Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich - the last Soviet marshal
Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov was born on November 8. 1924 was a Soviet military and political leader. He is the last (by the date of assignment of military rank) Marshal of the Soviet Union, received this rank in 1990, and the penultimate Minister of Defense of the USSR - held this post from 1987 to 1991. Marshal Yazov is one of the 3's of the living Marshals of the Soviet Union and the only one who was not awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Emergency Committee, which represented the military leadership of the country.
The personality of Marshal of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Yazov, is today known to many adult residents of our country, as well as to many people living in the former post-Soviet space, as well as beyond. Yazov was a member of the State Emergency Committee, from which the most decisive actions were demanded and waited, but for most of the Russians, the marshal forever remained in the memory of "the one who did not shoot." Yazov never ordered the use of force, and without this, the Emergency Committee was doomed to failure. The army did not fight its own people, the events of August 1991, cost almost no casualties. but story still took her. Russia and the states formed on the territory of the post-Soviet space still paid a very high price for the collapse of the country and the construction of new independent states.
Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov can be called a man of incredible, amazing fate, who was knocked out of the military elite from the bottom and could have been the last defense minister of the Soviet Union, if it were not the State Committee for Emergency Situations mentioned above. With the wording “for treason against the Motherland”, the marshal-front-line soldier put the Sailor's Silence in the remand prison almost on his birthday and literally for a few days another person became the USSR Defense Minister, and soon the USSR itself ceases to exist as a state. This event becomes a personal tragedy for many millions of citizens who took the oath and faithfully tried to serve their homeland.
Striking is the fact that in difficult moments of his life - on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, during the death of relatives and wounds, in the prison cell - the marshal found support in poetry. Yazov could read Pushkin’s whole novel “Eugene Onegin” by heart, as well as Lermontov’s Masquerade, Mayakovsky’s, Yesenin’s poems or the work “Who Lives Well in Russia” by Nekrasov. During the war in 1942, being a platoon commander on the Leningrad front, he read various works to his men in the trenches. Already commanding the regiment - in tents in Cuba during the famous Caribbean crisis, when human civilization was close to its potential death.
Yazov often spoke about theater, poetry, art during general walks with his famous flatmate Innokenty Smoktunovsky. Much in the fate of this man was unusual. Born 8 in November 1924, in the small village of Yazovo near Omsk, he became the only marshal in the history of the USSR who was born in Siberia. Hereditary peasant, he managed to survive in the meat grinder of the Great Patriotic War, fighting with 1942 on 1945 year near Leningrad, Volkhov and in the Baltic States. He managed to go from the bottom of the trench posts to the Minister of Defense.
Biography
Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov was born on November 8 1924, in a small village Yazovo, Omsk Region. His father was Yazov Timofey Yakovlevich, the mother of Yazov Maria Fedoseevna - both peasants. The future marshal was proud of his peasant origins. During a meeting with US President George W. Bush on the question of who his parents were, Dmitry Yazov replied: my maternal grandfather, Mr. President, a plowman, and a paternal grandfather, a soldier. And my parents are also farmers, tillers. His parents were hardworking, modest people, of whom Dmitry Yazov was always proud, as he was proud of his peasant surname, whose history went back centuries.
The Yazov family comes from the city of Velikiy Ustyug, they moved to Siberia on Lebyazhye Lake and created a village on this site, which received the same name - Yazovo. It was still during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, when the first settlements began to appear on the territory of the current large cities - Tyumen, Tara, Tobolsk. Later, along the banks of the Irtysh River, the Omsk, Semipalatinsk and Ust-Kamenogorsk fortresses were laid. The Yazovs' family was famous for its honesty, hard work and kindness. And, of course, a special talent enjoyed by the Russian people - if necessary, be a faithful defender of their homeland.
Not having graduated from high school, Dmitry Yazov dragged into the hearth of the outbreak of World War II. From the first days of the beginning of the war, more than a dozen volunteers went to the front. We went to the draft board and very young guys. Dmitry Yazov also joined the draft board as a volunteer, although at that time 17 was not yet fulfilled. In order not to be denied, the future marshal assigned himself 1 a year. At that time, people lived in the villages without passports, so the tall guy was not checked for a long time and sent to study in Novosibirsk at the school named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, which was evacuated from Moscow. Commanders in that school were front-line soldiers who had recently been discharged from hospitals after injuries. They began the training of future officers to the difficulties of front-line life.
Dmitry Yazov remembered that his cadet weekdays were for life: getting up at 6 in the morning hours, morning exercises and a whole day of combat training. In the winter of 1941 of the year, frosts reached -40 degrees both in Moscow and Siberia, however, the young cadets, who were constantly under training, did not notice these frosts. At the school, Dmitriy learned that his stepfather, Fyodor Nikitich, was also drafted into the army, and his mother stayed at home with 7 minor children, while his sisters 3 ’mobilized to work in military factories.
In mid-January, 1942, Dmitry Yazov is sent to the front. In this study continued in trains. Teplushki for a time turned into classrooms, where the cadets studied weapon: Tokarev self-loading rifle, Degtyarev machine gun and machine gun - "Maxim". First, the train with the cadets arrived in Moscow. Here and in the Moscow suburb of Solnechnogorsk from mid-February, they were trained for some time and put back into echelons. When Dmitry Yazov arrived in the rank of lieutenant on the Volkhov front, he was not yet 18 years old.
Jazov falls into the 177 Rifle Division, which 28 August 1942 of the year launched an offensive on the Karelian Isthmus near Senyavin. On the same day, Dmitry was wounded and received a strong concussion. He was able to return to the front only at the end of October, 1942, and was sent to the 483 Infantry Regiment. In the middle of January, 1943, during the next offensive of the regiment, Dmitry Yazov was injured a second time, this time the injury was easy. A nurse on the front line put a bandage on his head and - again into battle. After this battle, Yazov was promoted to the rank of senior lieutenant, and in March 1943, he left the front for commander training courses located in the town of Borovichi. Here the future marshal met his first wife, Ekaterina Fedorovna Zhuravleva, who married him through 3 of the year.
During the war, Yazov managed to take part in the defense of Leningrad, the offensive operations in the Baltic States and the blockade of the surrounded German group of fascist troops. He met news of the victory in the war in Mitau near Riga. And at the end of July, 1945 received leave and, after long 4 years, was able to go to his native village. Yazovo greeted him with joy and sorrow at the same time. The war took 34 Yazovs from the village of Yazovo. The first years after the war were quite tense and alarming, but life went on as usual and in 1950, Dmitry Yazov had a son, and in the spring of 1953, a daughter.
In the same summer of 1953, Dmitry Yazov successfully passes the entrance exams to the Military Academy. Frunze, ending it in 1956, with a gold medal. As an excellent student, he was given the opportunity to choose the place of his future service himself, and Dmitry chose his 63 Guards Krasnoselskaya twice Red Banner Rifle Division. In which he soon received the post of commander of the 400 th Motorized Rifle Regiment. This regiment led by its commander from September 1962 of the year to October 1963 was located in Cuba (in June he was promoted to colonel). Before returning to the USSR, Dmitry Yazov received an honorary certificate from the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Republic of Cuba, thanked the personnel of the regiment and Fidel Castro personally.
After the Cuban business trip, Dmitry Timofeevich is appointed deputy head of the general training and planning department in the Combat Training Directorate of the Leningrad District. In 1967, the future marshal ends his studies at the Military Academy of the General Staff. After that, his service became much more fleeting: from October 1967 to March 1971, the commander of the motorized rifle division (February 1968 of the year was given the rank of Major General), from March 1971 to January 1973, the corps commander (December 1972, the assignment of the rank of General lieutenant), from January 1973 to May 1974 of the year - commander of the army. From May 1974 to October 1976 held the position of Chief of the First Directorate in the General Directorate of Personnel at the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, from October 1976 to January 1979 - First Deputy Commander of the Far Eastern Military District. From January 1979 to November 1980 - Commander of the Central Group of Forces. From November 1980 to June 1984, Dmitry Yazov was the commander of the Central Asian Military District.
After that, Yazov returned to the Far East again and headed the eponymous district until January 1987. From January 1987 he holds the position of Deputy Minister of Defense of the country, and from May 1987 to August 1991 he is the Minister of Defense of the USSR. The Marshal was relieved of his duties after the failure of the Emergency Committee. On the basis of a decree from 22 August 1991, he was relieved of his duties as Minister of Defense of the country. As a member of the Emergency Committee, he was arrested and remained in “Matrosskaya Tishina” until February 1994, when members of the Emergency Committee were released from custody under an amnesty. The Marshal was dismissed on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 31 of May 1994.
Despite his rather respectable age, the marshal today is not sitting at home with folded arms. He is an adviser to the Minister of Defense of Russia on topical issues of military affairs. Not so long ago, he was elected Chairman of the Committee of the Memory of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. Consultant to the Chief of the Military Memorial Center of the Russian Armed Forces. From time to time, the marshal speaks to cadets and students of metropolitan military schools, as well as veterans of the Great Patriotic War, taking part in the contemporary social and political life of Russian society as much as he can and with health.
