Nikolai Ivanovich Krylov Biography

He was awarded 4 orders of Lenin 8. was an honorary citizen of the city of Vilnius Lithuania. The bronze busts of N. Krylov are installed in the village of Vishnevo and in the district village of Tamala of the Penza Region. Streets in the cities of Odintsovo, Penza, Sevastopol are named after him. In Moscow, a memorial plaque was installed on the building of the headquarters of the Moscow Military District in which N.

Krylov worked. In years, the name of the hero was the Kharkov Higher Military Command-Engineering School of Missile Forces. Works: never fade. The biography is supplemented by Alexander Semennikov for almost half a century of service under the banners of the Soviet Army, participation in two wars, thousands of kilometers of front -line roads, hundreds of battles, life in trenches and camping tents, the path from the ordinary Red Army to the Marshal of the Soviet Union - these are the main milestones of the military biography of Nikolai Ivanovich Krylov.

N. Krylov met the Great Patriotic War as a colonel, the chief of staff of the Danube fortified area. In August, he became the chief of staff of a separate Primorsky army, one of the leaders of the heroic defense of Odessa. For more than two months, the defense of the hero city continued. The enemy could not break the persistence of his defenders. Odessa was left on October 16 by order of the Supreme High Command, when the further defense of the city was recognized as inappropriate.

According to the plan developed by N. Krylov, approved by the Military Council of the Black Sea Fleet, a separate Primorsky army in full force was evacuated from Odessa to Sevastopol. After unloading from the ships, its units went into battle with the enemy who broke into the Crimea. Soon, under the pressure of superior enemy forces, our troops went to Sevastopol, whose heroic defense continued days.

The soul of the defense of Sevastopol on the land front was considered General I. his first deputy, Colonel Krylov was a faithful and reliable assistant. Possessing a strong will, unbending courage and boiling energy, Krylov firmly maintained proper order and organization in headquarters and troops. In the difficult minutes of the battle, Krylov was always on the forefront, helped the commander and commanders of the divisions in the leadership of the battle.

In one of the trips to the advanced positions, the fragment of the enemy shell hit N. Krylov in the back, struck the shoulder blade, crushed the rib and stopped only a few millimeters from the heart of the present, did not find out about the wound of the colonel. In the thrown Cossack burke, he slowly reached the car standing in the shelter, and went to the headquarters.

Only in his dugout did he lose consciousness. The wound turned out to be severe and dangerous. After the operation, N. Krylov was proposed to be evacuated to the "large land". He flatly refused to leave the army and remained in the besieged Sevastopol. In the second half of April, Nikolai Ivanovich rose to his feet "with a still not completely healed wound, began to fulfill his duties.

The heroic defense of Sevastopol was drawing to an end. On the orders of the Supreme High Command, the evacuation of the troops began. Krylov led it to the end. Together with the commander, he left Sevastopol on the last submarine. After a short stay in the stay in his stay in the last stay in the last stay in his stay. Transcaucasia N. Krylov again found himself in the thick of the events: he received an appointment to the post of chief of staff of the Army, who fought on the banks of the Volga.

This army took upon itself the main blow of the enemy and for a long time, cut off from its troops on a narrow strip of the right bank of the Volga, heroically defended Stalingrad. The army headquarters was located - meters from enemy positions. Of great importance for the success of street battles in Stalingrad were new, more flexible methods of troops. A striking example of such a leadership of the troops was the work of the headquarters of the Army, whose chief was Major General N.

Using the rich experience of battles with the German invaders in the defense of Odessa and Sevastopol, N. Krylov managed to organize the work of his headquarters and the headquarters of subordinate formations so that even insignificant changes in the situation were immediately reported to the commanders. All decisions and orders of the army commander and commanders of formations were brought to the performers in a timely manner.

The headquarters of all degrees always knew the needs and requests of units and units. Employees of the headquarters of the regiments, divisions and armies, just like the commanders of the mouth and battalions, were in difficult times in the trenches and basements with the fighters and were directly involved in the reflection of German attacks after the defeat of the Nazis near Stalingrad N.

Krylov was appointed commander of the 5th Army. In the summer of the year, participating in the Belarusian operation, the army of General Krylov passed with kilometers battles, liberated the settlements, including large cities of Vilnius and Kaunas, forced the Luchesu, Berezin, Viliy and Neman and the first of the troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front reached the borders of Eastern Prussia.

Representing N. Krylov to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the front commander of the Army I.Chernyakhovsky wrote: "The operations carried out by the 5th army in its scope, determination of actions, the pace of movement, skillful maneuver on the battlefield and the results achieved are instructive operations in the modern war" Krylov met Victory Day. By order of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, his army covered in the glory, after the completion of the battles in East Prussia, was transferred to the Far East by rail.

Acting in the direction of the main blow of the 1st Far-Eastern Front, the 5th Army was supposed to break through the strongest of all the border fortified area located in the Monchi-Tags, located in the mountain-taiga area, and on the eighteenth day of the operation to master the largest center of Japanese defense in Manchuria in the city of Mudanjyan.

The offensive was supposed to begin on the morning of August 9. At night, a thunderstorm rampant. Mountain rivers and streams turned into impassable stormy streams. In such conditions, aviation could not operate, and the fire of artillery in the absence of visibility would be ineffective. And the commander at one in the morning makes a more responsible decision: he throws into battle advanced detachments.

Taking advantage of the impenetrable darkness and a downpour, these detachments without artillery training quickly and suddenly attacked the enemy, took possession of advanced positions, violated the enemy defense system and created favorable conditions for the actions of the main forces. Mudanjiang was taken not on the eighteenth, but on the seventh day of the operation. Soon, more than a millionth Kwantun Army capitulated.

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