Georgy Alexandrovich Kaloev(1916-1987) - Soviet officer, participant in the Great Patriotic War. During the war - battalion commander of the 302nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 100th Guards Rifle Division. In the post-war years - commander of the 381st and 350th Guards Parachute Regiments.
Biography
During the war, Georgy Kaloev participated in a reconnaissance and sabotage search operation in the area of the city of Mozdok in the Caucasus in 1942, in a landing operation in the Novorossiysk region, in battles on Malaya Zemlya, in training junior commanders in a training battalion and battles in Karelia in 1943-1944 years, in the Iasi-Kishinev operation and the liberation of Romania in 1944, in battles in Hungary, Austria, in the liberation of Vienna in 1945.
After the war, Kaloev continued to serve in the airborne troops, in 1948 he graduated from the Higher Officer Courses of the Airborne Forces, in 1956 - the Shot course. From 1954 to 1960, commander of the 381st, then 350th parachute regiments. In 1973, he retired to the reserve with the rank of colonel and lived in Vladikavkaz.
Georgy Alexandrovich died on April 22, 1987. He was buried in Vladikavkaz.
Feat
In April 1945, Georgy Aleksandrovich Kaloev skillfully organized the actions of the battalion entrusted to him in the battles during the liberation of Vienna. On April 5, 1945, at night, the battalion defeated the enemy garrison in the Vienna suburb of Wiener Neudorf, killing about a hundred Nazis and capturing an aircraft factory and 25 serviceable aircraft.
Excerpt characterizing Kaloev, Georgy Alexandrovich
Platon Karataev knew nothing by heart except his prayer. When he gave his speeches, he, starting them, seemed not to know how he would end them.When Pierre, sometimes amazed at the meaning of his speech, asked him to repeat what he had said, Plato could not remember what he had said a minute ago - just as he could not tell Pierre his favorite song in words. It said: “darling, little birch and I feel sick,” but the words didn’t make any sense. He did not understand and could not understand the meaning of words taken separately from speech. His every word and every action was a manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life. But his life, as he himself looked at it, had no meaning as a separate life. She made sense only as a part of the whole, which he constantly felt. His words and actions poured out of him as uniformly, necessarily, and directly as a scent is released from a flower. He could not understand either the price or the meaning of a single action or word.
Having received news from Nicholas that her brother was with the Rostovs in Yaroslavl, Princess Marya, despite her aunt’s dissuasions, immediately got ready to go, and not only alone, but with her nephew. Whether it was difficult, not difficult, possible or impossible, she did not ask and did not want to know: her duty was not only to be near her perhaps dying brother, but also to do everything possible to bring him her son, and she stood up drive. If Prince Andrei himself did not notify her, then Princess Marya explained it either by the fact that he was too weak to write, or by the fact that he considered this long journey too difficult and dangerous for her and for his son.
Within a few days, Princess Marya got ready to travel. Her crews consisted of a huge princely carriage, in which she arrived in Voronezh, a britzka and a cart. Traveling with her were M lle Bourienne, Nikolushka and her tutor, an old nanny, three girls, Tikhon, a young footman and a haiduk, whom her aunt had sent with her.
It was impossible to even think about going the usual route to Moscow, and therefore the roundabout route that Princess Marya had to take: to Lipetsk, Ryazan, Vladimir, Shuya, was very long, due to the lack of post horses everywhere, very difficult and near Ryazan, where, as they said the French were showing up, even dangerous.
During this difficult journey, M lle Bourienne, Desalles and Princess Mary's servants were surprised by her fortitude and activity. She went to bed later than everyone else, got up earlier than everyone else, and no difficulties could stop her. Thanks to her activity and energy, which excited her companions, by the end of the second week they were approaching Yaroslavl.
