Biography of General Rakhimov

The memorial plate of Gdansk Rakhimov Sabir Umarovich-commander of the Guards Rifle Rechitsa Red-free Red-free Orders of the 2nd degree of Kutuzov 1st degree of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degree of the division of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Guard Major General. In childhood, he knew the need early, spent several years in a shelter, then launched, worked at a Tashkent weaving factory. In September, a volunteer joined the Red Army.

He graduated from the Baku United Military School in the year. Since August, he served as the commander of the cavalry platoon in a separate Uzbek cavalry division, from the year in the 1st Uzbek Cavalry Regiment of the 6th Uzbek Cavalry Brigade of the Central Asian military district the regiment was deployed in Samarkand. Участвовал в боях с басмачами, был ранен.

Member of the CPSU B from the year. Since September, he continued to serve in the Mountain Cavalry Regiment of the Mountain Cavalry Division of the same district: commander of a machine gun squadron, assistant chief of staff of the regiment, chief of regimental school. Since November - chief of staff of the Civil Code of the Cavalry Regiment Samarkand. In July, he was dismissed from the Red Army and arrested on a false charges.

Over two years he was in prison under the investigation. In October, he was released in connection with the termination of the case and restored in the army. At the end of the year, he was appointed deputy commander of the 9th motorized rifle regiment of the 9th Panzer Division of the Central Asian Military District, the regiment was deployed in the city of Bayram-Ali, the Marysk Region, the Turkmen SSR.

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the division in the Mechanized Corps arrived at the front, where the regiment was renamed the motorized rifle regiment, and the division in the youth of the tank division. Major S. Rakhimov participated in the war in the army since July as deputy commander of the Motor Rifle Regiment. He participated in the Western Front in the Smolensk defensive battle.

In the battle on August 1, he was seriously wounded in the Yelninsky direction, he was in the hospital for almost three months. He participated in the Rostov defensive operation, during which his regiment stubbornly kept the defense in the area of ​​the village of Bolshaya Salas of the Rostov Region, and then, being transferred to the Rostov direction, during the Rostov offensive, one of the first to burst into Rostov-on-Don and was very excellently acted with the further persecution of the 1st German Panzer Army for Taganrog.

In the battle on December 17, he was wounded and shell -shocked a second time, but remained in service. For these battles, he was awarded his first front -line order. Then the regiment and the division were transferred to the Ural Army of the Southern Front, in May, Sabir Rakhimov, who had already become Lieutenant Colonel, was appointed deputy commander of the Rifle Division. The division passed the heavy defensive battles of the summer and autumn of the year in the Don and in the Kuban.

Since August 1, he acted as the commander of the Rifle Division of the Primorsky Operational Group of Troops of the North Caucasus Front since September - the Black Sea group of troops of the Transcaucasian Front. He participated in the defense of the North Caucasus, especially distinguished himself in the Tuapse defensive operation in September, where the army, including the Russian Rifle Division, managed to stop the enemy’s strike group on distant approaches to the city, and then drop it a considerable distance.

Under Tuapse on September 15, Colonel Rakhimov was wounded for the third time. At the beginning of the year, the division showed itself well in the North Caucasian offensive operation. But after an unsuccessful attempt to break through the German defense on the Blue Line on April 8, the division commander was removed from the post. In June, he was sent to study. In April, General Major Rakhimov graduated from the Higher Military Academy named after K.

in June was appointed deputy for the combat unit of the commander of the Guards Rifle Division of the Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. He distinguished himself in the Bobruka offensive operation, where he led the actions of one of the regiments with the units of amplification to reflect the attempt to break through the surrounded German group. For three days of battle, the enemy lost from above the soldiers and officers killed, and near the person were captured.

Then he distinguished himself in offensive battles during the Lublin-Brest offensive operation, received his fourth wound in the battle on July 20 and returned to battle after dressing. Since September 8, he commanded the Guards Rifle Division in the 8th Guards Army, participated in the battles of defense and expansion of the Magnushevsky bridgehead in the Vistula. In November, he was appointed commander of the Guards Rifle Division of the Army on the 2nd Belorussian Front.

In January-February, the division fought in the East Prussian offensive operation. General Rakhimov distinguished himself during the assault on the fortress city of the Graudentz now Grudzhends, Poland, which was defended by the 9,000th garrison. The fighters of the Guards Division, which was temporarily given to the 2nd Shock Army under the command of General I.

Fedyuninsky, broken enemy fortifications on the approaches to the city on February 16, released several settlements and first broke into the city.In a brutal battle on the city streets, where each house was adapted to defense, the enemy several times replaced the attacking units from the city and each time the guards restored occupied lines. The stubborn actions of the Rakhimov division pulled the main forces of Garrison on her, which allowed other parts on the night of February 22 from different sides to free the city.

The remnants of Garrov took refuge in the medieval citadel and surrendered a few days later. The division returned to the army and in February-March of the year showed itself well in offensive battles in the East Pomeranian operation, having passed in a few days with battles about kilometers. The guards were the first in the army to reach the coast of the Baltic Sea, cutting off the garrison of Danzig from the main group of the enemy in the lower reaches of the Vistula.

Without reducing the pace of the offensive, the division changed the direction of the blow and was the first to burst into Danzig now Gdansk, having tied street battles out of town.

General Rakhimov skillfully managed the actions of the division units, personally led the battle in the most stressed areas, showed personal courage in battles. In one of the battles on March 25, during the artillery shelling of the attacking units by enemy ships, a direct projectile for a heavy shell was destroyed by the supervision point of the division. Major General Sabir Rakhimov, who was at the observation post, was mortally wounded by a shell fragment in the head and died on March 26 in the hospital, not conscious.

He was buried in the capital of Uzbekistan - Tashkent in the Kafanov Park. Major General was awarded the Order of Lenin 6. General Rakhimov was rightfully revered in Uzbekistan as a national hero. In Tashkent, a magnificent monument was erected to him. The monument is also erected in Samarkand. At the Uzbekfilm film studio, the feature film "General Rakhimov" was shot in the year.

The name of General Rakhimov was worn by the Tashkent metro station and one of the Tashkent regions. His name was also assigned to the Academic Lyceum at the National University, the school in Tashkent, the station and the state farm in Uzbekistan. After a year, much was done to perpetuate the memory of S. Rakhimov in Kazakhstan: a monument to the hero was erected in Chimkent, a boarding school was named after it.

The memorial plate is installed in the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Gdansk Poland. In the year, the authorities of Uzbekistan first renamed the metro station, and then the district of the capital of Uzbekistan, named after the hero. Fortunately, justice triumphed and on May 9, the monument was restored and again solemnly opened in the same place. The commanders of "Rakhimov is a Kazakh and that he was born in the teriior of modern Kazakhstan.

Given the fact that his father was a Kazakh, and his mother - Uzbek, and he lost his parents very early, the dispute about the nationality of Sabia Rakhimov does not make sense.