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Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov

In the photo: Lieutenant General M.S. Shumilov. Stalingrad. 1943 Beketovka.

N. Virta reported to the Pravda newspaper by phone: “Stalingrad. 1st of February. So, it's done! Over Stalingrad, over its central part, the red banner flutters again. Let the whole country remember this date – January 31, 1943.” British Prime Minister W. Churchill in his message to I.V. He wrote to Stalin on February 1, 1943: “... please accept my congratulations on the surrender of Field Marshal Paulus and on the occasion of the end of the 6th German Army. This is truly an amazing victory."

Extract from operational report No. 32 (705) of the General Staff of the Red Army at 8.00 1.02.43: “10. Don Front. During January 31, 1943, front troops continued to fight to destroy the remnants of enemy troops in the Stalingrad area. The commander of the 6th German Army, Field Marshal von Paulus, and the Chief of Staff of the Army, Major General Schmidt, with the headquarters of the 6th Army, surrendered to our troops and at 15.00 on January 31, 1943 they were taken to the headquarters of the 64th Army. Paulus transferred command of the Southern Group of Forces, surrounded in the central part of Stalingrad, to the commander of the 71st Infantry Division, who ordered the troops to cease hostilities and himself surrendered. The southern group of enemy forces ceased organized combat operations. Our units are receiving enemy soldiers and officers who are surrendering and at the same time clearing individual buildings of small groups of officers and SS men who have settled in them and are resisting. The enemy’s northern group continues to provide stubborn, organized resistance.”

In the story of my fellow countryman Viktor Nikolaevich Drobotov “January is Ending” the events are described as follows...

...yes, it all happened on January 31, 1943 in the city of Stalingrad. The final victory came in Stalingrad on February 2, 1943. But the beginning, its anchors, the anchors of victory were thrown on January 31st. Sometimes we remember in a strange way. The feeling is that we remember as it suits us, but we would like to be remembered in truth. And not only individual heroes, but all those - from privates to marshals - whose names we have no right to never forget. I am Becket's girl from the war. Shumilovites filled our entire area. They fought to the death.

Now the assessment of the role of the troops of the 64th Army is expressed simply: “Thanks to the fortitude and tenacity of the troops of the 64th Army, Stalingrad survived” (Soldiers of the 20th Century. Issue III. T.I.M., 2003. P. 68). I never want to exceed the role of the 64th Army. I collect and analyze materials about the soldiers of the 64th Army who defended my small homeland. For what? Firstly, I would like to know more fully the history of my dear, beloved Beketovka. Secondly, so that younger generations know the history and heroes, so that they are proud of them. Thirdly, so that veterans are respected and the connection between generations is not broken.

We go on excursions with schoolchildren and even kindergartens to a house on Krasnoufimskaya Street (formerly Kalanchevskaya) in Beketovka. We see the house where Mikhail Stepanovich had his headquarters. We read the memorable words on the memorial plaque, and the most valuable thing is that on the side of the house there is an inscription from those menacingly heroic years:

“GLORY TO THE RED ARMY SOLDIERS WHO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE ENcirclement.”

There are photos, and more than one, where M.S. Shumilov, A.S. Chuyanov and a group of comrades are standing near this house, which housed the headquarters of the 64th Army. It was here, behind a carved table with a table lamp with green glass, that the surrendered German Field Marshal Paulus and 16 captured generals were brought for interrogation to Lieutenant General Shumilov. It was in my native Beketovka. All this remains forever in the history of the Battle of Stalingrad. The heroic defense of Stalingrad remained for humanity as a memory to know it and understand that in the future such barbarity should never be repeated on Earth.

In the photo in the center:

Alexey Semenovich Chuyanov - First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee and City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Chairman of the City Defense Committee 1941-1945. and the commander of the 64th Army, Lieutenant General Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov. Stalingrad. 1943 Beketovka.

PEOPLE, TAKE CARE OF THE PEACE AND THE EARTH! STALINGRAD TEACHES THIS.

How do we remember history? October 20 this year I’m going on a tour through the halls of the Panorama Museum “Battle of Stalingrad”. I listen attentively to the wonderful guide, but... We somehow casually pass by a table with a green lamp, under which Shumilov, Paulus and others were sitting. They conducted an interrogation, and there was a historical event. Let me express my feeling from the excursion: “Perhaps it would be better to keep all these exhibits in the house where they were. The panorama museum is magnificent. It contains a huge number of interesting exhibits. Each requires its own separate story, and not just passing by and information in passing.”

