Fyodor Kharitonov
Soviet general (1899–1943)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Kharitonov (24 January 1899 – 28 May 1943) was a Soviet military leader, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Lieutenant General.
Biography
Born on 24 January 1899 in the village of Vasilievskoye (now within the city limits of Rybinsk). He graduated from a four–year school in his native village (now School No. 7).
In the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army since 1919. Member of the Civil War, Red Army soldier. Member of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1918.
Since the spring of 1941 – the commander of the 2nd Airborne Corps. During the Great Patriotic War, from July 1941, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Southern Front, from September 1941, Commander of the 9th Army of the Southern Front, from July 1942, Commander of the 6th Army of the Voronezh, later of the Southwestern Front.
With the direct participation of the army under the command of General Kharitonov, the Donbass–Rostov Strategic Defensive Operation, the Rostov Offensive Operation of 1941, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Operation, the Donbass Offensive Operation, the Kharkov Defensive Operation and some others were prepared and carried out.
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