Kuzma Podlas

Kuzma Podlas
Kuzma Podlas
	Great Patriotic War

Kuzma Petrovich Podlas (Russian: Кузьма Петрович Подлас) (1893 – 25 May 1942) was a Soviet lieutenant-general who was killed in action in World War II.

In

Frunze Academy

(1930).

In 1935, he was promoted to the rank of komdiv (Division commander).^[1]

In 1938, Podlas was appointed deputy commander of

Far Eastern Military District which took part in Battle of Lake Khasan

.

Shortly thereafter he was arrested and sentenced to 5-year imprisonment.

Rokossovsky

and reinstated in his previous position. Following adoption of general ranks in the Red Army, he was created major general.

In August 1941, he took command of the

2nd Panzer Group to Moscow.^[3] After that, he was promoted to lieutenant general. On 22 October 1941 he was awarded the Order of Lenin

.

In February 1942 Podlas was given command of the 57th Army. He was killed in action in the Kharkov Counteroffensive. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner.

General Podlas is mentioned in Khruschev's Secret Speech as one of the military commanders who were wrongly accused during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

References

^ (in Russian) Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 2494 from November 25, 1935
^ (in Russian) Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 049 from 22 April 1939
^ Memoirs of Marshal Bagramyan

[1] (in Russian) Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 2494 from November 25, 1935

[order-2] (in Russian) Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 049 from 22 April 1939

[Bagramyan-3] Memoirs of Marshal Bagramyan

[1]

[3]