Sergey Bobruk

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Sergey Antonovich Bobruk
Born15 February 1901
Shubichi, Mikhailovsky volost, Pruzhansky Uyezd, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died18 March 1962(1962-03-18) (aged 61)
Vinnytsia, Soviet Union
Allegiance
  • Russian SFSR
  • Soviet Union
Service/branchRed Army (later Soviet Army)
Years of service1920–1959
RankLieutenant general
Commands held
Battles/wars
Awards

Sergey Antonovich Bobruk (Russian: Сергей Антонович Бобрук; 15 February 1901 – 18 March 1962) was a Belarusian Soviet Army lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

After joining the

Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive and was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership in it. In the final year of the war he led the 31st Guards Rifle Corps in its westward advance, continuing his command into the early postwar period. After serving as commander of the 4th Army in the mid-1950s, Bobruk ended his career as an advisor to the People's Liberation Army
, retiring due to illness in 1959.

Early life and Russian Civil War

Bobruk was born on 15 February 1901 in the village of Shubichi, Mikhailovsky volost, Pruzhansky Uyezd, Grodno Governorate in a peasant family of Belarusian ethnicity.[1] After completing primary school in 1914,[2] he worked as a laborer in a shoe factory in Taldom, and from 1919 was a helper and assistant machinist in the machine-mechanical workshop. During the Russian Civil War, he joined the Red Army on 28 June 1920 and was sent to cavalry courses at the 4th Tver Cavalry School. While at the school, he participated in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion as part of a cadet unit.[3][4]

Interwar period

Upon his graduation, Bobruk was appointed a platoon commander with the 18th Saratov Cavalry Courses on 1 August 1921, and in May 1922 he was transferred to

Ukrainian Military District to serve as a platoon commander in the 51st Cavalry Regiment of the 9th Cavalry Division. From April 1926, he served in the 50th Cavalry Regiment of the same division as an assistant squadron commander, commander of an economic and then cavalry platoons, acting squadron commander, and assistant regimental chief of staff. From March to June 1933 he studied at Red Army cavalry advanced training courses (KUKS) in Novocherkassk, then returned to his previous position.[3][4]

Transferred to the

Kiev Special Military District. in April, he was transferred to the Volga Military District as head of the operational department and deputy chief of staff of the 148th Rifle Division in Saratov. During the same year, he graduated from the correspondence department of the Frunze Military Academy.[3][4]

World War II

After the beginning of

2nd Panzer Group. At the beginning of October it fought in the Oryol–Bryansk Defensive operation. Having suffered heavy losses, on 7 October it was withdrawn to the front reserve for rebuilding, and on 12 October began preparing the defense of Yelets. On 29 November, the division returned to the 13th Army and fought in the Yelets defensive operation. In the fighting for Yelets between 3 and 8 December, Kazaki on 11 December, and Livny between 14 and 25 December, Bobruk was reported to have shown "courage and dedication".[3]

In March 1942, he was sent to the Volga Military District to serve as the chief of staff of the

Seversky Donets and recaptured Slavyansk on 17 February.[3]

From April 1943, Bobruk, now a colonel, served as chief of staff of the

Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive. For his "skilled organization of the actions of the division" in the operation, Bobruk was made a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Order of Lenin on 19 March; he received a simultaneous promotion to major general.[5] From 27 March he became commander of the 29th Guards Rifle Corps, leading it in the Odessa Offensive. After the end of the latter, Bobruk temporarily served as chief of staff of the 8th Guards Army, and on 29 May took command of the 31st Guards Rifle Corps, which he led for the rest of the war.[3][4]

Bobruk's corps served with the 3rd Ukrainian Front with the

Ruschuk, Paks, Székesfehérvár, Budapest, Kaposvár, Sopron, and Vienna. For its "exemplary performance of command tasks" during the Vienna Offensive, the corps received the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class.[3][4]

Postwar

After the end of the war, Bobruk continued in command of the 31st Guards, which became part of the

13th Guards Mechanized Division upon graduation a year later. Transferred to command the 27th Guards Rifle Corps of the Kiev Military District in October 1953, he became commander of the 4th Army in the Transcaucasian Military District in June 1955, before being promoted to lieutenant general on 8 August of that year.[1] Sent to China in December 1957, Bobruk served as senior military adviser to the commander of the Jinan Military Region of the People's Liberation Army. He became a military specialist in the district, serving with the group of senior specialists in PLA military districts. Retired due to illness on 28 December 1959, he moved to Vinnytsia, where he died on 18 March 1962.[3][4][2]

Awards and honors

Bobruk received the following awards and decorations:[3]

A street in Pruzhany is named for him, and a memorial plaque is located there.[1]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Bocharov, Anton; Ufarkin, Nikolay. "Бобрук, Сергей Антонович" [Bobruk, Sergey Antonovich]. warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  2. ^ a b Shkadov 1987, p. 170.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Tsapayev & Goremykin 2014, pp. 280–282.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Vozhakin 2006, pp. 85–86.
  5. ^ Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, p. 317.

Bibliography

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