Marshal Dmitry Yazov. Dmitry yazov - biography, information, personal life

Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov. Born on November 8, 1924 in the village. Yazovo of the Omsk province (now in the Okoneshnikovsky district of the Omsk region of Russia) - died on February 25, 2020 in Moscow. Soviet military leader, statesman and politician. Marshal Soviet Union(28.04 1990). Minister of Defense of the USSR (1987-1991). Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1987-1990). Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1987-1991). Member of the Presidential Council of the USSR (1990). Member of the Security Council of the USSR (1991). Member of the State Emergency Committee (1991).

Dmitry Yazov was born on November 8, 1924 in the village of Yazovo in the Pokrovskaya volost of the Kalachinsky district of the Omsk province (now in the Okoneshnikovsky district of the Omsk region of Russia) into a peasant family.

Father - Timofey Yakovlevich Yazov (died in 1933).

Mother - Maria Fedoseevna Yazova.

The family had four children.

WITH early years loved to read, was fond of poetry. As Yazov said, his favorite poets were Pushkin, Lermontov, Yesenin, Blok, Mayakovsky. While still at school, he memorized Eugene Onegin, which he later read to the soldiers at the front. He began to write poetry himself early.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War volunteered for the front at the age of 17. At the same time, he attributed himself to the age of one year. He himself later said: "I have been since 1924, but I said that since the 23rd. And nowhere has I ever tried to correct this. And when I was sitting in Matrosskaya Tishina, they asked me:" What year were you born? " I replied that since 1924. “And you have here since the 23rd,” they say. I answer: “I added this to myself. Due to the fact that you accuse me of treason and call me an enemy of the people, I want to say that since I was 17 I joined the army and never told anyone that I was younger than required. ”And they began to look. a request to Novosibirsk. This priest's letter came from Novosibirsk when I was baptized. It says - father Timofey Yakovlevich since 1902, mother Maria Fedoseevna - since 1904. On November 8, a son was born, named Dmitry ".

At the military registration and enlistment office, the seventeen-year-old Yazov asked to be sent to the Moscow Red Banner Infantry School, which was then evacuated to Novosibirsk by the decision of the Supreme Command Headquarters. He graduated in June 1942 (but he received his school leaving certificate only in 1953, already being a major).

Since August 1942 on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He fought on Volkhovsky and Leningrad fronts in the positions of commander of a rifle platoon and commander of a rifle company, commander of a platoon of front courses for junior lieutenants of the 483rd rifle regiment of the 177th rifle division of the Leningrad Front. Participated in the defense of Leningrad, in offensive operations Soviet troops in the Baltic States, in the blockade of the Courland group of German troops.

In 1944 he joined the CPSU (b).

He was wounded twice in battle. About the circumstances of the injuries, Yazov told: “Then, when I was not even 18, I was wounded for the first time. The battle was in the swamps. The enemy was not visible. A mine or a shell exploded next to me. I was thrown up. The kidneys were knocked out, the spine was injured. In general, I woke up in the hospital. Then there was a second wound. When the troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts were united. A grenade fell into the trench next to me. For some reason, it did not explode. For some reason, I raised my head, and - an explosion. The fragments hit the face, the head. I still carry one. "

For his feats of arms during the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star in 1945. During the war, he also graduated from the front-line advanced training courses for the command personnel (command personnel) of the Volkhov Front.

I met the victory in the Baltics.

After the end of the war, he was sent to the Advanced Training Courses for officers of the Red Army infantry, which he graduated in 1946 and was appointed commander of a rifle company. In 1953, being in the rank of major, he graduated from evening school, and in 1956 - Military academy named after MV Frunze with a gold medal.

Upon graduation from the academy, he was appointed commander of a motorized rifle battalion.

From October 1958, he was a senior officer in the Combat Training Directorate of the Leningrad Military District.

Since October 1961 - the commander of the 400th motorized rifle regiment of the 63rd Guards Rifle Division, colonel (06/20/1962). He was appointed to the position of regiment commander on the personal instructions of the Marshal of the Soviet Union.

During the Cuban missile crisis, the 400th motorcycle rifle regiment Yazova was secretly deployed to Cuba and was there from September 1962 to October 1963 on alert to repel the invasion of US troops on the island. Awarded with the order Of the Red Banner.