During her recent stay in Voronezh, Princess Marya experienced the best happiness of her life. Her love for Rostov no longer tormented or worried her. This love filled her entire soul, became an inseparable part of herself, and she no longer fought against it. Lately, Princess Marya became convinced—although she never clearly told herself this in words—she became convinced that she was loved and loved. She was convinced of this during her last meeting with Nikolai, when he came to announce to her that her brother was with the Rostovs. Nicholas did not hint in a single word that now (if Prince Andrei recovered) the previous relationship between him and Natasha could be resumed, but Princess Marya saw from his face that he knew and thought this. And, despite the fact that his attitude towards her - cautious, tender and loving - not only did not change, but he seemed to rejoice in the fact that now the kinship between him and Princess Marya allowed him to more freely express his friendship and love to her, as he sometimes thought Princess Marya. Princess Marya knew that she loved for the first and last time in her life, and felt that she was loved, and was happy and calm in this regard.
But this happiness on one side of her soul not only did not prevent her from feeling grief for her brother with all her might, but, on the contrary, this peace of mind in one respect gave her a greater opportunity to fully surrender to her feelings for her brother. This feeling was so strong in the first minute of leaving Voronezh that those accompanying her were sure, looking at her exhausted, desperate face, that she would certainly get sick on the way; but it was precisely the difficulties and worries of the journey, which Princess Marya took on with such activity, that saved her for a while from her grief and gave her strength.
As always happens during a trip, Princess Marya thought only about one journey, forgetting what was its goal. But, approaching Yaroslavl, when what could lie ahead of her was revealed again, and not many days later, but this evening, Princess Marya’s excitement reached its extreme limits.
When the guide sent ahead to find out in Yaroslavl where the Rostovs were standing and in what position Prince Andrei was, met a large carriage entering at the gate, he was horrified when he saw the terribly pale face of the princess, which leaned out of the window.
TO Aloev Georgy Aleksandrovich - battalion commander of the 302nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 100th Guards Rifle Division of the 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, guard captain.
Born on November 7, 1916 in the village of Veselovskoye (now part of the Mozdok region of the Republic of Alania - North Ossetia) in a peasant family. Ossetian. After the death of his parents from typhus, he was brought up in an orphanage in the city of Vladikavkaz. He graduated from 7 classes in the village of Veselovskoye. Studied at the Pedagogical Institute.
In the Red Army since 1938. He graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Military Infantry School in 1940. He served as a platoon commander of cadets, then head of the training unit of a cadet battalion at the Buinaksk Infantry School.
In the active army since December 1942. He was the commander of a sabotage and reconnaissance group behind enemy lines, the commander of a special-purpose airborne company at the headquarters of the Western Front, and the commander of a training battalion. In 1943-1946 - commander of the rifle battalion of the 302nd Guards Rifle Regiment. He fought on the Transcaucasian, North Caucasian, Karelian, and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. Member of the CPSU since 1943.
Participated:
- in a reconnaissance and sabotage search operation in the area of the city of Mozdok in the Caucasus - in 1942;
- in the landing operation in the Novorossiysk region, in the battles on Malaya Zemlya, in the training of junior commanders in the training battalion and battles in Karelia - in 1943-44;
- in the Iasi-Kishinev operation and the liberation of Romania - in 1944;
- in battles in Hungary, Austria, in the liberation of Vienna - in 1945.
Seriously wounded three times. Each time he returned to battle formation.The commander of the guard battalion, Captain Kaloev, skillfully organized the battalion's actions in the battles during the liberation of Vienna in April 1945. On April 5, 1945, at night, the battalion defeated the enemy garrison in the Vienna suburb of Wiener Neudorf, killing about a hundred Nazis and capturing an aircraft factory and 25 serviceable aircraft.
On April 11, 1945, the battalion broke into Vienna, destroyed up to 600 Nazis in street battles, crossed the shipping canal and captured a bridgehead, which contributed to the success of the division’s military operations.
U Kaz of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 28, 1945 for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown to the guard captain Kaloev Georgy Alexandrovich awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.
After the war, Kaloev continued to serve in the airborne troops. In 1948 he graduated from the Higher Officer Courses of the Airborne Forces, in 1956 - the Shot course. Since 1954 - commander of the 381st Guards and 350th Guards Parachute Regiments. Since 1960 - deputy commander of the 104th Guards Airborne Division for logistics.
Since 1973, Colonel G.A. Kaloev has been in reserve. Lived in the city of Vladikavkaz. Died April 22, 1987. He was buried in Vladikavkaz on the Walk of Fame of Krasnogvardeisky Park.
