Vadim Efimov Biography

The memorial plaque in Tambov is New Efimov Vadim Aleksandrovich-the platoon commander of a separate assault engineering engineer battalion of the 3rd assault engineer-submarine brigade of the Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, lieutenant. Born on July 20 in the city of Borisoglebsk now the Voronezh region in the artist’s family. In the year with his family, he moved to the city of Tambov.

In the Red Army since June. In the year he graduated from the military engineering school. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War since November. He fought the commander of the assault sappry platoon on the Western, 3rd and 2nd Belarusian fronts. Member of the CPSU from the year. In battles 1 time was wounded. Participated: - in the battles east of the city of Orsha - in the year; - in the Belarusian operation, including in the liberation of the cities of Orsha, Minsk, the territory of Lithuania, in battles for the city of Suvalki - c; -in the Mlavsko-Elbing and Eastern Pomeranian operations, including the exit to the Baltic Sea and the liberation of the cities of Marienburg Malbork, Danzig Gdansk, in the Berlin operation, including the forcing of the Oder River and the liberation of the cities of Angermünda, the Prosvalk, and the platoon commander of a separate assault station The engineering-suction battalion, Lieutenant Efimov,, when mastering the city of Danzig Gdansk, Poland on March 28, with a platoon, occupied the northeast outskirts of the city, captured 7 quarters with battles and went to the banks of the Military Visla.

Having crossed the river and landing on the island, the platoon captured the bonds of the enemy. At the same time, 14 were destroyed and 30 enemy officers and soldiers were captured, trophies were captured. In the year he graduated from the Moscow Higher Officer Engineering Minute School. He served in a specialized mine-technical unit in Moscow. In the year he graduated from the Military Engineering Academy, after which he was a teacher at the Moscow Military Engineering School.

Candidate of Technical Sciences. Since the year, Colonel V. Efimov is in stock. He lived in Moscow. He worked as a senior researcher at the Research Institute. He died on January 17 of the year. He was buried in Moscow at the Khovansky cemetery. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin in the territory of the Park "Memorial Complex of Memory and Glory" in Borisoglebsk installed a memorial plaque.

Before the revolution, the Efimov family had a merchant origin, and Vadim's father was an officer of the tsarist army and fought on the front of the 1st World War. In addition, at the beginning of the civil war, he did not stay in the ranks of the White Army for a long time, but quickly moved away from the sovereign chauvinism and did not participate in battles with the Bolsheviks, having gone into painting.

During the NEP, the Efimov spouses were engaged in the sale of their paintings. In Borisoglebsk, many knew this, and in the year, in this regard, Efimov had to leave his hometown, and they moved to Tambov. The Efimovs created a school circle of puppeteers, which became the prototype of the Tambov regional doll theater. The first director of the theater was Vadim's mother. And his father, joining the ranks of the Red Army, began to teach drawing and topography at the Tambov Cavalry School ...

The trouble came to the Efimov’s house in the terrible year, when the “big purge” began in the country, and primarily in the ranks of the Red Army. The mother was immediately dismissed from the post of director of the puppet theater, and she and her son were “shone” by the Gulag. But for some reason this did not happen. Nevertheless, Vadim Efimov graduated with the heavy stigma of the "son of the enemy of the people." This happened only in July, when the front line approached Tambov close enough, and the city became essentially front -line.

They sent Efimov to the military engineering school. The place of his studies was unknown, since in the spring of the year only the most physically strong cadets were left in the school for the special training of officers in forming assault engineering and sugar brigades-a sort of prototype of land special forces. The brigades were intended to break through the powerful fortified enemy defensive strips and the capture of city fortifications.

Efimova was taught to own PPSh automatic, a Finnish knife, a sniper rifle, an anti -tank gun, a manual machine gun, various types of grenades, incendiary bottles, hand -to -hand fighting and grenades throwing. Cadets learned to overcome assault fences, wire and wooden obstacles, conduct a close battle using small sappers. In addition, by the end of training, Efimov owned a mortar, flamethrower and even the production of explosive devices from improvised means.

In November, Lieutenant Efimov was sent to the Western Front, where he was determined by the commander of an engineering platoon in the 3rd assault engineering and suctioning brigade. At the end of the same month, in the strip of the Guards Army in the area east of the Osintorf village with his platoon as part of the company, they “tested” in battle to master the first lane of enemy defense with a breakthrough of wire fences.

Bart baptism was successful, although it was not possible to take enemy trenches, but nobody from the platoon of Efimov died, thanks to the steel bibs, from whom enemy bullets bounced. After the departure of the Guards Army on the 2nd Baltic Front, the platoon of Efimov as part of the brigade remained in the Osintorf area and, entering the direct submission to the commander of the Western Front, continued the fighting in this area.

In the conditions of deeply embedded defense of the enemy in the Orsha direction and temporary lull on the fronts, Efimov’s fighters as part of various groups were mainly engaged in the penetration of the enemy’s rear and the work of sabotage there. During the winter and spring of the year in the army, Lieutenant Efimov personally went to the enemy rear 4 times and undermined the Orsha - Gorki, Shkls with groups on the roads of several enemy tanks, cars, a stationary radio station and other military facilities.

In April, the 3rd assault engineering and suction brigade became part of the 3rd Belorussian Front. By this time, there was already an order on the inadmissibility of the use of assault units as rifle with the allocation of defense or occurrence lanes, and the brigade in which Lieutenant Efimov served, the front commander prepared for the capture of cities. When the troops of the Guards Army entered the approaches to Orsha, the assault groups of sappers entered the business.