From September 1963 - deputy and then head of the planning and combined arms training department of the headquarters of the Leningrad Military District (until 1965).

In 1967 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff.

Since October 1967 - commander of the 122nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Trans-Baikal Military District, Major General (02.22.1968).

Since March 1971 - commander of an army corps, lieutenant general (12/15/1972).

Since January 1973 - Commander of the 4th Army.

Since May 1974 - Head of Department in the Main Directorate of Personnel of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

Since October 1976 - First Deputy Commander of the Far Eastern Military District, Colonel General (10/28/1977).

Since January 1979 - Commander of the Central Group of Forces on the territory of Czechoslovakia.

Since November 1980 - Commander of the Central Asian Military District, General of the Army (02/06/1984).

Since June 1984 - Commander of the Far Eastern Military District. While serving in the Far East, he became friends with Kim Il Sung.

Since January 1987 - Head of the Main Directorate of Personnel (GUK) - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR for Personnel. He was in this position for only four months.

Dmitry Yazov - Minister of Defense of the USSR

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 30, 1987, completely unexpectedly for himself, he was appointed to the post of Minister of Defense of the USSR. This happened after the landing of Matthias Rust on Red Square and the subsequent resignation from the post of Minister of Defense Marshal of the Soviet Union S.L.Sokolov.

For the first three years as minister, Yazov remained a general of the army, which was unusual - since 1935, all heads of the military department were Marshals of the Soviet Union (with the exception of the one who, in 1941, became the people's commissar of defense, had no rank until 1943).

On April 28, 1990, the President of the USSR awarded Dmitry Yazov the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union. This was the last award of such a title in the history of the USSR.

Yazov became Minister of Defense at a difficult time for the country and the army, when Mikhail Gorbachev made political decisions to reduce nuclear weapons. He, like most of the country's top military leadership, did not agree that reductions should be carried out at such a pace and in such a wide range. He was also forced to comply with the decision to reduce the army, prepare for the withdrawal of groups of Soviet troops from the territory of foreign states (GSVG, TsGV, YUGV, SVG, GSVM).

As the Minister of Defense of the USSR, in accordance with the Geneva Agreements concluded in April 1988 on a political settlement of the situation around the DRA, he carried out the withdrawal of a limited contingent of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1988-1989.

In March 1991, in connection with the reorganization of the Soviet government (the creation of the Cabinet of Ministers under the President of the USSR), he was reappointed to the post of Minister of Defense of the USSR by the Decree of the President of the USSR.

A candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee since February 1981, a member of the CPSU Central Committee from June 1987 to August 1991, a candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee from June 1987 to July 1990.

Member of the Presidential Council of the USSR in March - December 1990.

Member of the USSR Security Council in March - December 1991.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 10-11 convocations (1979-89).

Dmitry Yazov and the State Emergency Committee

In 1991, Yazov joined the upcoming GKChP and from the first day he became a member of it. Tanks and heavy military equipment were brought to Moscow on his orders.

After a trip to Foros to see Gorbachev, he was arrested at Vnukovo-2 airport on the night of August 22, 1991.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR Viktor Barannikov and the Prosecutor General of the RSFSR Valentin Stepankov personally participated in the arrest of Yazov. The investigator filed an official charge under Article 64 of the RSFSR Criminal Code - treason to the Motherland.

On the day of his arrest, a presidential decree was issued on the release of Yazov from the duties of Minister of Defense, which, in accordance with Articles 113 and 127.3 of the USSR Constitution, was submitted for consideration by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, whose meeting opened on August 26, but the decree was never approved by him. Also on this day, the first interrogation of Yazov took place in the Senezh Rest House of the Administrative Department of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR (on Lake Senezh). The Minister of Defense said that there was no conspiracy, but there was a decision to organize a trip to Gorbachev so that he would agree to temporarily entrust his powers to Yanayev and no one discussed the question of the physical liquidation of Gorbachev. At the same time, he said that he felt guilty before Gorbachev and his wife, as well as before the people and the CPSU. And he called the actions of the Emergency Committee "stupidity", which should not be repeated. This interrogation was carried out without a lawyer (and in this regard, in 1994, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized the testimony of Yazov, given by him during this interrogation, invalid and excluded them from the case file).

