(18. 3. 1907 - 26. 11. 1986)
And Alexis I. bucks Guard, Major General, commander of the 67-th Guards Rifle Division, was born March 18, 1907 in a. Most reed Petrovsky District, Saratov Region. Russian. In the Soviet Army used in 1926. In 1929 he graduated from military school in 1935, refresher courses commanders, in 1939, the Military Academy named after M. V. Frunze. In the prewar period he served in the frontier troops, occupying the post of assistant to the deputy chief of border guards Chief of the NKVD of the USSR.
. From June 1942 until the victory over Germany in World War II fought on the South-West, Voronezh, 1 and 2 of the First Baltic Front
. Participated in the Battle of Kursk, the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia. For military distinctions awarded the Order of Lenin (1951), . five orders of the Red Banner (1948, . 1944, . 1946, . 1954, . 1956), . Order of Suvorov 2 nd degree (1945), . Kutuzov 2 nd degree (1943), . Red Star (1944) and five medals, . and the Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria "1-th degree (1968).,
. W tion of the Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and medal "Gold Star" Alexei Ivanovich Baksovu awarded July 22, 1944 for bravery, . courage and skillful command of the divisional in forcing the Western Dvina Vitebsk and surrounded the enemy.,
. In the postwar years, AI
. Bucks graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff.
. Died Nov. 26, 1986.
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We Troma June 22, 1944 advanced battalions divisions Baksova after a short artillery barrage launched an offensive to defense intelligence
. The attack was swift. The Germans are not expecting our attack, suffered heavy losses and were forced to leave the first position. The success of the advanced battalions had been fully used by General Baksovym the next day, when the whole division in the 6 th Guards Army launched an offensive.
. Breached the heavily fortified and deeply layered defenses at the turn of the clogging-Nuts, guardsmen Baksova cut roads and railways Polotsk-Vitebsk and in the evening on June 24 came to the northern shore of the Western Dvina
. It was the most successful band of the Army. He was provided with a thorough preparation of the offensive. On the eve of the general operation bucks much attention to organize combat units. On the training fields, fitted in the rear, arrows, artillery, engineers, signalers, mortar, chemists, in close cooperation with each other worked out everything in detail the organization and warfare in relation to the conditions of the offensive. General bucks personally supervised the tactical exercises and command-staff exercise. High combat readiness of the parts division, clearly the work of commanders and staffs said in the first days of the onset. Suvorov rule "hard in training, easy in battle" has found dramatic confirmation of the battle.
. Once the forward units had broken through to the Western Dvina, Bucks ordered to move to overcome the river and seize bridgeheads on its southern shore
. The men crossed over to the improvised means. Since the first echelon of crossed and the divisional commander. His courage, clarity of instructions and boundless courage in general inspired his subordinates confidence in our victory. The crossing of the Western Dvina guardsmen helped neighboring compounds in the environment of the Vitebsk enemy.
The next day of the general Baksova expanded their bridgehead intercepted by the road-Lepel Vitebsk. Turning sharply to the north-west, the guardsmen were released on June 29, district center Vetrino and intercepted very important for the enemy line Polotsk-Molodechno.
. During the first ten days of the Byelorussian operation division Baksova was fought 165 kilometers and released the 253 settlements.
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. Sources:
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1) Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary. V.1. M.: Voeniz.1987.
2) Rumyantsev.N.M. People legendary heroism ". Saratov. 1968
