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Nikolai Mikhailovich Khlebnikov(December 6 (18), 1895, village of Mikhalevo, Kostroma province, now Furmanovsky district, Ivanovo region - January 18, 1981, Moscow) - Soviet military leader, Colonel General of Artillery, Hero Soviet Union.

Biography

Initial biography

Nikolai Mikhailovich Khlebnikov was born on December 6 (18), 1895 in the village of Mikhalevo, Kostroma province (now the Furmanovsky district, Ivanovo region) into a peasant family.

In 1905, Nikolai Khlebnikov and his family moved to Ivanovo-Voznesensk, and in the spring of 1911, having passed the 4th grade exam as an external student, he entered a real school.

He worked as a tutor in mathematics with the children of wealthy parents. After graduating with honors in 1915 from a real school, Khlebnikov entered the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers.

World War I and Civil War

In 1916, Khlebnikov was sent to Petrograd for an accelerated course at the Konstantinovsky Artillery School, after which he commanded a platoon of the 3rd Caucasian Mortar Artillery Battalion with the rank of ensign on the Southwestern Front. In June 1917, Nikolai Khlebnikov was seriously wounded and then treated in the hospital. After treatment, he was released on leave to his homeland.

In August 1918 he joined the ranks of the Red Army. He worked in Ivanovo-Voznesensk as the head of communications for a battery of a communist detachment.

From December 1918 he fought on Eastern Front. On the recommendation of Dmitry Furmanov, he joined the RCP (b). In the ranks of the Red Army, Khlebnikov commanded a battery of the 220th Ivanovo-Voznesensky rifle regiment, then - the 74th artillery division of the 25th rifle division named after V.I. Chapaev.

From May 1920 he took part in the Soviet-Polish war. In December of the same year, Khlebnikov was appointed chief of artillery of the 25th Infantry Division. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR.

With the end of the war, he took part in the liquidation of gangs in Ukraine.

Interwar period

From April 1921, Khlebnikov served as an inspector for instructions from the department of the chief of artillery of the Moscow Military District. In 1924, Nikolai Khlebnikov retired from the reserve.

In 1931 he entered the army for the second time. After graduating in 1932 from artillery command and tactical courses at the military academy in Leningrad, he commanded the 14th artillery regiment. Since 1934, he simultaneously served as chief of artillery of the 14th Infantry Division.

From 1936 to 1937, Khlebnikov served as chief of artillery supplies, head of the combat training department of the directorate of the chief of artillery of the Moscow Military District.

In 1938 he was arrested, and in 1939 he was released. After his release, he commanded the 108th Kolomna cannon regiment of the High Command Reserve, from 1939 to 1940 he served as chief of artillery of the 160th rifle division, then he was head of the 1st department of the directorate of the head of artillery of the North Caucasus Military District, and from December 1940 - head artillery of the 27th army.

The Great Patriotic War

From June 1941 he was on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He commanded the artillery of the 27th Army, transformed on December 25, 1941 into the 4th shock.

In 1942, Nikolai Khlebnikov was appointed chief of artillery of the Kalinin Front, in December 1944 - of the 1st Baltic Front, in February 1945 - of the Zemland Group of Forces.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, 1945, Colonel-General of Artillery Nikolai Mikhailovich Khlebnikov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the medal " Golden Star"(No. 6184).

post-war period

Since 1945, Nikolai Khlebnikov commanded the artillery of the Baltic Military District. Since 1948 he worked as the head of the department of the Higher Military Academy named after K. E. Voroshilov, while in 1952 he graduated from this academy.

From 1956 to 1960, he served as senior military adviser to the People's Liberation Army of China.

In 1960, Nikolai Khlebnikov retired. He lived in Moscow, where he worked as deputy chairman of the board of the All-Union Society "Knowledge", a member of the editorial board of the television almanac "Feat", a member of the Central Committee of DOSAAF, and also took part in the activities of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans.