On the morning of August 22, before the first interrogation, he turned to Gorbachev with a video recorded message in which he read a letter and called himself an "old fool", regretted participating in this "adventure" and asked for forgiveness from the President of the USSR. 20 years after these events, Yazov noted that he did not remember what he was saying, since he had not slept for a day. And he named Molchanov the initiator of this letter and video. On the day of interrogation, Vladimir Molchanov interviewed Yazov. In his memoirs, Yazov clarified that he was persuaded to turn to Gorbachev with a repentant speech in order to defend himself against the article that was being “sewn” for him, and under the influence of fatigue he succumbed to the persuasion of television reporters.

After this interrogation, Yazov, along with another member of the State Emergency Committee, Tizyakov, were taken to the pre-trial detention center in the city of Kashin (Kalinin region). On August 25, Yazov was transferred to Matrosskaya Tishina.

On August 29, 1991, on the recommendation of President Gorbachev, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR approved Yevgeny Shaposhnikov as Minister of Defense, essentially relieving Yazov of his duties as minister (the day before that, the arrested Yazov formally became acting Minister of Defense as a result of the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers).

On December 19, 1991, he was found guilty in absentia under Art. 88, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Lithuanian SSR (attempted coup d'etat), in involvement in the events in Vilnius in January 1991. The article provided for imprisonment for up to 15 years or execution.

On January 26, 1993, the ex-Minister of Defense was released from custody along with other members of the State Emergency Committee Yanaev, Pavlov, Kryuchkov, Tizyakov and Baklanov.

On February 23, 1994 he was amnestied by the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Before that, on February 7, 1994, he was fired from military service and awarded with a personalized pistol.

After retirement, for some time he held the posts of chief military adviser to the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Defense, chief adviser-consultant to the head of the Military Academy of the General Staff.

Participated in veteran events, was present among the honored guests at the Victory parades.

Repeatedly spoke with memories of the Emergency Committee, in which he argued that the conspiracy against state power then there was no: "It was a complete mistake. Firstly, no one was preparing. After visiting the president, they said that he does not decide anything, let's create a Committee, and in the morning we have to announce it. They say there was a conspiracy. What kind of conspiracy, when the Committee was created overnight ?!" Did the country's leadership oppose Gorbachev's policy in the right way? Right. There was no other way. "... According to Yazov, he did not refuse the amnesty, unlike his former deputy Valentin Varennikov, because otherwise he would have been convicted of damaging the asphalt on the streets of Moscow with tanks.

After the re-establishment of the service of general inspectors of the Russian Ministry of Defense in 2008, he was the general inspector of the Office of General Inspectors of the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation.

Consultant to the head of the Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

From 2000 to 2010, he headed the Committee in memory of Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov, since 2010 - a member of the Committee's presidium.

Member of the governing bodies of several public organizations, including the Public Recognition Forum.

In January 2016, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Lithuania at the trial on the "case of January 13" accused Dmitry Yazov in absentia of creating "an organized group of 160 military and political figures with the aim of returning Lithuania to the USSR." The Prosecutor General's Office of the republic demanded life imprisonment for Yazov. On March 27, 2019, the Vilnius Regional Court sentenced ex-Minister of Defense of the USSR Dmitry Yazov in absentia to 10 years in the case of the events of January 13, 1991.

In September 2017, in Omsk, on the territory of boarding school No. 9, a bust monument to Marshal Yazov was unveiled.

Dmitry Yazov. The strength of frontline friendship

There is a friendship that is faithful to the grave.
Yes! - this is friendship of the highest standard!
We all know this kind of friendship
After all, this is a front-line friendship!

In battles for the honor of their Fatherland
I spared neither strength nor life.
And, having walked in the ranks for half a century,
He was a minister and ... a man.

And let the rogues betray us,
But we held the blow firmly.
We have conquered pain and troubles!
Indeed, in our heart is the Light of Victory!

In the fall of 2012, the marshal was taken to the intensive care unit of the Central Military Clinical Hospital. Mandryki is in serious condition - his thrombosis has worsened.

Dmitry Yazov suffered a stroke in April 2017.

Personal life of Dmitry Yazov:

He was married twice. He had four children and seven grandchildren.

First wife - Ekaterina Fedorovna Zhuravleva (1946-1975). They met in March 1943, married in 1946. They lived together for 28 years. The wife died in 1975 after a serious illness.

The eldest daughter died at the age of two - in 1949 she fell into boiling water.

