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Major General of the Red Army Fedor Ivanovich Trukhin: biography, features of activities and interesting facts

Fedor Ivanovich Trukhin - major general of the Red Army, who fought on the side of fascist Germany during the Great Patriotic War. He held a high post in the Russian Liberation Army (AAA) AA Vlasov.

Origin

Fedor Ivanovich Trukhin was born on February 29, 1896 in the family of Kostroma noblemen, who owned the estate of Panikarpovo, located just 40 miles from the city. His great-grandfather, Nikolai Ivanovich, was a colonel. He took part in the battle of Borodino and was a knight of the Order of St. George IV degree, and in the 1840s he served as a Perm governor.

F.I. Trukhin's father, Ivan Alekseevich, rose to the rank of staff captain, and after his resignation he became a real state councilor and an indispensable member of the provincial presence of the city of Kostroma. Rumors that he was allegedly the leader of the local nobility, and did not find documentary evidence.

Fate of close people

The Trukhin family had five children: four sons - Alexei, Sergei, Fedor and Ivan, and also the youngest daughter - Maria. There is no data about her, but the fate of her brothers was tragic.

Alexey was in the service in the cavalry regiment. In the First World War he fought in the army under the command of General Samsonov. He died in East Prussia in the summer of 1914. Ivan together with his father was shot by the Bolsheviks in 1919. It turned out that they were one of the organizers of a peasant anti-Soviet uprising in their native Kostroma district.

Sergei Trukhin in the 20's engaged in the study of his native land and was a member of the local scientific community. Despite the fact that he was not a military man, he was also repressed in 1938. By that time only one brother remained alive - Fyodor Ivanovich Trukhin.

Biography

Briefly, his life can be described as an endless climb up the career ladder. In 1914 he brilliantly graduated from high school, and then entered the law faculty of Moscow University, where he studied for about two years, then decided to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather and father and become a military man. To this end, Fyodor Ivanovich Trukhin graduated from a special school of ensigns in Moscow. Since 1916, he served in the imperial army and fought on the fronts of the First World War. A year later he was elected commander of one of the regiments who fought in the South-West direction.

After the October Revolution, Trukhin joined the Red Army. In 1925 he completed his studies at the Military Academy of the RKKA them. Frunze. Until 1932, he held the posts of chiefs of staff in various military divisions. Then he taught for several years in an educational institution, which he recently graduated himself.

In 1936 he was sent to study at the Military Academy of the General Staff. Upon its completion Trukhin Fyodor Ivanovich stayed to work here as a senior lecturer at the Department of Operational Art. Since 1939, he was appointed to the position of brigade commander, and soon after that was promoted to major general. Brilliant military career in the Red Army, he completed in the first days of the war with Hitler's Germany to the post of deputy. Chief of Staff of the North-Western Front.

In captivity

General Fedor Ivanovich Trukhin, whose biography changed abruptly after the German invasion of the USSR, on June 27, 1941, on the orders of Colonel-General Kuznetsov, then commander of the North-Western Front, left to observe the withdrawal of Soviet troops to the Penevėžys area. It turned out that a column of enemy armored cars broke just south of the Lithuanian city of Jakobstadt. Trukhin's car was seen and shot. His adjutant died, and the general himself was wounded and taken prisoner. On October 6 of the same year, the GUK of the NCO for No. 090, as a missing person, was expelled from the RKKA lists.

On June 30, Fedor Ivanovich was taken to a camp in Stallupenen (now Nesterov, Kaliningrad Region). A little later he was transferred to Hammelburg in Offlag XIII-D. In October, he signed the document, thereby giving his consent to fight against the Soviet power on the side of Hitlerite Germany. He immediately joined the RTNP (Russian Labor People's Party) and started developing a number of documents for transferring them to the German government.

Trukhin held various positions in the camps for the propagandists of Wustrau and Zittenhorst. Having met with a high-ranking German official, Dr. G. Leibbrandt, he insisted on the earliest creation of the ROA and the transformation of the war from the USSR into a struggle against the totalitarian regime of Stalin. Soon Fyodor Ivanovich was officially released from captivity, and he began teaching in Zittenhorst.

Vlasov's General

In the winter of 1943, Fyodor Ivanovich Trukhin visited Berlin. There, when he was visiting Baidakov, he was introduced to Lieutenant-General AA Vlasov, and on March 25 he was invited to head the ROA school in Dabendorf. There he worked first as head of the training unit, and then completely headed it. Trukhin's duties included the organization of the selection of cadets and their training. It was he who managed to turn ordinary propaganda courses into a real center of training high-class command personnel for the future army of Vlasov.

In March 1945, in Slovakia, not far from Bratislava, Trukhin organized a reconnaissance school for a hundred cadets for the KONR (Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia). Despite the fact that he had noble roots, he was very cautious about joining the organization of former members of the White Movement, including such as BS Permikin and A. V. Turkul.

Considering the April situation at the front, Fyodor Ivanovich was appointed commander in chief of the Southern group of KONR. It was he who initiated the advancement of his troops to the Czech Republic in order to unite them with the group of Major-General S. K. Bunyachenko. In early May, the South Group and the headquarters of the CSDC were in Austria, near Reinbach. While he was negotiating with representatives of the American army, he received news of the whereabouts of AA Vlasov, as well as the decision of S. K. Bunyachenko to take the side of the Czechs preparing the Prague uprising.

To clarify the joint actions, Major-General V. G. Bayersky was sent to them. When he did not return, Trukhin decided to go himself to Bunyachenko and Vlasov. On the way to it, together with General MM Shapovalov, he was captured by Czech partisans on May 8, and the next day he was transferred to the Soviet command, which sent him to Moscow.

Pay

The criminal case against Trukhin was initiated in early September 1942, as soon as the Soviet government learned of his betrayal. At the initial stage, this case was dealt with by the deputy head of the investigative section of the NKVD, the captain of the state security Zarubin. On December 8, 1945, the former general of the Red Army was sentenced to be shot, but in late March of the next year this decision was canceled.

The investigation again resumed. This time the inquiry was conducted by Major Kovalenko, a staff member of the Smersh SMERSH. On April 11, General Trukhin Fyodor Ivanovich was acquainted with the indictment, after which he fully admitted his guilt. According to the verdict of the VKVS on the night of August 1, he and several of his accomplices were hanged. The execution took place on the territory of Butyrskaya prison. On January 7, 1947, by special decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Council, Trukhin was posthumously deprived of all awards and titles.

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