Awarded the Order of Lenin (04/28/1945), the Order of the Patriotic War 1st (03/11/1985) and 2nd (04/17/1943) degrees, the Red Star (11/05/1954), “Badge of Honor” (10/30/1967), medals .
One of the streets in the village of Veselovskoye is named after the Hero. In the city of Ramenskoye, Moscow Region (where the 100th Guards Airborne Division was formed), a street was named in honor of the Heroes Paratroopers.
By decree of the President of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania A.Kh. Galazov dated July 16, 1995, Veselovskaya Secondary School was named after Hero of the Soviet Union G.A. Kaloev. There is a bust of the Hero in the school yard.
Who was Georgy Kaloev during the war years! A shooter, a scout, a teacher, a paratrooper, a paratrooper - and in everything he was an expert, a master of his craft.
Georgy Kaloev had barely turned 2 years old when his parents, poor peasants in the village of Veselovsky, Mozdok district, died from typhus that was then raging. George was also battered by this terrible disease, but the child’s body survived. The older sister, in whose care the boy was left, could barely make ends meet herself. For the benefit of the orphan, she sent him to the Vladikavkaz orphanage. Here the boy was raised until 1925, and then returned to his native village, where, with the help of his sister, he received a seven-year education.
After graduating from school, the young man came to the city of Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz) with the intention of going to a military school, but he was let down... by age. They didn't accept it. Entered the Pedagogical Institute.
In 1938, Kaloev took his documents from the Pedagogical Institute, and he was enrolled as a cadet in the Ordzhonikidze, now twice Red Banner, Infantry School.
After graduating from college, Lieutenant Kaloev was appointed to the position of commander of a platoon of cadets at the Buinaksk Infantry School. While training cadets, the commander improved his knowledge day after day. By June 1941, Georgy Kaloev was already the head of the training unit of the cadet battalion.
On the very first day of the war, Kaloev submitted a report in which he asked to be sent to the front. The answer was no. But the senior lieutenant stood his ground: every time he reminded the school command of his desire.
Finally, Georgy Kaloev got his way. But we had to fight not on the front line... In 1942, during the battle for the Caucasus, senior lieutenant Kaloev was appointed commander of a sabotage and reconnaissance group. In the very first mission, the group under his leadership killed 15 fascists, 4 policemen, 5 bridges were blown up, and most importantly, the Nazis were not allowed to export grain to Germany from Mozdok. The senior lieutenant spent almost six months behind the front line, transmitting important information about the location, forces, and plans of the enemy. For the successful completion of this task, Kaloev received the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, and the military rank of captain ahead of schedule.
As an experienced front-line soldier and paratrooper, Kaloyev was appointed company commander of the 31st Special Purpose Airborne Regiment. In February 1943, he was part of the main landing party and took part in the landing and battles in the South Ozereyka area north of Novorossiysk. Under cover of darkness, the paratroopers captured the coastal fortifications. When the Nazis realized it, the shore was already in our hands. At dawn the enemy launched a counterattack. Then counterattacks followed one after another, but the courageous Soviet soldiers did not flinch and held out. Kaloyev's thinned company made its way to the area of the auxiliary landing on Myskhako.
In the heavy battles for “Malaya Zemlya,” as this bridgehead was called by the paratroopers, the soldiers of Captain Kaloev’s company fought exceptionally bravely. The company commander himself was seriously wounded. He was urged to evacuate to the rear, but he refused. Almost all the soldiers, sergeants and officers of the company were wounded, but no one left the battlefield until reinforcements arrived. Kaloev’s wound turned out to be serious and he could not escape the hospital.
Returning to duty after recovery, Captain Kaloev was appointed commander of the training battalion of the 100th Guards Rifle Division, which was operating at that time on the Karelian Front. In the forests of Karelia, Kaloev trained junior commanders for the division. The cadets' studies were combined with combat practice. They often had to be alerted and engage in battle with individual enemy groups, every now and then infiltrating to the rear through the wooded and swampy terrain.
In August 1944, after the defeat and surrender of Finland, the 100th Guards Rifle Division was redeployed to the southwestern direction, to the 3rd Ukrainian Front. She took part in the Iasi-Kishinev operation, in the liberation of Romania, Hungary and Austria.
