Dmitry Lelushenko: photo, biography, family

Lelyushenko Dmitry Danilovich is one ofThe most famous Soviet commanders and master of tactics of mechanized connections. The share of a simple guy from a small farm fell three wars, in each of which he showed personal courage and ingenuity.

In addition to directly contributing to the victories of the Soviet Union, he also left many works devoted to military affairs, which are still quoted.

Dmitry Lelushenko: a brief biography

Dmitry was born in October 1901 in the territorymodern Rostov region. His parents were ordinary laborers. From an early age he worked hard helping his elders. A simple peasant family, like millions in the vast Russian Empire, was in constant need. Despite his small age, Dima noticed a huge gap between the “simple people” and the elite. Therefore, with the beginning of the civil war, Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko joins the Bolsheviks. His native farm Novokuznetsovka is under the occupation of the Don Cossacks. In the spring of the eighteenth year, Boris Dumenko returned from the fronts of the First World War. He organizes partisan plots to fight the White Guards. Lelyushenko joins this squad.

In the battles of the civil war, the spirit of the future commander was tempered.

After entering the regular Red ArmyLelyushenko participates in many liberation battles on the territory of Voronezh and Donbass. In the Donetsk steppes, his cavalry army repeatedly encountered in open battle with white cavalry.

After the war

After the victory in the civil war LelushenkoDmitry Danilovich decides to devote his life to the martial cause. He is researching new weapons. It was during this period that large-scale industrialization began in the young Soviet state. The Red Army received tanks and other armored vehicles. Dmitry immediately begins to actively explore and develop new cars. Ten years later, he enters the military academy, where he learns military tactics corresponding to new methods of warfare, and improves his command skills. For several years, he served to the rank of brigade commander.

Winter war

In the thirty-ninth year beginsSoviet-Finnish war, one of the forerunners of the new world. Dmitry Lelushenko goes to the front among the first. Fights take place in the most difficult conditions of anomalous cold and constant attacks by Finnish saboteurs.

His tank brigade provides support to infantry formations during the storming of the famous Mannerheim Line. These fortifications brought many problems to the Red Army.

World War II

World War II on Soviet territoryUnion Lelyushenko meets in the first fighters. After the Nazi invasion of the Baltic States, the tank corps fought against the occupiers outside the city of Daugavpils. In August, forty-one, he was engaged in the formation of new tank units. But after a few months, he was urgently summoned to the headquarters of the commander in chief.

In these difficult days for the country in dangerthe capital was Moscow. By the personal order of Stalin, Lelushenko is entrusted with a special guard regiment. In record time, Dmitry Danilovich forms a unit and goes to the front. Fighters come to grips with Guderian’s tanks under the Eagle. General Dmitry Lelyushenko personally leads the nine-day battle near Mtsensk. After this, he is entrusted with the fifth army, and he occupies defensive lines from Mozhaisk. In the battles for Moscow is wounded and sent for treatment in Nizhny Novgorod.

Already in the winter of forty-first Dmitry Danilovichreturns to the system and conducts a successful offensive near Moscow. After crushing the resistance of the first shock army, they managed to ring the enemy grouping. In the summer of 1942, the Soviet offensive against Rzhev begins, in which Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko takes part. The biography of the military leader includes failures, but it was especially hard under Rzhev. One of the best German field marshals turned the city into an impregnable fortress. Therefore, the Soviet troops suffered huge losses here.

The liberation of the Soviet land

In the summer of forty-second, General Dmitry Lelyushenko launched an offensive against Rzhev. Bearing losses, his army was unable to gain a foothold on the bridgehead. But the fighters took revenge at Stalingrad.

The First Guards Army played a significant role in the encirclement of the Sixth Army of Paulus and the defeat of the entire German group that besieged the city.

After the start of the onset of the Red Army aroundfront Lelushenko commanded the troops of the fourth Ukrainian front, which forced the Dnieper. In terms of tensions, these battles can be compared only with the battle for Normandy. After the liberation of the entire Soviet Ukraine, the tank army participated in the attack on Sandomierz.

On the eve of the Victory in the capital of the Czech Republic began a national uprising against the Nazi occupiers. The rebels captured the city, but the desperate Germans decided to wipe Prague off the face of the earth.

Their plans did not come true:On May 5, Dmitry Danilovich Lelushenko arrived to help the besieged. The family of the general recalls how in letters he talked about the incredible gratitude of the fraternal Slavic people for saving their country.

Peaceful life

After the war, Dmitry Danilovich heldvarious army posts. He worked to improve military tactics and strategy. Died on the twentieth of July eighty-seven. Already in our days, activists opened a memorial to him in Moscow, on which they wrote: "Dmitry Lelyushenko, 1901-1987, Army General."