Belov Mikhail Ipatovich
Rank: major General Division: 34th guards rifle Enakievskaya red banner order of Suvorov division Belov Mikhail Ipatovich. Major General, doctor of military Sciences, Professor. Born on November 7, 1924 in the village of Alekseyevka in the Mishkinsky district of the Bashkir ASSR, the ninth in a row to the Belovs Ipat Ilyich and Maria Petrovna. Studied at Turbaevskaya school, which now bears the name of Brothers Stationery. In 1939. he entered the pedagogical College of the city of Birsk, from the 3rd year of which in February 1942. on voluntary recruitment, he was sent to the Guryev military infantry school. After completing his studies there in December of the same year, with the rank of Lieutenant, he was sent as a commander of a machine-gun platoon to the Stalingrad front. As part of the 7th airborne corps, transformed into the 34th guards rifle division, in its 107th guards rifle regiment, created on the basis of the 16th airborne brigade, participated in the battles to drive the enemy out of the Rostov region, Donbass. Kryvyi Rih, in the battle of the Dnieper, in the liberation from the invaders of the Ukrainian and Moldavian SSR, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Hungary, Bucharest, and the capture of Budapest. He was wounded four times in the battles and returned to the 107th guards rifle regiment, which became his home, ending his career as a Deputy chief of staff of the regiment. After the great Patriotic war, in 1946, he graduated from the nine-month advanced training Courses for infantry officers of the southern group of troops. In 1952. he entered the Frunze Military Academy by competition, from which he graduated in 1955. and was sent to continue serving in the Airborne forces. In the autumn of 1956, while commanding the parachute battalion of the 381st parachute regiment of the 31st guards airborne division, he participated in the Soviet operation "Whirlwind" on the territory of the Hungarian people's Republic to eliminate the anti-government putsch. Until the end of December 1956, he was the military commander of the 22nd district, also in the Western part of Budapest. After returning from Hungary in March 1957, he was appointed chief of staff of the 381st guards parachute regiment. In August 1959, he entered the adjunct program of the Frunze Military Academy. In 1962. he defended his PhD thesis on airborne topics, having published a number of scientific articles on it by this time. Appointed in the same year as a teacher, he was executed by order of the command a number of research works (NIR), implemented in the Armed forces. Including, as a responsible performer, "Kupol": Prospects for the development of the airborne forces ' weapons system. In February 1966, he was enrolled in the doctoral program of the Academy. A month later, he was sent to the exercises of the Central Asian military district as an intermediary for the commander of the airborne division, which was thrown out of the aircraft to the Mary region in Turkmenistan. Prepared and made a report to the teaching staff on the use of operational troops in specific conditions of the district. In August-September, 1967. during the preparation and conduct of combined-arms operational and strategic exercises "Dnepr" headed the research group of the General staff, which developed and tested the organizational structure and methods of using a new type of combined - arms unit, called the amphibious assault brigade. In 1968, he defended his thesis for the degree of doctor of military Sciences. In 1971. he passed military training in the TRANS-Baikal military district as a commander of the stationed amphibious assault brigade, supervised its exercises with a flight from the city of Mogochi to the Datsan training ground in Dauria. On the instructions of the command, he went to the countries of the Warsaw Pact Organization to give lectures and exchange experience. In 1977. in order to exchange military delegations, he paid a week-long visit to England. In 1977, he was appointed head of the Department of Operational and tactical training Of the military-political Academy named after V. I. Lenin. He led a complex team of the Department, gave lectures to students of combined arms and other faculties, at Higher academic courses. Organized and conducted command and staff exercises with students, performed other organizational work and tasks of the command, including trips abroad. In 1979, he was awarded the rank of major General. From 1984 to 1988, he served as an adviser to the chief of the Higher military Academy of the Armed forces of the Syrian Arab Republic in Damascus. He supervised the work of a team of Soviet specialists in various fields at the Academy. He developed educational materials, gave lectures to students of the Academy and the leadership of the Armed forces of the Republic. Participated in conducting command and staff exercises with them. He went to the troops, including to the contact line with the enemy in the Golan heights in order to develop practical recommendations. In 1988. retired to the reserve with service in the armed Forces of the USSR for 51 years. For military distinctions in the course of military service, he was awarded the following orders: red banner, two — world war I degree, red Star, for service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the III degree; order of the Syrian Arab Republic — for bravery; more than 30 domestic and foreign medals. From 1989 to 2000, he worked as a senior researcher at the Central Museum of the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945. he Participated in refining the concept of the Museum, in developing the structure and content of its expositions. He prepared scientific reports and reports on the operations of the great Patriotic war, spoke with them to the Museum staff and at conferences. Developed and published about 350 essays and articles, 15 books. Including military-historical topics: "They led us to Victory" (1990), "Marshals of victory" (1995), "Winners and losers" (1996), "Zhukov's Military phenomenon" (1998), "army of victorious operations" (2000), " the Fate of the family in the fate of the country "(2002), "Poklonnaya Gora keeps the memory" (2006), " Marshal Zhukov. Achievements and lessons of defense of the Fatherland" (2010), "and eternal battle..." (2012).Included in bibliographic reference books: "Historians Of Russia. Who is who in the study of national history". Saratov. Publishing House "Chronicle". 2000; "Historians of Russia XX-early XXI centuries". PIO bibliographic dictionary. Volume 1. Publishing house of the Saratov social Institute. 2014. During his youth, he considered his most significant achievement to be a feat of arms in the name of the Motherland — participation in the expulsion of the aggressor from Soviet soil and in its defeat abroad. In my career, I always remembered the wise saying of the great Russian realist writer Maxim Gorky:"... all that remains of a man is his deeds."