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Moskalenko Kirill Semyonovich, Soviet military leader. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1955). Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (10/23/1943, 02/21/1978). Hero of Czechoslovakia (1969).

In the Red Army since August 1920. He graduated from the artillery department of the United School of Red Commanders in Kharkov (1922), artillery KUKS of the Red Army in Detskoe Selo (1928), advanced training courses for senior command personnel at the Artillery Academy of the Red Army named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky (1939).

During the Civil War on August 15, 1920 K.S. Moskalenko voluntarily joined the Red Partisan Detachment of the Siberian Group Comrade. Kulichenko on the Southern Front. From February 1921 - a cadet, first of the 5th Kharkov Artillery School, and from May - of the United School of Red Commanders in Kharkov. Participated in battles against the troops of General P.N. Wrangel in southern Ukraine and Crimea, and then with various armed formations in the Don and North Caucasus.

From August 1922, he served as part of the horse artillery division of the 6th Chongar Cavalry Division of the 1st Cavalry Army as part of the North Caucasus Military District, then from 1926 - in the Belarusian Military District (BVO), commanded an artillery platoon, from August 1923 to September 1924 - temporary acting assistant battery commander, from May 1925 - battery commander, from January 1927 - commander of a training battery. From October 1927 to August 1928 he was at the artillery KUKS of the Red Army in the town of Detskoye Selo, then returned to the 6th Chongar Cavalry Division of the BVO, where he worked. battery commander, training battery commander, assistant commander of a horse artillery division, from December 1931 - division commander of the 6th separate artillery regiment, from May 1932 - chief of staff of a horse artillery regiment.

In January 1933 K.S. Moskalenko was sent to the Far East to serve as chief of staff of the horse artillery regiment of the 1st Special Cavalry Division of the Transbaikal Group of Forces of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army (OKDVA); from November 1934 he was the commander of this regiment. From May 1935 - chief of artillery of the 23rd mechanized brigade of the Primorsky OKDVA group, from November 1936 - in the same position in the 133rd mechanized brigade of the 2nd mechanized corps in the Kiev Military District. After studying at the Artillery Academy of the Red Army named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky since June 1939 K.S. Moskalenko was the chief of artillery of the 51st Perekop Rifle Division. As part of it, he participated in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. From May 1940 - chief of artillery of the 35th Rifle Corps, which took part in the Red Army's campaign in Bessarabia. Since September 1940 K.S. Moskalenko is the chief of artillery of the 2nd Mechanized Corps in the Odessa Military District. Since May 1941 - commander of the 1st artillery anti-tank brigade of the High Command Reserve, which was formed as part of the 5th Army of the Kyiv Special Military District in Lutsk (Ukraine).

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in the same position. Participated in the border battle on the Southwestern Front. In the first battle, Major General K.S. Moskalenko showed high moral qualities. The brigade took tactically advantageous positions along the offensive path of the enemy's 14th Tank Division in the Lutsk direction, together with the rifle divisions of the 5th Army on June 22, delayed its advance and destroyed 40 enemy tanks in a counter battle. Then the brigade took part in defensive battles in the areas of the cities of Lutsk, Vladimir-Volynsky, Rivne, Torchin, Novograd-Volynsky, Malin, and in the defense of crossings across the Teterev, Pripyat, Dnieper, and Desna rivers. From the first battles K.S. Moskalenko did not lose his characteristic composure, retained his sharp thinking, personal fearlessness, and was always on the line of the forward batteries firing direct fire. During a month of continuous fighting, the brigade destroyed more than 300 enemy heavy and medium tanks.

For military successes, courage and bravery, Major General K.S. Moskalenko was awarded the Order of Lenin on July 23, 1941. In September 1941, he was appointed commander of the 15th Rifle Corps as part of the 5th Army of the Southwestern Front, fought with it near the cities of Chernigov, Nezhin, Ichnya, Piryatin, then commanded a cavalry-mechanized group of troops of the 13th Army of the Southwestern Front front. During the counter-offensive of the Red Army near Moscow, he participated in the Yelets offensive operation, in the defeat of the enemy Yelets group and the liberation of the city of Yelets. In the second half of December 1941, K.S. Moskalenko was appointed deputy commander of the 6th Army of the Southwestern Front, from December 24, 1941 to January 25, 1942, temporarily acting. commander of this army. Army units under his command participated in the Barvenkovo-Lozova offensive operation and the liberation of the cities of Izyum and Lozovaya. From February 12, 1942, the commander of the 6th Cavalry Corps, from March successively commanded the 38th (March - July), 1st Tank (July-August), 1st Guards (August - October), 40th ( October 1942 - October 1943) by armies. From October 1943 until the end of the war, he again commanded the 38th Army.

