Akhromeev General Biography

The bust in the village was born on May 5 in the village of Vindrey of the Torbeevsky district now the Republic of Mordovia. In the Red Army since the year.

He graduated from one course of the Higher Naval School named after M. Frunze, in the year - the Astrakhan Infantry School, in the year - the Higher Officer School of self -propelled artillery of armored and mechanized troops of the Red Army, in the year - the Military Academy of armored and mechanized troops named after I. Stalin, in the year - the Military Academy of the General Staff.

In the Great Patriotic War in July - December of the year, S. Akhromeev, as part of the united cadet rifle battalion, participated in the battles for Leningrad. At the end of the school in the current army: from October to February, he was commanded by a rifle platoon, then adjutant of the senior rifle battalion, assistant chief of staff of the rifle regiment, adjutant of the senior motorized rifle battalion of the tank brigade, since July commanded the battalion of machine gunners of the self-propelled artillery brigade.

He took part in battles with the Nazi invaders on the Leningrad, Stalingrad, South and 4th Ukrainian fronts. At the end of the war, since June, S. Akhromeev, deputy commander, then commander of a tank battalion. From July to August, the chief of staff of a tank plug and mechanized regiments, from September - the commander of the tank regiment. Since December, - deputy commander of the motorized rifle division, then - chief of staff of the tank division.

Since December, the commander of the Tank Division in the Belarusian Military District, from April - commander of the educational tank division. At the end of the Military Academy of the General Staff, since July: chief of staff-1st deputy commander of the 8th Panzer Army, and since October-commander of the 7th Panzer Army. Since May, the chief of staff is the first deputy commander of the troops of the Far Eastern Military District.

For skillful coordination of the actions of troops in Afghanistan and a great contribution to the preparation and increase of combat readiness of troops in the post -war period by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of May 7, Army General Akhromeev, Sergey Fedorovich, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

Akhromeev was awarded the title “Marshal of the Soviet Union”, he became the only one for the whole story that became the Marshal of the Soviet Union, being the first deputy, and not the chief of the General Staff. People's Deputy of the USSR since the year. Age and my past life give me the right to leave from life. I struggled to the end. "I was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery plot 2.

Colonel 8.