TO Orchagin Ivan Ivanovich - former pilot of the 6th Guards Moscow Red Banner Order of Suvorov assault aviation regiment (335th Vitebsk Red Banner Order of Suvorov 2nd degree assault aviation division, 3rd Air Army, 1st Baltic Front), retired major.
Born on March 20, 1916 in the village of Mikhailovka, now in the Tver region, in a large peasant family. Russian. Graduated from school with honors. Worked in Moscow. He aspired to become a pilot and worked as a mechanic in an airship detachment.
He was drafted into the Red Army in 1937, but since he was late for the entrance exams to the flight school, he was sent as an aircraft mechanic to the Stalingrad Military Aviation Pilot School.
After the start of the Great Patriotic War, he received a referral for flight training. In 1943 he graduated from the Balashov Military Aviation School. For some time he served in the reserve aviation regiment. Member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU in 1941-1991.
Junior Lieutenant I.I. Korchagin was a participant in the Great Patriotic War since March 1944. He was sent to the 6th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment, one of the most famous in the Air Force. 22 Heroes of the Soviet Union and one twice Hero fought in the regiment - Ivan Fomich Pavlov. After the first combat missions, the young pilot who showed courage was taken as a partner by the Hero of the Soviet Union N.I. Chuvin.
Over 14 months of fighting, Ivan Korchagin made 126 combat missions, in which he destroyed and hit 5 enemy tanks, 60 vehicles, up to 50 wagons with cargo, 12 artillery pieces, 2 locomotives. He carried out 8 air battles with enemy fighters, in one of which the gunner-radio operator of the crew shot down a German plane.
In battle on August 18, 1944, he burned two vehicles with fuel and destroyed an enemy crossing across the Venta River in the Baltic States. As a result, an enemy counterattack in the area was delayed.
On March 30, 1945, in difficult meteorological conditions, he completed a mission to reconnaissance enemy artillery positions in the area northwest of the city of Königsberg, as a result of which valuable intelligence was delivered to the unit in a timely manner.
In a battle on April 6, 1945 near the village of Medenau (East Prussia), during an attack on enemy artillery and mortar positions, Korchagin’s plane was damaged on the first pass. But the brave pilot did not leave the battle and continued to strike the enemy together with the group until the mission was completely completed. On the way back, the group was attacked by several enemy fighters, two of which managed to cut off Korchagin's damaged plane from the rest of the attack aircraft. He masterfully conducted an air battle, with a skillful maneuver he allowed his gunner-radio operator to shoot down one fighter. Then, already on the burning plane, he reached the front line and landed it “on his belly” in the location of his troops.
U Order of the President of the Russian Federation No. 400 of February 28, 1994 for courage and heroism shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 to retired major Korchagin Ivan Ivanovich awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
Senior Lieutenant I.I. Korchagin, as part of the combined regiment of the 1st Baltic Front, took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow on June 24, 1945.
After the end of World War II, he continued to serve in the USSR Air Force. He graduated from the Higher Officer School of Navigators and was a navigator of an aviation regiment and an aviation division. Since 1959, Major I.I. Korchagin is in reserve.
Lived in the hero city of Moscow. He worked in the Glavrybvod of the USSR, and then in the fire department of the Moscow Metro.
Awarded three Orders of the Red Banner (06/30/1944, 11/26/1944, 05/15/1945), three Orders of the Patriotic War 1st degree (09/16/1944, 04/18/1945, 03/11/1985), Order of the Red Star, medals.
In the city of Moscow, on the house where the Hero lived, a memorial plaque was installed.
Korchagin Ivan Petrovich - commander of the 7th Guards Mechanized Corps (1st Ukrainian Front), major general. Born on August 24, 1898 in the village of Byltsino (according to other sources - at the Chulkovo station) now in the Gorokhovetsky district of the Vladimir region. Russian. In the army since 1915. Participant of the 1st World War; awarded 2 St. George's crosses.
Participant in the Civil War since May 1919. He headed the local transport commission and commanded a battalion of the 501st railway regiment. Then he was appointed assistant chief of staff of the 101st brigade and participated in the suppression of peasant uprisings in the Vladimir district. Since August 1922 - regiment commander in Central Asia. In 1927 he graduated from the “Shot” course. He commanded the rifle regiment of the 1st Mountain Rifle Division. Since December 1936, Korchagin became commander of the 31st mechanized brigade. In 1937-1938 he was repressed.