Troops under the command of K.S. Moskalenko fought near Kharkov. In the Battle of Stalingrad, as part of the Southwestern and Stalingrad fronts, they inflicted a number of blows on the fascist German troops, which contributed to the weakening of the main strike group. At the beginning of 1943, the 40th Army under his command achieved great success in the Ostrogozh-Rossoshan operation. Operating on the main direction of the Voronezh Front, it, in cooperation with neighboring armies, defeated a large enemy group on the Don. In this operation K.S. Moskalenko showed great skill in conducting operational camouflage - one of the important factors in achieving success in an offensive. For his skillful leadership of the troops, he was awarded the Order of Suvorov, 1st degree, and was given the military rank of lieutenant general. Subsequently, the 40th Army participated in the Voronezh-Kastornensky and Belgorod-Kharkov offensive operations, as well as in the Battle of Kursk and the Battle of the Dnieper. According to a report to the Supreme Command Headquarters by the commander of the front forces, General F.I. Golikova: “The 40th Army represented the main force of maneuver in the Kharkov operation and played a decisive role in the capture of Kharkov.”

For the heroism and courage shown during the crossing of the Dnieper, 136 army soldiers were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and among them was Army Commander K.S. Moskalenko. He was also awarded the military rank of Colonel General. The leadership talent of K.S. was most fully demonstrated. Moskalenko during the command of the 38th Army, which, as part of the 1st Ukrainian, and from November 30, 1944, the 4th Ukrainian fronts, successfully participated in the Kiev offensive and defensive, Zhitomir-Berdichev, Proskurovo-Chernovtsy, Lvov-Sandomierz, Carpathian-Dukla, Western Carpathian, Moravian-Ostravian and Prague offensive operations. During the above operations, Colonel General K.S. Moskalenko showed extraordinary leadership abilities, the art of quickly and correctly assessing the situation, foreseeing the course of hostilities, as well as skillfully leading troops, organizing maneuvers in a timely manner, and clear interaction between military branches. The army under his command fought about 2 thousand km and liberated more than 10 thousand settlements from the invaders. For successful military operations, the troops commanded by K.S. Moskalenko, were noted 18 times in the Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. Assessing his leadership qualities, Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky noted: “...Moskalenko is a person erudite in operational art, a person of creative thinking.”

After the war, K.S. Moskalenko continued to command the 38th Army. Since 1948 - commander of the troops of the Moscow air defense region (air defense), since June 1953 - commander of the troops of the Moscow military district. Since October 1960 - Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces and Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. Since April 1962 - Chief Inspector of the USSR Ministry of Defense - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. For services to the Motherland in the development and strengthening of the USSR Armed Forces on February 21, 1978 K.S. Moskalenko was awarded the second Gold Star medal. Since 1983 - in the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defense. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 2nd-11th convocations.

Awarded 7 Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, 5 Orders of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of Suvorov 1st degree, 2 Orders of Kutuzov 1st degree, Orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 1st degree, Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree, “For service to the Motherland in Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree, medals, weapons of honor, as well as foreign orders and medals.

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Biography

In the 20s of the XX century. his father went to Iran and did not return from there, and his mother Lyubov Grigorievna and her children moved to Rostov-on-Don. In 1939, their mother died, and sister Nadya was left in the care of her brother Kirill. Subsequently, my sister, Nadezhda Semyonovna Simonyan, became a famous composer, author of music for 50 Soviet feature films, dramatic performances, radio and television productions. Including the author of the cantata “Lake Sevan” to the words of his brother Kirill Simonyan, for soloists, choir and symphony orchestra.

He entered the Faculty of Chemistry at Rostov University, and later transferred to the Medical Institute.

Simonyan K.S., as a military doctor-surgeon, with the rank of captain, participated in the war with Nazi Germany and the war with Japan.

After demobilization he worked at the Institute. Sklifosovsky under the leadership of the outstanding surgeon, academician S.S. Yudin. After the death of S.S. Yudin, K.S. Simonyan in 1957 went to work at the new Moscow City Hospital No. 67 as the head of the surgical department. Then he decided to move to Moscow City Hospital No. 53, where he began independent scientific work as a chief surgeon. The experience of a military doctor and the influence of his teacher S.S. Yudin determined the medical direction of his scientific activity - the study of problems in emergency surgery.