Later in the marriage, a son, Igor, and a daughter, Elena, were born.

Son Igor, navigator of the submarine, died in 1994 at the age of 44.

Daughter Elena gave birth to three children.

One of the Marshal's grandsons crashed in a car and died at the age of 16.

Dmitry Yazov and first wife Ekaterina with son Igor and daughter Elena

The second wife is Esmeralda (Emma) Evgenievna (1976-2017). Been together since 1977. We met in Alma-Ata, where Yazov's sister lived. "We met at her place. We talked. She is lonely, I am lonely," he recalled.

Emma Evgenievna died at the age of 84 in Moscow after a heart attack, and is buried at the Vostryakovskoye cemetery.

Dmitry Yazov - matchmaker of Marshal of the Armored Forces O. A. Losik.

As the Minister of Defense of the USSR, he lived in the house of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the street. Kosygin.

Awards and titles of Dmitry Yazov:

Order of Lenin (02/23/1971);
- Order of Lenin (02/18/1981);
- Order October revolution (20.02.1991);
- Order of the Red Banner (10/01/1963);
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (03/11/1985);
- Order of the Red Star (06/15/1945);
- Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree (04/30/1975);
- Medal "For Military Merit" (04/20/1953);
- 19 medals of the USSR;
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (October 5, 2009, No. 2742);
- Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014);
- Order of Honor (November 8, 2004, No. 12640);
- Award weapon - 9-mm Makarov pistol (is an exhibit in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces);
- Order of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Demetrius Donskoy II Art. (ROC, 2005);
- Order of Honor;
- Order of Che Guevara (Cuba);
- Order of Scharnhorst (GDR);
- Order of the Red Banner (Czechoslovakia);
- Order "For Distinction" I degree (Syria);
- Medal "40 years of Victory at Khalkhin Gol" (Mongolia);
- Medal "50 years of the Mongolian People's Revolution" (Mongolia);
- Anniversary medal "20 years of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan" (2012);
- Honorary Citizen of the Omsk Region

Bibliography of Dmitry Yazov:

1987 - On guard of socialism and peace;
1988 - Loyal to the Fatherland;
1988 - On the military balance and nuclear missile parity;
1989 - Defense Construction: New Approaches;
1990 - Military reform;
1990 - Avoiding war is the highest goal of the Armed Forces of the USSR;
1999 - Strikes of Fate: Memories of a Soldier and Marshal;
2004 - Photo chronicle;
2005 - "Let us bow to those great years ...": Collection of reports and speeches;
2006 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Forty Years Later;
2009 - Marshal Sokolov;
2010 - Marshal of the Soviet Union;
2010 - Gurtieftsy. From Omsk to Berlin;
2011 - Panfilovites in battles for the Motherland;
2011 - August 1991. Where was the army ?;
2016 - Victorious Stalin

The image of Marshal Yazov in the cinema:

2009 - Tomorrow everything will be different - in the role of Marshal Yazov, actor Nikolai Ryabkov;
2011 - Yeltsin. Three days in August - an actor in the role of Marshal Yazov.

On November 8, 1924 Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov was born, the last Minister of Defense of the USSR - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, the last, 41st, Marshal

Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov was born on November 8, 1924 - Soviet military and political leader. Is the last (according to the date of assignment military rank) Marshal of the Soviet Union, received this title in 1990 and the penultimate Minister of Defense of the USSR - he held this post from 1987 to 1991. Marshal Yazov is one of the 3 living Marshals of the Soviet Union and the only one who has not been awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was a member of the State Emergency Committee, in which he represented the country's military leadership.

The personality of Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Yazov is known today to many adults in our country, as well as to many people living in the territory of the former post-Soviet space, as well as outside it. Yazov was a member of the State Emergency Committee, from whom the most decisive actions were demanded and expected, but for the majority of Russians, the marshal will forever remain in the memory of "the one who did not shoot." Yazov never gave an order for the use of force, and without this the GKChP was doomed to failure. The army did not go to war with its own people, the events of August 1991 were almost without casualties. However, the story still took its toll. Russia and the states that emerged on the territory of the post-Soviet space still paid a very high price for the collapse of the country and the construction of new independent states.

Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov can be called a man of incredible, amazing fate, who broke out into the military elite from the very bottom and could have become the last Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union, if not for the above-mentioned GKChP. With the wording "for treason", the front-line marshal is put into the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center practically on his birthday, and literally in a matter of days another person becomes the Minister of Defense of the USSR, and soon the USSR itself ceases to exist as a state. This event becomes a personal tragedy for many millions of citizens who took the oath and tried to serve their Motherland with faith and truth.

It is striking that in the difficult moments of his life - on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, during the death of loved ones and wounds, in a prison cell - the marshal found support in poetry. Yazov could read the entire Pushkin novel "Eugene Onegin" by heart, as well as Lermontov's "Masquerade", the poetry of Mayakovsky, Yesenin, or the work "Who Lives Well in Russia" by Nekrasov. During the war in 1942, as a platoon commander on the Leningrad Front, he read various works to his soldiers in the trenches. Already commanding a regiment - in tents on the territory of Cuba during the famous Cuban missile crisis, when human civilization was on the verge of its possible death.

Yazov often talked about theater, poetry, art during general walks with his famous flatmate Innokenty Smoktunovsky. Much in the fate of this man was unusual. Born on November 8, 1924 in the small village of Yazovo near Omsk, he became the only marshal in the history of the USSR, which was born in Siberia. A hereditary peasant, he managed to survive in the meat grinder of the battles of the Great Patriotic War, fighting from 1942 to 1945 near Leningrad, Volkhov and in the Baltic States. He managed to go from the very bottom to the trench positions to the Minister of Defense of the country.

Biography

Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov was born on November 8, 1924 in the small village of Yazovo, Omsk Region. His father was Yazov Timofey Yakovlevich, the mother of Yazov Maria Fedoseevna - both peasants. The future marshal was proud of his peasant origin. During a meeting with US President George W. Bush, when asked who his parents were, Dmitry Yazov answered: my maternal grandfather, Mr. President, is a farmer, and my paternal grandfather is a soldier. And my parents are also peasants, farmers. His parents were hardworking, modest people, whom Dmitry Yazov was always proud of, as he was proud of his peasant surname, the history of which stretched back centuries.

The Yazov family comes from the city of Veliky Ustyug, they moved to Siberia to Lebyazhye Lake and created a village on this place, which received the same name - Yazovo. It was during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, when the first settlements began to appear on the territory of Siberia on the site of the present major cities- Tyumen, Tara, Tobolsk. Later, the Omsk, Semipalatinsk and Ust-Kamenogorsk fortresses were laid along the banks of the Irtysh River. The Yazov family was famous for its honesty, hard work and kindness. And, of course, the special talent possessed by the Russian people - if necessary, to be a loyal defender of their Motherland.

Not having time to finish high school, Dmitry Yazov was drawn into the crucible of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. Already from the first days of the beginning of the war, more than a dozen volunteers went to the front. The very young guys also went to the military registration and enlistment office. Dmitry Yazov also came to the military registration and enlistment office as a volunteer, although at that time he was not yet 17 years old. In order not to be refused, the future marshal attributed to himself 1 year. At that time, they lived in the villages without passports, so the tall guy was not checked for a long time and was sent to study in Novosibirsk at the school named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, which was evacuated from Moscow. The commanders in that school were front-line soldiers who had recently been discharged from hospitals after being wounded. It was they who began training future officers for the difficulties of frontline life.

Dmitry Yazov remembered those cadets' everyday life for the rest of his life: getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning, morning exercises and a whole day of combat training classes. In the winter of 1941, both near Moscow and in Siberia, frosts reached -40 degrees, but the young cadets, who were constantly under training load, did not notice these frosts. At the school, Dmitry learned that his stepfather, Fyodor Nikitich, was also drafted into the army, and his mother stayed at home with 7 minor children, while his 3 sisters were mobilized to work in military factories.

In mid-January 1942 Dmitry Yazov went to the front. At the same time, studies continued on the trains. Teplushki temporarily turned into classrooms where cadets studied weapons: Tokarev's self-loading rifle, Degtyarev's light machine gun and Maxim's easel machine gun. First, a train with cadets arrived in Moscow. Here and in Solnechnogorsk near Moscow, from mid-February, they completed their studies for some time and again put them on the echelons. When Dmitry Yazov arrived with the rank of lieutenant on the Volkhov front, he was not yet 18 years old.

