Biography of Shaposhnikov Boris

Father, Mikhail Petrovich, was a manager at a distillery in the village of Petropavlovka near Zlatoust. Mother, Pelagia Kuzminichna, worked as a teacher. The education and the beginning of the service Boris Shaposhnikov graduated from the Krasnoufim Industrial School of the Krasnoufimsky Agrarian College, Krasnoufimsk of the Sverdlovsk Region, then the Alekseevsky Real School in Perm.

In the city of Belebey, now as part of the Republic of Bashkortostan of the Russian Federation, where in the city, having graduated from the 1st category, Boris Shaposhnikov in Tashkent, where he served in the city of GG. After its completion, he was promoted to the headquarters captain and returned to Tashkent, where a censor of the company’s command in the 1st Turkestan Rifle Regiment was held for two years.

In December, Chenstokhov is now Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. The First World and Civil War in the Cavalry Division Boris Shaposhnikov took part in the Battle of Galicia. In October, G. Sokhachev was wounded in the head when a shell rupture. From January to November, in November, for combat merits in the city in May in September, Both formations at that time fought in Belarus.

Boris Shaposhnikov supported the October Revolution of G. in January G. worked for about a month as a secretary in the People’s Court in Kazan. In September - October of the same year, he served as the head of the intelligence department of the field headquarters of the RVSR, in November - March. From March to August, Shaposhnikov served the first assistant chief of staff of the People’s Commissariat for Military and Marine Affairs of the People’s Commissariat of Ukraine, then he was again appointed chief of the reconnaissance department of the field headquarters of the RVSR, in October during the Civil War of the GG.

Boris Shaposhnikov took an active part in the development of basic plans and directives of fronts and armies. Was one of the main authors of the GG campaign plan. The interwar period on February 10 Boris Shaposhnikov served as the first assistant chief of staff Pavel Lebedev. Shaposhnikov, as a military expert of the Soviet delegation, took part in the Lausanne conference of Switzerland, where the Black Sea Strait regime was discussed.

Since May since April. Frunze in the city in June Boris Shaposhnikov received the academic rank of professor of higher military educational institutions. In May of that year, Boris Shaposhnikov was appointed chief of the General Staff of the Red Army. Since March 10, in August 10, the Great Patriotic War after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, from June 23 to July 16, Boris Shaposhnikov was included in the headquarters of the main command in August, he took an active part in the development of counterattacks of the Red Army in the winter of the GG.

Shaposhnikov was removed from the post of head of the General Staff on May 11, Boris Shaposhnikov died on March 26. He was buried on Red Square in Moscow on a rolled urn in the Kremlin wall. Marshal Shaposhnikov was awarded three orders of Lenin,, two orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov I degree, two orders of the Red Star,, medals. Boris Shaposhnikov was the author of a number of military theoretical and historical publications.

His most famous work is the three -volume essay "Army brain", dedicated to all aspects of the activities of the General Staff of the Russian Army in the management of the Armed Forces during the First World War and determined the nature of the future war, had a great influence on the development of Soviet military science. He was married to Maria Alexandrovna Shaposhnikova.

In honor of Marshal Shaposhnikov, a large anti -submarine ship of the project is now named after the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. Wife - Maria Alexandrovna.