When in the Kirov region, on the initiative of the search team “Fire of Memory” named after A.N. Sergeev. and with the support and assistance of the Kirov RVC, the Veterans Council and the administration of the district and hero city of Volgograd, on May 7, 2005, they opened the first monument in the country - a bust of the legendary army commander M.S. To Shumilov, people said this: “It’s good that it took many years, but they did this thing. This man deserves people’s memory” (veterans); “To my shame, forgive me, but I don’t know who Shumilov is” (young 30-year-old man). Under the bust it is written very simply and very modestly “Shumilov M.S.” A request to those who can solve this issue and make a worthy inscription:

“Veterans and residents of the Kirov district of the hero city of Volgograd are asking to decipher who he is, Shumilov M.S., what are his merits?”

This request is fair. We hope for your understanding on this matter. I would like to believe that someday (perhaps in the near future) guests will come again to the Kirovsky district, to Krasnoufimskaya street, 20, on an excursion. This was the case after the war, when high military officials, excursions from the USSR and Germany, came and saw where the first interrogation of Paulus was carried out. The department store has a very interesting “Memory” museum, but... bring Paulus to us in Beketovka (as it once was in 1943 on January 31), i.e. bring excursionists to us too. But for this, it is necessary to create a museum no less worthy for the legendary Lieutenant General Shumilov, who was the first to interrogate the field marshal. The military is not allowed to do this, but it happened that the lieutenant general interrogated the field marshal, and this is the truth of the story. I would like to believe that we will learn to honor our heroes deeply, sincerely, fully and with dignity.

In the photo, Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov is on the far right

Mikhail Shumilov's wife and son

Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov was born in 1895 on November 18, died in 1975 on June 28. In the Kirovsky district there is a street named after General Shumilov. There is a memorial plaque on the pre-war house telling about M.S. Shumilov. Children from kindergarten No. 214, schoolchildren from school No. 139, gymnasium No. 9, etc. come to her, hold rallies, conversations, and lay flowers. Beketov-Kirov residents remember and love Mikhail Stepanovich. After the war, he was a frequent visitor to Beketovka. This man was very modest and spoke more often about his soldiers than about himself. Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko talked about Shumilov: “I remember how in particularly difficult moments he said in a calm bassoque: “We don’t lose heart, comrade commander, I ask you not to worry about us, we will complete the task.” This confidence of the army commander was transmitted to every soldier of the army, who unwaveringly defended the Stalingrad land and truly fought to the death.”

“Army Commander General M.S. Shumilov had good military knowledge and rich practical experience. Outwardly, he gave the impression of being phlegmatic, but in fact it turned out that at the right moments he can be very energetic and decisive,” Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky characterized him.

“Major General Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov (now Colonel General) is a man of great soul, has a broad military and political outlook, strong will and high demands,” writes Marshal of the Soviet Union A. I. Eremenko. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, Shumilov from the first to the victorious day. After the Battle of Stalingrad, the 64th Army was transformed into the 7th Guards Army. The soldiers, his guardsmen, loved their army commander and sang a song about him...

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov in October 1943. The Motherland highly appreciated the merits of M.S. Shumilov, conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and awarding three Orders of Lenin, four Orders of Kutuzov, 1st degree, the Order of the Red Star, many medals, as well as foreign awards. In May 1970, M. S. Shumilov was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the hero city of Volgograd. He is also an honorary citizen of the cities of Bratislava, Belgorod, Balti and his native village of Verkhnyaya Techa, Kurgan region. On Lysaya Gora in the Sovetsky district of the hero city of Volgograd, an obelisk was erected in memory of the exploits of the 64th (7th Guards) Army of General Shumilov. In November 2006, Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov would have turned 111 years old. When you meet veterans who served with him, you see photographs of him in our Kirov Palace of Culture, at Factory No. 91 (now Khimprom) or in a boarding school with children, you feel him as an ordinary person.

Photo: 1943. General Shumilov and the children of Stalingrad.

And here is a photo from 1943, January 31st. Beketovka. Headquarters of the 64th Army. There are two people standing - Shumilov and Chuyanov. They are waiting for Paulus to arrive. Two real Russian men, two reliable people, did their hard military work well. They defended home, Motherland, childhood, peace. Mikhail Stepanovich had a son, Igor, his blood. He also took part in the war.