Nikolai Mikhailovich Khlebnikov died on January 18, 1981. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Awards

Medal "Gold Star";
three orders of Lenin;
order October revolution;
four orders of the Red Banner;
two orders of Suvorov 1st degree;
Order of Kutuzov 1st degree;
Order of Suvorov 2nd degree;
two orders of the Red Star;
medals.
honorary citizen of the cities of Ivanovo (1971), Velikiye Luki (1975) and Velizh (1978), candidate of military sciences, associate professor.

Memory

Streets in Ivanovo, Furmanov (Ivanovo region) and Velizh (Smolensk region) were named in honor of Nikolai Khlebnikov, and the vessel MRKh.

Memorial plaques were installed in Ivanovo and Furmanovo.

Nikolai Khlebnikov is mentioned in the book "Chapaev" by Dmitry Furmanov under the name Khrebtov.

Ranks

Major General of Artillery (October 7, 1941);
artillery lieutenant general (November 17, 1942);
colonel general of artillery (June 28, 1944).

Compositions

Legendary Chapaevskaya. - 3rd ed. - M .: Military Publishing House, 1975 (co-author: Evlampiev P. S., Volodikhin Ya. A.).
Under the roar of hundreds of batteries. - 2nd ed. - M.: Military Publishing House, 1979.

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Hero of the Soviet Union KHLEBNIKOV Nikolai Mikhailovich.
At the time of submission to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union:
Artillery Commander of the Zemland Group of Forces, Colonel-General of Artillery.
Born on December 6, 1895 in the village of Mikhalevo, Kostroma province (now the Furmanovsky district of the Ivanovo region) in a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU since 1919. In 1905 he moved with his family to Ivanovo-Voznesensk. In the spring of 1911, he passed an external examination for the 4th grade and entered a real school. At the same time, he worked as a tutor in mathematics with the children of wealthy parents. In 1915 he graduated with honors from a real school and entered the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers.

In the spring of 1916 he was offered to enter military engineering school, but Khlebnikov asked to send him to the artillery. His request was granted and he became a full-fledged soldier of the reserve artillery division in Kharkov. Participated in the 1st World War. Fought on the Southwestern Front. After 2 months, he was sent to Petrograd for accelerated courses at the Konstantinovsky Artillery School. After the courses, he was in command of a platoon of the 3rd Caucasian Mortar Artillery Battalion with the rank of ensign. In June 1917, he was seriously wounded and ended up in the hospital. After the hospital, he was released on leave to his homeland, where the revolution found him.

In August 1918 he joined the Red Army. He was the head of communications for a battery of a communist detachment in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Participant civil war since December 1918. Fought on the Eastern Front against Kolchak. On the recommendation of D.A. Furmanov, he joined the Bolshevik Party. He commanded a battery of the 220th Ivanovo-Voznesensky Rifle Regiment, then the 74th Artillery Battalion. From May 1920 he fought against the Polish army of Pilsudski near Kyiv. In December, he was appointed chief of artillery of the 25th Infantry Division (in the book Chapaev, Furmanov portrayed him under the name Khrebtov). He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR.

After the war, he participated in the liquidation of gangs in Ukraine. From April 1921 he served as an inspector for instructions from the directorate of the chief of artillery of the Moscow Military District. In 1924 he retired from the reserve.

Since 1931, again in the army. He graduated from artillery command and tactical courses at the military academy in Leningrad in 1932. Commanded the 14th Artillery Regiment. Since 1934, he was simultaneously the chief of artillery of the 14th Infantry Division. In 1936-1937 he was head of artillery supply, head of the combat training department of the directorate of the head of artillery of the Moscow Military District. In 1938-1939 he commanded the 108th Kolomna cannon regiment of the reserve of the High Command. In 1939-1940 he was the head of artillery of a rifle division, head of the 1st department of the directorate of the head of artillery of the North Caucasian Military District. From December 1940 - Chief of Artillery of the 27th Army.