Participant of the Great Patriotic War from June 1941 as commander of the 17th Tank Division (Southwestern Front). In September-December 1941 - commander of the 126th Tank Brigade. It took a month to escape the encirclement near Vyazma. From December 23, 1941 - head of the Aeroplane Directorate of the Red Army. In June-September 1942 - commander of the 17th Tank Corps (Voronezh Front). From September 1942 he commanded the 7th Guards Mechanized Corps (Kalinin, Bryansk, Central and 1st Ukrainian Fronts). Units of the corps under his command participated in the liberation of the cities of Kromy, Mtsensk, Orel, and Sevsk.
On September 25, 1943, he was the first to cross the Dnieper north of Kyiv. Conducting fierce battles with the enemy, formations and units of the corps liberated the village of Domantovo and the village of Berezovaya Klad (Chernobyl district of the Kyiv region), thereby creating a bridgehead on the right bank and holding it until the main forces arrived.
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal was awarded to Ivan Petrovich Korchagin on October 17, 1943 for the successful leadership of military units and the personal courage and heroism shown.
He ended the war in Prague.
After the war in 1947 he graduated from the Higher Academic Courses at the Military Academy of the General Staff. Commanded the army. Lieutenant General. Lived in Moscow.
Awarded 2 Orders of Lenin, 5 Orders of the Red Banner, Orders of Kutuzov 1st degree, Orders of Suvorov 2nd degree, medals.
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Korchagin Ivan Petrovich(August 24, 1898 - July 24, 1951) - Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union, lieutenant general of tank forces.
Biography
Ivan Petrovich Korchagin was born on August 24, 1898 in the village of Byltsino, now Gorokhovetsky District, Vladimir Region. Russian . In 1914, he was mobilized into the tsarist army and assigned to the 62nd Nizhny Novgorod Regiment. During the First World War he fought on the Austrian Front. In 1916, after graduating from the 5th Moscow School of Warrant Officers, he was appointed platoon commander, then company commander. Sent to the front. In February 1917 he was wounded. He graduated from the First World War as a second lieutenant.
Battle path
He met the Great Patriotic War as commander of the 17th Tank Division of the 5th Mechanized Corps. Participated in the Lepel counterattack, then in the Battle of Smolensk. As a result of heavy losses, his 17th Panzer Division was reorganized into the 126th Panzer Brigade, at the head of which he continued to fight on the Western Front.
Awards
- Medal "Golden Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union No. 1219;
- 2 Crosses of St. George (for participation in the First World War).
Memory
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Notes
Literature
- Team of authors. Great Patriotic War: Komkory. Military biographical dictionary / Under the general editorship of M. G. Vozhakin. - M.; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Pole, 2006. - T. 2. - P. 230-232. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3.
Links
. Website "Heroes of the Country".
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“Indeed,” said Nesvitsky. “If only we had sent two young men here, it would have been all the same.”“Oh, your Excellency,” Zherkov intervened, without taking his eyes off the hussars, but all with his naive manner, due to which it was impossible to guess whether what he was saying was serious or not. - Oh, your Excellency! How do you judge! Send two people, but who will give us Vladimir with a bow? Otherwise, even if they beat you up, you can represent the squadron and receive a bow yourself. Our Bogdanich knows the rules.
“Well,” said the retinue officer, “this is buckshot!”
He pointed to the French guns, which were being removed from their limbers and hastily driving away.
On the French side, in those groups where there were guns, smoke appeared, another, a third, almost at the same time, and at the very minute the sound of the first shot reached, a fourth appeared. Two sounds, one after the other, and a third.
- Oh, oh! - Nesvitsky gasped, as if from burning pain, grabbing the retinue officer’s hand. - Look, one fell, fell, fell!
- Two, it seems?
“If I were a king, I would never fight,” Nesvitsky said, turning away.
The French guns again hastily loaded. The infantry in blue hoods ran toward the bridge. Again, but at different intervals, smoke appeared, and buckshot clicked and crackled across the bridge. But this time Nesvitsky could not see what was happening on the bridge. Thick smoke rose from the bridge. The hussars managed to set fire to the bridge, and the French batteries fired at them no longer to interfere, but so that the guns were aimed and there was someone to shoot at.
