Aleksandr Golovachyov

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Aleksandr Alekseyevich Golovachev (Russian: Александр Алексеевич Головачёв; 10 December [O.S. 27 November] 1909 – 6 March 1945) was a Red Army colonel twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership of the 23rd Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of the 7th Guards Tank Corps of the Red Army during the World War II. Golovachev joined the Red Army in the late 1920s and rose to infantry company commander before he was arrested during the Great Purge, but was released due to lack of evidence. After fighting as in the Winter War as a battalion commander, Golovachev became a regimental chief of staff before the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. His unit was destroyed in the first weeks of the war in the Uman pocket, and Golovachev led its remnants for several months behind German lines before joining a partisan detachment in late 1941. He returned to Soviet lines in early 1942 and became a regimental commander before being appointed commander of the 52nd Motor Rifle Brigade in September 1942. Golovachev led the brigade in the Third Battle of Kharkov, during which it suffered heavy losses and was encircled. Decorated for his actions in the breakout, Golovachev continued to…Citește mai mult

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Early life and prewar service Golovachev was born to a working-class family on 25 December 1909 in the settlement of Lyubokhna, Bryansky Uyezd, Oryol Governorate. He joined the Red Army in September 1929 and was sent to study at the Combined Military School in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1932. In March of that year, Golovachev was appointed a platoon commander in the 2nd Rifle Regiment of the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division. In June 1933 he transferred to the 25th Separate Territorial Rifle Battalion of the 9th Rifle Regiment of the Moscow Military District in Kirsanov, serving as an air defense platoon commander before transferring to serve in the same position with the machine gun company of the battalion. From January 1935 he served with the 57th Rifle Regiment of the 19th Rifle Division in Ostrogozhsk as a company commander and battalion chief of staff. During the Great Purge, Golovachev was transferred to the reserve in June 1937 and arrested by the NKVD on 31 July. He was released in October 1938 due to lack of evidence, and in February 1939 reinstated in the Red Army, returning to his previous position as a company commander in the 57th Regiment.…Citește mai mult

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World War II After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, Golavachev fought with his unit in the border battles and in fighting south of Stanislav he was seriously wounded on 27 June. In the second half of July, his unit was encircled in the Uman pocket and destroyed. Golovachev escaped the pocket and made his way northeast, and by 6 November, with a group of 74 personnel, he reached the Bryansk area, where he joined a partisan detachment operating in Lyubokhny District, near his birthplace. He became chief of staff of the detachment, which was contacted by a representative from the 10th Army in January 1942, who ordered the military personnel of the detachment to cross the front line and rejoin the army. After being treated at a hospital, Golovachev became commander of the 1326th Rifle Regiment of the 415th Rifle Division of the Western Front in February 1942, fighting in battles west of Medyn. Appointed commander of the 52nd Motor Rifle Brigade in September, Golovachev led the brigade on the Southwestern Front after it finished forming. The brigade joined the 15th Tank Corps on 15 December and participated in the offensive towards Olkhovatka. During the Third Battle of Kharkov in…Citește mai mult

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Personal life Golovachev married Nina Mikhailovna and had two sons, Vladimir and Yury. His family was evacuated to Sverdlovsk during the war, where Yury, whom Golovachev never saw, died aged two of malnutrition. Vladimir became an academic postwar.

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