Alexander Gavrilovich Moiseyevsky (; 18 October 1902 18 March 1971) was a
Soviet Army
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major general
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and a
Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
.
Moiseyevsky joined the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...
in 1919 and fought in the
Russian Civil War
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. Later, he became an officer and
political commissar, fighting in the
1929 Sino-Soviet conflict. After the
German invasion of the Soviet Union
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, Moiseyevsky took command of the
303rd Rifle Division
The 303rd Rifle Division began service as a standard Red Army rifle division shortly after the German invasion, and in its first formation fought in the central part of the Soviet-German front for a few months, taking part in the first offensive su ...
in September 1941, leading it in the
Yelnya Offensive and the
Battle of Moscow, during which it was destroyed in the
Spas-Demensk
Spas-Demensk (russian: Спас-Де́менскА. М. Прохоров. "Большой энциклопедический словарь". Москва, 1997, p. 1135.) is a town and the administrative center of Spas-Demensky District in ...
pocket. After reaching Soviet lines and being screened in a
NKVD filtration camp
NKVD screening and filtration camps (russian: Проверочно-фильтрационные лагеря НКВД СССР), originally known as NKVD special-purpose camps / NKVD special camps (russian: лагеря специального н ...
, he became deputy commander of the
160th Rifle Division The 160th Rifle Division of the Soviet Union's Red Army may refer to:
* 160th Rifle Division (1940 formation)
* 160th Rifle Division (1941 formation)
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