“The French managed to fire three grape shots before the hussars returned to the horse handlers. Two volleys were fired incorrectly, and all the grapeshot was carried over, but the last shot hit the middle of a group of hussars and knocked down three.
Rostov, preoccupied with his relationship with Bogdanich, stopped on the bridge, not knowing what to do. There was no one to cut down (as he always imagined a battle), and he also could not help in lighting the bridge, because he did not take with him, like other soldiers, a bundle of straw. He stood and looked around, when suddenly there was a crackling sound across the bridge, like scattered nuts, and one of the hussars, who was closest to him, fell on the railing with a groan. Rostov ran towards him along with others. Someone shouted again: “Stretcher!” The hussar was picked up by four people and began to be lifted.
“Ohhh!... Stop it, for Christ’s sake,” the wounded man shouted; but they still picked him up and put him down.
Nikolai Rostov turned away and, as if looking for something, began to look at the distance, at the water of the Danube, at the sky, at the sun. How beautiful the sky seemed, how blue, calm and deep! How bright and solemn the setting sun! How tenderly the water glittered in the distant Danube! And even better were the distant, blue mountains beyond the Danube, a monastery, mysterious gorges, pine forests filled to the top with fog... it was quiet, happy there... “I wouldn’t want anything, I wouldn’t want anything, I wouldn’t want anything, if only I were there,” thought Rostov. “There is so much happiness in me alone and in this sun, and here... groans, suffering, fear and this obscurity, this haste... Here again they shout something, and again everyone runs back somewhere, and I run with them, and here she is.” , here it is, death, above me, around me... A moment - and I will never see this sun, this water, this gorge again”...
At that moment the sun began to disappear behind the clouds; another stretcher appeared ahead of Rostov. And the fear of death and stretchers, and the love of the sun and life - everything merged into one painfully disturbing impression.
“Lord God! He who is there in this sky, save, forgive and protect me!” Rostov whispered to himself.
The hussars ran up to the horse guides, the voices became louder and calmer, the stretcher disappeared from sight.
“What, bg”at, did you sniff pog”okha?...” Vaska Denisov’s voice shouted in his ear.
“It’s all over; but I’m a coward, yes, I’m a coward,” thought Rostov and, sighing heavily, took his Grachik, who had put his leg out, from the hands of the handler and began to sit down.
-What was that, buckshot? – he asked Denisov.
- And what a one! – Denisov shouted. - They did a great job! And the work is mediocre! An attack is a nice thing to do, kill in the dog, but here, who knows what, they hit like a target.
And Denisov drove off to a group that had stopped near Rostov: the regimental commander, Nesvitsky, Zherkov and a retinue officer.
“However, it seems no one noticed,” Rostov thought to himself. And indeed, no one noticed anything, because everyone was familiar with the feeling that an unfired cadet experienced for the first time.
“Here’s the report for you,” said Zherkov, “you’ll see, they’ll make me a second lieutenant.”
“Report to the prince that I lit the bridge,” the colonel said solemnly and cheerfully.
– What if they ask about the loss?
- A trifle! – the colonel boomed, “two hussars were wounded, and one on the spot,” he said with visible joy, unable to resist a happy smile, loudly chopping off the beautiful word on the spot.
Pursued by a hundred thousand French army under the command of Bonaparte, met by hostile inhabitants, no longer trusting their allies, experiencing a lack of food and forced to act outside all foreseeable conditions of war, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand, under the command of Kutuzov, hastily retreated down the Danube, stopping where it was overtaken by the enemy, and fought back with rearguard actions, only as far as was necessary in order to retreat without losing weight. There were cases at Lambach, Amsteten and Melk; but, despite the courage and fortitude, recognized by the enemy himself, with whom the Russians fought, the consequence of these affairs was only an even faster retreat. The Austrian troops, having escaped capture at Ulm and joined Kutuzov at Braunau, now separated from the Russian army, and Kutuzov was left only to his weak, exhausted forces. It was impossible to even think about defending Vienna any longer. Instead of an offensive, deeply thought-out, according to the laws of the new science - strategy, war, the plan of which was transferred to Kutuzov when he was in Vienna by the Austrian Gofkriegsrat, the only, almost unattainable goal that now seemed to Kutuzov was to, without destroying the army like Mack under Ulm, to connect with the troops coming from Russia.
