Grigorij Zwieriew

Зверев (born March 15, 1900 in Alchevsk, Russia) end of World War II

He graduated from a 2-class school. In 1919 he joined the Bolshevik army. He participated in a civil war with white men. In 1922 he underwent infantry courses, and in 1924 graduated from the Infantry School. From 1926 he commanded a company of 224 firing squad. In 1930 he underwent higher shooting courses. In the years 1931-1933 he was the head of a unit in the head of one of the military regions, then the chief of staff of the 224th regiment. In 1936 he took command of the 289th regimental regiment. In 1937, he became chief of staff of the 19 th Rifle Regiment. On the wave of purge in the officer corps in 1938 he was arrested by the NKVD, but was released into the wild. In the years 1939-1940 he participated in the Soviet-Finnish war as commander of one of the shooting division. After graduating, he graduated from the Military Academy for them. M. Frunze, then became the division commander of the 146th Division of the Rifle Division. From the spring of 1941 he commanded the 190th Strzelecka Division, which after the invasion of the German troops on the USSR on 22 June, fought on the southwestern front.

In August, G. Zwierwia was wounded and taken to German captivity. He was imprisoned in prisoners of war camps in Ukraine. He managed to run to the Soviet side, where he was arrested for some time by the NKVD. In January 1942 he was released, then took command of the 8th Rifle Division and then 323 Rifle Brigades. In the autumn of that year he became deputy commander of the 127th Rifle Division, and in March 1943 - commander of the 350th Rifle Division and at the same time a military commander of Kharkov. On March 22, when he tried to get out of the encirclement, he was seriously wounded and re-entombed. Set up in the POW camp in Dnipropetrovsk, in June he joined the Russian liberation movement, Gen. Andrey Vlasov. He then served in the ROA Propaganda School in Dabendorf, conducting inspections in POW camps. In the autumn of 1944 he joined the Committee of the Liberation of the Nations (KONR). On February 21, 1945, he became commander of the 2nd Infantry Infantry Division of the KONR, formed and trained from March on the Heuberg training ground. He tried unsuccessfully to go with her to the territories occupied by Allied troops. On May 10th he was captured by a Soviet patrol, after which he wanted to commit suicide, but was only severely wounded. After the famous Moscow commander, the ROA was sentenced to death on August 1, 1946. Bibliography

Kirył M. Aleksandrow, Officer Corps of the Army of Lieutenant-General AA Vlasov, 1944 - 1945, 2001

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