On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. He commanded the artillery of the 27th Army (from December 1941 the 4th Shock). In 1942 he became the chief of artillery of the Kalinin Front, from December 1944 - the 1st Baltic Front, from February 1945 - the Zemland Group of Forces. In 1943 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel-General of Artillery. He participated in the Rzhev-Sychevskaya, Velikoluki, Rzhev-Vyazemskaya, Dukhovshchino-Demidovskaya, Smolensk-Roslavl, Nevelsk, Gorodok, Vitebsk-Orsha, Polotsk, Siauliai, Riga, Memel, Insterburg-Königsberg, Königsberg, Zemland operations.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of April 19, 1945, Colonel-General of Artillery Nikolai Mikhailovich Khlebnikov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (Gold Star medal No. 6184) for the successful command of front artillery during the assault on Koenigsberg and personal courage.

After the war, he commanded the artillery of the Baltic Military District. In 1952 he graduated military academy of the General Staff and was left in it by the head of the department. Candidate of Military Sciences, Associate Professor. From 1956-1960 he was a senior military adviser in China. Since 1960 - retired. Lived in Moscow. There was a deputy Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Society "Knowledge", a member of the editorial board of the television almanac "Feat", a member of the Central Committee of DOSAAF, actively participated in the activities of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans.

Awarded 3 Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, 4 Orders of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of Suvorov 1st Class, Order of Kutuzov 1st Class, Order of Suvorov 2nd Class, 2 Orders of the Red Star, medals.

Streets in Ivanovo, Furmanov, Ivanovo Region and Velizh, Smolensk Region, and the ship MRH are named after him. Memorial plaques were installed in Ivanovo and Furmanovo. Honorary citizen of Ivanov (1971), Velikie Luki (1975) and Velizh (1978).

		Tombstone (view 1)
		Tombstone (view 2)
		Furmanov, memorial plaque
		village Mikhalevo, memorial sign
		Mikhalevo village, road sign
		Ivanovo, memorial plaque
		Nerekhta, on the Alley of Heroes

X Lebnikov Nikolai Mikhailovich - commander of the artillery of the Zemland group of troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front, colonel-general of artillery.
Born on December 6 (18), 1895 in the village of Mikhalevo, Nerekhtsky district, Kostroma province, now the Volga region of the Ivanovo region, in a peasant family. Russian. In 1905 he moved with his family to Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo). In the spring of 1911, he passed an external examination for the 4th grade and entered a real school. At the same time, he worked as a tutor in mathematics with the children of wealthy parents. In 1915 he graduated with honors from a real school and entered the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers.
In the spring of 1916, he was offered to enter the military engineering school, but Khlebnikov asked to be sent to the artillery. His request was granted and he became a volunteer soldier of the reserve artillery division in Kharkov. Participated in the 1st World War. Fought on the Southwestern Front. After 2 months, he was sent to Petrograd for accelerated courses at the Konstantinovsky Artillery School. After the courses, he was in command of a platoon of the 3rd Caucasian Mortar Artillery Battalion with the rank of ensign. In June 1917, he was seriously wounded and ended up in the hospital. After the hospital, he was released on leave to his homeland, where the revolution found him. Since December, he studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute, evacuated to Ivanovo-Voznesensk.
In August 1918 he joined the Red Army. He was the head of communications for a battery of a communist detachment in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Member of the Civil War since December 1918. Fought on the Eastern Front against Kolchak. On the recommendation of D.A. Furmanov, he joined the Bolshevik Party. Member of the RCP(b)/VKP(b)/CPSU since 1919. He commanded a battery of the 220th Ivanovo-Voznesensky Rifle Regiment, then the 74th Artillery Battalion. From May 1920 he fought against the Polish army of Pilsudski near Kyiv. In December, he was appointed chief of artillery of the 25th Infantry Division (in the book Chapaev, Furmanov portrayed him under the name Khrebtov). He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR.
After the war, he participated in the liquidation of gangs in Ukraine. From April 1921 he served as an inspector for instructions from the directorate of the chief of artillery of the Moscow Military District. In 1924 he retired from the reserve.
Since 1931, again in the army. He graduated from artillery command and tactical courses at the military academy in Leningrad in 1932. Commanded the 14th Artillery Regiment. Since 1934, he was simultaneously the chief of artillery of the 14th Infantry Division. In 1936-1937 he was head of artillery supplies, head of the combat training department of the directorate of the head of artillery of the Moscow Military District. In 1938 he was groundlessly repressed and imprisoned. Released in 1939.
In 1939 he commanded the 108th Kolomna cannon regiment of the reserve of the High Command. In 1939-1940 he was the head of artillery of the 160th rifle division, head of the 1st department of the directorate of the head of artillery of the North Caucasian Military District. From December 1940 - Chief of Artillery of the 27th Army.
On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. He commanded the artillery of the 27th Army (from December 1941 - the 4th Shock). Major General of Artillery (October 7, 1941).
In 1942 he became the chief of artillery of the Kalinin Front, from December 1944 - the 1st Baltic Front, from February 1945 - the Zemland Group of Forces. November 17, 1942 awarded military rank artillery lieutenant general. He participated in the Rzhev-Sychevskaya, Velikoluki, Rzhev-Vyazemskaya, Dukhovshchino-Demidovskaya, Smolensk-Roslavl, Nevelsk, Gorodok, Vitebsk-Orsha, Polotsk, Siauliai, Riga, Memel, Insterburg-Königsberg, Königsberg, Zemland operations.
At Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 19, 1945 for the successful command of the artillery of the front during the assault on Königsberg and personal courage to Colonel General of Artillery Khlebnikov Nikolai Mikhailovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 6184).
After the war, since 1945 - commander of the artillery of the Baltic Military District. Since 1948 - head of the department of the Higher Military Academy named after K.E. Voroshilov, while in 1952 he himself graduated from this academy. Candidate of Military Sciences, Associate Professor. From 1956 to 1960, he was a senior military adviser to the People's Liberation Army of China. Since 1960 - retired.
Lived in the hero city of Moscow. He was deputy chairman of the board of the All-Union Society "Knowledge", a member of the editorial board of the television almanac "Feat", a member of the Central Committee of DOSAAF, actively participated in the activities of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans. Died January 18, 1981. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
Colonel General of Artillery (06/28/1944). Awarded 3 Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution (12/18/1975), 4 Orders of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of Suvorov 1st Class, Orders of Kutuzov 1st Class, Suvorov 2nd Class, 2 Orders of the Red Star, medals.
Honorary citizen of the cities of Ivanovo (1971), Velikie Luki (1975) and Velizh (1978), Belebey (Bashkortostan).
Streets in Ivanovo, Furmanov, Ivanovo Region and Velizh, Smolensk Region, and the ship MRH are named after him. Memorial plaques were installed in Ivanovo and Furmanovo. Her name is immortalized on the Alley of Heroes in the city of Nerekhta. At home, in the village of Mikhalevo, Privolzhsky district, a memorial sign was erected.
Compositions:
1. The legendary Chapaevskaya. - 3rd ed. - M .: Military Publishing House, 1975 (co-author: Evlampiev P.S., Volodikhin Ya.A.);
2. Under the roar of hundreds of batteries. - 2nd ed. - M.: Military Publishing House, 1979.

27th Army (1941)

In November 2017, I was reading the answers to Pokrovsky and came across one order (Vol. 1, p. 298):

BABKIN
Kirill Alekseevich
(Lieutenant General of the Signal Corps, Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR N: 813 of 04/20/1945).
....

In the spring of 1941, I served in the city of SAMBUR as the Head of Communications of the 13th Rifle Corps. In the month of May was appointed to the city of RIGA, to the post of Head of Communications of the newly formed 27th Army (1), where he arrived May 26, 1941 .

In what position was our formed 27th Army by this time?

Individual commanders have just begun to arrive to staff the Army Headquarters. There was no Commander or Chief of Staff of the Army yet. Temporarily commanded during the formation of the army colonel /now Colonel General/ comrade KHLEBNIKOV . There was also no communications battalion established in peacetime. There was only the battalion commander, Major GRACHEV, and several officers /commanders and soldiers/ with him, who were preparing the premises for the future communications battalion.

Two or three days after my arrival at the headquarters, the Commander of the Army, General BERZARIN and the Chief of Staff of the Army, Colonel BOLOZNEV, arrived, and two or three days later, the headquarters, as an already created unit, went on a field trip of headquarters with communications equipment conducted by the Commander in then the Baltic Special Military District, Colonel General KUZNETSOV.
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1 Order of the NCO of the USSR No. 00157 dated 05/09/1941.
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I became interested in this order, I decided to find its text on the Web, but I did not find it. Then I tried to collect information about the formation of armies in the Red Army before the war. It turned out the following (It turns out that there is a summary table on the Internet about the armies of the USSR during the war):

1 - 07/01/1938 to Dal. front.
2 - xx.07.1938 to Dal. front.
3 - 09/15/1939 in Belor. OVO. (In July 1938, the Vitebsk AG was deployed on the basis of the 4th SC. 09/15/1939 was renamed the 3rd Army.)
4 - 15.09.1939 in Belor. OVO. (In July 1938, the Bobruisk AG of troops was created, at 09.39 it was renamed into the 4th Army).
5 - 28.09.1939 in KOVO. (https://ru.wiki...Zhytomyr_army_group,

from 26.07.38 Zhytomyr AG,
09/16/39 Zhytomyr AG renamed. to Shepetovskaya AG,
09/18/39 Shepetovskaya AG was renamed. to Northern AG,
09/28/39 Northern AG renamed. to the 5th Army.)

09/06/28/1939 in KOVO.

(26.07.38 Vinnitsa AG was created on the basis of 17 SC,
09/16/39 Vinnitsa AG was renamed. to Volochiska AG,
09/24/39 Volochisk AG was renamed. to Eastern AG,
08/28/39 Eastern AG reim. to the 6th Army).

8 - 14.09.1939 in Novgorod (Novgorod Armenian Operative Group, Leningrad Military District). Since June 1940 - in PribOVO.
9 - xx.11.1939 in the Leningrad Military District (until 04.1940), then - in June (?) 1940 for a trip to Bessarabia.

12 - 24.09.1939 in KOVO.
13 - xx.09.1939 in Odessa. 12.1939 - 04.1940 in Len.VO. 3rd time 05/05/1941 in Mogilev ZapOVO.
14 - xx.10.1939 in Len. IN. Murmansk Army Group of Forces
15 - xx.07.1940 at Dal.F.
16 - xx.07.1940 in Zabaik. IN. 05/25/1941 the order was redistributed. to Ukraine.
17 - 21.06.1940 in Zabayk.VO.
18 - xx.06.1941 at the base of Kharkov. VO and KOVO
19 - xx.05.1941 at the base of Sev-Kavk. IN
20 - xx.06.1941 on the basis of Orlov.VO and Mosk. IN.
21 - xx.06.1941 at the base of Privovol. IN.
23 - xx.05.1941 in Len.VO.
24 - 07/01/1941 on the main. dir. GK rates No. 0042 dated 06/27/1941 in the Siberian Military District.
25 - 06/20/1941 to Dal. F.
26 - xx.07.1940 in KOVO.
27 - 25.05.1941 in PribOVO.
28 - xx.06.1941 in Arkhang.VO. (07/01/1941).

29 - 12.07.1941 in Moscow. VO based on 30 SC.
30 - 07/13/1941 based on 52 SC
31 - 15.07.1941 in Moscow. IN.
32 - 16.07.1941 in Moscow. In the division of the people's militia.
July 33 - 16, 1941 in Moscow. In the division of the people's militia.
34 - 07/16/1941 in Moscow. IN.
35 - 22.07.1941 to Dal. F. based on 18 SC.
36 - 26.07.1941 in Zabaik. VO based on the 12th SC, dir. General Staff No. 76818 dated April 24, 1941.
37 - 10.08.1941 in the South-Western Front in the area of the Kiev UR.
38 - 04.08.1941 according to Dir. General Staff dated 07/22/1941 in the South-Western Front on the basis of the headquarters of the 8th MK.
39 - 11/15/1941 in Arkhang. VO according to dir. The rates of the Supreme Command from 02.11.1941.
40 - 26.08.1941 in the South-Western Front on the basis of the 27th SC.
41 - 05/16/1942 in Kalinin. front base of operations. Tarasov and Berzarin groups.
42 - 08/03/1941 in Len. fr. by dir. GK rates from 07/15/1941 on the basis of 50 SK (guards div. people's militia)
43 - 07/31/1941 in the Reserve. fr. based on the management of 33 SC.
44 - xx.07.1941 in Zakavka. VO based on 40 SC. (08/01/1941)
45 - xx.07.1941 in Zakavka. VO based on 23 SC.
46 - 08/01/1941 in Zakavka. VO by order of the teams. Zakavk.VO dated 07/23/1941.
47 - 08/01/1941 in Zakavka. VO by order of the teams. Zakavk.VO dated 07/26/1941 on the basis of 28 MK.
48 - 08/07/1941 in the North-West Front according to dir. GK rates from 08/04/1941 based on 16 UK
49 - 08/07/1941 in the Reserve. F. by dir. The rates of the Supreme Command from 08/06/1941 on the basis of 35 SC
and until 08/12/41 was called the 35th Army. 10/01/41 Rev. to the 49th army.
50 - 16.08.1941 in Bryansk. F. based on 2 SC.
51 - 08/20/1941 in the Crimea on the basis of the 9th SC.
52 - 08.25.1941 at the North-West Front according to dir. GK rates from 08/23/1941 on the basis of 25 UK
53 - 05/01/1942 at the North-West Front according to dir. The rates of the Supreme High Command of 04/26/1942 on the basis of the southern gr. troops of the 34th army.
54 - 08/05/1941 in Moscow. VO according to dir. The rates of the Supreme High Command of 09/02/1941 on the basis of 44 SC.
55 - xx.08.1941 on the Leningrad Front on the basis of 19th SC. (09/01/1941)
56 - 10/17/1941 in the North Caucasus. IN. Until 11/29/1941 it was called the 56th separate army.
57 - 27.10.1941 in the North Caucasus. VO according to dir. The rates of the Supreme Command of October 22, 1941.
58 - 11/10/1941 in Sib. IN
59 - 11/15/1941 in Sib. VO (Dir. Headquarters of the Supreme High Command dated 11/02/1941).
60 - 11/15/1941 in the Volga. VO (Dir. Stavki VGK No. 004279 dated 11/02/1941).
61 - 11/15/1941 in the Volga. VO (Dir. Stavki VGK No. 004278 dated 11/02/1941).
62 - 07/10/1942 (renamed the 7th reserve army).
63 - 07/10/1942 (renamed the 5th reserve army).
64 - 07/10/1942 (renamed 1st Reserve Army) according to dir. The rates of the Supreme Command from 07/09/1942.
65 - 10/22/1942 on the Don Front on the basis of the 4th tank army (2nd formation?)
66 - 08/27/1942 (renamed the 8th reserve army).
67 - 09.10.1942 at Leningrad. front (dir. Headquarters of the Supreme High Command No. 994233).
68 - 02/01/1943 in the NWF on the basis of the field administration of the 57th Army.
69 - xx.02.1943 to Voronezh. front on the basis of 18 SC.
70 - 02/05/1943 in the Sverdlovsk region of change. Army of the NKVD troops (AVNKVD) (director of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command No. 46052, dated 02/05/1943).
AVNKVD was formed in 10.1942 - 02.1943.

In addition, during the war, "reserve armies" were initially formed with their own numbering, armies were created with repeated numbers (previously dead or renamed to some other names ("shock", "guards"), and also renamed the existing ones (in " shock", "guards"). But this is after 06/22/1941.

What catches your eye?

That such associations as "armies" in peacetime were, as it were, not needed. They began to be created as the conditions for conducting combat work on a considerable scale arose. I tried to evaluate what could be written in the order NPO of the USSR N: 00157 of 05/09/1941? "Form" only one 27th Army or some other ("list")?

Judging by the resulting list, in May-June 1941 an army group was formed (from the 18th to the 28th, except perhaps with the passage of the 24th and 26th (formed in 1940).

With one command? Or several?
At the same time, I did not immediately pay attention to the name "Khlebnikov".
From the answer of Babkin K.A.: " Temporarily commanded during the formation of the army by Colonel / now Colonel General / Comrade KHLEBNIKOV.