In 1957, having met the creator of the first blood substitute “Belenky’s Healing Serum”, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Academician of the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences Belenkiy N.G., together with Arapov D.A. (Soviet surgeon, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Lieutenant General of the Medical Service , Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR), was actively involved in the research and introduction into clinical practice of the first blood substitute “Belenky’s Healing Serum”.

In the sixties, K.S. Simonyan gained fame in the medical community as a major specialist in the field of abdominal surgery.

In 1965, on the recommendation of the niece of Maya Yakovlevna Bessarab and the wife of Nobel laureate Lev Landau - Concordia Terentyevna Landau-Drobantseva, Simonyan K. S. was involved in the treatment of the world famous physicist. In his posthumous notes, which were found in his desk and given by his friend Valery Tselinsky for publication in the Israeli Russian-language weekly Okna, K. S. Simonyan writes about numerous mistakes previously made by a high council and indecisiveness in the strategy of the prescribed treatment. Trying to help the great physicist get rid of debilitating abdominal pain, he insists on surgery to eliminate adhesions in the abdominal cavity. The operation produced a significant result, the academician felt relief for the first time.

In 1971, K. S. Simonyan published the monograph “Peritonitis,” in which he for the first time describes the phase nature of the clinical course of this formidable complication of many surgical diseases. He dedicated this long-term, difficult work to the memory of his teacher S.S. Yudin. In the preface, K. S. Simonyan thanks by name the entire team of specialists who worked on the monograph.

In 1980, K. S. Simonyan’s student, Vitaly Grigorievich Barinov, in his candidate’s thesis: “Assessment of the condition and effectiveness of correction of water-electrolyte and protein metabolism in peritonitis,” using mathematical methods for processing numerous laboratory indicators, obtained algorithms for diagnosing the phases of peritonitis and thereby confirmed the phase nature of the clinical course of peritonitis.

In 1975, K. S. Simonyan, K. P. Gutiontova, E. G. Tsurinova (pres. D. A. Arapova) published the book “Post-mortem blood in the aspect of transfusiology.” Unfortunately, K.S. Simonyan, due to his modesty, did not keep records of his scientific works and numerous presentations at various conferences, as well as the large number of defended dissertations of his students.

In 1977, on October 18, Simonyan K.S., together with co-authors (Galperin Yu.M., Barinov V.G., Karp V.P.) was preparing to speak at the Oncology Center named after. N. N. Blokhin at the Soviet-Swedish symposium with a report “Criteria for the severity of metabolic disorders in cancer and the role of parenteral and oral nutrition in their correction,” to which he attached great importance, as he hoped to collaborate with Swedish colleagues. However, the sudden death of K.S. Simonyan at the age of 59 interrupted all his plans. The report at the symposium was made by Professor V. G. Barinov.

The circumstances of the death of Simonyan K.S.

The last person who was with him on the day of his death was Professor Ivobotenko Boris Alekseevich (Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, one of the developers of the stepper electric drive), who invited him to his home for dinner on October 17, 1977, and when he was driving him in his car home, Kirill Semenovich felt bad.

According to Ivobotenko B.A., K.S. Simonyan’s heart ached, but he did not insist on taking him to the 13th hospital, which they passed. Upon arrival home, already on the night of October 18, Ivobotenko B.A. called an ambulance after a second attack of heart pain, when Kirill Semenovich fell in the bathroom, hitting the threshold with the occipital region. The first to arrive, after the ambulance, was Simonyan’s employee K.S., doctor Gutiontova K.P., to whom Ivobotenko B.A. told in detail how Kirill Semenovich did not have time to enter the apartment, immediately fell on the couch and lost consciousness. Then, after a few minutes, he regained consciousness and uttered the famous phrase, which everyone who knew Kirill Semenovich began to pass on from mouth to mouth: “It turns out that death is not so terrible. I even felt some kind of bliss.” After which he called Ksenia Pavlovna Gutiotova, saying that he needed help and went to the bathroom where the accident occurred. Gutiontova K.P., with tears in her eyes, began calling everyone who lived nearby.

