Years of service 1919 - 1945 Rank Major general Service/branch Red Army | Name Stepan Guryev Awards Allegiance Soviet Union | |
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Born 1 August 1902
Romanovo, Russian Empire
(now Lenino, Lipetsk Oblast, Russian Federation) ( 1902-08-01 ) Commands held 5th Airborne Corps / 39th Guards Rifle Division (1942-1943)
16th Guards Rifle Corps (1944-1945) Battles/wars World War II
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Konigsberg Died April 22, 1945, East Prussia Battles and wars World War II, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Konigsberg Similar People Yakov Smushkevich, Michitaro Komatsubara, Grigori Shtern, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Georgy Zhukov | ||
Stepan Savelevich Guryev (Russian: Степан Савельевич Гурьев; 1 August 1902 - 22 April 1945) was a Soviet Red Army officer and major-general in World War II who led the 5th Airborne Corps, which was reformed into the 39th Guards Rifle Division in August 1942 and fought at Stalingrad.
Biography
Appointed commander of the 16th Guards Rifle Corps in 1944, he led the Corps into East Prussia and the Battle of Königsberg.
The general was killed in action at Pillau (today Baltiysk) on 22 April 1945, three days after being awarded the honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
The city Guryevsk in the Russian Federation's Kaliningrad Oblast is named after him.
References
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