Mikhail Pronin Biography

Pronin Mikhail Andreevich-commander of the Guards Karachevsky Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Infantry Division of the Rifle Division of the Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front, Guard Major General. Born on October 1 in the city of an eagle in the family of a worker. In the Russian Imperial Army since August. In the 1st World War, Pronin fought as an ordinary sapper on the Western Front, first near Warsaw, and then in the city of Girardw.

He distinguished himself in a battle under the city of Sohachev and was awarded the St. George Cross. A year later, he showed courage and resourcefulness when equipping a position for the artillery battery, for which he received the second St. George Cross and a promotion-became the younger non-commissioned officer of the sapper company. He graduated from the Gorian school of warrant officers in the year and was appointed to the post of commander of a rifle company.

In the fall of the year, I will be given a vacation. In Rostov-on-Don, he was detained, and one Cossack officer proposed to join and go to beat the “peasant”. But Pronin rejected this path. Having reached his homeland, he entered the Oryol province. Distributed bread cards. In June, Pronin entered the Red Army. First, he served as an instructor-organizer of the universal person in the Karachay district military commissariat, since April he commanded a platoon in the artillery park of the 4th Infantry Division.

A participant in the civil war since June is an adjutant of the 1st light artillery division, the head of the communications battery of the Higher Military School of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic, fought on the Eastern Front against the army of Admiral Kolchak. In February, he was seriously wounded. Since June, he is the commander of the platoon of the reserve of the Bryansk provincial military commissariat.

Since September, the senior instructor of the alternating composition of the 4th light battery, from October-the head of the battery communications in the Oryol Military District. He participated in battles with the Antonovites, in January the year was a second time wounded. Since April, the clerk of the procurement commission and the headquarters of the Oryol Military District.

Since September, the head of the battery communications, since April, is an adjutant of the 2nd light artillery division. Since June, the adjutant of the light artillery division, the head of the communications of the 6th artillery regiment, assistant chief of the operational part of the headquarters of the 6th Rifle Division of the Moscow Military District. Since October, the assistant to the chief of the operational part of the division headquarters, the commander of the battalion of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division of the Moscow Military District.

Since May - chief of staff of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division of the Moscow Military District. Since July, he is the commander of the Rifle Regiment in the 1st Moscow Proletarian Division of the same district. In August, the Pronin was instructed to form a Su Rifle Division in the Vladimir region. The brigade commander 4.

Having commanded the division, M. Pronin participated in the Soviet -Finnish war in the Army in February - March of the year. Then the division was again deployed in the Moscow Military District. Major General 4. The commander of the division Pronin entered the Great Patriotic War in July as part of the Army of the Western Front. The divisions had to focus on the line of Lyubavichy - red and powerful blow to knock the Nazis from the village of Lyada of the Vitebsk region.

By July 11, only part of the personnel of the division arrived at the indicated place. But on July 13, cash troops went to storm. General Pronin, watching the panorama of the village, saw how the enemy column was in a hurry to help him. He ordered the company to deliver an unexpected blow from the flank on the approaching column. The Nazis, who defended the village, hearing the shooting in their rear, trembled.

The village was cleared of the enemy. After that there were heavy battles for Rudnya and Dorogobuzh during the Smolensk defensive battle. In October, the Pronin division was in the Vyazemsky boiler. The commander managed to break into his own with a large part of the division fighters. Leaving Ruza, Soviet troops with heavy battles moved to the line of Loknya, Kulebyakino and further to the Moscow River.

The division fighters restrained the onslaught of the enemy on Zvenigorod. Many times superior to the enemy, it was not possible to take this city. Subsequently, the Pronin division participated in the counterattack of the Soviet troops near Moscow and went to the approaches to Gzhatsk. In years, she kept difficult battles in the area of ​​the city of Staraya Russa.

There, Soviet troops repeatedly went on the offensive, but did not succeed, having suffered heavy losses. For one of these operations in July, Major General M. Pronin was removed from his post and with a decrease was appointed commander of the Separate Rifle Brigade of the Army of the Western Front. But soon another defeat followed, for which in October, M. Pronin was removed from his post and was put on trial of the military tribunal of the Western Front.

However, the general was lucky - the case was requested to verify the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, which on November 20 issued its termination in relation to M. Since January of the year, he commanded a separate rifle brigade. Since March, the commander of the Rifle Division of the 5th Army of the Western Front, participated in the Rzhev-Vyazemsky offensive operation of the year.Since July, a short time commanded the Rifle Division.

Since September, - the commander of the Rifle Corps of the West Front, participated in the Smolensk offensive operation. At the end of the year, in the battles for Neel Pronin, he received a shelter and was forced to be treated in a hospital. After that, he was sent to study at the courses of improving the highest commanding staff at the Higher Military Academy named after K.

Since October, he was commanded by the Guards Rifle Division as part of the Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front. He participated in the East Prussian offensive operation. In the battles on the approaches to the well-fortified town of Gross-tractican, the command post of Pronin fell in a difficult situation. The Nazis, collecting several tank parts in a fist, struck the town of Matcamen, where the KP was located.

Pronin with a handful of officers was surrounded. The general organized the defense in the basement of a stone building and, personally firing from the machine gun, repelled the fierce attacks of the enemy. Soon the enemy was thrown back to the aid of units. During the assault on the fortress city of Königsberg, I broke through the external belt of the Königsberg fortified district on April 6, went to the coast of the Frishes-Huff of Kaliningrad Gulf, the first in the Guards Army forced the Pregol River, and, united with the army, cut off the enemy of the departure path.

During the three -day assault, the division inflicted huge damage to the enemy, destroying and capturing 86 guns, 10 tanks to soldiers and officers, 10 tanks. After the victory in Königsberg, the division participated in the Zemland offensive operation. The Nazis settled at the western tip of the Zemland Peninsula in East Prussia, intending to defend the most important Naval base of the Nazis in the Baltic-the city of Pillau is now the city of Baltiysk.

In late April - early May, the Pronin division participated in the last assault. Several defense borders were broken, on April 25, the city and the naval base of Pillau were stormed. On the approaches to the port of this city on April 22, General Pronin received the last, annoying injury. Since June, Major General M. Pronin was the commander of the Guards Rifle Corps in a special military district and the military commandant of the city of Königsberg.

Since May, the commander of the 5th Guards Rifle Division in the Volga Military District. Since May-Deputy commander of the 2nd Guards Rifle Corps. Since May, Major General M. Pronin is retired. He lived and worked in Moscow. He died on November 26. He was buried in Moscow at the Khimkinsky cemetery. The Honorary Citizen of the city of Zvenigorod, Moscow Region, was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin.

His name was knocked out on a memorable board in honor of the heroes - natives of the city of Orel. In Moscow, a memorial plaque was installed on the house in which he lived.