Ilya Starinov: biography and photo

Ilya Starinov is one of the most famousSoviet saboteurs. Thanks to his efforts, special units of the Red Army were formed, which performed their tasks in all corners of the Earth. Starinov's contribution to the improvement of military tactics is difficult to overestimate.

For his merits, he was awarded numerous awards, including foreign ones.

Starinov Ilya Grigorievich: biography

He was born in 1900 in a small village onthe territory of modern Orlovschiny, in an ordinary peasant family. Since childhood, Ilya helped his parents and worked hard. In 1917, the civil war begins. Soviet power is fighting on several fronts at once. At the age of eighteen, Ilya Starinov enters the newly created Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. A month of training lasts, after which his unit is moved south to fight with the troops of Kornilov. After the battle of Koroche, the Starinov is wounded, and he is captured by the White Guards. But after a short time, the fighter escapes and returns to the ranks. After treatment, he begins his sapper career. As part of the offensive group takes part in the expulsion of Wrangel from the Crimea. After victory in the civil war for the skills shown, the command sends him to Voronezh for advanced training.

Military career

After graduating from courses, Ilya Starinov goes to Kiev,where is commanded by the railway regiment. His unit is engaged in the construction of the railway. At the same time, Ilya himself constantly learns, mastering all the subtleties of the art of war. Two years later, he attended courses in Leningrad.

At the age of thirty, he personally designssabotage technique and trains fighters. On the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, he creates units designed to conduct partisan war in the event of occupation. In the thirty-third Ilya G. Starinov is appointed to the post in the intelligence department, whose headquarters is located in Moscow. There he meets Svechnikov, with whom he discusses various ways to improve military tactics.

Military Theory

After graduation, Starinov is assigned topost of commandant of the railway station. His task is to escort high-ranking military and political figures. In the thirties, civil war broke out in Spain. Left revolutionaries are fighting with the fascist regime of Franco. The Soviet Union is supporting them. Therefore, in the thirty-sixth year, Ilya Starinov was sent to Spain as a military adviser. Using his knowledge, he trains resistance fighters. Also prepares miners and sappers. In a relatively short time, he became an advisor to the three-thousandth partisan corps. He is directly involved in the planning of operations. Thanks to the actions of Starinov, the Spanish partisans managed to blow up several trains with high-ranking officials, block the promotion of Francoists by rail for several days, destroy a significant amount of equipment and personnel near Madrid, and carry out a number of other significant operations.

Homecoming

In the thirty-seventh year, Ilya Starinovreturns to the USSR. Upon arrival, reports on events in Spain, Clement Voroshilov. Two years later, a new war begins. Fearing the aggression of Finland, as well as seeking to secure its borders, the Red Army goes on the offensive on the Karelian Isthmus. There Starinov deals with the issues of mine clearance and countering the enemy saboteurs.

In the midst of a fierce northern winter and lack ofSoviet troops suffered serious losses. For his skills during the Finnish War, Ilya Starinov is appointed as the head of the mining department.

The Great Patriotic War

From the first days of the war, the Starinov is located onadvanced. In the context of the battle with the occupiers on their territory, the skills of a saboteur are needed more than ever. In the summer of forty-first Ilya Grigorievich Starinov leads the division responsible for mining on the western front.

He personally oversees the five groups that performdemining work and block roads from the advancement of enemy troops. With the rapid onset of units of the Wehrmacht, the Red Army was forced to retreat east. In the first months of the war, retreat often turns into a stampede, which leads to serious losses. Therefore, the activity of the engineering troops proved to be very important.

Усилиями Старинова была повреждена железная road near Kharkov, which greatly delayed the Nazis. There was also an operation to eliminate Lieutenant-General Beineker, led by Ilya Starinov. The saboteur laid a radio-controlled bomb in the mansion of the general, which was blown up during a Nazi banquet.

Organization of sabotage activities

After the retreat for Don Starinov is inRostov-on-Don and is engaged in a minefield and sabotage. In the winter of forty-second, the saboteurs forced the Gulf of Taganrog and seriously damaged the highway near Mariupol. Also, Starinov units mined the defense line near Rzhev. In the summer of Ilya G. engaged in the preparation of partisans.

В этот период партизанское движение набирает силы and plays a significant role in the occupied territories. Colonel Starinov Ilya Grigorievich trains special saboteurs who must perform complex tasks behind enemy lines. In addition to military tactics, he was also an inventor. Before the war he wrote a paper on mechanics, for which in the forty-fourth year he was awarded a scientific degree. While in the headquarters responsible for partisan resistance, Starinov develops and tests experimental sabotage techniques.

In the last year of the war collaborates with the resistance movement of other countries. This is primarily the Polish Army Ludowa (as well as Craiova) and the Yugoslav partisans, led by Communist Tito.

In addition, he is engaged in the preparation of Soviet partisans for their transfer to the territory of Romania, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Ilya Starinov: biography after the war

After the war Ilya G. engageddemining the territory of the Soviet Union and the restoration of the railway bed. He also took part in the liquidation of nationalist gangs in Western Ukraine. In the fifty-sixth year he left the armed forces. He worked in various party positions. He taught courses guerrilla and sabotage tactics. Participated in various social events. Also, some time he held a position in the Moscow Museum. Lived a hundred years.