Vasily Gorde biography

Place of residence: Moscow, st. Gorky, Party Resources: Member of the CPSU B date of execution: August 24 G. Burial place: Moscow, Don cemetery measure of restraint: Arrested Date of arrest: January 12, Condition: Participation in the Condition: 24th August in the Russian Army since the year, graduated from the training team. Member of the First World War, senior non-commissioned officer.

In the Red Army since the year.

Over the years of the Civil War, he went from the platoon commander to the regiment commander. He took part in the elimination of armed groups N. In the year he graduated from the courses of the senior command personnel of the Higher Tactical School and was sent by an instructor to the Mongol People's Army. Since the year, the chief of staff of the Moscow Red Banner Military Infantry School, then the chief of staff of the Rifle Division.

Since the year - the commander of the rifle division. In the years, the chief of staff of the Kalinin Military District, then the Volga Military District. He took part in the Winter War, until December 6 was the chief of staff of the 7th Army. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Major General Gordov, the commander of the army, at the head of it participated in the Gomel defensive operation, and in December-January in the Kursko-Osososyan offensive operation.

In July - the August of the year - the commander of the troops of the Stalingrad Front, who was defending on distant approaches to Stalingrad. In instead of Marshal Tymoshenko, A. Chuyanov was against the appointment of Lieutenant General V. Gordov, but G. Gordov refused to change the just-appointed front commander in this position, made a number of mistakes in organizing defense and was removed from his post.

Since October 18 - the commander of the Army. In March, the army participated in the Rzhevsk-Vyazemsky offensive operation, and then in the Smolensk, Orsha and Vitebsk offensive operations. In April of the year, Colonel General Gordov was appointed commander of the 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. During the Verkhnesilez offensive operation, the Army of Gordov, while on the tip of the main blow, broke through the defense of German troops and defeated the enemy in the area of ​​the city of Kelce.

In April-May, the 3rd Guards Army under the command of V. Gordov took part in the Berlin and Prague offensive operations. During the war, Gordov was fifteen times mentioned in thanks in the orders of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief. After the war, V. Gordov is the commander of the Troops of the Volga Military District. Retired since November. The arrest at the request of Abakumov was authorized personally by Stalin.

Then he was convicted on charges of bearing terrorist plans against members of the Soviet government, and on August 24, the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR was sentenced to the highest degree of punishment. The verdict was carried out on the same day in the Lefortovo prison in Moscow. The body is buried in the Don cemetery. In memory of this, a monument to the victims of political repressions was erected on section 3, on which the name V.

was knocked out on April 11. From the memoirs of E. there were already three: a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union, the general of the Army Gordov, the actor of the Jewish theater Zuskin, and one lieutenant colonel-pilot. The name of Gordov, next to the name of Marshal Konev, I read on a memorial plaque, fortified on the old town hall in Prague, - they were in gold letters there were its liberators.

After the war, Gordov was appointed head of the entire infantry of the Soviet Army. And they put him for the fact that, on the issue of her reconstruction, he categorically objected to, in his conviction, the absurd project of Stalin himself. Gordov impressed me with an adamant will, stubborn and steep. He had no doubt that he was awaiting him, but he treated this completely coldly, joked: "It was necessary to eliminate the lack of sleep." Soon he was taken away from us for interrogation, and as I later knew - here they shot here in the basement.

So that no one is a burden to anyone. We do not know what will happen in a year. Maybe what is being done is all for the better. Spit you on this business! If only Stalin accepted you. And on the other hand, because he ruined everything. It seems to me that if Zhukov had been left for two more years in place, he would have made it differently.