M.S. Shumilov and son

When his son was nominated for an award, his father crossed out his last name and told him: “We are fighting and defending our Motherland not for awards.” In this Shumilov is a general and a man. He did everything for the Motherland, oh the Motherland remembers its hero son.

From the combat diary of the Wehrmacht High Command:

Eastern Front: January 31, 1943. In Stalingrad, despite heroic resistance, the defense of the southern cauldron fell. The army headquarters organized a perimeter defense with the last units within a radius of 300 m around Red Square (as they called the Square of the Fallen Fighters - D.V.). On the morning of January 31, the last radiogram was received from the southern group led by Field Marshal Paulus. Thus their resistance ceased.

Eastern Front: February 1, 1943. The 6th Army (southern cauldron) transmitted 01/31 at 7:45 am. His last radiogram: “The Russians are at the door, we are preparing destruction. We destroy." (Stalingrad, 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad in documents. M., 1995, pp. 371-372). The Pravda newspaper wrote: “This was the beginning. The dam broke. The remnants of tank, cavalry and other units began to surrender. The streets of Stalingrad were again filled with fascists, but already unarmed, thin, unshaven, dressed in rags. They crawled out of the dugouts with their hands raised, holding machine guns clamped between their legs. There was no time to count the prisoners. Thousands of them gathered in the squares. Many wandered the streets and asked the typical question: “Where is captivity?”

... in the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper Ilya Ehrenburg wrote: “The Germans call the encirclement a “cauldron.” Well, the big Stalingrad cauldron has boiled over. But the Germans now have to get used to their surroundings: there are quite a lot of cauldrons and kettles, and in each of them Krauts are boiling. We are now also accustomed to something: we are accustomed to beating the Germans wholesale, and we will see this through to the end.”

		Tombstone (view 1)
		Tombstone (view 2)
		Memorial plaque in Moscow
		Monument in Kurgan
		Bust in Kharkov
		Annotation board in Kharkov
		Bust in Volgograd
		Memorial plaque in Voronezh

Shumilov Mikhail Stepanovich - commander of the 7th Guards Army of the Steppe Front, guard colonel general.

Born on November 5 (17), 1895 in the village of Verkhnyaya Techa, Shadrinsky district, Perm province, now part of the Kataysky district of the Kurgan region. Russian. He graduated from the zemstvo rural school and studied at the teachers' seminary in Chelyabinsk.

In the Russian Imperial Army since 1916. In 1916 he graduated from the Chuguev Military School. Participant of the First World War as a junior officer in the Kremenchug Infantry Regiment, warrant officer. In 1917, he was a member of the Red Guard detachment at the front, a participant in revolutionary events. At the end of 1917 he was demobilized, returned to his native village, and took part in the establishment of Soviet power.

In April 1918, he volunteered to join the Red Army. Participant in the Civil War. The commander of a volunteer detachment, in May 1918 he joined the 4th Ural Rifle Regiment, formed in the city of Shadrinsk. He commanded a company in the regiment, and then became regiment commander. He fought on the Eastern and Southern fronts. In 1919, he was appointed commander of the 85th Special Rifle Brigade. Together with her, they crossed the Sivash and stormed Perekop, and fought against Makhno in Ukraine.

After the war he remained in the Red Army. From July 1921, he commanded a battalion and the 20th Infantry Regiment in the 7th Infantry Division of the Kharkov Military District. In 1924, he graduated from the Kharkov refresher courses for senior and senior command and political personnel, after which he was appointed chief of staff of a rifle regiment. In 1929 he graduated from the Comintern rifle-tactical advanced training course for the command staff of the Red Army "Vystrel". Since November 1929 - commander and military commissar of the 21st Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the Ukrainian Military District. From December 1933 - chief of staff of the 96th Infantry Division of that district, then - assistant commander of the 87th Infantry Division. Since June 1937 - commander of the 7th Infantry Division of the Kyiv Military District.

In February 1938 - March 1939, he took part in hostilities in Spain as an adviser to the commander of the Army Group of the Central-South Zone.

Since April 1939 - commander of the 11th Rifle Corps in the Belarusian Special Military District. At the head of the corps, he participated in the liberation campaign in Western Belarus in September 1939 and in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. Since July 1940, the corps was stationed in the Baltic Special Military District.

On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War from June 1941 as commander of the 11th Rifle Corps of the 8th Army of the North-Western Front; participated in an unsuccessful defensive battle in the Baltic states, with great difficulty brought parts of the corps out of encirclement at the end of July near Lake Peipsi. Since August 1941 - deputy commander of the 55th Army of the Leningrad Front, participated in the defense of Leningrad. In November 1941 he was recalled to Moscow.

From January 1942 - deputy commander of the 21st Army on the Southwestern Front, participated in the tragic battles of the summer of 1942 in the Kharkov direction and on the Don.

From August 1942 until the end of the war - commander of the 64th Army (from April 16, 1943, transformed into the 7th Guards Army). 64th Army under the command of Lieutenant General Shumilov M.S. for almost a month it held back the 4th Panzer Army of Hoth on the distant approaches to Stalingrad. Thanks to the tenacity of soldiers and officers, as well as the thoughtful and courageous actions of the army commander, industrial enterprises continued to operate in the south of Stalingrad (now the Kirov and Krasnoarmeysky districts of the hero city of Volgograd). Then, for almost six months, parts of the army held the defense in city neighborhoods to the death.

Subsequently, units of the army under the command of M.S. Shumilov participated in the Battle of Kursk, the crossing of the Dnieper, the Kirovograd, Uman-Botoshan, Iasi-Chisinau, Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava-Brnov, Prague operations, liberated Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia. The army fought as part of the Stalingrad, Don, Voronezh, Steppe, and 2nd Ukrainian fronts.

By Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 26, 1943, for the successful crossing of the Dnieper River, the strong consolidation and expansion of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper River and the courage and heroism of the Guard Colonel General Shumilov Mikhail Stepanovich awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

After the Victory in 1945-1947, he continued to command the 64th Army. In 1948 he graduated from the Higher Academic Courses at the Higher Military Academy named after K.E. Voroshilov. He commanded the troops of the White Sea (1948-1949) and Voronezh (from May 1949) military districts. Since October 1955 - at the disposal of the USSR Minister of Defense. Since January 1956, Colonel General Shumilov M.S. - retired due to illness. In April 1958, he was returned to the Armed Forces and appointed military consultant to the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defense. He was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 3rd and 4th convocations (1950-1958).

Lived in the hero city of Moscow. Died June 28, 1975. He was buried in the hero city of Volgograd, on Mamayev Kurgan.

Military ranks:
Colonel (November 1935),
brigade commander (06/15/1937),
division commander (11/4/1939),
Major General (06/04/1940),
Lieutenant General (December 31, 1942),
Colonel General (10/20/1943).

Awarded 3 Orders of Lenin, 4 Orders of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of Suvorov 1st degree, Orders of Kutuzov 1st degree, Red Star, "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree, medals, 12 foreign awards, among which are two Orders of the British Empire, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland.

Honorary citizen of the cities of Volgograd (May 4, 1970), Bratislava (Slovakia), Belgorod (1963), Beltsov (1966). Shebekino, Verkhnyaya Techa village.

Monuments to the general were erected in the hero city of Volgograd and in the city of Kurgan (in May 2010). In the name of Hero of the Soviet Union M.S. Shumilov named streets in Moscow, Volgograd, Belgorod, Cheboksary, Shadrinsk, Kataysk, Kirovograd (Ukraine). Memorial plaques were installed on the houses where he lived in Moscow, Shadrinsk, Voronezh, as well as Kirovograd, Kataysk and Shadrinsk, on the building of the Verkhnetechenskaya secondary school in his native village. The name of M.S. Shumilov was given to SPTU No. 18 in the city of Kharkov, a bust was installed on the territory of the school, and an annotation board was installed on the facade of the building.

Essays:
Durability 64th. – In the book: The Battle of Stalingrad. 4th ed. Volgograd, 1973;
The 7th Guards is coming. – In the book: Ahead – Kharkov. Kharkov, 1975.

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Shumilov Mikhail Stepanovich, Colonel General (1943). Hero of the Soviet Union (10/26/1943). Born on November 5 (17), 1895, in the village of Verkhnetechenskoye, Shadrinsky district, Perm province.

Born into a peasant family. He graduated with honors from a rural school in 1911 and entered a teachers' seminary in the city of Chelyabinsk, where he studied until July 1916. Then he was mobilized for military service and sent to the Chuguev Military School, after which he was appointed a junior officer in the 109th reserve regiment in the city of Chelyabinsk.

