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Line 1: {{Short description\|Soviet military commander}} {{Other people\|Mikhail Yefremov\|Mikhail Yefremov (disambiguation){{!}}Mikhail Yefremov}} ~~{{unreferenced\|date=October 2008}}~~ {{expand Russian\|date=May 2023\|topic=bio}} [[File:Efremov - military instructor.jpg\|thumb\|right\|220px\|Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov]]▼ {{expand Ukrainian\|date=May 2023\|topic=bio}} [[Lieutenant General]] '''Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov''' (also '''Efremov''') ({{lang-ru\|Михаи́л Григо́рьевич Ефре́мов}}) (February 22, 1897, [[Tarusa]], [[Kaluga Governorate]] – {{Death date and age\|1942\|04\|19\|1897\|02\|2+2\|df=yes}} was a military commander of the [[Soviet Union]]. He took part in the [[October Revolution]], joined the [[Bolshevik Party]] in 1919, and became a division commander in 1921. He also became a military advisor to the National Government of [[China]] in 1928. During [[World War II]], he commanded the [[Soviet Central Front]] in August 1941, and the Soviet [[33rd Army (Soviet Union)\|33rd Army]] from October 1941. After that army was surrounded and partially destroyed at [[Vyazma]] in March–April 1942.The Russian high command ordered him to flee the unit by flying out but he refused, subsequently the 33rd army was destroyed and he committed suicide to avoid being taken prisoner by the Germans. There is a monument dedicated to him in Vyazma.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = Ефремов Михаил Григорьевич\|url = http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=3248\|website = www.warheroes.ru\|accessdate = 2016-01-09\|language = Russian\|trans-title = Yefremov Mikhail Grigoryevich}}</ref>▼ ▲[[File:Mikhail Efremov ~~- military instructor~~1.jpg\|thumb\|right\|220px\|Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov]] ▲[[Lieutenant general\|Lieutenant General]] '''Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov''' ~~(also '''Efremov''')~~ ({{lang-ru\|Михаи́л Григо́рьевич Ефре́мов}}); ~~(February~~March ~~22,~~11 1897, [[Tarusa]], [[Kaluga Governorate]] – ~~{{Death~~April ~~date~~19 ~~and~~1942, ~~age~~[[Vyazemsky District, Smolensk Oblast\|~~1942\|04\|19\|1897\|02\|2+2\|df=yes}}~~Vyazemsky District]]) was a Soviet military commander ~~of the [[Soviet Union]]~~. He took part in the [[October Revolution]], joined the [[~~Bolshevik~~Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Russian Communist Party (b)]] in 1919, and became a division commander in 1921. He also became a military advisor to the National Government of [[China]] in 1928. During [[World War II]], he commanded the [[~~Soviet~~ Central Front]] in August 1941, and the Soviet [[33rd Army (Soviet Union)\|33rd Army]] from October 1941. After that army was surrounded and partially destroyed at [[Vyazma]] in March–April 1942.The Russian high command ordered him to flee the unit by flying out but he refused, subsequently the 33rd army was destroyed and he committed suicide to avoid being taken prisoner by the Germans. There is a monument dedicated to him in Vyazma.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = Ефремов Михаил Григорьевич\|url = http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=3248\|website = www.warheroes.ru\|accessdate = 2016-01-09\|language = Russian\|trans-title = Yefremov Mikhail Grigoryevich}}</ref> "Lt.-Gen. Yefremov decided to personally lead the striking force of his army" when [[Georgy Zhukov\|Zhukov]] decided to take [[Vyazma]] in early February 1942. Gen. Belov's Cavalry Corps was able to join them before the Germans cut them off from other advancing Soviet forces. Operating in the German rear next to [[Soviet partisans]], they were supplied by air until April when they were given permission to link up with the main Soviet forces. Most of Gen. Belov's Cavalry Corps made it to the Soviet 10th Army. However, Yefremov decided to take a shorter route which was detected by the Germans. Subsequently, the 33rd army was destroyed and he committed suicide to avoid being taken prisoner by the Germans. "Most of his heroic men fell alongside him." Yefremov was awarded the [[Order of the Red Banner]].<ref name=GeorgyZhukov>{{Cite book \|last=Zhukov \|first=Georgy \|title=Marshal of Victory, Volume II \|publisher=Pen and Sword Books Ltd. \|year=1974 \|ISBN=9781781592915 \|pages=60–62}}</ref> A monument is dedicated to him in Vyazma.<ref>{{Cite web\|title = Ефремов Михаил Григорьевич\|url = http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=3248\|website = www.warheroes.ru\|accessdate = 2016-01-09\|language = Russian\|trans-title = Yefremov Mikhail Grigoryevich}}</ref> ==See also== *[[List of Heroes of the Russian Federation]] == References == {{Reflist}} ~~<references />~~ {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yefremov, Mikhail Grigoryevich}}▼ ▲{{DEFAULTSORT:Yefremov, Mikhail ~~Grigoryevich~~}} [[Category:1897 births]] [[Category:1942 deaths]] [[Category:People from ~~Tarussky~~Kaluga ~~District~~Oblast]] [[Category:People from ~~Kaluga~~Tarussky ~~Governorate~~Uyezd]] [[Category:Bolsheviks]] [[Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members]]▼ [[Category:First convocation members of the Soviet of the Union]] [[Category:Soviet lieutenant generals]] [[Category:Imperial Russian Army officers]] [[Category:Russian military personnel of World War I]] [[Category:Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War]] [[Category:Soviet military personnel killed in World War II]] [[Category:Heroes of the Russian Federation]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour]] [[Category:Soviet military personnel ~~killed~~who indied ~~World~~by ~~War II~~suicide]] [[Category:Suicides in the Soviet Union]] ~~[[Category:Military personnel who committed suicide]]~~ ▲[[Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members]] {{Russia-mil-bio-stub}}