Vasily Karuna

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Vasily Petrovich Karuna (Russian: Василий Петрович Каруна; 27 April 1899 – 30 September 1943) was a Red Army general-mayor who held division commands during World War II.

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Early life and Russian Civil War Vasily Petrovich Karuna was born on 27 April 1899 in the stanitsa of Morozovskaya, and finished his education at a village school in 1911. During the Russian Civil War, he joined the Morozovskaya Red Guard Detachment in December 1917. With the detachment, he took part in battles against the Whites and the disarmament of the Cossacks returning from the front in the Nizhne-Chirskaya, Vasilyevskye mines, Tatsinskaya and Belaya Kalitva areas. In September 1918 Karuna's detachment was absorbed into the Red Army and he became a Red Army man in the 10th Morozovskaya Railroad Regiment. Later that year, Karuna transferred to serve as a machine gunner on the Lisitsa armored car. He took part in battles against the White Armed Forces of South Russia in the region of Morozovskaya and Tsaritsyn. Karuna was wounded in the leg at Tsaritsyn in September 1919 and hospitalized. After recovering, he served as an orderly in the 1st Morozovskaya Medical Train of the 10th Morozovskaya Regiment.

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Interwar period Karuna received command training at the 2nd Borisoglebsk-Petrograd Cavalry School in Petrograd between August 1920 and September 1923. While at the school, he took part in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion. On graduation, Karuna was appointed to command a machine gun platoon of the 61st Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Cavalry Division of the Turkestan Front. He took part in the suppression of the Basmachi movement in Eastern Bukhara, being credited with the destruction of the fighters led by Mustafakul in 1925, and was wounded in the fighting that year. For these actions, he was awarded a gilded saber by the Volga Military District Military Council in 1929. After recovery, he returned to the regiment, where he was appointed chief of the regimental supply detachment. From May 1926 he served in the 43rd Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Cavalry Division, part of the Volga Military District at Orenburg, rising from machine gun platoon commander to acting machine gun squadron commander and acting saber squadron commander. In October 1927 he was transferred to the 47th Cavalry Regiment at Troitsk, serving as a squadron commander. After completing the Novocherkassk Cavalry Command Personnel Improvement Courses between October 1930 and June…Citește mai mult

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World War II After Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the 29th Motorized Division fought in defensive actions in the region of Grodno, Lida and Novogrudok as part of the 6th Mechanized Corps during the Battle of Białystok–Minsk. The division was encircled at the end of June, and at the end of July Colonel Karuna took temporary command of a regiment of the 108th Rifle Division of the Western Front. After being wounded, he was hospitalized on 7 August, then went on leave, and from 27 September to 22 November completed Higher Commanders' Improvement Courses at the Academy of the General Staff. Following the courses, Karuna was placed at the disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate and seconded to the Red Army Cavalry Inspectorate. In December he was appointed acting commander of the 113th Cavalry Division at Blagoveshchensk. In June 1942 Karuna was again placed at the disposal of the Cavalry Inspectorate, and on 12 August dispatched to the Voronezh Front for further assignment. That same month, Karuna took command of the 195th Rifle Division, engaged in sustained offensive and defensive battles for Voronezh. In early October the division was withdrawn to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command and relocated…Citește mai mult

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Awards Karuna was a recipient of the following decorations:

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Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

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Bibliography Maslov, Aleksander A. (1998). Fallen Soviet Generals: Soviet General Officers Killed in Battle, 1941–1945. Translated by David Glantz. London: Frank Cass. ISBN 978-0-7146-4790-6. Tsapayev, D.A.; et al. (2015). Великая Отечественная: Комдивы. Военный биографический словарь [The Great Patriotic War: Division Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 4. Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 978-5-9950-0602-2.