Dmitry Yazov - the last Marshal of the Soviet Union (by the date of assignment of this title). Dmitry Timofeevich received it in the ninetieth year. Yazov - political and military Soviet leader, penultimate Minister of Defense of the USSR. This is the only Marshal of the Soviet Union who did not receive the title of Hero of the USSR. He was a member of the GKChP organization, represented the military leadership, went through the entire war with Nazi Germany, and was seriously wounded at the front.
A family
Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich, whose biography is amazing and full of many events, was born on November 8, 1924 in the village of Yazovo, Omsk Region. The village got its name by the name of the inhabitants who founded it back in the time of Ivan the Terrible.
The family of Dmitry Timofeevich moved to this place on the shore of Lake Swan from Great Ustyug. His father is Timofei Yakovlevich, and his mother is Maria Fedoseevna. Both of them were simple peasants. Dmitry was always proud that he came from a common people. His parents were very hardworking. They instilled this quality from childhood and Dmitry.
His father died early in the thirty-fourth year. At that time, Dmitry was not even ten years old. As a result, Maria Fedoseyevna was left alone with four children, to which was added the family of her deceased sister. She had to feed a whole horde of children. Step-father for Dmitry was the former husband (widower) of his own aunt - Fedor Nikitich.
Young years: study
Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich, whose biography of the war years begins from a young age, could not finish school until the end. Not enough for a couple of years. The Great Patriotic War began. Many guys rushed to the draft board to volunteer. Some were refused, as they were still minor teens. Dmitry was more fortunate, although at that time he was also not yet seventeen years old.
In order not to be refused, he indicated that he was a year older. At that time, not everyone had passports. And there was no time to check in the draft board. He was sent to study in Novosibirsk. There he enrolled in them. Supreme Council of the RSFSR. Before the evacuation, which took place during the war, it was in Moscow.
Cadets years
The teachers at the school were front-line soldiers who were discharged from hospitals after severe injuries. They were engaged in the first military training of young children. Dmitry forever remembered his cadet years. They were picked up very early, at six in the morning. At first there was the usual obligatory charge, and then until the evening - exhausting combat training.
In winter, frosts reached forty degrees, but the cadets endured them steadily. Already at school, Dmitry Yazov learned that his stepfather went to the front, and his mother was left alone with seven young children, and three sisters were mobilized to work in military stud farms.
When the cadets were sent to the front, studies continued on the train, in the huts. These became temporary study rooms where the guys studied rifles, machine guns and other weapons.
Dmitry gets to the front
In January, the country's difficult forty-second year, Dmitry was sent to the front. First, the train arrived in Moscow. For some time, the guys finished their studies in Solnechnogorsk. Then sent to various "hot spots". Dmitry arrived on the Volkhov Front already as a lieutenant, although he was not yet eighteen at that time.
First wound
First, Dmitry Yazov was sent to the 177th rifle division. In August of the forty-second year, she participated in the battle on the Karelian Isthmus. There Dmitry was first wounded, and very seriously. Doctors diagnosed severe concussion.
Return to the front
Dmitry Timofeevich returned to the front after being wounded only in October of the forty-second year. The command sent him to the 483rd Infantry Regiment. In January of the forty-third Dmitry was wounded for the second time. But since the wound was slight, they simply put a bandage on the medical unit and continued the battle. After this battle, Dmitry Timofeevich was elevated to the rank of senior lieutenant. In March of the forty-third year, he left for Borovichi for advanced training courses for command personnel.
Years of war
Dmitry Yazov, whose biography is associated with a military career, has been in many battles. He participated in the defense of Leningrad, in offensive battles in the Baltic states, the blockade of the Courland German group and many other military operations.
Post-war years
Dmitry Timofeevich heard the news of the victory in the war of the Soviet troops when he was near Riga, in Mitava. At the end of the forty-fifth year, he received a vacation and, finally, was able to leave for his native village - to visit his relatives. Of the Yazov dynasty, thirty-four people were killed in all families. Life in the first years after the war was very difficult - the destroyed country had to be rebuilt. Dmitry helped relatives and relatives than he could.
Continuing studies and a military career in the postwar years
Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich did not stop there and in 1953 entered the Frunze Military Academy. Moreover, he studied at "excellent" and graduated in 1956 with a gold medal. As a result of this, he was asked to choose a place of service. So Dmitry Timofeevich was in the sixty-third Krasnoselskaya Rifle Division.
After some time, he became the commander of the 400th motorized rifle regiment. In the years 1962-1963, this military unit was in Cuba. At this time, Dmitry Timofeevich was elevated to colonel. Before returning to his homeland, he received a letter of appreciation with gratitude for the service personally from Fidel Castro.
After Cuba, Dmitry Yazov left for Leningrad, where he was soon appointed to the post of deputy chief in the Combat Training Directorate. In the sixty-eighth year, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. Then, at short intervals, he was promoted. At first in 1968 he was promoted to major general. And in 1967-1971. already commanded a motorized rifle division.
In the seventy-second year, Dmitry Timofeevich was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and in 1971-1973. he commanded the corps. And in 1974-1976. - was the head of the 1st Directorate in the Glavka of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. In the years 1976-1979. Dmitry became the 1st deputy commander of the troops of the Far Eastern Federal District. And in 1979-1980. - Commander of the Central Military Group.
In 1980-1984 Yazov was appointed to lead the Central Asian Military District. Then, until the eighty-seventh year, he headed the Far Eastern Military District. After that, Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich served as Minister of Defense of the USSR. He became a marshal only in April 1990. This title was assigned to him personally by Gorbachev. This was the last time in the history of the USSR. Moreover, Dmitry was the only marshal from all previously appointed, born in Siberia.
Dismissal
Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, was removed from this post due to the failure of the Emergency Committee. He was always a conservative, and he did not gain popularity among supporters of perestroika. Yazov joined the coup. On his orders, tanks and heavy artillery were introduced to Moscow. It was planned to storm the White House.
But Yazov was convinced that the coup was ultimately doomed to failure, and went to meet with Gorbachev in Foros. In August of the ninety-first year, Dmitry Timofeevich was arrested at the airport as a member of the State Emergency Committee. Immediately after returning from Foros, he was sent to prison (“Sailor's silence”), where he remained until the age of ninety-four.
In the same year, all members of the organization in custody were released under an amnesty, including Dmitry Yazov (retired Marshal). But the negative events did not break him.
Active retirement
The biography of Dmitry Yazov abounds with further active work, even despite his resignation. He was an adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. He led the Committee named after Marshal Zhukov. Yazov is currently a consultant to the head of the Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He constantly gives speeches to cadets and students of military educational institutions. Dmitry Timofeevich actively communicates with WWII veterans and takes an active part in the public life of Russians.
Personal life
When Dmitry Timofeevich went to military courses in Borovichi, he met there with a girl, Zhuravleva Ekaterina Fedorovna. They corresponded and chatted for more than three years. Then Dmitry made her an offer, and Catherine became his first wife. From this marriage in 1950 they had a son, and three years after him - a daughter.
The second time Yazov married Emma Evgenievna, with whom he lives to this day. Dmitry Timofeevich gave birth to two more children from this marriage. Today, he is already a happy grandfather with seven grandchildren.
