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Defense of Novorossiysk On 29 May, Kotov took command of the 47th Army, evacuated to the Kuban after its heavy losses at Kerch and assigned to the North Caucasian Front. The army was tasked with defending the Taman Peninsula on the east coast of the Sea of Azov against attack from Crimea. After the fall of Krasnodar in mid-August during the Battle of the Caucasus, the 47th Army retreated east to defend the port city and Black Sea Fleet naval base of Novorossiysk, as the neighboring 56th Army withdrew south towards the western Caucasus. This left the 47th Army isolated in the area of Novorossiysk, which Stavka decided to defend strongly. Kotov was placed in command of the Novorossiysk Defense Region on 18 August, responsible for the Taman Peninsula and Novorossiysk. The region combined the ships of the Azov Flotilla, its naval infantry, and the 47th Army under one command, totaling 15,000 men. On the next day, German and Romanian troops of Army Group Ruoff began advancing towards Novorossiysk, where Krymsk came under attack. Kotov deployed a brigade and tank battalion to defend the area, but these troops were forced to retreat to positions seven kilometers north of Novorossiysk on…Citește mai mult

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Grigory Petrovich Kotov (Russian: Григорий Петрович Котов; 21 October 1902 – 7 November 1944) was a Red Army lieutenant general killed by American bombing in the Niš incident.

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Early life, Russian Civil War and interwar period A Russian, Grigory Petrovich Kotov was born on 21 October 1902 in the village of Khavertovo, Mikhaylovsky Uyezd, Ryazan Governorate. During the Russian Civil War, he was conscripted into the Red Army in January 1919 and sent to the local company of the Ryazan Regiment. Entering the 1st Machine Gun Courses in Moscow in December of that year, Kotov graduated in May 1921, serving as chief of the machine gun detachment in the 1st and 2nd Special Purpose Regiments of the 1st Kharkov Division. He fought on the Southern Front. After the end of the war, from November, he commanded a platoon and then a company in the 51st Separate Company of the ChON in Mikhaylov. Relieved of command in November, he was restored as a company commander in January 1922 with the 20th Battalion of the ChON in Ryazan Governorate. From February 1923 he commanded a platoon in the 1st Moscow Special Purpose Regiment, and from April 1924 was assistant commander of the 3rd Separate Special Purpose Company in Volokolamsk, then commanded the 108th Mozhaysk Special Purpose Company and a company of the 4th Sokolniki Special Purpose Battalion in Moscow. From…Citește mai mult

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World War II After Operation Barbarossa began, Kotov continued to serve at the academy. He took command of the 163rd Rifle Division of the 34th Army on the Northwestern Front on 30 September, leading it in defensive battles near Staraya Russa. Under the pressure of superior German forces, the division retreated to positions east of Demyansk. In January 1942 the division went over to the offensive and in conjunction with the 1st Guards Rifle Corps took part in the attacks which encircled German forces in the Demyansk Pocket. From February he served as chief of staff of the 51st Army of the Crimean Front, which retreated towards Kerch during the German offensive in the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula. At 11:30 on May 11 (1942), 51st Army commander Vladimir Lvov was killed in a German air raid on the army command post, and Kotov succeeded to command of the army. In the face of the rapid German advance, confusion reigned at senior command levels: in his report Kotov wrote to front Stavka representative Lev Mekhlis that the "army military council has no plans and instructions from the front about further operations." The front had in fact drafted orders for the…Citește mai mult