Mikhail Borisovich Anashkin (; 19 November 1901 – 23 January 1951) was a

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and a

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. Rising to junior command positions during the

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, Anashkin held command and staff positions. He was arrested during the

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but released, and after

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began became a division chief of staff. He commanded the

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from late 1941 to mid-1942 and the

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in the

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. The latter was converted into the 61st Guards for its actions and Anashkin rose to corps command, leading the

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, 33rd, and 64th Rifle Corps until early 1944. For the rest of the war, he commanded the 129th Rifle Corps, and was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership of it in the Vistula–Oder Offensive during early 1945. Ill health resulted in his early retirement after the end of the war.

Early life and Russian Civil War

Anashkin was born to a peasant family on 19 November 1901 in the village of Koma,

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, and completed primary school. He joined the partisan detachment of Pyotr Shchetinkin in November 1919 during the

and operated with it in Yeniseysk Governorate. When partisan detachments were reorganized into regular

units in March 1920, Anashkin continued his service with the 239th Kursk Rifle Regiment of the 27th Omsk Rifle Division. After graduating from the divisional school, he served with the 239th as a squad leader and ''

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''. With the 5th Army of the Eastern Front, Anashkin fought in battles against the remnants of

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forces. In late June the division was relocated to the Western Front and as part of the 16th Army fought in the

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on the

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in the area of

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, then fought in the breakthrough of the fortified positions at

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, the capture of

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, and the crossing of the Bug. In August the division fought in the Battle of Warsaw before retreating back into Belarus. From January 1921, Anashkin served as a platoon commander and acting company commander with the 239th in fighting against anti-Soviet forces in

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, and Gomel Governorates, and in March he participated in the suppression of the

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, then in the suppression of anti-Soviet forces in the

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Interwar period

Anashkin served as a ''starshina'' in the 6th Tsaritsyn Regiment of the Volga Military District from May 1922, then in the same position with the 96th and 99th Rifle Regiments. From June 1924 he commanded a platoon in the 99th Regiment, before being sent to study at the Smolensk Infantry School in September. After the latter was disbanded in September 1926 Anashkin transferred to the Ryazan Infantry School. Upon his graduation in October 1927, he was appointed a platoon commander in the 66th Rifle Regiment of the 22nd Rifle Division. Anashkin completed the Moscow Military-Political Course between October 1928 and July 1929, being appointed commander and '' politruk'' of a company of the 78th Rifle Regiment of the

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of the

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, with which he fought in the

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later that year. Transferred to the 118th Rifle Regiment of the

40th Rifle Division The 40th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. It gained the honorific "named for Sergo Ordzhonikidze" on 14 April 1937. It fought in the engagements at Lake Khasan. On 22 June 1941, it was part of the 39th ...

in June 1931, Anashkin served with it as a company ''politruk'', company commander, and assistant chief of staff of the training battalion. Sent to study at the

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for advanced training in February 1932, Anashkin was appointed assistant chief of the 1st (operational) department of the staff of the

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in the

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upon his graduation in May 1936. He served as chief of staff of the

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from May 1937, but was arrested on 1 August 1938 during the

. Imprisoned under investigation until 27 February 1939, Anashkin was released and reinstated in the army, becoming an instructor at the tactics and staff service department of the Frunze Military Academy in April.

World War II

After

began, Anashkin, now a lieutenant colonel, was appointed chief of staff of the 282nd Rifle Division, forming in the

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, in July 1941. With the division, he went to the

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and fought in battles in the area of

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and

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as part of the 3rd Army. His tenure with the 282nd proved brief as in September Anashkin was appointed commander of the

of the

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. With the latter, he was encircled in the area of Trubchevsk during

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in October. The division managed to break out and mounted an organized retreat towards

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and

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. In late 1941 and the first half of 1942, Anashkin, promoted to

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on 9 January, led the division in defensive fighting in the

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region, the

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, the offensive towards

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, and the Battle of Voronezh. He was relieved of command of the division in June. Anashkin did not wait long for a new assignment as in July he took command of the

. On 9 July the division joined the

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for fighting on the east bank of the

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and the defense of Voronezh, and on 1 August was withdrawn into the army reserve. From 22 August the division transferred to the 40th Army and was relocated to the Usman area. Attacking towards Voronezh on 12 September, Anashkin's unit assisted in the destruction of the German Chizhovka bridgehead and repulsed counterattacks for the next month. Transferred to the

