Andrei Getman

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Andrei Lavrentyevich Getman
Army General
Commands held
Battles/warsBattle of Lake Khasan

Battle of Khalkhin Gol

World War II

AwardsHero of the Soviet Union

Andrei Lavrentyevich Getman (

Army General (13 April 1964) and Hero of the Soviet Union
(May 7, 1965).

After joining the Red Army in 1924, Getman graduated from the Red Commanders School in 1927 and the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army in 1937. Sent to postings in the

1st Guards Tank Army
in August 1944.

After the war, he was commander of armored tank and mechanized troops of the

Central Committee of the CPSU in 1961. He was awarded four Orders of Lenin, six Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov Second Class, the Order of Bodgan Khmel’nitskii Second Class, the Order of the Red Star
, and several foreign orders.

Early life

Andrei Getman was born on 5 October 1903 in Klepaly [uk] village of Kursk Governorate to a peasant family. After graduating from a rural school, he worked as a laborer in a sugar factory and at the Vorozhba railway station.[1][2][3]

Military service

Prewar

In October 1924, Getman was drafted into the

Zhitomir House of the Red Army. In March 1930, he became the commander of courses at the Red Commanders School. Between October 1931 and February 1933, Getman was the chief of the regimental school of the Krivoy Rog Rifle Regiment of the Krivoy Rog Territorial Rifle Division. Getman was sent to study at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army in February 1933.[3] He was promoted to Senior lieutenant in 1935. In 1937, he graduated from the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army[3] with the rank of Captain.[1][2]

In June 1937, he became the head of the 5th staff department for the

Battle of Khalkin Gol. During battles for Remizov hill, he reportedly showed skilled leadership ability. In September 1939, Getman became the assistant commander of the 2nd Mechanized Brigade and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 8 October 1940. He was transferred to command the 45th Separate Light Tank Brigade, being promoted to colonel on 9 December. On 11 March 1941, he was appointed to the command of the 27th Tank Division. Getman became chief of staff for the 30th Mechanized Corps on 26 March.[1][2][3][4]

World War II

In September, Getman was appointed commander of the

1st Guards Rifle Corps during the counterattack against Heinz Guderian's units. The division was then transferred to support the 50th Army, where German troops had almost surrounded Tula. The division counterattacked the German tank units and linked up with the 999th Rifle Regiment of the 258th Rifle Division, opening up the Tula-Moscow highway. Getman pushed his division forward and defeated German units at the Revyakino station on 7 December, opening the Moscow-Tula railway. On 8 December, the division was officially transferred to the 50th Army and helped capture Yasnaya Polyana. The division became part of 50th Army's mobile group under the command of Vasily Popov. The 112th fought in the raid on Kaluga and helped capture the city on 30 December.[1][2][3][5]

Getman became the commander of the

Berlin Offensive.[1][2][3][5]

Postwar

In July 1945, Getman became the deputy commander of the

Army general on 13 April 1964. In June, Getman became the chairman of the DOSAAF central committee. On 7 May 1965, Getman was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin on the 20th anniversary of the end of World War II. He developed DOSAAF physical fitness conscript standards and implemented them in 1966. In January 1972, Getman became an inspector with the Group of Inspectors General of the Ministry of Defense, which meant that he was retired from active duty.[7] He lived in Moscow and died on 8 April 1987. Getman was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.[1][2][3]

Personal life

Getman married Olga Ivanovna, who died in 1972 and worked as a doctor. He had a daughter, Elvina, born in 1932. Getman's son Anatoly was born in 1938 and died in 1967.[2][8]

Sources

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Гетман Андрей Лаврентьевич" [Getman Andrei Lavrentyevich]. www.warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-01-02.
  2. ^
    ISBN 5-901679-12-1
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  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Память народа: Боевой путь военачальника: Гетман, Андрей, Лаврентьевич, полковник/генерал-майор/генерал-лейтенант" [Memory of Nation: Military Commanders: Getman, Andrei]. pamyat-naroda.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  4. ISBN 9780700616305
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  5. ^ a b Getman, Andrei Lavrentyevich (1973). Танки идут на Берлин [Tanks go to Berlin] (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka.
  6. ISBN 9781846031496
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  7. ^ "Biography of Army General Andrei Lavrentevich Getman – (Андрей Лаврентьевич Гетман) (1903–1987), Soviet Union". generals.dk. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  8. ISBN 9789667696160
    .
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