Yazov hits 177 rifle division, which on August 28, 1942 went on the offensive on the Karelian Isthmus near Senyavin. On the same day, Dmitry was wounded and received a severe concussion. He was able to return to the front only at the end of October 1942 and was sent to the 483rd Infantry Regiment. In mid-January 1943, during the next offensive of the regiment, Dmitry Yazov was wounded again, this time the wound was minor. The nurse on the front line put a bandage on his head and - again into battle. After this battle, Yazov was promoted to the rank of senior lieutenant, and in March 1943 he left the front for advanced training courses for command personnel located in the city of Borovichi. Here the future marshal met his first wife, Ekaterina Fedorovna Zhuravleva, who married him 3 years later.

During the war, Yazov managed to take part in the defense of Leningrad, offensive operations in the Baltic States and the blockade of the encircled Kurland group of German fascist troops. He met the news of victory in the war in Mitava near Riga. And already at the end of July 1945 he received a vacation and after a long 4 years he was able to go to his native village. Yazovo greeted him with joy and sorrow at the same time. The war carried away 34 Yazovs from the village of Yazovo. The first years after the war were quite tense and alarming, but life went on as usual and in 1950 Dmitry Yazov had a son, and in the spring of 1953 - a daughter.

In the same summer of 1953 Dmitry Yazov successfully passed entrance exams to the Military Academy. Frunze, graduating in 1956 with a gold medal. As an excellent student, he was given the opportunity to choose the place of his future service himself, and Dmitry chose his 63rd Guards Krasnoselskaya twice Red Banner Infantry Division. In which he soon received the post of commander of the 400th motorized rifle regiment. This regiment, led by its commander, was stationed in Cuba from September 1962 to October 1963 (in June it receives the rank of colonel). Before returning to the USSR, Dmitry Yazov received a certificate of honor from the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Republic of Cuba, thanked the regiment personnel and personally Fidel Castro.

After the Cuban business trip, Dmitry Timofeevich was appointed deputy head of the general military training and planning department in the Combat Training Directorate of the Leningrad District. In 1967, the future marshal finishes his studies at the Military Academy of the General Staff. After that, his service became much more transient: from October 1967 to March 1971, commander of a motorized rifle division (February 1968 was awarded the rank of Major General), from March 1971 to January 1973, he was a corps commander (December 1972, he was awarded the rank of General- lieutenant), from January 1973 to May 1974 - army commander. From May 1974 to October 1976 he held the post of chief of the first directorate in the Main Personnel Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense, from October 1976 to January 1979 - First Deputy Commander of the Far Eastern Military District. From January 1979 to November 1980 - Commander of the Central Group of Forces. From November 1980 to June 1984, Dmitry Yazov was the commander of the Central Asian Military District.

After that, Yazov returned to Far East and headed the district of the same name until January 1987. Since January 1987, he has held the post of Deputy Minister of Defense of the country, and from May 1987 to August 1991, he was the Minister of Defense of the USSR. The marshal was relieved of his duties after the failure of the State Emergency Committee. On the basis of a decree of August 22, 1991, he was relieved of his duties as the country's defense minister. As a member of the Emergency Committee, he was arrested and was in the "Matrosskaya Tishina" until February 1994, when the members of the Emergency Committee were released from custody under an amnesty. The marshal was dismissed on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 31, 1994.

Despite his rather respectable age, the marshal today does not sit at home with folded arms. He is an advisor to the Minister of Defense of Russia on topical issues of military affairs. Not so long ago he was elected chairman of the Committee in memory of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. Consultant to the head of the Military Memorial Center of the Russian Armed Forces. Periodically, the marshal speaks to cadets and listeners of the capital's military educational institutions, as well as veterans of the Great Patriotic War, taking part in the modern socio-political life of Russian society to the best of their ability and health.

Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich

Marshal of the Soviet Union,
Minister of Defense of the USSR

In the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) he was a platoon commander, deputy. com. companies on the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts. Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1944.

After the war, in various staff and command positions, he commanded a company, battalion, regiment, division, corps, and formation. In 1956 he graduated from the Military Academy. MV Frunze, and in 1967 - the Military Academy of the General Staff. From 1979 he commanded the Central Group of Forces, Central Asian (1980-1984) and Far Eastern (1984-1987) military districts. In 1987-1991. - Minister of Defense of the USSR.

Member of the Presidential Council under Mikhail Gorbachev (03/23/1990).

