Romanovsky Vladimir Biography

Bryalovka now Lipetsk district of the Lipetsk region, - Moscow, Soviet military leader. Colonel General was born in a peasant family. In military service, from G. after graduating from courses in the training team in the city of the First World War, the platoon commander of the 8th Infantry Regiment on the Romanian Front.

In the Red Army with the city, a participant in the civil war: a company commander, battalion, commissar of armored train. He fought against the White Guards on the eastern and southern fronts. After the war ended - the commander and commissar of the special forces detachment, participated in the elimination of rebel detachments in the Kolyma and Verkhoyansk districts of Yakutia.

Then the instructor of the special purposes of the Kolyma district, the political instructor of the 3rd Verkhne-Udinsky Rifle Regiment, the responsible secretary of the party committee of the 1st Pacific Rifle Division; Since August, after graduating from the Military Academy of the Red Army. Frunze is the commander of the Go and the Turkestan Rifle regiments. In June, since April in July, Romanovsky was appointed commander of the troops of the Army of the Western Special Military District, and in March In the Great Patriotic War since June 30, Romanovsky commands the troops of the Arkhangelsk Military District, which assigned the tasks of defending the coast of the White Sea.

The troops ensured security at the approaches to the places of unloading and in the Belomore ports of the Union Sea Caravans with strategic goods delivered to the USSR on Lend-Lease. In its composition, the army’s troops participated in the offensive operation in the environment and destruction of the Nazi troops in the region from December to December, in January, Romanovsky was appointed deputy commander of the troops of the 4th Ukrainian Front, which during the strategic attack on the right-bank Ukraine in January-February participated in the Nikopol-Crivorous operation and in Interaction with the 3rd Ukrainian Front liquidated the Nikopol bridgehead of the enemy on the river.

Since March, the army under his command, as part of the 3rd Baltic Front, participated in the Pskov-Ostrovsky operation, during which, in collaboration with the main forces of the front, she broke through the fortified defensive line of the panther and defeated a large grouping of his troops. Subsequently, I participated in the Tartu offensive operation and distinguished itself in the Riga operation.

In March, Romanovsky was appointed commander of the Army as part of the 2nd Belorussian Front. Under his command of the army, in collaboration with the 1st Guards Tank, Army and the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, they defeated the Gdinsky enemy group and took possession of the large city and seaport of Gdynia, and then waged successful military operations to block and destroy the enemy troops on the western coast of the Danzig Bay.

After the war, Colonel General V. Romanovsky commanded the troops of the Voronezh military district, and then the 4th Guards Army of the Central Group of Forces. In the city of Romanovsky retired. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, 6 orders of the Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov 1st Art. Return to the search results.