Simonyak N.P. (1901-1956), military commander, General

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SIMONYAK Nikolay Pavlovich (1901-1956, St. Petersburg), miltary commander, Lieutenant General (1944), Hero of the Sovit Union (1943). From 1918 in the service in the Red Army. Participated in the Civil War of 1917-22. Graduated from Commander Courses (1922), Cavalry Commander (Officers) Post-Graduate Courses (1929), and Frunze Military Academy (1936). From January 1938 served in the Staff of the Leningrad Military District. Participated in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40. From 1940 was in command of the 8th Independent Rifle Brigade, defending the Khanko peninsula (1941); from March 1942 commander of the 136th Rifle Division, which in January 1943 during the breakthrough of the blockade made a forced crossing of the Neva River and was the first to unite with the troops of the Volkhov Front (for its distinguished performance the division was renamed into the 63rd Guards Division). From April 1943, commanded the 30th Guards Corps, which during the breakthrough of the blockade operated in the Pulkovo Heights vector (January 1944); took part in the defeat of the Finnish army on the Karelian Isthmus (summer of 1944). For his successful offensive Simonyak got in the army the nickname "Breakthrough General". From October 1944, commanded the 3rd Strike Army, from March 1945, led the 67th army. In the post-war years was in command of a Guards Rifle Corps. From 1948 was transferred to the reserve on health grounds. Resided in Leningrad and the village of Osinovaya Roscha (Aspen Grove). Buried in Bogoslovskoe Cemetery. In 1964 a new street in Kirovsky District of Leningrad was named after Simonyak (Generala Simonyaka Street).

References: Стрешинский М. П., Франтишев И. М. Генерал Симоняк. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. Л., 1971.

A. Y. Chistyakov. Frunze Mikhail Vasilievich
Simonyak Nikolay Pavlovich
Generala Simonyaka St./Saint Petersburg, city
Стрешинский М. П., Франтишев И. М. Генерал Симоняк. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. Л., 1971 Navy Institute, St.Petersburg
Breaking of the Siege (1943)
Volkhov Front
Lifting of the Siege, 1944
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery