Mikhail Konstantinovich Puteiko (Russian: Михаил Константинович Путейко; 8 November 1913 – 21 April 1945) was a Belarusian Red Army major general killed in action during World War II. After briefly working as a mechanic in his youth, Puteiko entered the Red Army in 1934 and graduated from an officer training school. By the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, he served with the 180th Rifle Division, with which he fought as part of the Northwestern Front until late 1941. Puteiko spent the next several months in army-level staff positions and briefly commanded a regiment of the 254th Rifle Divisio
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World War II When Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on 22 June 1941, the division and its corps were in the rear, mobilizing near Porkhov and Dno. From the beginning of July it fought in defensive battles with the 27th and then 11th Armies of the Northwestern Front at the Pskov and Ostrov Fortified Regions, then retreated towards Novgorod. From 17 July, Puteiko, then a senior lieutenant, commanded a battalion of the 140th Rifle Regiment before temporarily serving as head of the 1st staff department of the 180th from 24 August. During July and early August, the division fought in front-level counterattacks at Soltsy and Staraya Russa. Puteiko transferred to the staff of the 11th Army on 3 October, initially serving as assistant head of the 1st section of its operational department. He became senior assistant head of the section in January 1942. Until the end of 1941, the army defended the line of the Lovat River east of Staraya Russa, and from January fought in front operations to defeat German troops near Staraya Russa and Demyansk. Puteiko, then a captain, took command of the 936th Rifle Regiment of the 254th Rifle Division on 8…
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Mikhail Konstantinovich Puteiko (Russian: Михаил Константинович Путейко; 8 November 1913 – 21 April 1945) was a Belarusian Red Army major general killed in action during World War II. After briefly working as a mechanic in his youth, Puteiko entered the Red Army in 1934 and graduated from an officer training school. By the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, he served with the 180th Rifle Division, with which he fought as part of the Northwestern Front until late 1941. Puteiko spent the next several months in army-level staff positions and briefly commanded a regiment of the 254th Rifle Division. After becoming chief of staff of the latter in mid-1942, he commanded the division from November 1943, leading it in the Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, the Sandomierz–Silesian Offensive, and the Berlin Offensive. In the final weeks of the war, Puteiko was mortally wounded during the Battle of Bautzen. At the time of his death, he was one of the youngest generals of the Red Army.
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Early life and prewar service Puteiko was born on 8 November 1913 in the village of Revkutyevichi, Minsk Governorate. He worked in Minsk as a mechanic at a Belorussian Red Cross workshop and the United Belorussian Military School, and as a bicycle mechanic at the Bureau of Physical Culture of the Central Council of Trade Unions of Belorussia. Entering the Kalinin Minsk Military School (the former United Belorussian Military School) in October 1934, upon his graduation in November 1937 Puteiko remained there as a platoon commander, assistant company commander, and senior adjutant of the 2nd Cadet Battalion. In December 1940, he was transferred to the Baltic Special Military District to serve as a deputy battalion commander in the 232nd Rifle Regiment of the 180th Rifle Division, part of the 22nd Territorial Rifle Corps.
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