Information sources:
-http: //wwii-soldat.narod.ru/200/ARTICLES/BIO/yazov_dt.htm
-http: //www.poan.ru/bogema/2574-yazov
-http: //ru.wikipedia.org
The personality of Marshal of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Yazov, is today known to many adult residents of our country, as well as to many people living in the former post-Soviet space, as well as beyond. Yazov was a member of the State Emergency Committee, from which the most decisive actions were demanded and waited, but for most of the Russians, the marshal forever remained in the memory of "the one who did not shoot." Yazov never ordered the use of force, and without this, the Emergency Committee was doomed to failure. The army did not fight its own people, the events of August 1991, cost almost no casualties. but story still took her. Russia and the states formed on the territory of the post-Soviet space still paid a very high price for the collapse of the country and the construction of new independent states.
Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov can be called a man of incredible, amazing fate, who was knocked out of the military elite from the bottom and could have been the last defense minister of the Soviet Union, if it were not the State Committee for Emergency Situations mentioned above. With the wording “for treason against the Motherland”, the marshal-front-line soldier put the Sailor's Silence in the remand prison almost on his birthday and literally for a few days another person became the USSR Defense Minister, and soon the USSR itself ceases to exist as a state. This event becomes a personal tragedy for many millions of citizens who took the oath and faithfully tried to serve their homeland.
Striking is the fact that in difficult moments of his life - on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, during the death of relatives and wounds, in the prison cell - the marshal found support in poetry. Yazov could read Pushkin’s whole novel “Eugene Onegin” by heart, as well as Lermontov’s Masquerade, Mayakovsky’s, Yesenin’s poems or the work “Who Lives Well in Russia” by Nekrasov. During the war in 1942, being a platoon commander on the Leningrad front, he read various works to his men in the trenches. Already commanding the regiment - in tents in Cuba during the famous Caribbean crisis, when human civilization was close to its potential death.
Yazov often spoke about theater, poetry, art during general walks with his famous flatmate Innokenty Smoktunovsky. Much in the fate of this man was unusual. Born 8 in November 1924, in the small village of Yazovo near Omsk, he became the only marshal in the history of the USSR who was born in Siberia. Hereditary peasant, he managed to survive in the meat grinder of the Great Patriotic War, fighting with 1942 on 1945 year near Leningrad, Volkhov and in the Baltic States. He managed to go from the bottom of the trench posts to the Minister of Defense.
Biography
Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov was born on November 8 1924, in a small village Yazovo, Omsk Region. His father was Yazov Timofey Yakovlevich, the mother of Yazov Maria Fedoseevna - both peasants. The future marshal was proud of his peasant origins. During a meeting with US President George W. Bush on the question of who his parents were, Dmitry Yazov replied: my maternal grandfather, Mr. President, a plowman, and a paternal grandfather, a soldier. And my parents are also farmers, tillers. His parents were hardworking, modest people, of whom Dmitry Yazov was always proud, as he was proud of his peasant surname, whose history went back centuries.
The Yazov family comes from the city of Velikiy Ustyug, they moved to Siberia on Lebyazhye Lake and created a village on this site, which received the same name - Yazovo. It was still during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, when the first settlements began to appear on the territory of the current large cities - Tyumen, Tara, Tobolsk. Later, along the banks of the Irtysh River, the Omsk, Semipalatinsk and Ust-Kamenogorsk fortresses were laid. The Yazovs' family was famous for its honesty, hard work and kindness. And, of course, a special talent enjoyed by the Russian people - if necessary, be a faithful defender of their homeland.
Not having graduated from high school, Dmitry Yazov dragged into the hearth of the outbreak of World War II. From the first days of the beginning of the war, more than a dozen volunteers went to the front. We went to the draft board and very young guys. Dmitry Yazov also joined the draft board as a volunteer, although at that time 17 was not yet fulfilled. In order not to be denied, the future marshal assigned himself 1 a year. At that time, people lived in the villages without passports, so the tall guy was not checked for a long time and sent to study in Novosibirsk at the school named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, which was evacuated from Moscow. Commanders in that school were front-line soldiers who had recently been discharged from hospitals after injuries. They began the training of future officers to the difficulties of front-line life.
Dmitry Yazov remembered that his cadet weekdays were for life: getting up at 6 in the morning hours, morning exercises and a whole day of combat training. In the winter of 1941 of the year, frosts reached -40 degrees both in Moscow and Siberia, however, the young cadets, who were constantly under training, did not notice these frosts. At the school, Dmitriy learned that his stepfather, Fyodor Nikitich, was also drafted into the army, and his mother stayed at home with 7 minor children, while his sisters 3 ’mobilized to work in military factories.