And later (really the next day, as I became interested in this topic) at lunch at work on one of the office tables, I saw a book:

How exactly this book ended up on that table that day is a strange story. But I took a look, is there anything about June 1941?
It turned out that there is.
Moreover, its text is on " Militer".

Khlebnikov Nikolai Mikhailovich
Under the roar of hundreds of batteries

Publisher's abstract: Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel-General of Artillery Nikolai Mikhailovich Khlebnikov devoted about fifty years of his life to his native army. He became an artilleryman during the First World War. After October, he fought for the young Soviet Republic, commanded the artillerymen of the legendary 25th Chapaev division. And in June of the forty-first year, he again took part in the battles, but now in the position of army artillery commander.

But on the "Militer" edition of 1974, and with such a cover - 1979. As I verified (what I managed to verify - about 1940 and until June 1941) there are practically no changes (except for a few additions to the performance characteristics of some guns).

Here is how Khlebnikov describes how he ended up in the 27th Army:

In December 1940 , I was called to Moscow to the Main Artillery Directorate and was assigned to the post of artillery commander of the 27th Army , which was formed on the territory of the Soviet Baltic republics.

In Moscow, I was received by the deputy head of the department, Nikolai Nikolaevich Voronov. He said that the 27th Army included the rifle corps of the armed forces of the former bourgeois Estonia and Latvia. These corps must be reorganized according to our states. The artillery in them is old - English, French guns and howitzers from the time of the World War.

In January 1941 I was on my way to my new destination - the Baltic Military District.

Arriving in Riga, at the headquarters of the Baltic Military District, I introduced myself to its commander, Colonel-General F.I. Kuznetsov, my recent chief of service in the North Caucasus. It turned out that it was he who petitioned for my transfer to the Baltic states.

Fyodor Isidorovich briefed me on the situation. The district included three combined arms armies - the 8th, 11th and 27th. The main forces of the first two armies were deployed along the state border - from the Baltic coast to the junction with the troops of the Western Special Military District.

The 27th Army was just beginning to form on the territory of Latvia, Estonia and Northern Lithuania. The 22nd Estonian and 24th Latvian rifle corps that became part of it were transferred to new states, and so far there was only one division in the 65th rifle corps. In addition, the 3rd separate rifle brigade was stationed on the islands of Saarema, Hiiumaa and Vormsi.

At the end of April, Major General N. E. Berzarin, who had just arrived from the Far East, was appointed commander of the 27th Army, and divisional commissar P. K. Batrakov was appointed a member of the Military Council, and I also began to fulfill my immediate duties as chief of artillery of the army.
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So, it turns out that the question of the formation of the 27th Army was discussed (and to some extent began to be implemented) in December 1940. And he continued to "sluggishly work out" in January 1941, in April 1941, until finally, on 05/09/1941, an order was issued NPO USSR N: 00157 about its formal formation.

Okay, but there must be some reason why in December 1940 they decided to form the 27th Army? Here, an assumption may arise that such a reason could be the idea to bring the troops of the former Baltic countries on the territory of PribOVO under one command. However, where did the number "27" come from? Those. at the moment of discussing such an idea, there should have been some plans for the formation of other "armies"?

If you open the first volume of "Robin", then there on pages 607-608) a document is published (N: 272.): Note of the NPO of the USSR and the General Staff of the Red Army in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks - to I.V. Stalin and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR - to V.M. Molotov outlining the scheme of the mobilization deployment of the Red Army "

The mobilization plan of the Red Army was approved by the Defense Committee on November 29, 1937 for 1938-1939. According to this plan, a partial mobilization of seven districts was carried out in September 1939. According to the deployment scheme of the same plan, the troops of the active army were deployed during the war with the Finnish White Guard.

At present, in connection with the reorganization of rifle, tank troops, air defense and air forces, as well as with the movement of a significant number of troops, it is necessary to consider and approve a new mobilization deployment scheme 2.

