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Gennady Obaturov
Gennady Ivanovich Obaturov (Russian: Геннадий Иванович Обатуров; 10 January [O.S. 28 December] 1915 – 29 April 1996) was a Soviet Army General.
Born in a peasant family in the village of Maloe Zarecheno, then part of the Marakulinsky Volost in the Slobodsky Uyezd of Vyatsky Province, Russia. His father was mobilized in the army and died in 1916 on the battlefront during World War I. The family counted five children. Following their mother's death in the early 20s the elder children became responsible for the household and Gennady began working in the field at age 9. In 1930 finished the seven years school for peasant youth. In 1933 finished the Gorky Cooperative Technical School. Worked in Vyatka as production head of the town workers cooperative catering department.
Obaturov volunteered for the Red Army in October 1935 and graduated from the Orlov Tank College in 1938. Between 1938 and 1939, he served in the Far East – platoon commander, infantry regiment weapons instructor, infantry regiment deputy head of staff for reconnaissance.
Obaturov graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1941 after the German-Soviet War had begun, but was not sent to the front. Evacuated together with the academy to Tashkent and appointed there as a junior teacher in tactics.
Commissioned to the battlefront in May 1942 as armored brigade deputy head of staff in charge of operations. In the ranks of the 11th Tank Corps took part in the defensive actions on the Bryansk Front. Within a month after being commissioned to the battlefront, he commanded the armored offensive replacing the fallen unit commander. His tank was shot in battle, Obaturov himself was heavily injured and burnt inside the tank. He was treated for three-month in a hospital in Kemerovo.
In November 1942 Obaturov was appointed deputy commander of an armored regiment in the 11th Army of the Northwestern Front. He took part in the actions against the German Demyansk Pocket, as well as in the Second Demyansk Offensive in the spring of 1943. Twice wounded at Demyansk.
Following recovery was sent to the southern sector of the Soviet-German front. From October 1943 fought on the Southern, 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts as staff commander of the 13th Guards Mechanized Brigade. Distinguished himself in the Melitopol Offensive (where he was wounded a fourth time), the Nikolsko-Krivorozhskaya Operation, Bereznegovato-Snigirevskaya Operation, and the Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive.
In the spring of 1944 appointed commander of the same brigade and at its head liberated Belgrade, and took part in the Budapest Offensive. At the end of 1944 was wounded a fifth time. Met the end of the war in Slovakia.
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Gennady Obaturov
Gennady Ivanovich Obaturov (Russian: Геннадий Иванович Обатуров; 10 January [O.S. 28 December] 1915 – 29 April 1996) was a Soviet Army General.
Born in a peasant family in the village of Maloe Zarecheno, then part of the Marakulinsky Volost in the Slobodsky Uyezd of Vyatsky Province, Russia. His father was mobilized in the army and died in 1916 on the battlefront during World War I. The family counted five children. Following their mother's death in the early 20s the elder children became responsible for the household and Gennady began working in the field at age 9. In 1930 finished the seven years school for peasant youth. In 1933 finished the Gorky Cooperative Technical School. Worked in Vyatka as production head of the town workers cooperative catering department.
Obaturov volunteered for the Red Army in October 1935 and graduated from the Orlov Tank College in 1938. Between 1938 and 1939, he served in the Far East – platoon commander, infantry regiment weapons instructor, infantry regiment deputy head of staff for reconnaissance.
Obaturov graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1941 after the German-Soviet War had begun, but was not sent to the front. Evacuated together with the academy to Tashkent and appointed there as a junior teacher in tactics.
Commissioned to the battlefront in May 1942 as armored brigade deputy head of staff in charge of operations. In the ranks of the 11th Tank Corps took part in the defensive actions on the Bryansk Front. Within a month after being commissioned to the battlefront, he commanded the armored offensive replacing the fallen unit commander. His tank was shot in battle, Obaturov himself was heavily injured and burnt inside the tank. He was treated for three-month in a hospital in Kemerovo.
In November 1942 Obaturov was appointed deputy commander of an armored regiment in the 11th Army of the Northwestern Front. He took part in the actions against the German Demyansk Pocket, as well as in the Second Demyansk Offensive in the spring of 1943. Twice wounded at Demyansk.
Following recovery was sent to the southern sector of the Soviet-German front. From October 1943 fought on the Southern, 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts as staff commander of the 13th Guards Mechanized Brigade. Distinguished himself in the Melitopol Offensive (where he was wounded a fourth time), the Nikolsko-Krivorozhskaya Operation, Bereznegovato-Snigirevskaya Operation, and the Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive.
In the spring of 1944 appointed commander of the same brigade and at its head liberated Belgrade, and took part in the Budapest Offensive. At the end of 1944 was wounded a fifth time. Met the end of the war in Slovakia.