the end of the courses of improving the Komostava of the Red Army and joining the Bolsheviks of the Career of an intelligent military began to develop even rapidly. The Great Patriotic War of the Catukov, who participated in the accession of Western Belarus to the USSR on the Molotov - Ribbentrop Covenant, met as a commander of the 20th Tank Division.
The division of Mikhail Efimovich distinguished himself in the defense of the Soviet capital from the tanks of the German general of Geinz Guderian. In the future, tankers under the leadership of Katukuv participated in Zhytomyr-Berdichevskaya, Lviv-Sandomira, Volo-Oder and East Pomeranian operations. On April 24, 1945, the 1st Guards Tank Army, who was commanded by Mikhail Efimovich, broke into Berlin.
The merits of the commander were marked by military awards, including the three Golden Star orders of the Hero of the Soviet Union, three orders of Lenin and two medals. The first years after the war, Katukov commanded the tank and mechanized troops of the group of Soviet troops in Germany and carried out the duties of the Governor of Saxony, and then became General inspector of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
Marshal Mikhail Efimovich received only in 1959. About the military biography, strategy and tactics of the victory of Katukov wrote memoirs "On the edge of the main strike" and "as I beat Guderian."
Death
The commander died at the beginning of the summer of 1976. Ekaterina Sergeyevna believed that the death of the spouse was accelerated by smoking: a day, Marshal smoked three packs of "white". The grave of Katukuz is located at the Novodevichy Mosch's Cemetery.Once upon the lifetime of the military man, his image created on the screen Actor Konstantin Zabelin: In 1972, the epic of Yuri Lake "Liberation" was published. After 13 years, the same director removed the film "Battle of Moscow", in which Katukov played Viktor Zozulin, judging by the photo, very similar to Mikhail Efimovich.
Awards
- 1941 - Order of Lenin
- 1943 - Cutuzov 2nd degree
- 1943 - Kutuzov 1st degree
- 1944 - Order of Lenin
- 1944 - Medal "Golden Star" Hero of the Soviet Union
- 1944 - Order of the Red Banner
- 1944 - Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
- 1944 - Order of Suvorov 2nd degree
- 1945 - Order of Suvorov 1st degree
- 1945 - Order of Lenin
- 1945 - Medal "Golden Star" Hero of the Soviet Union
- 1949 - Order of the Red Banner
- 1967 - Red Star Order
- 1975 - Order "For the service of the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree