Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev (АлександрИльичРодимцев, born 8 March 1905, died 13 April 1977) soviet military leader, admiral (9 May 1961), twice awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (1937 and 1945, respectively). Commander of the 13th Guards Infantry Division. He performed well in the Battle of Stalingrad (19 January 1942 to 21 May 1943).
Life
On 8 March 1905, Rodimtsev was born into a poor peasant family in the village of Schallek (present-day Schallek district, Ohrenburg Oblast). He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1929. He joined the Red Army in 1927. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1932. He fought in the Spanish Civil War.
In recognition of the special mission carried out by Major Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev during the Spanish Civil War, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on October 22, 1937.
He participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland.
In 1939, he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy.
In 1940, he participated in the Soviet-Finnish War.
When the Great Patriotic War broke out, Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev served as brigade commander of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Airborne Corps (under the 5th, 6th and 212th Airborne Brigades), and in 1941 he led his troops to participate in the Defense of Kiev. On November 6, 1941, the 5th Airborne Brigade was expanded into the 87th Infantry Division, and Rodimtsev was promoted to commander of the division. On 19 January 1942, the 87th Infantry Division was renamed the 13th Guards Infantry Division for its merits (later the division was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner twice, renamed the 13th Red Banner Guards Infantry Division of the Order of Lenin of Poltava), and the division was transferred to the 62nd Army and heroically defended Stalingrad.
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From 1943, Rodimtsev served as commander of the 32nd Guards Infantry Corps until its arrival in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia. On 17 January 1944 he was promoted to lieutenant general.
In recognition of the courage and heroism of Rodimtsev in the successful crossing of the Oder River in parts of Linden (Poland) on 25 January 1945, Rodimtsev was awarded the Order of the Gold Star for the second time on 2 June 1945.
After the war, Rodimtsev graduated from the advanced crash course of the Military Academy of the General Staff. He served as a force commander, deputy commander of the military district, general military adviser of Albania, and military attaché of the Soviet Embassy in Albania. From 1956 he served as first deputy commander of the Northern Military District in the army. He was elected deputy of the Karelian Soviet Socialist Republic.
From 1966, he worked in the General Supervision Group of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.
He is also an honorary citizen of the cities of Volgograd and Poltava. Elected deputy to the Second Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and to the third Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev died in Moscow on April 13, 1977. He was buried in the New Virgin Cemetery.
His daughter – Irina Alexanderrovna Rotimceva (born 2 January 1934 in Moscow) - Director of the State Museum of the Kremlin in Moscow (1987-2001), academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (1997), recipient of the Meritorious Artist Medal of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1989. Chairman of the National Committee of UNESCO Russian Federation Museums. She graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1956. He then worked at the Moscow Kremlin Museum as head of the Ordnance Museum. From 1979 to 1987, he was Director of the Museum Administration of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. Won a number of national awards.
Medal of Merit of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Awards and honors
2 Gold Star Medals (awarded October 22, 1937, number 57, and June 2, 1945, number 6049);
3 Orders of Lenin (awarded on 22 October, 1952 and 10 March 1965, respectively);
1 October Revolution Medal (awarded on 7 March 1975);
4 Red Flag Medals (awarded on June 21, 1937, 1937, December 27, 1941 and 1947 respectively);
1 Medal of the Order of Bogdan Khmelnytsky (awarded on 23 September 1944);
2 Suvorov Medals of the 2nd Class (awarded on 27 August 1943 and 22 February 1944 respectively);
Kutuzov Medal of the Order of 2nd Class, 31 March 1943;
2 Medals of the Red Star (31 March 1944 and 3 November 1944);
Medals:
Medal for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin;
Defence of the Stalingrad Medal;
Defending the Kiev Medal;
Medal of victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945;
Medal for the 20th anniversary of the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 1945;
Medal for the 30th anniversary of the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945;
Medal of liberation of Prague;
Medal of Veterans of the Armed Forces of the USSR;
Medal for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army;
Medal for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Army and Navy;
Medal for the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Armed Forces of the USSR;
Medal for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Armed Forces of the USSR;
Multiple foreign-awarded medals and medals:
Order of the White Lion;
1939 Czechoslovakia Military Cross;
Grünwald Cross, 3rd Class;
Odénis Baltic Medal
During the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, Major General Rodimtsev and the armed soldiers of the 13th Guards Infantry Division were photographed
In December 1942, in the command post of the 62nd Army Group: from left to right, the Chief of Staff of the Army Group, Nikolai Ivanovich Krylov, the Commander of the Army Group, Vasily Ivanovich Trikov, the military commissar of the Army Group Kuzma Akymović Gurov, and the commander of the 13th Guards Infantry Division, Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev.
The burial place of Admiral Rodimtsev in the Novodev Cemetery in Moscow