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, Anashkin led the 159th in the attack towards

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during

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. With the

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from 14 December, the division fought in

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and captured Morozovsk, being converted into the

61st Guards Rifle Division The 61st Guards Rifle Division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in January, 1943, based on the 2nd formation of the 159th Rifle Division, and served in that role until after the end of the Great Patriotic War. The divisio ...

for its actions on 15 January; Anashkin received a promotion to major general on the same day. Anashkin continued to command the 61st Guards during

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in early 1943. He rose to command the

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on 28 February, and in April he became commander of the new 33rd Rifle Corps, which included the divisions of the 19th. After leading the corps in actions in the area of

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, Anashkin became commander of the 64th Rifle Corps of the 57th Army in July. From mid-1943 to early 1944, he commanded the corps in the Belgorod–Kharkov Offensive, the capture of

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and Krasnograd, the attack of the

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towards

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in October, the two-month defense on the

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north of Krivoy Rog from November, the

Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka Offensive The Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive (Russian: Березнеговато-Снигирёвская Наступательная Операция, Bereznegovato-Snigirovskaya Nastupatel'naya Operatsiya) was an offensive operation conducted i ...

, and the

Odessa Offensive The Odessa Offensive Operation (Russian language, Russian: Одесская Наступательная Операция, Odesskaya Nastupatel'naya Operatsiya), known on the German side as the Defensive battle of the 6th Army between Bug and Dni ...

. Transferred to command the 129th Rifle Corps of the

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of the

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in May, Anashkin would remain in this position for the rest of the war. His command of the corps included

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and the Lublin–Brest Offensive, and from January 1945 the Vistula–Oder Offensive, East Pomeranian Offensive, and the

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. For his "skillful organization" of the actions of the corps in the breakthrough of the German defenses north of

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and the crossing of the

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, in which the corps captured

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, and

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, Anashkin received the title

on 6 April 1945. For his command of the corps in the Berlin Offensive, during which it captured

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in the advance into the city, he was awarded the

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, 2nd class. Hero of the Soviet Union citation

Elements of the 129th Rifle Corps, under the leadership of Guards Major General Comrade Anashkin, acted on the main direction in the area north of Jabłonna-Legionowo, nd on15 January 1945 broke through strongly fortified, deeply echeloned, ndsturdily constructed German defenses and in cooperation with units of the 125th Rifle Corps destroyed units of the German 73rd Infantry Division and up to five guard and sapper battalions. On the move, he corpsforced the Vistula river and through a deep bypass maneuver captured Warsaw. Thanks to the deliberate and skillful leadership of Guards Major General Comrade Anashkin, units of the corps made a rapid advance, inflicting exceptionally great losses on the enemy in personnel and equipment. he corpscaptured all the enemy artillery and materiel and more than 2,000 soldiers and officers were taken prisoner, in return for minor losses. Units of the corps in the fighting advanced 200 kilometers and liberated more than 600 settlements, including the cities of Gombin, Gostynin, Kowal, Bromberg, and others. For isskillful leadership of the combat actions of the units of the corps and personal heroism, displayed in the battles against the German invaders, Guards Major General Comrade Anashkin sworthy of the conferral of the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Postwar

After the end of the war, Anashkin, promoted to lieutenant general on 11 July 1945, continued to command the corps. After its disbandment in May 1946, he was appointed a senior instructor at the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy, but was soon retired on 30 July of that year. Anashkin lived in

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, where he died on 23 January 1951, being buried at the

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. His health had been undermined by his imprisonment during the Great Purge and the stresses of combat.

Awards and honors

Anashkin was a recipient of the following decorations: *

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(2) *

Order of the Red Banner The Order of the Red Banner () was the first Soviet military decoration. The Order was established on 16 September 1918, during the Russian Civil War by decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. It was the highest award of S ...

(4) *

Order of Kutuzov The Order of Kutuzov ( ''orden Kutuzova'') is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named after famous Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745–1813). The Order was established during World War II t ...

, 1st class * Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 1st class *

, 2nd class * Medals * Foreign orders

References

Citations

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Anashkin, Mikhail 1901 births 1951 deaths People from Krasnoyarsk Krai People from Yeniseysk Governorate Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet lieutenant generals Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Soviet military personnel of the Polish–Soviet War Soviet military personnel of World War II Frunze Military Academy alumni Academic staff of the Frunze Military Academy Heroes of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of Kutuzov, 1st class Recipients of the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Soviet Union), 1st class Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery