Filipp Zhmachenko

Filipp Feodosyevich Zhmachenko
Native name	Филипп Феодосьевич Жмаченко
Born	26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1895 Mogilno, Ovruchsky Uyezd, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	19 June 1966(1966-06-19) (aged 70) Kiev, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Russian Empire  RSFSR  Soviet Union
Service/branch	Red Army
Years of service	Russian Empire (1915-1917)  Soviet Union (1917-1960)
Rank	Colonel general
Commands held	67th Rifle Corps 3rd Army 47th Army 40th Army
Battles/wars	First World War Russian Civil War Second World War
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin (twice) Order of the Red Banner (four times) Order of Suvorov First Class Order of Kutuzov First Class Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky First Class (twice) Order of the Red Star Order of the Badge of Honour

Filipp Feodosyevich Zhmachenko (Russian: Филипп Феодосьевич Жмаченко; 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1895 – 19 June 1966) was a Soviet Army colonel general and Hero of the Soviet Union.

Biography[]

Zhmachenko was born on 26 November 1895 to a Ukrainian peasant family in the village of Mogilno, Ovruchsky Uyezd in the Volhynian Governorate. After graduating from the village school in 1906, he became a railway repair worker.^[1]

He participated in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. In 1937-1938, he was commander of the , until he was arrested in June 1938. He remained in custody until July 1939. He was restored in the Red Army and in November 1939, he was appointed chief of staff of the Kharkov Military District. Since March 1941, he was the commander of the 67th Rifle Corps.

After the start of Operation Barbarossa, the 67th Rifle Corps became in July 1941 part of the 21st Army of the Western Front and under the command of Zhmachenko, participated in the Battle of Babruysk during the Battle of Smolensk. In mid-July 1941, he was replaced as commander by Kuzma Galitsky. He then received command of the 42nd Rifle Division, but was wounded and out of action until September 1941.

From September 1941 he was Deputy Commander of the 38th Army of the Southwestern Front. In February-May 1942, he became commander of the 3rd Army of the Bryansk Front. In September 1943 he was appointed commander of the 47th Army of the Voronezh Front.

From October 1943 until the end of the war, he commanded the 40th Army. With his army, he fought in the Battle of Kiev (1943), Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, Bucharest-Arad Offensive, Battle of Debrecen, Siege of Budapest, Banská Bystrica and Bratislava–Brno Offensive, Prague Offensive, and the capture of Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

In October 1943, Zhmachenko was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for crossing the Dnieper River and holding the bridgehead south of Kiev.

He was promoted to the rank of colonel general on 29 May 1945.^[2] After the war, he was appointed deputy commander of the Central Group of Forces in Austria. Since 1949, he was the deputy commander of the Belarusian Military District and in November 1953 of the Carpathian Military District. In 1955-1960, he was Chairman of the Central Committee of the DOSAAF of the Ukrainian SSR.

He retired in 1960 and died in Kiev on 19 June 1966. A street in the city was named after him.

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Bibliography[]

• Beloborodov, Afanasy, ed. (1963). Военные кадры Советского государства в Великой Отечественной войне 1941 – 1945 гг [Military Leaders of the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Voenizdat. OCLC 500069534.
• Bulkin, Anatoly (2018). Генералитет Красной Армии (1918-1941). Военный биографический словарь в 3-х томах [Red Army Generals, 1918–1941: Three-volume Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). 1. Penza.
• Vozhakin, Mikhail Georgievich, ed. (2005). Великая Отечественная. Командармы. Военный биографический словарь [The Great Patriotic War: Army Commanders: Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 5860901135.

Sources[]

• Generals.dk
• the article in the Russian Wikipedia, Жмаченко, Филипп Феодосьевич.