Shumilov Mikhail Stepanovich

In March 1917, he left this regiment for the Western Front, where he fought as part of the 32nd Kremenchug Regiment as a junior officer of a company. In December of the same year, he was demobilized as a teacher. From January 1918 he worked as a rural teacher, and in March he was appointed volost military commissar, while simultaneously studying surveying courses. In the Red Guard since April 1918; participated in the suppression of the rebellion of the Czechoslovak Corps.

In the Red Army since May 1918: he was a platoon and company commander and assistant commander of the 4th Ural Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division. In 1919, he was appointed commander of the 85th Special Rifle Brigade, which later crossed the Sivash and stormed Perekop. Later he fought with the armed forces of Ataman N.I. Makhno in the Gulyai-Polye region. Since July 1921, Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov commanded a battalion as part of the 58th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the Kharkov Military District, and later commanded a battalion and a regiment in the 20th Infantry Regiment of the same division.

After graduating from the higher Kharkov repeated courses for command and political personnel in June 1924, he served in senior positions in the regimental level of the same division. After graduating in November 1929 from the Comintern Rifle-Tactical Improvement Course for the command staff of the Red Army "Vystrel", he was appointed commander and military commissar of the 21st Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the Ukrainian Military District (UVO). In December 1933 M.S. Shumilov was appointed chief of staff of the 96th Infantry Division of the UVO, then assistant commander of the 87th Infantry Division. In November 1935, he was awarded the military rank of colonel.

In June 1937 M.S. Shumilov was awarded the military rank of brigade commander, and he was appointed commander of the 7th Infantry Division of the Kyiv Military District. In the period from February 1938 to May 1939, as an adviser to the commander of the Republican Army Group of the Central-Southern Zone, he volunteered to participate in the Spanish Civil War. Upon returning to his homeland, he was appointed commander of the 11th Rifle Corps of the Belarusian Special Military District. Participant of the Red Army's campaign in Western Belarus in 1939. In January-March, commanding the 11th Corps, he participated in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940. In June 1940, he was awarded the military rank of major general. Since July 1940, the corps under his command became part of the 8th Army of the Baltic Special Military District.

He met the Great Patriotic War in the same position. The corps under his command as part of the 8th Army of the North-Western Front fought defensive battles on the territory of Latvia. Subsequently, the corps fought back in the direction of Riga and further to Tartu, and later fought heavy defensive battles in Estonia at the border of Pärnu and Tartu. Since August 1941, Major General M.S. Shumilov became deputy commander of the 55th Army of the Leningrad Front, which defended the southern approaches to Leningrad, and in December he was appointed commander of the emerging 1st Special Rifle Corps, but did not actually command it.

In January 1942 M.S. Shumilov is appointed deputy commander of the 21st Army as part of the Southwestern Front. In this position, in May he participated in the Battle of Kharkov 1942.

Since August 1942, M.S. Shumilov took command of the 64th Army, which had been defending the southwestern outskirts and southern part of Stalingrad since September. After the enemy broke through the front defense at the junction with the 62nd Army and his troops reached the Volga in the Kuporosnoye area, the main forces of the army defended the area south and southwest of Stalingrad, repeatedly launching counterattacks on the flank of the enemy group trying to capture the city. When launching a counteroffensive, the army acted as part of the main strike group of the Stalingrad Front. In December 1942, Shumilov M.S. was awarded the military rank of lieutenant general. In January 1943, the army became part of the Don Front and participated in the liquidation of the encircled group of Nazi troops near Stalingrad. After the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the army was transferred to the Voronezh Front and fought defensive battles on the Seversky Donets River in the Belgorod region. By a directive of the Supreme High Command Headquarters of April 16, 1943, for its distinction in the battles of Stalingrad, it was transformed into the 7th Guards Army.

In October 1943, Shumilov M.S. awarded the rank of Colonel General. Subsequently, General M.S. Shumilov skillfully commanded the army during the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of the Dnieper, Kirovograd, Uman-Botoshan, Yassy-Kishinev, Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava-Brnov and Prague offensive operations. At the final stage of the war, considerable credit belongs to General M.S. Shumilov in creating units of the new Romanian army, in establishing friendly relations and fraternal solidarity between Romanian and Soviet soldiers and officers.