Soon, Guard Captain Kaloev became commander of a rifle battalion. On the approaches to the capital of Austria - Vienna, his battalion was assigned to the lead detachment. The rapidly advancing battalion met stubborn enemy resistance near the village of Wiener Neudorf. Kaloev left one platoon to demonstrate an attack from the front, and led the main forces of the battalion to the flank and at night launched a sudden flank attack on the enemy garrison. The Nazis were put to flight. As a result of the night attack, the Nazis lost about 100 soldiers and officers. The battalion captured an aircraft factory, where there were 25 new aircraft ready for combat missions. Having handed over the trophies, Kaloev and his battalion immediately rushed into Vienna. In street battles, the Kaloevites destroyed up to 600 soldiers and officers and captured 2 warehouses with uniforms.
On April 11, 1945, the battalion reached the central part of the city and was the first to reach the Vienna Ship Canal. At the same time, the city railway station was captured, where there were a large number of locomotives and carriages. Up to 800 fascist soldiers and officers were killed.
But the further advance of the battalion was stopped by enemy artillery, mortar and machine gun fire. The battalion's attempts to cross the Vienna Canal on the move were unsuccessful.
With the onset of darkness, the division commander, Major General I.A. Makarenko, gave the signal to begin artillery preparation. The formation's guns and mortars rained deadly fire on the enemy. Under the cover of artillery fire and the darkness of the night, Captain Kaloev swam with his battalion to the opposite bank of the canal. At the battalion commander's signal, artillery fire was transferred deep into the enemy defense. The paratroopers unitedly attacked enemy positions. Stunned by the sudden blow, the enemy began to hastily retreat from the shore. The main forces of the division began crossing the canal.
And Kaloyev’s battalion received a new task. He had to capture the bridge over the Danube. The enemy prepared this only bridge for explosion. It was mined and could fly into the air any minute. With a well-prepared night attack, the battalion captured the bridge. The soldiers, without waiting for the miners, eliminated the danger of an explosion. By holding the bridge, the battalion cut off the retreat routes for enemy troops. This ensured the defeat of the entire enemy garrison defending the capital of Austria. On April 13, 1945, Vienna was liberated by Soviet troops from the Nazi invaders.
Having traveled a long military path - from Mozdok to Vienna, a former orphanage resident, a graduate of the Ordzhonikidze Military School, communist Georgy Aleksandrovich Kaloev ended the war as a Hero.
Kaloev Georgy Aleksandrovich - battalion commander of the 302nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 100th Guards Rifle Division of the 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, guard captain.
Born on November 7, 1916 in the village of Veselovskoye (now part of the Mozdok region of the Republic of Alania - North Ossetia) in a peasant family. Ossetian. After the death of his parents from typhus, he was brought up in an orphanage in the city of Vladikavkaz. He graduated from 7 classes in the village of Veselovskoye. Studied at the Pedagogical Institute.
In the Red Army since 1938. He graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Military Infantry School in 1940. He served as a platoon commander of cadets, then head of the training unit of a cadet battalion at the Buinaksk Infantry School.
In the active army since December 1942. He was the commander of a sabotage and reconnaissance group behind enemy lines, the commander of a special-purpose airborne company at the headquarters of the Western Front, and the commander of a training battalion. In 1943-1946 - commander of the rifle battalion of the 302nd Guards Rifle Regiment. He fought on the Transcaucasian, North Caucasian, Karelian, and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. Member of the CPSU since 1943.
Participated:
- in a reconnaissance and sabotage search operation in the area of the city of Mozdok in the Caucasus - in 1942;
- in the landing operation in the Novorossiysk region, in battles on Malaya Zemlya, in training junior commanders in a training battalion and battles in Karelia - in 1943-44;
- in the Iasi-Kishinev operation and the liberation of Romania - in 1944;
- in battles in Hungary, Austria, in the liberation of Vienna - in 1945.
Seriously wounded three times. Each time he returned to battle formation.
The commander of the guard battalion, Captain Kaloev, skillfully organized the battalion's actions in the battles during the liberation of Vienna in April 1945. On April 5, 1945, at night, the battalion defeated the enemy garrison in the Vienna suburb of Wiener Neudorf, killing about a hundred Nazis and capturing an aircraft factory and 25 serviceable aircraft.