Within an hour after the tragedy, the apartment began to fill with friends and colleagues. Among the first to arrive was his student Vitaly Grigorievich Barinov. Soon investigators appeared, to whom B. A. Ivobotenko repeated his story about the death of Kirill Semenovich Simonyan.

According to the official conclusion, death was caused by acute heart failure.

Essays

• Arapov D. A., Simonyan K. S. “Therapeutic serum of N. G. Belenky in clinical practice” M. Medgiz. 1957 140 p.
• Peritonitis [Text] / K. S. Simonyan. - Moscow: Medicine, 1971
• Posthumous blood in the aspect of transfusiology [Text] / K. S. Simonyan, K. P. Gutiontova, E. G. Tsurinova; [preface D. A. Arapova]. - Moscow: Medicine, 1975
• The surgeon's path. Pages from memories of S.S. Yudin. 1891-1954 [Text] / K. S. Simonyan. - Moscow: Medgiz, 1963
• Adhesive disease [Text] / K. S. Simonyan. - Moscow: Medicine, 1966
• Simonyan Kirill. Landau's secret. – Vesti newspaper, weekly. appl. "Windows", April 2, 9, 16, 1998, Israel

Achievements

• Candidate of Biological Sciences
• Doctor of Medical Sciences
• Professor
• Senior lieutenant of medical service

Awards

• Medal "For Military Merit" (1945)
• Medal "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945"
• Order of the Red Star (1945)
• Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (1945)

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K. Simonyan and A. Solzhenitsyn

Simonyan K.S.'s school years were spent in the city of Rostov-on-Don. There were three friends in the class who called themselves the names of the three musketeers: Simonyan - Artos, Vitkevich - Porthos, Solzhenitsyn - Aramis. Of the three, Aramis (Solzhenitsyn) stood out. He always had to be first and infallible. These traits of the nascent writer-publicist began to appear in school. According to Simonyan K.S., once history teacher Bershadsky began to lecture Solzhenitsyn, he fainted, hit his desk and cut his forehead. Many years later, Solzhenitsyn would take this scar abroad as an honorary title and as evidence of his difficult fate. And when asked about the origin of the scar on his face, he will answer with mysterious hints, sighs, and a meaningful shrug.

In 1936, school friends entered Rostov State University. Simonyan and Vitkevich entered the Faculty of Chemistry, and Solzhenitsyn entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. But in 1937, Kirill Semenovich Simonyan transferred to the medical institute.

In the summer of 1939, A. I. Solzhenitsyn, N. D. Vitkevich and K. S. Simonyan, as excellent students, entered the correspondence department of the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature (MIFLI) without exams. In 1941, the war separated school friends.

Close people

Among the people close to Kirill Semenovich were people of various nationalities:

• Jose Lopez (07/22/1925 – 05/11/2005) – engineer (from among the children taken to the USSR in 1937), was buried like a brother in the same grave with K.S. Simonyan at the Armenian Cemetery in Moscow.
• Galperin Yuri Morisovich (08/29/1924 – 02/06/1989) - an outstanding Soviet physiologist, State Prize Laureate, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
• Ksenia Pavlovna Gutiontova is a surgeon at Moscow City Hospital No. 53.
• Barinov Vitaly Grigorievich (08/24/1937) - Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of organization and development of clinical laboratory express diagnostics, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor.

Miscellaneous

• A talented abdominal surgeon, a student of an outstanding scientist, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, director of the Institute. N.V. Sklifosovsky S.S. Yudin.
• He was the first to develop the phase development of peritonitis and made a great contribution to the early diagnosis and treatment of adhesive disease.
• He made significant contributions to parenteral nutrition and the use of fibrinolytic blood.
• For three years he took an active part in the treatment and operated on Academician L.D. Landau.
• One of three famous school friends (Simonyan K.S., Solzhenitsyn A.I., Vitkevich N.D.).
• For many years he served as deputy editor-in-chief of the Medgiz publishing house.
• He played the piano beautifully, wrote poetry, and wrote a script for a children's matinee.
• He composed and sent a poem to N.S. Khrushchev in honor of the flight of the first man into space, Yu. A. Gagarin.
• Gorobets B.S. Could medicine have saved L.D. Landau today? Blogs of the magazine “Seven Arts” No. 4 (29) - April 2012.
• Gorobets B.S. Circle. Landau. Life of a genius. M.: publishing house LKI (URSS). 2008. 368 p.

M Oskalenko Kirill Semyonovich - commander of the 40th Army of the Voronezh Front, Colonel General; Chief Inspector of the USSR Ministry of Defense - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Born on April 28 (May 11), 1902 in the village of Grishin (now Krasnoarmeysky district, Donetsk region, Ukraine) into a peasant family. Ukrainian. He graduated from a rural school.

In the Red Army since 1920. Participant in the Civil War. Red Army soldier K.S. Moskalenko fought with the White Guards and Makhnovists in Ukraine and Crimea, against counter-revolutionary gangs in the Don and the North Caucasus. After graduating from the Ukrainian United School of Red Commanders in 1922, he served in the North Caucasus and Belarusian military districts, was a platoon, battery, division commander and chief of staff of an artillery regiment. In 1928 he graduated from artillery advanced training courses for the command staff of the Red Army. Member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU since 1926.

Since 1934 K.S. Moskalenko is the commander of an artillery regiment. From June 1935 - chief of artillery of the 23rd mechanized brigade in the Far East, and from September 1936 - chief of the 133rd mechanized brigade of the Kyiv Military District. In 1939, he graduated from the Faculty of Advanced Training for Higher Command Staff of the F.E. Military Academy. Dzerzhinsky, and was appointed chief of artillery of the 51st Perekop Rifle Division. It participated in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. Then - the chief of artillery of the 35th Rifle Corps, and from August 1940 to May 1941 - the 2nd Mechanized Corps in the Odessa Military District. Since May 1941 - commander of the 1st motorized anti-tank artillery brigade in the Kiev Special Military District.

He met the Great Patriotic War as the commander of this brigade. Then he commanded the 15th Rifle Corps, the 6th Cavalry Corps and a cavalry-mechanized group of troops. He took part in defensive battles on the Southwestern Front near Vladimir-Volynsky, Rivne, Novograd-Volynsky, Kiev, Chernigov and in the offensive operation on the right wing of the Southwestern Front in the Battle of Moscow. At the end of 1941 - deputy commander of the 6th Army, from March 1942 he successively commanded the 38th, 1st Tank, 1st Guards and 40th Armies.

Troops under the leadership of K.S. Moskalenko fought near Kharkov, on the Don, and in the battle of Stalingrad. The 40th Army, as part of the Voronezh Front, took part in the Ostrogozh-Rossoshan, Voronezh-Kastornensk and Belgorod-Kharkov offensive operations, as well as in the battle of Kursk and the crossing of the Dnieper.

U of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on October 23, 1943, for the courage and heroism shown during the crossing of the Dnieper and securing a bridgehead on its western bank, to the commander of the 40th Army, Colonel General Moskalenko Kirill Semenovich awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

From October 27, 1943 until the end of the war, K.S. Moskalenko again commanded the 38th Army, which, as part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, participated in the Kyiv, Zhitomir-Berdichev, Proskurov-Chernivtsi, Lvov-Sandomierz, Karpatsko-Dukla and as part of the 4th Ukrainian Front - in the West Carpathian, Moravska -Ostrava and Prague offensive operations.

Troops under the command of General Moskalenko K.S. distinguished themselves in battles in the Lviv direction when breaking through strong, deeply layered enemy defenses, as well as during the capture of the cities of Kyiv, Zhitomir, Zhmerynka, Vinnitsa, Lvov, Moravska-Ostrava and others.

For successful military operations, the troops commanded by K.S. Moskalenko, were noted 18 times in the orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin. In May 1945, front commander A.I. Eremenko was represented by K.S. Moskalenko to be awarded the title of twice Hero of the Soviet Union, but this idea was not realized.

After the war, from 1945 to 1948, K.S. Moskalenko was the commander of the army, and then the commander of the troops of the Moscow region (renamed the district) of air defense.

In this position, Colonel General Moskalenko K.S. at the request of the Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee N.S. Khrushchev and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR G.M. Malenkova selects a group of military men, including Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov. and Colonel General Batitsky P.F. , and, heading it, on June 26, 1953, he participated in the arrest at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Beria L.P. , who would later be accused of “anti-party and anti-state activities aimed at undermining the Soviet state,” would be deprived of all awards and titles and sentenced to death on December 23, 1953, and the sentence would be carried out on the same day.

After these events, from June 1953 to 1960, K.S. Moskalenko is the commander of the troops of the Moscow Military District.

Since October 1960, Marshal of the Soviet Union Moskalenko K.S. - Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. On April 12, 1961, at the Baikonur cosmodrome, he accompanied pilot-cosmonaut No. 1 Yu.A. on the first space flight in human history. Gagarin.