On October 28, Kutuzov and his army crossed to the left bank of the Danube and stopped for the first time, putting the Danube between themselves and the main forces of the French. On the 30th he attacked Mortier’s division located on the left bank of the Danube and defeated it. In this case, trophies were taken for the first time: a banner, guns and two enemy generals. For the first time after a two-week retreat, the Russian troops stopped and, after a struggle, not only held the battlefield, but drove out the French. Despite the fact that the troops were stripped, exhausted, weakened by one third, backward, wounded, killed and sick; despite the fact that the sick and wounded were left on the other side of the Danube with a letter from Kutuzov, entrusting them to the philanthropy of the enemy; despite the fact that the large hospitals and houses in Krems, converted into infirmaries, could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, despite all this, the stop at Krems and the victory over Mortier significantly raised the morale of the troops. Throughout the entire army and in the main quarters, the most joyful, although unfair, rumors were circulating about the imaginary approach of columns from Russia, about some kind of victory won by the Austrians, and about the retreat of the frightened Bonaparte.
Korchagin Ivan Petrovich(August 24, 1898 - July 24, 1951) - Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union, lieutenant general of tank forces.
Biography
Ivan Petrovich Korchagin was born on August 24, 1898 in the village of Byltsino, now Gorokhovetsky district of the Vladimir region. Russian. In 1914, he was mobilized into the tsarist army and sent to the 62nd Nizhny Novgorod regiment. During the First World War he fought on the Austrian front. In 1916, after graduating from the 5th Moscow School of Warrant Officers, he was appointed platoon commander, then company commander. Sent to the front. In February 1917 he was wounded. He graduated from the First World War as a second lieutenant.
In August 1918 he joined the Red Army. Participant in the Civil War. In 1930 he was appointed chief of staff of the 56th Infantry Division, in 1936 - commander of the 31st mechanized brigade of the 7th mechanized corps. Arrested in August 1937. In February 1940, he was rehabilitated and reinstated into the Red Army. Since June 1940, head of the Lepel Rifle Mortar School. In March 1941, he was appointed commander of the 17th Panzer Division.
Battle path
He met the Great Patriotic War as commander of the 17th Tank Division of the 5th Mechanized Corps. Participated in the Lepel counterattack, then in the Battle of Smolensk. As a result of heavy losses, his 17th Panzer Division was reorganized into the 126th Panzer Brigade, at the head of which he continued to fight on the Western Front.
Participated in the defense of Moscow, was surrounded in the Vyazma area, and emerged from the encirclement. Since December 1941, head of the 7th (Airborne) Directorate of the Main Automotive and Tank Directorate of the Red Army.
In August 1942, he was appointed commander of the 18th Tank Corps, and a month later he headed the newly formed 2nd Mechanized Corps, which he commanded in Velikolukskaya (November 25, 1942 - January 20, 1943) and Orlovskaya (July 12 - August 18, 1943 ) offensive operations. In September 1943, the 2nd Mechanized Corps under the command of Major General I.P. Korchagin, as part of the 60th Army, participated in the liberation of the left bank of Ukraine. During the Chernigov-Pripyat operation, parts of the corps crossed the Dnieper, captured a bridgehead north of Kyiv and held it until the main forces arrived. In this operation, General I.P. Korchagin skillfully organized and personally supervised the crossing of corps units across the Dnieper.
For the successful leadership of military formations and the personal courage and heroism displayed, Major General Ivan Petrovich Korchagin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on October 17, 1943.
For its distinction in the operation, the corps received the honorary name “Nezhinsky” and was transformed into the 7th Guards Mechanized. Subsequently, the corps under the command of I.P. Korchagin participated in the Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian, Berlin and Prague offensive operations.
Ivan Petrovich Korchagin died on July 24, 1951. He was buried in Moscow, at the Novodevichy cemetery.
Awards
- Medal "Golden Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union No. 1219;
- 2 Orders of Lenin;
- 4 Orders of the Red Banner;
- Order of Kutuzov, 1st degree;
- Order of Suvorov, II degree;
- Order of the Red Star;
- 2 Crosses of St. George (for participation in the First World War).
Memory
- The name of Ivan Korchagin is carved on a bas-relief in the shape of a star (shown in the illustration), installed in the city of Vyazniki on the Walk of Fame near the Eternal Flame, along with the name of another Vyazniki resident, Hero of the Soviet Union - Nikolai Fedorovich Krasnov.