In mid-January, 1942, Dmitry Yazov is sent to the front. In this study continued in trains. Teplushki for a time turned into classrooms, where the cadets studied weapon: Tokarev self-loading rifle, Degtyarev machine gun and machine gun - "Maxim". First, the train with the cadets arrived in Moscow. Here and in the Moscow suburb of Solnechnogorsk from mid-February, they were trained for some time and put back into echelons. When Dmitry Yazov arrived in the rank of lieutenant on the Volkhov front, he was not yet 18 years old.
Jazov falls into the 177 Rifle Division, which 28 August 1942 of the year launched an offensive on the Karelian Isthmus near Senyavin. On the same day, Dmitry was wounded and received a strong concussion. He was able to return to the front only at the end of October, 1942, and was sent to the 483 Infantry Regiment. In the middle of January, 1943, during the next offensive of the regiment, Dmitry Yazov was injured a second time, this time the injury was easy. A nurse on the front line put a bandage on his head and - again into battle. After this battle, Yazov was promoted to the rank of senior lieutenant, and in March 1943, he left the front for commander training courses located in the town of Borovichi. Here the future marshal met his first wife, Ekaterina Fedorovna Zhuravleva, who married him through 3 of the year.
During the war, Yazov managed to take part in the defense of Leningrad, the offensive operations in the Baltic States and the blockade of the surrounded German group of fascist troops. He met news of the victory in the war in Mitau near Riga. And at the end of July, 1945 received leave and, after long 4 years, was able to go to his native village. Yazovo greeted him with joy and sorrow at the same time. The war took 34 Yazovs from the village of Yazovo. The first years after the war were quite tense and alarming, but life went on as usual and in 1950, Dmitry Yazov had a son, and in the spring of 1953, a daughter.
In the same summer of 1953, Dmitry Yazov successfully passes the entrance exams to the Military Academy. Frunze, ending it in 1956, with a gold medal. As an excellent student, he was given the opportunity to choose the place of his future service himself, and Dmitry chose his 63 Guards Krasnoselskaya twice Red Banner Rifle Division. In which he soon received the post of commander of the 400 th Motorized Rifle Regiment. This regiment led by its commander from September 1962 of the year to October 1963 was located in Cuba (in June he was promoted to colonel). Before returning to the USSR, Dmitry Yazov received an honorary certificate from the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Republic of Cuba, thanked the personnel of the regiment and Fidel Castro personally.
After the Cuban business trip, Dmitry Timofeevich is appointed deputy head of the general training and planning department in the Combat Training Directorate of the Leningrad District. In 1967, the future marshal ends his studies at the Military Academy of the General Staff. After that, his service became much more fleeting: from October 1967 to March 1971, the commander of the motorized rifle division (February 1968 of the year was given the rank of Major General), from March 1971 to January 1973, the corps commander (December 1972, the assignment of the rank of General lieutenant), from January 1973 to May 1974 of the year - commander of the army. From May 1974 to October 1976 held the position of Chief of the First Directorate in the General Directorate of Personnel at the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, from October 1976 to January 1979 - First Deputy Commander of the Far Eastern Military District. From January 1979 to November 1980 - Commander of the Central Group of Forces. From November 1980 to June 1984, Dmitry Yazov was the commander of the Central Asian Military District.
After that, Yazov returned to the Far East again and headed the eponymous district until January 1987. From January 1987 he holds the position of Deputy Minister of Defense of the country, and from May 1987 to August 1991 he is the Minister of Defense of the USSR. The Marshal was relieved of his duties after the failure of the Emergency Committee. On the basis of a decree from 22 August 1991, he was relieved of his duties as Minister of Defense of the country. As a member of the Emergency Committee, he was arrested and remained in “Matrosskaya Tishina” until February 1994, when members of the Emergency Committee were released from custody under an amnesty. The Marshal was dismissed on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 31 of May 1994.
Despite his rather respectable age, the marshal today is not sitting at home with folded arms. He is an adviser to the Minister of Defense of Russia on topical issues of military affairs. Not so long ago, he was elected Chairman of the Committee of the Memory of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. Consultant to the Chief of the Military Memorial Center of the Russian Armed Forces. From time to time, the marshal speaks to cadets and students of metropolitan military schools, as well as veterans of the Great Patriotic War, taking part in the contemporary social and political life of Russian society as much as he can and with health.
Information sources:
-http: //wwii-soldat.narod.ru/200/ARTICLES/BIO/yazov_dt.htm
-http: //www.poan.ru/bogema/2574-yazov
-http: //ru.wikipedia.org
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