Mahmud Gareev Biography

Born on July 23 in Chelyabinsk. Soviet and Russian military leader, military theorist. Army General. Doctor of Military Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. Makhmut Gareev was born on July 23 in Chelyabinsk. By nationality - Tatar. Father - Akhmet Gareev, worker. Mother is Rakhima Gareeva, a housewife. The family was large - eight sons and daughters. Later they moved to Omsk, and at the beginning of X due to the fact that his father could not find a job, the family went to Central Asia - to Uzbekistan.

One of his sisters subsequently worked as a teacher in the Uzbek village for 40 years. The family settled in the ancient city of Karsha. He studied first at the Uzbek school, then in Russian. The family was talked in Tatar. From an early age, he was fond of military history. I read a lot about the great Russian commanders - Suvorov, Kutuzov, wanted to be like them. In addition, the life itself in the then Uzbekistan was military: the basmachi who came from Afghanistan regularly attacked the city where they lived.

In the city of Karshi, to protect against the Basmachi, there was a cavalry regiment - Mahmuth became a frequent guest there, played in the wind orchestra on Alta and Bariton. The Red Army fed him for this. At the beginning of the year, he was sent to the Tashkent Infantry School, which General Petrov then commanded, became known after the defense of Odessa and Sevastopol.

But he did not have to study for long - in view of the beginning of the war, already in November they were released from the school as platoon commanders and sent immediately to the front near Moscow. Many of his release were in the yu division, which later became Panfilovskaya. Gareeva was sent to the south of a separate shooting brigade. The 3rd battalion intended for him fought surrounded.

When he reached, not a single officer was left in the ranks - he had to take the command of the battalion on himself. He recalled: “So my first position in the war was a battalion commander. I was, however, for a long time, the more experienced officer, Captain Gubkin, did not arrive. I received the 1st company. And the platoon never once disdain.” In his youth, Makhmut Gareev commanded a platoon in the Central Asian Military District, studied at the highest rifle-tactical courses for the improvement of the team of infantry "Shot".

Since December - on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He fought on the western and 3rd Belarusian fronts. He was the deputy commander of the rifle battalion, an assistant, deputy chief and chief of the operational part of the headquarters of the rifle brigade, from June - an officer of the headquarters of the Rifle Corps. In the year in the battles near Rzhev, he was wounded.

He recalled: "It was in August. He was on the attack near the village of Varganovo, Kaluga Region. Now it is no longer on the map. In the right hand of a grenade, in the left gun. Here is a German bullet in the left hand between the thumb and index finger. I went through my palm, the bone was not hurt. I thought it would be a palm. The hospitals are evil there, they didn’t sleep for three days, and they won it!

In the year he was again injured - already in the head. In February, after leaving the hospital, he was sent to the Far East, a senior officer of the operational department of the headquarters of the 5th Army. In its composition, on the 1st Far Eastern Front, he fought during the Soviet-Japanese war in August. He ended the war with the rank of major. After the war, up to a year, he continued to serve at the headquarters of the 5th Army in the Far Eastern military district.

In the year he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy. In the years - the chief of staff of the regiment, a senior officer of the operational department of the headquarters of the Belarusian military district, the commander of the Guards Educational Motor Rifle Regiment in the School Tank Division of the Belarusian Military District, the chief of staff of the Gvardei motorized rifle division.

In the year he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. Since the year - deputy commander of the division, commander of a motorized rifle and tank divisions. From July to September - chief of staff - First Deputy Commander of the Combined Arms Army in the Belarusian Military District. In years - the main military adviser in the United Arab Republic was called Egypt and Syria for some time.

Since December - chief of staff of the Ural Military District. Since February, the head of the Military Scientific Department of the General Staff, Deputy Head of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff. Colonel General has been the main military adviser in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of a limited contingent of Soviet troops from there. He played a large role in planning combat operations of government troops of the President Najibullah.

From the year - retired. He was well acquainted with the poet and writer Konstantin Simonov. They met during the war. Makhmut Akhmetovich recalled: “I met Simonov in the year, in the area of ​​Medyn, when he came to the front in our South Rifle Brigade of the Western Front.After active hostilities, our battalion was brought into the second echelon. And we were located there in the forest west of the honey, dug trenches on the outskirts of the forest near a road.

Then the commanders told us that some military correspondent of Simonov arrived from Moscow. He wanted to talk with a group of officers. Accompanied by the commissar of the battalion, he arrived with us, someone else was with him. And he began to ask about the fighting that we led, how did he always ask: what did you feel in battle, what is the most dangerous point? He looked into the soldier’s soul, into its most sweaty corners.

I told him that I was most afraid of bombing. Because when you go on the attack, then either you will heal the enemy, or he is you. When you will score in the funnel from the rupture of the artillery shell, you know that by the theory of probability the second shell will not fall there. But when they are bombing from above, but you can’t do anything, you feel helplessness.

This is the worst thing I felt during the war. He told Simonov about this. "Later they met with him many times after the war. In the year, Gareev was appointed the head of the military scientific department of the General Staff and Simonov came to him with a problem - he was not allowed to be archives. He began to actively engage in military scientific work in the years.

He wrote the books" Tactical teachings and maneuvers "," M. Frunze - military theoretic "," general. teachings ”,“ ambiguous pages of war ”,“ my last war ”,“ if tomorrow is war? .. After the creation of the Academy of Military Sciences, a non -governmental research organization in February, was elected by its president. He was engaged in the study of issues of the history of the Great Patriotic War, actively participated in scientific discussions, opposed the falsification of the history of war.

He noted that the desire to challenge the victory of the USSR over fascism is closely connected with the propaganda campaign against modern Russia. In scientific collections, edited by Makhmut Gareev, thousands of previously unknown documents about the war were introduced into circulation. Zhukov - for the book "Marshal Zhukov. Greatness and uniqueness of general art. " And not only from the history of the Great Patriotic War.

After the victory in the war, it so happened that Russia almost in all its wars suffered defeats - both in the Crimean war, and in the Russian -Japanese and World War I. In my opinion, the reason is largely in the fact that at the head of state, and hence the army, all these years, were not too competent leaders. No people can not only win, but even more or less agreed to act in the conditions of war, if someone does not competently lead them.

Therefore, the conversations that in the Great Patriotic War were defeated not thanks to, but contrary to Stalin, life itself refutes. During the war, not a single decision, without coordination with the Supreme Commander, could not be made. Therefore, both Stalin and the Supreme High Command played a role.