Pavel Subbotin Biography

The tombstone of Subbotin Pavel Zakharovich-commander of the battalion of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division of the Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, Major. Graduated 6 classes. He worked as a team leader on a collective farm, head of the department of the Izhevsk city committee of the Komsomol. In the Red Army in years and from a year. In November, he graduated from the accelerated course of the infantry school.

At the front in the Great Patriotic War since November. He was a commander of a rifle company, an officer of the operational department of the division headquarters, commander of the assault rifle battalion. He fought on the Western, 2nd and 1st Belarusian fronts. Member of the CPSU from the year. He participated: - in a counterattack near Moscow, including in the liberation of the cities of Mikhailov, Stalinogorsk Novomoskovsk, Belev, Sukhinichi, Kirov - in years; - in the defense of the line west of the city of Kirov, Kaluga Region - B; - in the Smolensk offensive operation, including in the liberation of the city of Roslavl, in the forcing of the River of SOZh with access to the territory of Belarus - B; - in the Belarusian offensive operation, including in the liberation of the city of Volkovysk - B; -In the Visl-Oder operation, including in the breakthrough of the enemy’s defense at the Pulavsky bridgehead, in the liberation of the city of Tomashuv-Mazovetsi, in the forcing of the Oder in the area of ​​the city of Fyurstenberg and the conquest of the bridgehead on the shore, in the Berlin operation, in the forcing of the Odder-Shprai channel-in the battles 2 times was seriously wounded.

The commander of the rifle battalion Major Subbotin distinguished himself on January 14 of the year during the breakthrough of the enemy’s defense at the town of Babin southwest of the city of Pulava, Poland and the offensive. In 3 days, the battalion advanced 65 kilometers, inflicted a significant damage in manpower and military equipment. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 27, for the exemplary implementation of the command tasks of the command at the front of the fight against German invaders and the heroism shown at the same time, Major Subbotin Pavel Zakharovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

After the war, he was a city -willed in the city of Ivdel of the Sverdlovsk region. Since the year, Major P. Subbotin is in stock. He died on November 13th. He was buried in a cemetery in the village of Parkachevo, Sarapulsky district. Awarded the Orders of Lenin in the city of Izhevsk installed a bust of the hero. In November, Lieutenant Subbotin, after graduating from the Infantry School, was sent to the Rifle Division, which was part of the Army of the Western Front, and was appointed commander of a rifle platoon.

But already in early December, he took a company under his command. The division defended the plot east of the city of Mikhailov, the Ryazan region. Having passed more than kilometers along the snow -covered fields near Moscow, on January 23, she participated in the assault on the city of Sukhinichi, and in April of the year - the cities of the Kirov Kaluga Region.

Throughout this length, Lieutenant Subbotin skillfully led the actions of his subordinates, chose the most optimal battle options, and the loss of company in the offensive was minimal. For more than a year, the company of Senior Lieutenant Subbotin kept the defense west of the city of Kirov. While the main events took place near Stalingrad and on the Kursk arc, the Subbotin fighters were engaged in the “positional war” of local significance - they improved defense, engaged in intelligence, carried out separate “psychologically” battles, developed sniper skills.

Everything changed in August, when an order was received at the beginning of the offensive. The company of Senior Lieutenant Subbotin, along with other units of the Army, went to a breakthrough of a deeply -stolen Nazi defense, which the Nazis improved the postage of a year and a half. But the Soviet fighters managed to "sprinkle" it. Having crossed the Sopot River, the Subbotin company managed to overcome several defensive lines of fascist defense and on September 25 to break into the city of Roslavl, on the same day freeing it.

Developing the offensive, the Subbotin company as part of the division crossed the border with Belarus and entered the COMP River north of the city of Krichev. Here, Senior Lieutenant Subbotin was seriously wounded and for a long time got into the hospital. For the skillful leadership of the company upon attack on Roslavl, Senior Lieutenant Subbotin was awarded the first combat award - the Order of the Red Star.

Treatment in the hospital was delayed until May. After the cure, Captain Subbotin was sent to the South Rifle Division of the Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, where he became an officer of the operational department of the division headquarters. He participated in the planning of the division’s hostilities in the development of such a grandiose offensive operation as the Bagration operation.

Given the previous combat experience, it was not difficult for him, based on the real situation on the forefront, to plan the fighting of regiments and battalions, when on June 24 the division went on the offensive north of the city of Mogilev. The liberation of the Belarusian land began. But the combat commander did not really like staff work, and he saw himself at the front line.