From April 1962 to 1983 - Chief Inspector of the USSR Ministry of Defense - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR.

U On February 21, 1978, by the Kazakh Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was awarded the second Gold Star medal for services to the Motherland in the development and strengthening of the Armed Forces of the USSR.

Since 1983 - Inspector General of the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Member of the CPSU Central Committee since 1956. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 2nd-11th convocations (1946-1985).

Lived in the hero city of Moscow. Died on June 17, 1985. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow (section 7).

Military ranks:
major,
Colonel (08/16/1938),
Major General of Artillery (06/04/1940),
Lieutenant General (01/19/1943),
Colonel General (09/19/1943),
General of the Army (3.08.1953),
Marshal of the Soviet Union (03/11/1955).

Awarded seven Orders of Lenin (07/22/1941, 10/23/1943, 11/6/1945, 03/7/1962, 05/10/1972, 02/21/1978, 05/10/1982), the Order of the October Revolution (02/22/1968), five Orders of the Red Banner and (7.04. 1940, 08/27/1943, 11/3/1944, 11/15/1950, 01/28/1954), two Orders of Suvorov, 1st degree (01/28/1943, 05/23/1943), two Orders of Kutuzov, 1st degree (05/29/1944, 08/25/1943). 1944), Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky 1st degree (01/10/1944), Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree (03/11/1985), Order “For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR” 3rd degree (04/30/1975), medals , Honorary weapon with a gold image of the State Emblem of the USSR (02/22/1968).

Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (10/3/1969). Awarded numerous foreign awards: Order of Klement Gottwald (Czechoslovakia), White Lion 1st degree (Czechoslovakia), White Lion 1st degree “For Victory” (Czechoslovakia), Gold Star of the Czechoslovak Military Order “For Freedom” (Czechoslovakia), Friendship (Czechoslovakia, 1982), “Military Cross 1939-1945” (Czechoslovakia), Grand Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland, Order of the British Empire (Great Britain), foreign medals, including the “Dukele Commemorative Medal” (Czechoslovakia).

Honorary citizen of the cities of Vinnitsa (Ukraine), Tiraspol (Transnistrian Moldavian Republic).

A bronze bust of K.S.Moskalenko was installed in the city of Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk region, and a memorial plaque is in Kharkov. The Poltava Military School of Communications was named after him.

Composition:
In a south-west direction. 3rd ed. M., 1979. Book. 1-2.

The main features that distinguish Marshal Moskalenko from a number of other famous commanders of the Great Patriotic War are his habit of acting in accordance with the current situation, and not being guided by orders from above, and also giving preference to attack rather than defense, for which Kirill Semenovich even received a playful nickname from Stalin "General of the offensive"

A rare case among, albeit not the largest, but still notable military leaders of the Great Patriotic War: Kirill Moskalenko did not take part in any intrigues of his entourage during Stalin’s life. Moreover, as he later claimed, he first saw Stalin at a reception in the Kremlin the day after the Victory Parade in 1945.

Moskalenko, like most Soviet marshals, was not very educated, although he stood out against the general background: after all, unlike many, he graduated not only from an elementary rural school, but also from two classes of the school of the Ministry of Public Education. He joined the Red Army at the age of 18 and was in the First Cavalry Army. Then, after the end of the Civil War, he studied at military schools and the Dzerzhinsky Academy. The next twenty years before the start of the Soviet-Finnish War - trips across the entire geography of the Soviet Union: from Bryansk to Chisinau, from Odessa to Chita.

Moskalenko and Epishev at the command post, photo by A. Shaikhet. (wikipedia.org)

Moskalenko met the Great Patriotic War as a major general of artillery in the city of Lutsk. Then a large number of operations, awards and titles. In the award list at that time, the commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Konev, emphasized that “Moskalenko is a strong-willed and decisive commander. He works a lot, regardless of time and his health. Tactically competent. He is better at attacking than defending..."

Moskalenko started the war on the Southwestern Front and ended it in Prague. Then he served in the army in various positions, and then worked in the Ministry of Defense until his death.

Monument at the grave. (wikipedia.org)

The only episode that somewhat stands out from his entire life is the arrest of Beria in 1953. Stalin died, shortly after this Beria was arrested, and it was Moskalenko who allegedly said: “Beria, stand up, you are under arrest!”