Karbyshev Biography Wikipedia

These days marks the 76th anniversary of the martyrdom in the Nazi concentration camp of the Hero of the Soviet Union, an outstanding military engineer, Lieutenant General Karbyshev Dmitry Mikhailovich. Monument to General Karbyshev on the territory of the former concentration camp of Mauthausen. Photo: Wikipedia. However, the more we advance in the depths of times, the more we forget about the exploits that our valiant ancestors committed.

By the will of fate, Lieutenant General Dmitry Karbyshev in the year became a prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp. The Nazis did not particularly ceremony with their victims. The outcome of the war was already obvious to many, there were no illusions. Hitler chain dogs sought to deal with those who were in their power. There was a fierce frost-exhausted, hungry people died one after another: someone could not stand the heart, someone just froze.

For an attempt to dodge, they awarded a blow to the head. Among the most persistent was General Karbyshev: even turning into an ice pillar, he found the strength to support his comrades. This story is known thanks to the general of the general, the Canadian officer Seeddon de Saint-Claire. In the year, he, while in the London hospital, suddenly demanded a meeting with the representative of the Soviet mission on repatriation issues.

Here is what the Canadian officer told the Bible: “On February 18, the Germans drove us into the shower of Mauthausen camps, ordered to undress and let the jets of ice water on top of us. This went on for a long time. Everyone turned blue. Many fell to the floor and immediately died: the heart could not stand it. Then we were ordered to put on only underwear and wooden pads on our feet and kicked out into the yard.

General Karbyshev stood in a group of Russian comrades near me. We understood that we were living the last hours. After a couple of minutes, the Gestapo, standing behind our backs with fire brigades in their hands, began to water us with streams of cold water. Who tried to evade the stream, they beat with batons on the head. Hundreds of people fell frozen or with crushed skulls. I saw General Karbyshev also fell.

On that tragic night, seventy people remained alive. Why we were not killed, I can’t imagine. They must have been tired and postponed until the morning. It turned out that allied troops came close to the camp. The Germans fled in a panic ... I consider it to impartially attribute everything that I know about General Karbyshev to impartially attribute to my sacred duty.

I will fulfill my little duty to the memory of a large person. ” This was the first news of Dmitry Mikhailovich: since the year he was listed among the missing. In total, Dmitry Mikhailovich passed 13 concentration camps and prisons. The last words of the general were addressed to everyone who defended and loved his homeland: “Bodrey, comrades! Think about your homeland, and courage will not leave you!

Almost exactly five years after he was captured, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The lines from the biography of the legendary hero is the biography of Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev is atypical for the Soviet military: he was a Cossack nobleman, a hereditary military man. This is a vivid example of a person who was in his place and made a brilliant career thanks to his own talent, determination, exclusive power of the spirit.

Lieutenant General of Engineering Troops 4. Member of the CPSU B Hero of the Soviet Union, posthumously. Childhood and youth by a twelve -year -old boy General Karbyshev, whose feat was still ahead, was left without a father. Six children were alone raised her mother. Financial difficulties were ordinary, but the sons took with the mind. The eldest, Vladimir, entered Kazan University, but was excluded: he sympathized with the revolutionaries.

His fate was tragic: he died in prison very young. Dmitry entered the Siberian Cadet Corps, and had to pay for his studies, since family history with his eldest son did not have to privileges. Nevertheless, Karbyshev did not extinguish. He studied brilliantly, discovered great abilities for engineering. All his further career is associated with military construction. No one was surprised when Dmitry Karbyshev entered the Nikolaev Engineering School, which was located in St.

Petersburg, in the Mikhailovsky castle, which received the second name - engineering in honor of the school. The beginning of military service after graduation was in Manchuria G. Then he was found by the first of the military campaigns in which the future General Dmitry Karbyshev took part. Karbyshev met the Russo-Japanese war in the rank of second lieutenant in the year. During the hostilities, he was doing what he was supposed to be in his specialty: he made crossings, built fortifications, and provided contact.