- One of the streets in the city of Nizhyn, Chernihiv region of Ukraine, is named after General Korchagin.
- In January 1995, at the request of veterans of the 7th Guards Nezhin-Kuzbass Mechanized Corps, the name of Lieutenant General Ivan Petrovich Korchagin was given to one of the alleys of the Kirov floodplain of the Moscow River.
Ivan Petrovich Korchagin was born on August 12 (24), 1898 in the village of Byltsino, Kozhansky volost, Gorokhovetsky district, Vladimir province (now Gorokhovetsky district, Vladimir region). Russian.
Graduated from 6 classes of gymnasium.
Hero of the Soviet Union (10/17/1943).
Education. Graduated from the 5th Moscow School of Ensigns (1916), ST KUKS “Vystrel” (1927), Higher Attestation Commission at the Military Military Academy named after. Voroshilov (1947).
Participation in wars and military conflicts. 1st World War (from November 1914). Civil War. Suppression of peasant uprisings in the Vladimir region. The fight against Basmachism (1922 - 1930). Great Patriotic War (from June 1941). On August 9, 1941 he was wounded.
Service in the Russian Imperial Army. Since November 1914, as part of the 311th Vasilkovsky Infantry Regiment of the 78th Infantry Division. He fought on the Southwestern Front.
From May to November 1915, he was treated in a military field hospital, then returned to the 78th division and was assigned as a private in the 309th Shatsky Infantry Regiment. From December 1915 he was again treated in the hospital, then in February 1916 he was sent to the 250th reserve regiment in the city of Kovrov (now Vladimir region). From May to October 1916, he was a cadet at the 5th Moscow Warrant Officer School, after which he was appointed as a platoon officer in the 250th Reserve Infantry Regiment.
In December 1916, he was again sent to the front to the 311th Vasilkovsky Infantry Regiment of the 78th Infantry Division as a company commander. In February 1917 he was wounded and hospitalized, then from May he was the commander of a half-company in the 250th reserve infantry regiment. In July 1917 he returned to the front and was appointed company commander of the 312th Infantry Regiment. From October to December 1917 he was in the hospital, then commanded a company in the 258th reserve regiment in the city of Gorokhovets (now Vladimir region). Second lieutenant, awarded the St. George Cross, III and IV degrees.
Service in the Red Army. From August 1, 1918, he was a company commissar, and then a company and battalion commander of the Gorokhovetsky Infantry Regiment of the 7th Separate Brigade. From May 1919 - military head of the transport Cheka in the city of Vladimir. Since August 1919, he was the head of security and defense of the military military personnel area. From May 1920 - acting for assignments under the head of defense of the Kursk Railway of the Internal Service Troops (VNUS).
Since November 1920 - battalion commander of the 501st railway regiment of the VNUS troops in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. He took part in battles on the Southern Front. From January 1921, he served as assistant chief of staff of the 101st Infantry Brigade of the VNUS troops in the cities of Ryazan and Vladimir. Participated in the suppression of peasant uprisings in the Vladimir region. In the summer of 1922 he was sent to the Turkestan Front, where he was appointed head of refresher courses for front command personnel. From September 1922, he temporarily commanded the 1st, then the 2nd Turkestan Rifle Regiments as part of the 1st Rifle Division (Ashgabat). Since December 1924 - chief of staff of the 4th Turkestan Rifle Regiment. From December 1925 - commander of the 5th Turkestan Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
In January 1927 he graduated from the rifle-tactical advanced training courses for the command staff of the Red Army named after. Comintern (“Shot”).
Since January 1927 - commander of the 3rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Regiment of the 1st Mountain Rifle Division. As part of these units he participated in battles against the Basmachi. From November 1930 - Chief of Staff of the 56th Infantry Division (Pskov, Leningrad Military District). Since February 1935 - head of the 9th department of the headquarters of the Leningrad Military District. Since November 1936 - commander of the 31st mechanized brigade of the 7th mechanized corps.
On October 16, 1937, he was arrested by the NKVD and charged under Art. 58-1b of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. By decree of the special department of the NKVD in February 1940, due to the lack of evidence of a crime, he was released, rehabilitated, and reinstated in the army.
