Makhmut Gareev
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Makhmut Gareev | |
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RSFSR, USSR | |
| Died | 25 December 2019 (aged 96) Moscow, Russia |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union,  Russia |
| Service/ | Soviet Army, |
| Years of service | 1941–1992 |
| Rank |  General of the Army |
| Commands held | Chief Adviser to the President Democratic Republic of Afghanistan – Chief of the Armed Forces DRA
President of the Academy of Military Sciences |
| Battles/wars | Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR (2nd and 3rd class) |
Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareyev (
A decorated veteran of the
His positions also included serving as the military adviser to the President of Egypt in the 1970s and to President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1989–1991.
Gareev served as an editor-in-chief and authored a few books himself.
In September 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping awarded Gareev the Medal of Honor for his contribution in the 1945 battle to liberate Mudanjiang in Northeast China from the Empire of Japan.[1]
Early life
Gareev was born in Chelyabinsk, the child of ethnic Tatars originally from the Chimshin region of Bashkiria. His father Akhmat Gareev was an industrial worker and his mother, Rahema was a housewife. The family also lived in Central Asia.
Gareev joined the Red Army in 1939 as a volunteer and graduated from the
World War II
Gareev was transferred to the Western Front in November 1942 and fought as an infantry officer in the Battle of Rzhev where he was wounded. Gareev was subsequently promoted to a deputy commander of an infantry battalion and a staff officer of the 45th Rifle Corps. Gareev was wounded in the head in 1944 in Belorussia.
Upon recovering from his wound he was posted to the Far East in January 1945 joining the staff of the
Post War service
Gareev continued on the staff of the 5th Army in the Far East after the war and then graduated from the
In 1959 Gareev graduated from the
In 1970-71 he was a military adviser to the
In 1989, he was the Chief Military Adviser in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of a limited contingent of Soviet troops from there. He played a large role in planning the military operations of government forces of President Mohammad Najibullah. Gareev was promoted to the rank of General of the Army in 1990.
From 1990, he served as Military Adviser - Inspector of the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defence. Gareev retired from active service in 1992
Family
Gareev married Tamara Ivanovna after the war, his wife was of Belorussian origin and died in 1998. They had two children: Timur (born 1961) a retired Major General in the Russian army and Galia (born 1952) who is a retired English language teacher.
Military Science and Theory
Gareev began to actively engage in military scientific work back in the 1960s and 1970s. Author of over 100 scientific papers, over 300 articles and publications in collections, magazine and newspapers. He was the lead author of numerous Soviet Army manuals.
In February 1995 he was elected as the first president of Academy of Military Sciences, a non-governmental research organisation. Gareev was engaged in the study of the history of the Great Patriotic War, was actively involved in scientific discussions, and opposed the falsification of the history of the war. He believed that the desire to challenge the victory of the USSR over fascism is closely connected with the propaganda campaign against modern Russia. He was the author of numerous historical works.
In addition, he was an inspector general with the Office of Inspectors General of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Public Council under the Chairman of the Military Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation.
Gareev died on 25 December 2019 at the age of 96 and was buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery.
Partial bibliography
- General Gareev, If War Comes Tomorrow?: The Contours of Future Armed Conflict (Cass Series on Soviet Military Theory and Practice) (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-7146-4368-7
- Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareev, M.V. Frunze, Military Theorist (Hardcover), ISBN 978-0-08-035183-4
- M. A. Gareev, Marshal Zhukov: Velichie i unikalnost polkovodcheskogo iskusstva, Vostochnyi universitet, 1996, ISBN 978-5-87865-109-7
- M. A. Gareev, Neodnoznachnye stranitsy voiny: Ocherki o problemnykh voprosakh istorii Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, RFM, 1995, ISBN 978-5-88793-001-5
- M. A. Gareev, Konturen des bewaffneten Kampfes der Zukunft: Ein Ausblick auf das Militarwesen in den nachsten 10 bis 15 Jahren (Schriftenreihe des Bundesinstituts fur ... und Internationale Studien, Koln), Nomos; 1. Aufl edition (1996), ISBN 978-3-7890-3938-6
- M. A. Gareev, Moia posledniaia voina: Afganistan bez sovetskikh voisk, INSAN, 1996, ISBN 978-5-85840-277-0
References
- ^ "Biographies of Medal of Honor recipients". China Daily. 3 September 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
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