Dmitry Yazov - the last Marshal of the Soviet Union(by date of assignment of this title). Dmitry Timofeevich received it in the ninetieth year. Yazov - political and military leader of the Soviet, the penultimate Minister of Defense of the USSR. This is the only Marshal of the Soviet Union who did not receive the title of Hero of the USSR. He was a member of the organization of the State Emergency Committee, represented the military leadership, went through the whole war with Nazi Germany, was seriously wounded at the front.
A family
Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich, whose biographyamazing and full of many events, was born on November 8, 1924 in the village of Yazovo, Omsk Region. The village got its name by the name of the inhabitants who founded it even in the time of Ivan the Terrible.
Dmitri Timofeevich's family moved to this.place on the shore of Lebyazhy Lake from Veliky Ustyug. His father is Timofey Yakovlevich, and his mother is Maria Fedoseyevna. Both were simple peasants. Dmitry has always been proud to have come from the common people. His parents were very hardworking. They instilled this quality in childhood and Dmitry.
His father died early, in the thirty-fourth year.At that time, Dmitry was not yet ten years old. As a result, Maria Fedoseevna was left alone with four children, to whom was added the family of her deceased sister. She had to feed a whole horde of children. Stepfather for Dmitry was the former husband (widower) of his native aunt - Fyodor Nikitich.
Early years: study
Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich, biography of the war yearswhich begins at a young age, he could not finish school to the end. Not enough just a couple of years. The Great Patriotic War began. Many guys rushed to the military enlistment office to sign up for volunteers. Some were denied, since they were still minors. Dmitry was more fortunate, although at that time he was also not yet seventeen years old.
In order not to be denied, he indicated that he was older thanyear. At that time, not everyone had passports. And there was no time for checking at the military registration and enlistment office. He was sent to study in Novosibirsk. There he entered the school to them. Supreme Council of the RSFSR. Before the evacuation, which took place during the war, it was in Moscow.
Cadet years
The teachers in the school were front-line soldiersdischarged from hospitals after serious wounds. They were engaged in the first military training of young guys. Dmitry forever remembered cadet years. Raised them very early, at six in the morning. First, there was the usual mandatory exercises, and then until the evening - exhausting combat training.
In winter, the frost reached forty degrees, butcadets bravely tolerated them. Already at the school, Dmitry Yazov learned that his stepfather had gone to the front, and the mother was left at home alone with seven young children, and the three sisters were mobilized to work at military stud farms.
When the cadets were sent to the front, their studies continued in the train, in the warm-ups. It became temporary training audiences, where the guys studied rifles, machine guns and other weapons.
Dmitry gets to the front
In January, the heavy for the country forty-twoDmitry was sent to the front. First, the train arrived in Moscow. For some time, the children taught in Solnechnogorsk. Then sent to different "hot spots". Dmitry arrived at the Volkhov front already as a lieutenant, although at that time he was not yet eighteen years old.
First wound
First, Dmitry Yazov was sent to 177rifle division. In August, forty-two, she participated in the battle on the Karelian Isthmus. There Dmitry received the first wound, and very serious. Doctors diagnosed severe contusion.
Return to the front
Returned after being wounded to the front DmitryTimofeevich only in October forty second year. The command sent him to the 483rd Infantry Regiment. In January, forty-third, Dmitry was wounded for the second time. But since the injury was easy, they simply put a bandage in the medical unit, and he continued the fight. After this battle, Dmitry Timofeevich was elevated to the rank of lieutenant. In March forty-three, he went to Borovichi for courses to increase the military qualifications of commanders.
Years of War
Dmitry Yazov, whose biography is related tomilitary career, visited many battles. He participated in the defense of Leningrad, in offensive battles in the Baltic States, the blockade of the German Courland grouping and many other military operations.
Postwar years
News of the victory in the war of the Soviet troops DmitryTimofeevich heard when he was near Riga, in Mitau. At the end of the forty-fifth year, he received leave and, finally, he was able to leave for his native village - to visit his relatives. Of the Yazov dynasty in all families, thirty-four people died. Life in the first years after the war was very difficult - the destroyed country had to be rebuilt again. Dmitry helped his family and relatives than he could.