On the eve of the 45th anniversary of the Victory (28.04.1990) DT Yazov was awarded the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union 1.

Marshal D. T. Yazov awarded:

• 2 Orders of Lenin,
• Order of the October Revolution,
• Order of the Red Banner,
• Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree,
• Order of the Red Star,
• Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree,
• 18 medals,
• as well as 20 awards from foreign countries.

1 Marshal Yazov - one of the members of the State Emergency Committee of the USSR (August 1991). Gave the order for the introduction military equipment to Moscow, and then about its withdrawal. After the failure of the introduction of the state of emergency, he was placed in a cell in the Matrosskaya Tishina prison. Was amnestied by the State Duma of the Russian Federation in February 1994.

V.A. Egorshin, "Field Marshals and Marshals". M., 2000

Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich

In 1953 he graduated from the 10th grade of secondary school at the Leningrad House of Officers, in 1942 - from the Moscow School. Of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, in 1943 - advanced training courses for command personnel on the Volkhov front, in 1946 - advanced training courses for officers of the infantry of the Red Army, in 1956 - the Military Academy. MV Frunze with a gold medal, in 1967 - the Academy of the General Staff, in 1978 - 3-month Higher Academic Courses at the Military Academy of the General Staff.

Drafted into the Armed Forces of the USSR on November 28, 1941, from August 1942 to September 1945 - platoon commander (deputy company commander) on the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts.

In the combat description of 1943 for the deputy commander of a rifle company Yazov DT it is noted that "... he copes with the work, he knows the technology of the company ... deserves to be sent to the courses of company commanders."

After World War II - company commander (January 1946 - October 1953), battalion commander (November 1956 - 1958), senior officer in the Combat Training Directorate of the Leningrad Military District (October 1958 - August 1961) .), commander of a motorized rifle regiment (October 1961 - September 1963), deputy (head) of the planning and combined arms training department of the LMO (until August 1965), commander of a motorized rifle division (October 1967 - March 1971) , commander of an army corps (March 1971-January 1973), commander of an army (January 1973-May 1974), head of the 1st directorate in the Main Personnel Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense (May 1974-October 1976 .), First Deputy Commander of the Far Eastern Military District (October 1976-January 1979), Commander of the Central Group of Forces, Plenipotentiary of the Government of the USSR for Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia Socialist Republic(January 1979 — November 1980), Commander of the Central Asian Military District (until June 1984).

In 1982, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, General of the Army VI Petrov, in attestation to the Commander of the Central Asian Military District, Yazov DT, concludes that he “... is quite consistent with the position held. He is a strong-willed, demanding and comprehensively prepared person. "

Then D. T. Yazov headed the Far Eastern Military District (until January 1987), until May 1987 - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR for Personnel - Head of the Main Directorate of Personnel of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, from May 1987 to August 1991 - Minister of Defense of the USSR. On August 22, 1991, DT Yazov was relieved of his duties as Minister of Defense of the USSR.

By order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of May 31, 1994, DT Yazov was dismissed “... upon reaching the age with the right to wear military uniform clothes and with the presentation of a letter of thanks ”.

D.T. Yazov was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin (02.1971, 02.1981), Orders of the October Revolution (02.1991), the Red Banner (10.1963), the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (04/06/1985), the Red Star (06.1945), "For service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree, as well as 18 medals of the USSR and 20 orders and medals of foreign states.

Military ranks: Colonel - assigned on July 20, 1962, Major General - February 22, 1968, Lieutenant General - December 15, 1972, Colonel General - October 28, 1977, Army General - February 6, 1984 Marshal of the Soviet Union - April 28, 1990

Member of the CPSU since 1944, member of the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1987, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 10-11th convocations.

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Chairman of the Commemoration Committee of Marshal G.K. Zhukov; Marshal of the Soviet Union; Minister of Defense of the USSR (1987 1991), member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1987 1991), candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1987 1990); was born on November 8, 1923 in the village of Yazovo Okoneshnikovsky ... ... Big biographical encyclopedia

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Books

• The blows of fate. Memories of a Soldier and Marshal, Yazov Dmitry Timofeevich. Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov - last marshal great empire. He rose from a platoon commander to the Minister of Defense of the USSR. Prison did not pass him either. The marshal wrote these memoirs while in disgrace. Its ...