Background
Alexander Ilyich Lizyukov was born on March 14, 1900 in Gomel, Homyel'skaya Voblasts', Belarus.
Alexander Ilyich Lizyukov was born on March 14, 1900 in Gomel, Homyel'skaya Voblasts', Belarus.
Between 1924 and 1927 Alexander Ilyich was educated at the Frunze Military Academy, and taught armour tactics courses at KUVNAS.
Alexander Ilyich joined the Red Army in April 1919, and fought in the Russian Civil War against the White Guard as an artillery officer. In the 1930s he commanded the 3rd Tank Battalion at Naro-Fominsk in the Moscow Military District.
Since March 1941, Colonel Alexander Ilyich Lizyukov was the deputy commander of the 17th Mechanized Corps (commanded by Major General M. P. Petrov) of the 36th Tank Division in the Western Special Military District, which became the Western Front on 22 June 1941, and was initially command by General D. G. Pavlov. On 22 June 1941, at the start of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, Lizyukov's 17th Mechanized Corps was stationed near Slonim, and was opposed by the German Army Group Center.