Since February 1940 - Chief of Infantry of the 121st Infantry Division (Belarusian OVO). Since June 1940 - acting Head of the Lepel Mortar School (Vitebsk Region). From July 1940 - deputy commander of the 17th Tank Division of the 5th Mechanized Corps (Trans-Baikal Military District). Since March 1941 - commander of this division of the 17th Panzer Division. On May 24, 1941, he received an order from the district commander to load the division into echelons and leave with it for the Oryol Military District in the city of Korotoyak. On June 20, the trains proceeded to the station. Liski, where the route was changed - it was ordered to proceed to Shepetovka and Izyaslav. On June 21, the division arrived at the designated area, where it unloaded.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the division was redeployed to the Orsha area at the disposal of the Western Front. On June 30, 1941, she arrived in the designated area and from July 2 became part of the 20th Army. On the night of July 2-3, following the order of the army commander, Lieutenant General P. A. Kurochkin, together with the 14th and 13th tank divisions, it came into combat contact with the enemy’s mechanized units. For 5 days, waging heavy fighting, our troops pinned down the actions of up to 5 German divisions, rushing to Orsha and further to Smolensk. Here the enemy suffered great damage, and up to 1.5 thousand prisoners were captured. However, the main task - the advance to the city of Lepel - was not completed. The neighboring right-flank 14th Tank Division, having suffered serious losses, began to retreat to Seno, Vitebsk, as a result of which Colonel I.P. Korchagin was forced to transfer his reserve, the 34th Tank Regiment, to cover the right flank. During the regrouping, the enemy struck at the joint with the left flank of the 13th Panzer Division. This forced the removal of 2 more tank battalions of the 33rd Tank Regiment from the strike force. The battles had to be fought in a semi-encirclement. By the end of the seventh day of the battle, the enemy managed to encircle the division and force it to go on the defensive. On the night of July 9-10, the division made a breakthrough. Initially, she moved parallel to the enemy, then struck a strong blow to his flank, causing him great damage. For these battles, the 17th motorized rifle regiment of the division was awarded the Order of Lenin, and Colonel I.P. Korchagin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner (08/09/1941).
After emerging from the encirclement, on August 19, 1941, the division was disbanded and the 126th Tank Brigade was created on its basis, the commander of which was I.P. Korchagin. Participated with her in the battle of Moscow. From December 23, 1941 - Head of the 7th (Aeroplane) Directorate of the Main Automotive and Armored Directorate of the Red Army. He did a great job shaping the aerosleigh parts. In total, under his leadership, 2 aerosleigh schools (Kotlas and Solikamsk), 55 separate aerosleigh battalions were formed.
from June 28, 1942 - deputy. commander of the tank group of the Bryansk Front. However, the group was not formed, as a result of which he was allowed to assume the post of commander of the 17th Tank Corps on June 30. Units of the corps fought heavy battles to assist the 40th Army, which was advancing on Voronezh. On July 24, I.P. Korchagin took command of the 18th Tank Corps of the Voronezh Front, which was operationally subordinate to the 60th Army. From September 8 (or 10), 1942, he commanded the 2nd Mechanized Corps, which was part of the 3rd Guards. tank army of the Bryansk (from July 27, 1943 - Central, from October 20 - Belorussian) front.
In the summer, he took part in the Oryol offensive operation, during which the corps liberated the cities of Sevsk, Orel, and Mtsensk. Since September 1943, units of the corps as part of the 60th Army liberated more than 100 settlements, including the city of Nezhin. On September 25, 1943, they were among the first to cross the river. The Dnieper north of Kyiv, captured and firmly held a bridgehead on its right bank. For its distinction in the operation, the corps was given the honorary name Nezhinsky and was reorganized into the 7th Guards.
For the successful leadership of military formations and the personal courage and heroism demonstrated by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 17, 1943, Lieutenant General of the military unit Ivan Petrovich Korchagin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ( No. 1219).
Then the corps as part of the 1st Ukrainian Front participated in the Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian, Berlin and Prague operations.
After the war, he continued to command the corps, which was then transformed into the 7th Guards. mechanized division.
From May 1946 to April 1947 - student of the Higher Academic Courses at the Higher Military Academy named after K. E. Voroshilov.
Since April 1947 - Commander of the BTiMV of the Southern Group of Forces. Since February 1948 - commander of the 8th Mechanized Army. Since September 1950, he was at the disposal of the USSR Minister of War. Since April 1951 - Deputy Head of the Main Automotive and Tractor Directorate of the USSR Military Ministry.
