Mikhail Naumov - General of the Great Patriotic War, commander of a partisan detachment of cavalry. An active participant in the opposition to the Nazis on the territory of occupied Ukraine. He was one of the main leaders of the partisan movement. In 1943 he received the title of Hero of the USSR. This article will present a brief biography of the general.
Work
Mikhail Ivanovich Naumov was born in the village of Bolshaya Sosnova in 1908. Since 1927, the young man worked at a coal mine (Perm Region) as a pipe fitter. Then he worked as a secretary of the Komsomol, a propagandist, deputy chairman of the district consumer union. Since 1928 he joined the CPSU party.
Service
In 1930, Mikhail Naumov went to the border troops of the OGPU of the USSR. He studied at the school of junior commanders in the city of Shostka. He joined the ranks of the Red Army. After graduating from the military chemical school, he was appointed head of the NKVD regiment. In 1937 he completed his studies at the Moscow border school. In 1938 he became commander of the 4th motorized rifle regiment in Kyiv. In 1940 he headed the training battalion of the border troops (the city of Chernivtsi). Let's gonext.
Partisan movement
Head of the 94th Skolensky border detachment - this is the position that Mikhail Naumov held at the beginning of the war. The Second World War took the future general by surprise. In the first days of hostilities, he was surrounded and was wounded. Mikhail had to stay with local residents to recover. For the next six months, the young man lived in the occupied lands. And after recovering, he went to the Khinel forests in the Oryol region.
In early 1942, Mikhail Naumov went to the partisans of the Chervonoy district (Sumy region). He joined the detachment as an ordinary fighter, and after some time became the commander of the unit. Then the future general headed the center of the operational composition of the partisan detachments.
Cavalry unit
At the beginning of 1943, on the orders of the chief, who headed the Ukrainian headquarters of the partisan movement, and on the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) of Ukraine, three groups and four detachments were allocated. Of these, a cavalry unit of 650 people was formed. The new division of partisan groups was headed by Mikhail Naumov. Several tasks were assigned to his cavalry detachment: to carry out a raid into the southern outskirts of the Sumy region, to eliminate the movement of enemy trains in the Sumy-Kharkov and Sumy-Konotop sections. And the ultimate goal is to conduct a military operation in the Kirovograd region.
Sabotage activities
In February 1943, headed by M. I. Naumov, a cavalry unit of partisans went on a raid from the Fatezh region (Kursk region). BehindFor 65 days of raids, they traveled almost 2,400 kilometers through several occupied territories of Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Vinnitsa, Odessa, Kirovograd, Kharkov, Poltava, Sumy regions of Ukraine, as well as in the Polessye region of Belarus. The cavalry unit conducted 47 sabotage and combat operations. The most significant of them were Andreevskaya, Shevchenkovskaya and Yunkovo-Sumskaya. As a result of hostilities, many units of army equipment were destroyed, as well as hundreds of German officers and soldiers.
New title
In March 1943, for military services to the country in organizing the movement of partisans, Naumov Mikhail received the Gold Star medal, as well as the Order of Lenin. Well, and, of course, he was awarded the title of Hero of the USSR.
Also, Mikhail Ivanovich was awarded for a successful raid on the steppe. In April 1943 he became a major general. Naumov turned out to be almost the youngest military man with a similar title. And in general, his assignment to a senior lieutenant can be called a unique case.
After the raid, partisan detachments went to the Khrapuni region (Polessye region, Belarus). There, the fighters rearmed, reformed and prepared for further military operations. And the commander of the formation M. I. Naumov had to fly to Moscow for treatment.
It is worth noting that the raid into the southern steppe lands of Ukraine carried out by partisan detachments under the command of Mikhail Ivanovich was of great political importance. First of all, in terms of organizing the struggle of local residents against the invaders.
Second raid
In the middle of 1943, the Ukrainian headquarters of the partisan movement set a new task for Naumov's unit: the fighters were to carry out a raid on the Zhytomyr and Kyiv regions. And then move to the Kirovograd lands for a new battle.
The second raid lasted from July 12 to December 22. The partisan unit of the hero of this article traveled about 2,500 kilometers along the rear of the enemy. It crossed 23 rivers. The largest of them are: Teterev, Sluch, Ubort, Pripyat. Conducted 186 combat operations. The most significant were Emilchinskaya and Rachkovskaya in the Zhytomyr region. Many enemy officers and soldiers were destroyed there, as well as food, ammunition, and weapons were seized. The number of Mikhail Ivanovich's unit increased from 355 to 1975 partisans.
In December 1943, Naumov's detachments merged with the Red Army in the Gorodnitsa area.
Third Foray
Being in the liberated territory, the partisan unit was re-armed and understaffed. After a short rest, the detachments received a new order from the chief of the Ukrainian headquarters. Under the command of Naumov, they were supposed to go to the Drohobych region to conduct military operations. In January 1944, the partisans made their third raid. Advancing with battles behind enemy lines, the detachments passed through the territory of the Lvov, Drohobych, Ternopil, Rivne regions of Ukraine, as well as the Lublin Voivodeship (Poland). The unit conducted 72 sabotage and combat operations. In March 1944, Naumov's unit met withRed Army.
It is worth noting that Mikhail Ivanovich was the only organizer of a partisan cavalry unit in Ukraine. Naumov preferred maneuver warfare. Therefore, raids became his element. He repeatedly criticized partisan commanders who, from 1941 to 1944, were based only in marshy and wooded areas, avoiding raids on the flat areas.
Life after WWII
In 1945 the war ended. But Mikhail Naumov decided to continue his service. To begin with, he graduated from the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy. Then he headed the border troops of the Pacific District and went to serve in the B altic states. In 1953, Mikhail Ivanovich was appointed Acting Minister of the Interior. For the next seven years, he led the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. He also took an active part in the elimination of combat units of nationalists. Since 1960, he moved to the reserve.
Several times Mikhail Naumov was elected a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR and a delegate to the Communist Party of Ukraine. He was a member of the Writers' Union.
Spent the last years of his life in Kyiv. He died in 1974. The grave of the general is located in Kyiv at the Baikove cemetery.
Memory and awards
In Ukraine, in the city of Sumy, there is a memorial sign "To the Border Guards of All Times". The name of M. I. is engraved on it. Naumov. Also, a patrol ship of the Internal Troops of the Russian Federation and streets in cities such as Nesterov, Perm and Kyiv are named after the general.
The hero of this article has been awarded many medals and the followingOrders:
- World War II (1st degree).
- Red Star.
- Lenin.
- Bogdan Khmelnitsky (1st degree).
- Red Banner (2 copies).
Interesting facts
During the war years, General Mikhail Naumov:
- He led the raids of his cavalry unit three times.
- Passed through the enemy rear about 10,000 kilometers.
- Conducted 366 major operations and battles.
- Destroyed several thousand Bandera, policemen, as well as Hungarian and German soldiers.
