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Kuzma Podlas

Soviet lieutenant-general

Summary

Soviet lieutenant-general

Field	Value
name	Kuzma Podlas
birth_date	29 October 1893
death_date
birth_place	Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire
death_place	Kharkiv Oblast, USSR
image	Подлас Кузьма Петрович.jpg
allegiance
rank	lieutenant general
commands	27th Rifle Division
1st Red Banner Army
40th Army
57th Army
battles	Great Patriotic War

1st Red Banner Army 40th Army 57th Army

Kuzma Petrovich Podlas () (1893 – 25 May 1942) was a Soviet lieutenant-general who was killed in action in World War II.

In Russian Civil War, Podlas was a kombrig (brigade commander)) in the Red Army. After the war, he graduated from Vystrel courses (1925) and Frunze Academy (1930).

In 1935, he was promoted to the rank of komdiv (Division commander).

In 1938, Podlas was appointed deputy commander of Kiev Special Military District; shortly thereafter he was appointed commander of the 1st (Coastal) Army of the Far Eastern Military District which took part in Battle of Lake Khasan.

Shortly thereafter he was arrested and sentenced to 5-year imprisonment. However, in 1940 he was released among a few other general officers such as Gorbatov and Rokossovsky and reinstated in his previous position. Following adoption of general ranks in the Red Army, he was created major general.

In August 1941, he took command of the 40th Army, which was trying to stop the advance of Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group to Moscow. After that, he was promoted to lieutenant general. On 22 October 1941 he was awarded the Order of Lenin.

In February 1942 Podlas was given command of the 57th Army. He was killed in action in the Kharkov Counteroffensive. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner.

General Podlas is mentioned in Khruschev's Secret Speech as one of the military commanders who were wrongly accused during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

References

{{in lang. ru [http://www.rkka.ru/handbook/personal/2484.htm Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 2494 from November 25, 1935]
{{in lang. ru [[:ru:Викитека:Приказ НКО СССР от 22 апреля 1939 г № 049. Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 049 from 22 April 1939]]
Memoirs of Marshal [[Ivan Bagramyan. Bagramyan]]

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