The basis of the new scheme for the deployment of the Red Army are:

a) a new organization of infantry, tank troops, artillery, air defense and air forces;
b) changed deployment of troops;
c) the possibility of mobilizing troops in turns and each district separately, depending on the situation. \608\

For these purposes, the following mobilization plan for the deployment of the Red Army is submitted for approval:

I. Rifle and mechanized troops

Upon mobilization as part of the Red Army, including the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian territorial corps, 300 divisions will be deployed, of which:
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II. Field administrations

Upon mobilization, the Red Army will deploy:
Field departments of the front - 9
Field departments of individual armies - 1
Field directorates of non-separate armies - 26
Directorates of military districts - 14

III. Fortified area troops
Upon mobilization, the troops of the fortified regions will have:
Directorates of Fortified Areas - 44
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So, according to the February 1941 mobilization plan, it was planned to deploy 27 armies.
We look at the theater of operations, which armies arose (formed) by 06/22/1941

Northern Front (Murmansk, Leningrad):

7 - 09/14/1939 in the Leningrad Military District, then along project No. 0050 dated 09/18/40 (Petrozavodsk).
14 - xx.10.1939 in Len. IN. Murmansk Army Group of Forces

02/15 - 02/11/1940 on the basis of the Southern Group of Forces of the 8th Army, 03/28/40, the army control was transformed. to the management of the Arkhangelsk Military District

23 - xx.05.1941 in Len.VO.

Baltic OVO

8 - 14.09.1939 in Novgorod (Novgorod Armenian Operative Group, Leningrad Military District). Since June 1940 - in PribOVO.
11 - 07.09.1939 in Belor. OVO (on the basis of the Minsk Group of Forces, in 1940 - in PribOVO).
27 - 25.05.1941 in PribOVO.

Western OVO

3 - 09/15/1939 in Belor. OVO. (xx.07.1938 Vitebsk AG. on the basis of the 4th SC, 09/15/1939 was transferred to the 3rd army.)
4 - 15.09.1939 in Belor. OVO
10 - xx.xx. 1939 in Belor. OVO.
13 - xx.09.1939 in Odessa. 12.1939 - 04.1940 in Len.VO. 3rd time 05/05/1941 in Mogilev
22 - xx.06.1941 on the basis of Ural.VO, 06.13.1941 directive to move. in Zapovo.

Kyiv OVO

5 - 28.09.1939 in KOVO. (09/01/1939

Biography:

Nikolai Mikhailovich Khlebnikov was born on December 6 (18), 1895 in the village of Mikhalevo, Kostroma province (now the Furmanovsky district, Ivanovo region) into a peasant family.

In 1905, Nikolai Khlebnikov and his family moved to Ivanovo-Voznesensk, and in the spring of 1911, having passed the 4th grade exam as an external student, he entered a real school.

He worked as a tutor in mathematics with the children of wealthy parents. After graduating with honors in 1915 from a real school, Khlebnikov entered the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers.

In August 1918 he joined the ranks of the Red Army. He worked in Ivanovo-Voznesensk as the head of communications for a battery of a communist detachment.

From December 1918 he fought on the Eastern Front. On the recommendation of Dmitry Furmanov, he joined the RCP (b). In the ranks of the Red Army, Khlebnikov commanded a battery of the 220th Ivanovo-Voznesensky rifle regiment, then the 74th artillery battalion of the 25th rifle division named after V.I. Chapaev.

With the end of the war, he took part in the liquidation of gangs in Ukraine.

From 1936 to 1937, Khlebnikov served as chief of artillery supplies, head of the combat training department of the directorate of the chief of artillery of the Moscow Military District.

From June 1941 he was on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He commanded the artillery of the 27th Army, transformed on December 25, 1941 into the 4th shock.

In 1942, Nikolai Khlebnikov was appointed chief of artillery of the Kalinin Front, in December 1944 - of the 1st Baltic Front, in February 1945 - of the Zemland Group of Forces.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, 1945, Colonel-General of Artillery Nikolai Mikhailovich Khlebnikov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 6184) for the successful command of front artillery during the assault on Koenigsberg and personal courage.

From 1956 to 1960, he served as senior military adviser to the People's Liberation Army of China.