Biography
In the life of Dmitry Jazova, there were orphans and poverty, a gold medal and imprisonment, a charge of state treason and a lifetime bust. The last Marshal of the Soviet Union was friends with Fidel Castro, Erich Honkecker and Kim I Sray and buried two of the three children.Childhood and youth
Dmitry Timofeevich was born the day after the 7th anniversary of the October Revolution in the family of peasants of the Kalachian district of the Omsk province Timothy Yakovlevich and Maria Fedoseevna Yazovy. Myti's father and still three children died when the Future Marshal was 9 years old.
Soon she died his mother's sister, orphaned four more kids. Under the influence of the circumstances, Maria Fedoseev was married to the widow of Anna Fedoseevna - Fyodor Nikitich. In the second marriage, the mother of Jazova bore two more children - Zoya and Leonid.
With the age of Dmitry Timofeevich had a confusion due to two events. The first - Mitya remained for the second year in the 4th grade, because to learn further, it was necessary to ride in the neighboring village, and the boy had no strong clothes. Therefore, at the beginning of the war, Yazov continued to study at school. The second - after the attack of the Nazis to the Soviet Union of the young man to protect his homeland, added one year.
Personal life
With the first wife of Ekaterina Fedorovna Zhuravlev, Dmitry met in 1943, while at retraining courses of commanders in the rear of the Volkhov Front. Katya edited the newspaper, which emerges in Borovichi. After the war, lovers got married. In 1947, Dmitry and Catherine had a firstborn - daughter Larisa, who died in 2 years. The cause of the death of the girl was a thermal burn.Dmitry Timofeevich suffered many more blows of fate. The only son of Jazz Igor died at 44 years. The grandson crashed in the car accident - the son of the youngest daughter Elena. In 51, a veteran of war widowed.
2 years after the death of Ekaterina Fedorovna Dmitry Timofeevich married the second time. When Jazova was prescribed by the Minister of Defense, the second spouse Emma Evgenievna cried, realizing that the cross was put on his personal life.
In May 1991, Dmitry Timofeevich came to an accident with his wife, so when Marshal was arrested in connection with the participation in the GCCP, the spouse visited him, moving on the crutches. Although Emma Evgenievna was the younger Dmitry Timofeevich for 8 years, from life she left for 3 years before her husband.
The Great Patriotic War
In November 1941, the Junior Volunteer of Jasov in November 1941 sent to study at the Moscow Infantry School, evacuated to Novosibirsk. In January 1942, the educational institution, who was preparing the younger lieutenants, returned to Moscow, and Dmitry was first in the capital of the Soviet Union. In the archive of the school, a photo of the cadet of Jazova has been preserved.
In June 1942, Dmitry graduated from the school and after 2 months he arrived at the Volkhov Front as a commander of the rifle platoon. On the same front, as it turned out later, fought and stepfather of the young officer Fedor Nikitich, but relatives did not cross.
For the year spent in the vicinity of the besieged Leningrad, Yazov received 2 injuries. The first time the guy threw the explosive wave, with Dmitry fall damaged his leg and beat the kidney. The second time of the lieutenant fragments of garnets fell into mind, one of the pieces of metal remained in Dmitry Timofeevich for life: the removal threatened the loss of vision.
After the second injury of a young officer was sent to learn the next generation of cadets. But Yazov rushed to the front and in 1944 he took part in the battles in the Baltic States. Dmitry Timofeevich told Dmitry Timofeevich in the book "Strokes of Fate: Memories of the Soldier and Marshal", and the respectful attitude towards the Supreme Commander was reflected in the foliant of Jasova "Victorious Stalin".
Military Career
A year after the end of the war, Dmitry appointed the commander of the company, and after another 10 years, after the end of the Military Academy with the Gold Medal, - the commander of the motorized rifle battalion. In the year of the flight Yuri Gagarin, Vasily Chuikova began to command the regiment.During the Caribbean crisis, Dmitry Timofeevich, Dmitry Timofeevich, shifted into Cuba to reflect the possible attack of the United States on the island of freedom. The regiment spent there a year. The next 24 years of the yaze went up the career staircase. Server served in Leningrad and Czechoslovakia, in Transbaikalia, in the Far East and Central Asia.
The Defense Minister Dmitry Timofeevich appointed Mikhail Gorbachev, but subsequently the views and paths of the military and politics were separated. The reason for the personnel decision was the flight of the German Matias Rusta Pilot over the territory of the USSR in May 1987. 2 days after the unhindered landing of the "Naughty Aerourenka", as the poet of Evgeny Yevtushenko died, on Red Square, the previous Minister of Defense Sergey Sokolov was dismissed.
Yazov became the head of the military department in the rank of general, Marshal Ships Gorbachev issued Dmitry Timofeevich only in 1990. War Veteran and talkative Secretary General were evaluating the role of Joseph Stalin in victory over Germany. Yazz was against the rapid nuclear disarmament made by Gorbachev, although, as a military man, performed orders.
The disagreements of Mikhail Sergeyevich and Dmitry Timofeevich led to the fact that in 1991, Marshal joined the August coup. About this episode of the biography of Yazov in different years told in different ways. I died, calling myself an old fool, it stated that the repeated speeches journalists won his deception, he said that Gorbachev had to stop, then he argued that the coup was not.
After the victory of Boris Yeltsin over the tickles of Jazz, they were removed from the posts and entered into prison. In early 1993, veteran was released, and in a year amnestied. Under Vladimir Putin, to the Opt Marshal again began to be respected. Dmitry Timofeevich was invited to parades and solemn techniques in the Kremlin, regularly received government awards.
Death
Dmitry Timofeevich died in 2020, 2 days after the Day of Defender of the Fatherland. Russian President expressed condolences to relatives of the last Marshal of the Soviet Union. Alexander Lukashenko called Dmitry Timofeevich heroic personality.
Embed from getty imagesAlthough the graves of both wives of Jazova, his son and grandson are at the Vostrikovsky cemetery of Moscow, Marshal buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery. At the same time, the designer and General Mikhail Kalashnikov found in 2013.
Awards
- 1945 - Red Star Order
- 1953 - Medal "For Combat Merit"
- 1963 - Order of the Red Banner
- 1971 - Order of Lenin
- 1975 - Order "For the service in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree
- 1981 - Order of Lenin
- 1985 - Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree
- 1991 - Order of the October Revolution
- 2004 - Order of Honor
- 2009 - Order "For merits to the Fatherland" IV degree
- 2014 - Order of Alexander Nevsky
- 2020 - Order "For Merit to Fatherland" III degree
Bibliography
- 1987 - "On guard of peace and socialism"
- 1988 - "On Military Balance and Rocket and Nuclear Parity"
- 1999 - "Boots of Fate: Memories of the Soldier and Marshal"
- 2006 - "Caribbean crisis: forty years later"
- 2010 - "Gurtievtsy. From Omsk to Berlin "
- 2011 - "August 1991. Where was the army?"
- 2016 - "Victorious Stalin"