Vladimir Zakharovich Romanovsky (, 30 June 1896 – 5 September 1967) was a Soviet general.

Biography

He was born into a peasant family in the village of Veshalovka (Old Veshelovka) in the

Lipetsk Lipetsk (, ), also Romanization of Russian, romanized as Lipeck, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh (river), Voronezh River in the Do ...

region of the

Tambov Governorate Tambov Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, the Russian Republic, and the Russian SFSR, with its capital in Tambov. It was located between 51°14' and 55°6' north latitude, north and betwee ...

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He fought for the Imperial Russian Army in World War I and for the Bolsheviks in the subsequent civil war and in the war against

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. In 1935 he graduated from the

Frunze Military Academy The M. V. Frunze Military Academy (), or in full the Military Order of Lenin and the October Revolution, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Academy in the name of M. V. Frunze (), was a military academy of the Soviet and later the Russian Armed Forces ...

. In April 1938 he became Deputy Commander of the 2nd Separate Red Banner Army in the Far East and participated in the

Battle of Lake Khasan The Battle of Lake Khasan (), also known as the Changkufeng Incident (Chinese and Japanese: zh, s=張鼓峰事件, labels=no; Chinese pinyin: zh, hp=Zhānggǔfēng Shìjiàn, labels=no; Japanese romaji: ), was an attempted military incursion b ...

in 1938. Since July 1940 he was commander of the 10th Army in the Western Special Military District and since March 1941, assistant commander of the

Volga Military District The Volga Military District (PriVO) was a military district of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation that existed from 1918 to 1989 and 1992 to 2001. The district headquarters was located at Kazan, Saratov and Kuibyshev (Samara) at differen ...

World War II

At the outbreak of the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II ...

, Romanovsky was Commander in Chief of the

Arkhangelsk Military District The Arkhangelsk Military District () was a regional Military districts of the Soviet Union, military district of the Red Army which oversaw the North-Western part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The district was formed in 1940 ...

until May 1942. Then he became Commanding Officer of the 1st Shock Army (23 May 1942 - 18 December 1942),

2nd Shock Army The 2nd Shock Army (), sometimes translated to English as 2nd Assault Army, was a field army of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. This type of formation was created in accordance with prewar doctrine that called for Shock Armies to ''o ...

(2 December 1942 - 23 December 1943), 42nd Army (14-24 March 1944), 67th Army (23 March 1944 - 28 February 1945) and finally the 19th Army (6 March 1945 – 9 June 1945). After the war, he was commander of the troops of the Voronezh Military District, the 4th Guards Army (Central Group of Forces),

North Caucasus Military District The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Armed Forces from 1992-2010. Before 1992 it had been part of the Soviet Armed Forces since 1918. In 2010 it became the Southern Military District and lately also included t ...

and Don Military District. From January 1952 to October 1957, he was the head of the Higher Academic Courses at the K.E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy. Since October 1957 - head of the faculty for the training of officers at the

. He went into retirement in October 1959 for reasons of health.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Romanovsky, Vladimir 1896 births 1967 deaths Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Soviet colonel generals Russian military personnel of World War I People of the Russian Civil War People of the Polish–Soviet War Soviet military personnel of World War II Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 1st class Recipients of the Order of Kutuzov, 1st class Frunze Military Academy alumni