Alexey Proshlyakov - Marshal of the USSR is one of the commanders who brought victory over Nazi Germany. From the first days of the war, his units resisted the invaders.
Throughout his life, the marshal participated in three wars, in which he showed both personal courage and the ability to make brilliant strategic decisions, for which he was awarded the star of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
Alexey Proshlyakov (marshal): biography
Aleksey Ivanovich was born on February 18, 1901 on the territory of the modern Ryazan region. From an early age, he worked hard to help his parents. At the age of sixteen, he entered the seminary, where he studied to be a teacher. But the wind of change swept over the hot heart of the young man and he enlisted as a volunteer in the Red Army to fight the enemies of the Soviets. In the twenty-first year, he fought in the east as a company commander.
After returning from the front, joins the Communist Party. Five years later, he began serving in the engineering troops. Leads the regimental school. Then he serves on the territory of Belarus. Service combined with training. He studies both military strategy and the technical intricacies of new types of engineering structures. By the thirty eightyear he is promoted to Chief of Staff.
Liberation campaign of the Red Army
A year later, his unit receives an order to urgently form the fourth army. Aleksey Proshlyakov was appointed commander of the engineering groups (the marshal later wrote that this was a fateful decision). As part of the new unit, its fighters participate in the Polish campaign of the Red Army. A few kilometers from the Wehrmacht troops, they occupy western Belarus.
After the annexation of new territories, Proshlyakov is instructed to immediately start arranging defensive lines on the western border. There were practically no stable lines of defense in this area, so the Red Army had to build them in a hurry. In particular, Proshlyakov was engaged in the construction of the Brest fortified area.
Beginning of World War II
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Nazi hammer hit the hardest in the region of western Belarus, where Proshlyakov was. Marshal described these days as one of the most difficult in life. Under constant bombing, in the confusion of retreat and panic, he had to quickly create new lines of defense. In record time, they managed to organize the defense of Mogilev, thanks to which the Nazis got stuck here for a long time.
Nevertheless, the superior forces of the enemy invariably pressed the Red Army and they had to retreat. Alexey Proshlyakov took up the defense of the capital. In the battle for Moscow, his unit was distinguished by exceptionalcourage. After that, the engineering troops erected a line of defense around Tula, which the Nazis did not manage to break through during all the years of the war.
Decisive battles
In 1942, Alexei was transferred to the south, where he commanded the engineering troops of the Stalingrad Front. Konstantin Rokossovsky personally noted the general as one of the best. Therefore, almost the entire war kept him with him. With the beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad, a new deputy commander of the headquarters was appointed - Alexei Proshlyakov (marshal). Interesting facts about one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind, he described in his memoirs. In conditions of constant bombing and terrible cold, his fighters had to bring ammunition and fuel and lubricants to the front line. The defense of the city was also hampered by its almost total destruction.
For action within the boundaries of Stalingrad, special strike groups were formed, which included sappers, arrows and flamethrowers. This strategy proved to be positive already in the first days of application.
It is noteworthy that in almost all decisive battles of the Great Patriotic War, engineering operations were led by Proshlyakov, Marshal of Victory was engaged in strategic planning of the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of the Dnieper and many others. His troops provided the Red Army during the crossing of the Oder and the invasion of Pomerania.
In the most difficult conditions of the storming of Berlin, Proshlyakov led several directions at once. A few days after the Victory, for these merits he was awarded title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
After the war
At the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Marshal worked in the Commissariat of the Red Army. Inspected the engineering troops. For a long time he served as Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Forces in the German Democratic Republic. Graduated from higher academic courses of command in Moscow.
Alexey Proshlyakov - Marshal of Victory, lived in the usual village of Trudovaya-Severnaya, where in the forty-fifth year he was given a plot of land. During his stay there, he read extensively and wrote his memoirs. In the sixty-fifth year, he became a military inspector and adviser to the group of general inspectors of the USSR.
On December 12, Alexei Proshlyakov (Marshal) died in Moscow. The photo of the hero of the USSR was published on the front pages of many newspapers.