On April 11, 1945, the battalion broke into Vienna, destroyed up to 600 Nazis in street battles, crossed the shipping canal and captured a bridgehead, which contributed to the success of the division’s military operations.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 28, 1945, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism of the guard, Captain Georgy Aleksandrovich Kaloev was awarded the title with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.
After the war, Kaloev continued to serve in the airborne troops. In 1948 he graduated from the Higher Officer Courses of the Airborne Forces, in 1956 - the Shot course. Since 1954 - commander of the 381st Guards and 350th Guards Parachute Regiments. Since 1960 - deputy commander of the 104th Guards Airborne Division for logistics. Since 1973, Colonel G.A. Kaloev - in reserve. Lived in the city of Vladikavkaz. Died April 22, 1987. He was buried in Vladikavkaz on the Walk of Fame of Krasnogvardeisky Park.
Awarded the Order of Lenin (04/28/1945), orders of the 1st (03/11/1985) and 2nd (04/17/1943) degrees, the Red Star (11/05/1954), “Badge of Honor” (10/30/1967), and medals.
One of the streets in the village of Veselovskoye is named after the Hero. In the city of Ramenskoye, Moscow Region (where the 100th Guards Airborne Division was formed), a street was named in honor of the Heroes Paratroopers.
By decree of the President of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania A.Kh. Galazov dated July 16, 1995, Veselovskaya Secondary School was named after Hero of the Soviet Union G.A. Kaloev. There is a bust of the Hero in the school yard.
Kaloev Georgy Alexandrovich
Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel.
The glory of the exploits of famous people lives, without exaggeration, for centuries. Stories about their merits are passed down from generation to generation. And what could be more valuable than these stories about the lives of our illustrious compatriots, who, not in words, but in deeds, day after day, risking their lives, proved their love for the Motherland.The life and biography of Georgy Aleksandrovich Kaloev, who went through the military path from Mozdok to Vienna, is unique and inimitable. During the menacing years of the Great Patriotic War, he was called the master of night attacks, the commander of the “winged guard.”
Georgy Alexandrovich was born in 1916 in the village of Veseloye, Mozdok region. The boy was only two years old when his parents died of typhus. He was brought up in a Vladikavkaz orphanage, graduated from a pedagogical institute, and entered the Ordzhonikidze Infantry School. Then he served at the Buinaksk Infantry School, where he became the head of the training unit of the cadet battalion.
From the very first days of the Great Patriotic War, he was eager to go to the front, but all his requests were refused: Georgy Alexandrovich was more needed in the rear.
But he waited in the wings: in 1942, during the days of the battle for the Caucasus, senior lieutenant Kaloev was appointed commander of a sabotage and reconnaissance group. In the first mission, the group under his leadership killed 15 fascists, 4 policemen, 5 bridges were blown up, and most importantly, the Nazis were not allowed to export grain to Germany from Mozdok. For the successful completion of this task, Kaloev received the Order of the Red Star and the rank of captain. As an experienced front-line soldier and paratrooper, Georgy Alexandrovich was appointed company commander of the 31st Special Purpose Airborne Regiment. In fierce battles on Malaya Zemlya, Kaloyev’s paratroopers demonstrated miracles of courage and heroism, for which Georgy Alexandrovich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree, and appointed battalion commander.
It was on Malaya Zemlya that Kaloev became a particularly famous commander, a favorite of the soldiers who were ready to follow him through thick and thin.
Georgy Kaloev's finest hour came in the victorious 1945, when he participated in the liberation of Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia. For his exploits, our fellow countryman Georgy Aleksandrovich Kaloev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
After the Great Patriotic War, Colonel Kaloev continued to serve in the Airborne Forces, graduated from the highest officer courses of the Airborne Forces... For military services to the Fatherland, he was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War, I and II degrees, the Red Star, and the “Badge of Honor.”
On April 22, 1987, he passed away. But the memory of this courageous and modest man continues to live in the hearts of his fellow soldiers, everyone whom fate encountered with him.
Y. ZAPOEV, honorary veteran of the Republic of North Ossetia–Asia, retired colonel.
