Biography of Kutepov

Kutepova 23 days heroically defended Mogilev. A strong -willed and fair commander. Before the war, the regiment was located in the Tula region, constantly took first place in combat training, and spoke about Semyon Fedorovich as a strict, strong -willed and fair commander. In certification for G. enjoyed the well -deserved authority of subordinates and comrades in the service.

It has a good general development, a wide horizons, tactful, restrained, even in private life, skillfully directs subordinates to increase their military education. He systematically worked on his military improvement, managed to develop a good combined -arms commander who knows tanimization in himself, skillfully uses artillery and other branches of troops and not only their tactical, but also technical properties ...

”. Semyon Fedorovich was born on May 19, Ros and studied at a zemstvo school. In the city, after a cure for S. Kutepov, a machine gun business in the city of Oranienbaum Lomonosov took place in the hospital. Frunze in absentia received the qualifications "commander with higher military education." The wife of S. Kutepova Zinaida Andreevna recalls how subordinates spoke of her husband: “It would be better if he shouted, otherwise he says calmly, so he will pick you up that the second time it becomes a shame to come to him without fulfilling his orders.” Rather, to die than to retreat.

Despite the superiority of the enemy in manpower and technology, the defenders of the city defended every span of their native land, stubbornly fighting off the enemy. The warriors of the Rifle Regiment, together with the people's militias, in only one battle on July 12, 39 enemy tanks and armored personnel carriers were knocked out on the Buinichi field. The eyewitness of this hot battle was the front -line correspondent of the newspaper Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda Konstantin Simonov.

Already on July 20, the Izvestia newspaper K. Simonov was published “Hot Day” about the battle on the Buinichi field: “... And when you enter the location of the regiment, you immediately see that the fighters here decided to die more likely ... They are fighting not only bravely, they are fighting skillfully here. The regiment buried in the ground. In vain, German aviation, artillery and tanks tried to pick out in vain.

Deep full profile trenches are equipped with strong dugouts and strong ceilings. Supervisory spots are reliably equipped. Many kilometers of communication moves provide uninterrupted communication. And the regiment repel one after another all the attacks of the Germans with a cruel damage to them ... ”Next, there is a detailed description of the fighting, and the results of the clock fight are summed up:“ ...

39 broken enemy tanks, up to two companies of destroyed infantry, two trucks, a staffing machine. The day was hot, but the battle results were excellent. ” Photo correspondent Pavel Troshkin, who arrived in the regiment with Konstantin Simonov, captured the driven German tanks in this battle, these are one of the first frames of destroyed enemy equipment. For this battle, S.

Kutepov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. On the night of July 26, the remnants of the Rifle Division tried to break through the encirclement, the regiment S. Kutepov, which remained on the right bank of the Dnieper. By the morning, the regiment had only a small piece of land, which was surrounded by the Germans from all sides.

Several dozens of battles and exhausted Soviet fighters stood until the last ... The cartridges were running out. The next attack of the Nazis, brought to a frenzy with unprecedented resistance of a few Red Army soldiers, claimed the life of Colonel Kutepov. In my memory, Kutepov, a man who, remained alive there, under Mogilev, would be capable of a lot ...

”In Simonov,“ living and dead ”, where the initial period of the war is described according to the materials of the author’s notes. There we meet one of the main characters - the brigade commander Fedor Fedorovich Serpilin, who became the prototype of the outstanding commander Semen Fedorovich Kutepov. Mogilev’s defense is a bright page in the history of the Great Patriotic War.

In honor of the city’s defenders, an obelisk was installed on the Buinichi field, the inscription on it: “Here on the harsh days of the year, the fighters of the rifle regiment of the rifle division and the Mountain Mountains showed unprecedented resistance. Mogilev, having destroyed 39 fascist tanks on July 12 in only one day of battles on July 12. ” The name of S.

Kutepov was named Street in Mogilev, a memorial plaque was installed. In the exposition and funds of the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, materials transferred by the wife of S. are represented and stored In addition to the photo portrait, Semen Fedorovich, you can see photos of the commander of the Infantry Division M. Romanov, the front -line correspondent Konstantin Simonov, the plot photo of the broken German technology taken by Pavel Troshkin in the Buinichi field, as well as the objects of military archeology found in the places of battles under the grave.

Researcher at the Military Film History Department Novitskaya Ekaterina Vladimirovna.