This was noted by the commander of the Infantry Division, Major General P. Bogdanovich and unexpectedly in July, he appointed Captain Subbotin as the commander of the 1st Rifle Battalion of the GO regiment.In this position, Subbotin led the battalion during the liberation of the city of Volkovysk, for which he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. In August, several strategic bridgeheads were won at Vistula in Poland.

One of them was a bridgehead in the area of ​​the city of Pulava. In the fall of the year, the whole army was concentrated on the Pulavsky bridgehead. Her divisions were supposed to break through the enemy’s defense at the initial stage of the planned offensive in Poland. In each division, the assault battalion was chosen, which was to be the first to bite into the enemy’s defense. Such a battalion in the Rifle Division was the 1st battalion of Major Subbotin with a company of sappers, a company of fines-officers I am Oashr, a division of tanks and self-propelled guns, an artillery division.

After 15 minutes, artillery preparation Kombat Subbotin raised the battalion to the attack. He skillfully distributed the officers of the headquarters of the battalion in assault companies, and they directly led the specific fighting of subordinates. With each company, 3 self -propelled guns and 1 tank moved. The Germans did not expect a swift attack. In the 2nd trench, hand-to-hand combat unfolded, grenades, bayonets and butt went into the course of.

The companies went rapidly forward, overcoming the enemy’s resistance, suppressing his firing points.

In the 7th trench, the Germans went in a counterattack, the “Subbotians” repulsed her and broke into the trench, into dugouts. By the middle of the day, 9 trenches were occupied. By this time, the battin on the tank also arrived at the 9th trench. Seeing the commander P. Bogdanovich, who personally participated in the breakthrough! Subbotin collected the remaining personnel of the battalion and reported to the general that the task of the breakthrough was completed.

However, the general pointed to the yu trench, the remaining unoccupied, and gave the corresponding order. All soldiers and officers of the battalion were represented by the command of the regiment to awarded orders and medals, and 15 people, including Kombat P. Subbotin, to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. From the post -war memoirs of the political officer of the battalion V.

Rivansky: “Subbotin was a wonderful officer, reasonable and demanding, with a spark comrade. He knew how to firmly weigh the situation, very much appreciated the soldiers and officers, respected the political station, and he was respected from the soldier to the division commander. He had good military training while working at the division headquarters, he gained extensive experience in the offensive.

Subbotin devoted a lot of time to the study of ordinary and officers, demanded from soldiers and officers of the platoon of supplying good catering, he loved the order and frequency in the battalion during the pauses between battles. He was not a formalist, a careerist in the execution of orders of higher bosses, tried to comply with orders with minimal losses, that is, he possessed the real art of the commander.

Our battalion commander loved to drink in his free time, to visit the medical battalion for girls, to pamper. The employees of the political station, the secretaries of the party and Komsomol organizations gave independence and at the same time helped us in every way, never spared for the party and political work of labor and material costs, loved when the fighters on the campaign sang, especially the song about our battalion.

She was composed by fighters, everyone liked her, and they often sang her. Subbotin joined the party in the year, during the battles in Poland. ” The Visl-Oder operation developed rapidly. With battles, eliminating the scattered groups of the Germans, the battalion of Major Subbotin passed all of Poland. There were only 70 km to Berlin. The battles on the bridgehead were fierce in nature.

The enemy counterattacks followed one after another. But the soldiers of Subbotin seemed to have grown into the ground and, despite the lack of ammunition, used a trophy German weapon, stupidly held a piece of land. Then the Nazis were exhausted, but did not stop firing at the bridgehead of machine guns, mortars and sniper rifles. On one of the March days of the year, Major Subbotin undertook an unexpected counterattack.

The Germans did not expect an offensive. They were taken by surprise. They were destroyed point -blank with grenades and machine guns. Near the SS men they stayed on the battlefield. The bridgehead was expanded by another 1 kilometer. On the night of April 14-5, the 1st battalion Subbotin received the task of conducting reconnaissance in battle before the decisive Berlin operation.

The goal of the battle was to test the strength of the Germans’s defense, to force him to pull as much effort to the front edge as possible to destroy them during artillery training on April 16. In this battle, a gateway was captured and a crossing was blocked through the Sprey channel. The battalion by storm captured the 1st and 2nd trench, successfully forced the Oder-Shpra channel and reached the forest.

Combat Subbotin and a number of commanders of the units reached the edge of the forest to choose the direction of further advancement. And then the sniper left somewhere took the battalion commander, Subbotin was seriously wounded in the leg and sent to the hospital. For differences in the Berlin operation, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. The Subbotin did not have a chance to fight the major more.After the cure, he served as a military commissar in the city of Ivdel of the Sverdlovsk Region, and in the year he went to his homeland, in Udmurtia, where he began to work in a leading position on the collective farm.

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