Continuing study and military career in the postwar years
Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich did not stop atachieved and in 1953 entered the Frunze Military Academy. And he studied at the "excellent" and graduated in 1956 with a gold medal. As a result, he was asked to choose a duty station. So Dmitry Timofeevich was in the sixty-third Krasnoselsk rifle division.
After a while he became the commander of the 400thmotorized rifle regiment. In the years 1962-1963, this military unit was located in Cuba. At this time, Dmitry Timofeevich was elevated to colonels. Before returning to his homeland, he received an honorary certificate gratefully for his service personally from Fidel Castro.
After Cuba, Dmitry Yazov went to Leningrad, wherehe was soon appointed to the post of deputy head in the Office of Combat Training. In the sixty-eighth year, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. Then, at short intervals, he was promoted. First, in 1968, was promoted to major general. And in 1967-1971. already commanded a motorized rifle division.
В семьдесят втором году Дмитрию Тимофеевичу given the rank of lieutenant general, and in 1971-1973. he commanded the corps. And in 1974-1976 - was the head of the 1st department in the Main Board of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. In 1976-1979 Dmitry became the 1st deputy commander of the Far Eastern Military District. And in 1979-1980. - Commander of the Central Military Group.
В 1980-1984 гг.Yazov was appointed to head the Central Asian Military District. Then, until the eighty-seventh year, he headed the Far Eastern Military District. After that, Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich served as Minister of Defense of the USSR. He only became Marshal in April 1990. This title was given to him personally by Gorbachev. In the history of the USSR, this was the last time. And Dmitry was the only marshal of all appointed earlier, born in Siberia.
Removal from office
Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, wasremoved from this position due to the failure of the Emergency Committee. He was always a conservative, and did not gain popularity among supporters of perestroika. Yazov joined the coup d'état. By his order tanks and heavy artillery were brought into Moscow. Planned storming the White House.
But Yazov was convinced that the coup eventuallydoomed to failure, and went to meet with Gorbachev in Foros. In August 1998, Dmitriy Timofeevich was arrested at the airport as a member of the Emergency Committee. Immediately after returning from Foros, he was sent to prison (“Sailor's Silence”), where he remained until the ninety-fourth year.
In the same year, all members of the organization who were in custody were released under an amnesty, including Dmitry Yazov (Marshal retired). But the negative events did not break it.
Active retirement
Biography of Dmitry Yazov abounds and furthervigorous activity, even despite his resignation. He was an adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. Led the Marshal Zhukov Committee. Yazov is currently a consultant to the head of the Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Constantly holds speeches in front of cadets and students of military educational institutions. Dmitry Timofeevich actively communicates with veterans of the Great Patriotic War and takes a feasible part in the public life of Russians.
Personal life
When Dmitry Timofeevich went to military courses inBorovichi, he met a girl there, Ekaterina Fedorovna Zhuravleva. They corresponded and communicated more than three years. Then Dmitry proposed to her, and Catherine became his first wife. From this marriage in 1950 they had a son, and three years after it - a daughter.
Второй раз Язов женился на Эмме Евгеньевне, с which lives to this day. Dmitri Timofeevich gave birth to two more children from this marriage. Today, he is already a happy grandfather, who has seven grandchildren.
Awards and achievements
Under the Soviet Union, Dmitry Yazov was awardedthe following orders: Lenin (twice), the October Revolution, the Red Banner, the Great Patriotic War (1st degree), Red Star, For service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces (3rd degree). Got nineteen medals.
После распада Советского Союза, уже в новой Dmitry Timofeevich of Russia was awarded the Order: For Services to the Fatherland, Alexander Nevsky, Honor, Holy Prince Donskoy (2nd degree). He received the following orders from foreign countries: Honor, Che Guevara, Scharnhorst, Red Banner, For Distinction (1st Degree) and several medals.