He was awarded for the manifest valor and received a promotion: he finished the war with the rank of lieutenant. He proved himself as a competent and quick officer, was wounded, awarded as many as five orders, including St. Stanislav II degree. The character of the future General Karbyshev was uncompromising, even then he did not consider it necessary to hide his worldview. In the year he was resigned: he interpreted an officer with soldiers on anti -government topics.I did not have a chance to be on free bread: the authorities quickly realized that there were a lot of trustworthy around, and there was nothing more than military specialists of the Karbyshev level.

A year later, Dmitry Mikhailovich returned to the service, and went to M to St. Petersburg, conquer new heights: he entered the engineering academy, which he gradually graduated from three years later. In the year, Karbyshev already in the rank of staff captain went to Brest-Litovsk. The famous fortress, so desperately resisting the Nazis in the m year and about which the power of the Third Reich stumbled with its direct participation.

Perhaps Karbyshev foresaw this. Even in the distant M, he said about the Brest Fortress: "She will still serve the motherland with dignity, look, I am deeply convinced of this." Soon the First World War began. I must say that the wars of Dmitry Mikhailovich fell out with excess: the Russian-Japanese, Soviet-Finnish, and both worlds. Almost every of them from the very beginning was attended by future General Karbyshev.

During the Przemysl operation, he was awarded the Order of St. Anna and promoted to lieutenant colonel. The red commander when a revolution occurred in Russia, the reaction of Karbyshev was quite predictable. Already in December, he did not doubt his own choice at all, he signed up in the Red Guard, participated in the Civil War as part of the Red Army. His undoubted abilities found application: Karbyshev participated in the creation of many defense facilities.

In the year, he already held the post of deputy chief of engineers of the Southern Front, and in M ​​- the head of engineers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Crimea. His authority in the Red Army was not questioned. Karbyshev was highly appreciated both as theorist and as practice. Great worker. Rich erudition on all issues of military affairs, great knowledge in the operational-tactical field makes Comrade Karbyshev not only by a specialist engineer, but a combinedman and general staff, ”the year said in his certification of the year.

Then Karbyshev's capital work was published - "Engineering support for the defense of the SD [rifle division]." In M and M, he receives his first Soviet orders - the Red Star and the Red Banner. Dmitry Karbyshev did not like ranting on political topics at all. He kept beliefs with him, and they were manifested in actions, not in words ... He was admitted to the party in m.

In those years, it was a responsible step: in the event of the war, the Communists did not have the right to vibrations and spare airfields. A born teacher is also attractive for a talented person: Karbyshev taught for many years at the Military Academy. Frunze, wrote more than a hundred special scientific works on fortifications, bridges, etc. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, he received the title of Lieutenant General G.

He was a born teacher and painstaking researcher. He kept with students without arrogance - like with colleagues in scientific search. Many years later, the famous marshals enthusiastically recalled how Dmitry Mikhailovich sometimes turned himself into a textbook in the classroom. He attached to his hands, Budenovka, tunics a plate with numbers and scattered his hands, depicting a diagram of the standards of time that is allocated to digging trenches.

The laconic, thin general in lectures turned into a gambling boy. I must say that Karbyshev by that time had already passed four wars of the Russian-Japanese, First World, Civil and Soviet-Finnish. He was one of the founders of military engineering in the USSR, a doctor of military sciences, taught at the Academy. Naturally, Dmitry Mikhailovich knew that almost all the conquerors who invaded the territory of our country from the West passed through Belarus, he was drawn to the border where the fortifications were erected.

The war was not a surprise to Karbyshev. The Soviet generals at the end of X markedly rejuvenated, and Karbyshev was just fulfilled, but he did not feel like an old man and was preparing thoroughly for a new war. In m, he told his friend General E. Leosheny that the fight with Hitler actually had already begun. Perhaps Dmitry Mikhailovich even foresaw his death. The Second World War has already begun when his main work was published in the military publishing house - “Engineering support for the military operations of rifle formations” in two units.