After the war, Colonel General M.S. Shumilov continued to command the 64th Army. In February 1946, he was appointed commander of the 52nd Army as part of the Lvov Military District. Since June of the same year, he commanded the 13th Army as part of the Carpathian Military District. After graduating in 1948 from the Higher Attestation Commission at the Higher Military Academy named after. K.E. Voroshilov was appointed commander of the White Sea Military District. In May 1949, he was transferred to the post of commander of the Voronezh Military District. From October 1955 to January 1956 he was at the disposal of the USSR Minister of Defense, then in January 1956 he was dismissed for health reasons. By resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated April 24, 1958, M.S. Shumilov was again returned to the ranks of the Soviet Army and appointed military consultant to the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Died June 28, 1975. He was buried on Mamayev Kurgan in the city of Volgograd.

Awarded: 3 Orders of Lenin, 4 Orders of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of Suvorov 1st degree, Orders of Kutuzov 1st degree, Red Star, “For service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR” 3rd degree; foreign orders, including: Great Britain - Military Order of the Empire twice; Polish People's Republic - "Renaissance of Poland" 1st degree, as well as many Soviet and foreign medals.

Born on November 17, 1895 in the village of Verkhnyaya Techa (Verkhnetechenskoye), Kataysky district, Kurgan region, into a peasant family.

In 1916, during the First World War, he graduated from the Chuguev Military School and received the rank of ensign. Took part in the First World War.

Service in the Red Army before the Great Patriotic War

In May 1918 he entered service in the Red Army.

During the Civil War, in 1918-1920, he rose from platoon commander to commander of a rifle regiment. He took part in battles on the Eastern and Southern fronts.

In 1919, he was appointed commander of the 85th Special Rifle Brigade, crossed Sivash and stormed Perekop.

In 1924 he completed the courses for command and political personnel, in 1929 - the “Shot” course.

Participated in hostilities in Spain.

As commander of a rifle corps, he participated in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940.

The Great Patriotic War

As commander of a rifle corps from June 1941, he participated in the defense of Leningrad.

Deputy commander of the 55th and 21st armies on the Leningrad and Southwestern fronts (1941?1942)

Commander of the 64th Army, which took part in the Battle of Stalingrad (from August 1942), and in March 1943, transformed into the 7th Guards Army (1942?1945), which fought at Stalingrad, Donskoy, Voronezh, Stepnoye and 2nd m Ukrainian fronts

On October 20, 1943, the commander of the 7th Guards Army, Lieutenant General M.S. Shumilov, was awarded the military rank of “Colonel General.”

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal was awarded to Colonel-General Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated October 26, 1943 “for the skillful leadership of military formations during the crossing of the Dnieper and the personal courage and heroism shown at the same time.” .

Subsequently, units of the army under the command of M. S. Shumilov participated in the Battle of Kursk, the crossing of the Dnieper, the Znamenskaya, Kirovograd, Yassy-Kishinev, and Budapest operations, the liberation of Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

After the war

In 1948 he graduated from the Higher Academic Courses at the Higher Military Academy named after. K. E. Voroshilova.

After the war, he commanded the troops of the military districts:

• Belomorsky (1948-1949)
• Voronezhsky (1949-1955)

From 1956 to 1958 he was retired.

Since 1958 - military consultant to the Group of Inspectors General of the Ministry of Defense.

Died in Moscow. Buried in Volgograd, on Mamayev Kurgan

Political activity

• Since 1918, member of the CPSU.
• Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 3rd and 4th convocations.

Memory

• Tombstone on a grave on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd;
• Monuments in the cities: Volgograd and Kurgan;
• Streets in the following cities are named after Shumilov: Moscow, Volgograd, Kirovograd, Minusinsk, Kataysk, Belgorod;
• In Moscow, on the house where he lived (Leningradsky Prospekt, 75), a memorial plaque was installed;
• A memorial plaque was installed in the city of Shadrinsk (stolen in the mid-1990s);
• In the Kirovsky district of Volgograd, on a street named after Shumilov, a memorial plaque was installed (General Shumilov Street, building 16);
• In the Svetloyarsky district of the Volgograd region, a school is named after him.

Awards

• Medal "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union No. 1495 (October 26, 1943)
• 3 Orders of Lenin
• 4 Orders of the Red Banner
• two Orders of Suvorov, 1st degree
• Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree (No. 123)
• Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree
• medals
• foreign orders and medals
• Honorary citizen of the cities: Volgograd, Balti, Belgorod, etc.

Essays

• Durability 64th. - In the book: The Battle of Stalingrad. 4th ed. Volgograd, 1973;
• The 7th Guards is coming. - In the book: Ahead - Kharkov. Kharkov, 1975