The group, which included the platoon of Lieutenant Efimov, set the task of mastering one of the bridges across the Dnieper south of the city. At the same time, it was necessary to destroy 2 reinforced concrete bunkers on both sides of the bridge. And the group coped with this task perfectly. Efimov’s platoon with a rapid attack blocked one bunker, and a powerful charge was lowered into the ventilation hole on the cord, which instantly smashed all its insides together with the Nazis.

At the same time, another platoon coped with the second bun in the same way, and the third group, as a result of a rapid battle, cleared the bridge itself. Subsequently, the fighting of the fronts were formed so that in the triangle Minsk - Berezino - Borisov, a large Nazi group was surrounded, which refused to surrender. And from July 3, everyone began to: artillerymen, and shitty pilots, and assault groups of sappers.

The task was simple and at the same time difficult - to quietly approach the enemy hiding in the forests, and destroy it by all means. There were plenty of ways to the subordinates of Lieutenant Efimov, and in 2 days in the area of ​​the village of Rovanic Sloboda they destroyed to the Nazis and captured nearby. The next task, which was performed by the platoon of Lieutenant Efimov, was the task of mastering the concentration camp in the area of ​​the Lithuanian village of Pirchupyus, in which there were many more prisoners.

Moreover, the Nazis, about to fire, decided to erase the camp from the face of the earth, and every day they made executions. The assault groups of sappers, breaking through with the rifle units, deviate from their rapid advance to the Neman and already in the rear of the Nazi troops to carry out this operation. All the guard and all the staff of the camp were destroyed in battle, and then the platoon of Efimov, as part of this group, fought a battle with the counterattack divisions of the Nazis.

And only the conquest of bridgeheads behind the Neman made them stop counterattacks and move to the Prussian border. For the difference shown in the battles of the Belarusian operation, Lieutenant Efimov was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In September-October, the platoon of Lieutenant Efimov as part of the brigade acted in the lane in the Lesnoy and Ozern region of the Suvalka Voivodeship.

This isolated area of ​​Poland on the outskirts of the Prussian border was extremely naked by the Nazis by defensive engineering structures, abounded by natural obstacles in the form of many lakes and rivers, and somewhat resembled the Finnish “Mannerheim line”. Under these conditions, the brigade sappers, including the Efimov platoon, were undermined by dozens of bunkers and bunkers, several dams were captured, ready to undermine in order to flood the rifle units, the city of Suvalka was liberated.

During these battles in the platoon of Lieutenant Efimov, almost all the fighters took possession of new weapons - trophy faustepatron, and skillfully used them in the destruction of the enemy firing points. In one of the battles at the end of October, Lieutenant Efimov was minor wounded in his hand and was treated for 2 weeks in the medical battalion.

Due to the fact that the Danzig direction became a purely prerogative of the 2nd Belorussian Front, in November, the 3rd assault engineering and suicide brigade was transferred to this front. But the front commander decided to step on the Danzig defensive area not through Prussia and the Mazur lakes, but from the Narevsky bridgeheads, and the brigade was transferred to the 2nd shock army on the eve of the offensive, moving to the bridgehead southwest of the city of Ostrolenka.

In it, the sappers-storms solved the special tasks of mastering the fortified enemy strongholds in the cities of Mühlhausen, Stum, Tolkemite and the assistance of the mobile and rifle units in mastering the city of Marienburg Malborc. But it was not possible to take the port of Danzig from this direction. It was necessary to defeat the enemy group that defended the south of the city.Therefore, in February, the 3rd assault engineering and suctioning brigade was transferred to the army, whose troops began to break through the enemy defense in the main direction-in the area of ​​the city of Khaineuvka.

All March of the year, the soldiers of the platoon of Efimov held in battles on the approaches to Danzig. In addition to Faustpatrons, sappers fought in these battles with the usual weapon. Before the decisive assault on the port city, the brigade was transferred to the army, and about 30 assault groups were prepared in it, one of which was commanded by Lieutenant Efimov.

In addition to the attack aircraft, 4 flamethrower, 4 “phausniks” with 60 faustpatrons and several demolitions with kg of explosives, included his assault group. Immediately, the "fesniki" began to discover enemy machine guns in buildings and beat them with captured fawstpatrons. After their shots and throws grenades, attack aircraft burst into the building into the building and destroyed the remaining Nazis.

Where the enemy stubbornly held, the Efimov group used flameters and walls of walls. Several times the outcome of the battle for the building was decided by hand -to -hand combat. Thus, the assault group of Lieutenant Efimova cleared about 45 city buildings in 7 quarters of the city from the Nazis and reached the sleeve of the Visla River-a dead Visla. Due to the sleeve from the reinforced concrete pillbox located in the industrial territory of some enterprise, several machine guns were beating for the advancing Soviet fighters.

About 5 more machine -gun points were scattered at different distances around the bunker. At this time, 2 Soviet self -propelled guns reached the river. Lieutenant Efimov asked self -propelled guns to concentrate his fire on the island, and, taking advantage of him, rapidly with his assault group along the remnants of the destroyed bridge crossed the dead Vidy.

Pomegranates and faustpatron, machine guns and grenades again, sapers-storm faces destroyed all the surrounding bugs of the enemy firing points. Lieutenant Efimov ordered to undermine the blocked pillbox. But during the battle of his assault group, an engineering-pomplex unit came out to the sleeve, and 2 of our self-propelled guns from the 1st Guards Tank Corps began to force the river.

Seeing this, a stick with a white rag appeared from Dota, and after her with his hands, 32 Nazis came out of the bunker, among whom were 4 officers. By the end of the same day, March 28, the city of Danzig was completely cleared of the enemy. For the courage and heroism shown in these battles, Lieutenant Efimov was represented by the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After the liberation of Danzig, the 3rd assault engineering-submarine brigade as part of the Army was relocated to the Obser.

It was necessary to force the river and master the city of Swedt on its west coast. Sapers-shitty sapers soon also crossed him.