Background
Fedor was born on 25 February in 1899 in the village of Bogdanovka (now Tolochin district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus) in a peasant family.
Grave of the Hero.
Fedor was born on 25 February in 1899 in the village of Bogdanovka (now Tolochin district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus) in a peasant family.
Fedor studied at Moscow short courses for military commanders.
Since 1926 he studied at United Military School named after Lenin in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
In 1935 he studied at Courses "Shot".
From 1938 Fedor studied at Higher Border School.
In the Red Army since 1919. Member of the Civil War.
From 1927 to 1937 he served in the border troops of the NKVD.
In 1938 he graduated from the Higher Border School and was appointed a guard of the Saratov border school of the NKVD of the USSR.
On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War Makovetskiy F.E. since January 1942. Participated in battles for the city of Voronezh as part of the division of the NKVD troops. Commanding one of the regiments of this division, F.E. Makovetsky took part in the defense of Stalingrad. After the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the regiment was awarded the name "Guards."
September 21, 1943 the commander of the 231st Guards Infantry Regiment (75th Guards Rifle Division, 60th Army, the Central Front) Guard Lieutenant Colonel F.E. Makovetsky skillfully carried out a detour maneuver, on the move on German troops crossed the river Desna and seized the bridgehead. Three days later, on September 24, 1943, his regiment crossed the Dnieper River near the village of Glebovka in the Vyshgorodsky district of the Kiev region, seized enemy trenches and became entrenched on the right bank, ensuring the fulfillment of the combat mission.
In the battles for the liberation of Poland in August 1944, he broke through the fortified defense of the enemy near the village of Volya Meletska. At the time of the breakthrough of defense, despite superior enemy forces, the regiment inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. During subsequent offensive battles, the regiment fought several times a day to counterattack enemy tanks, each time inflicting heavy losses on the enemy and simultaneously moving forward.
These successes were achieved thanks to the skillful action, the correct organization of the battle, the courage and bravery of Makovetsky, who almost all the time was in the combat order of his units
At the final stage of the war, in the battles on the territory of Czechoslovakia, F.E. was seriously injured. He spent 2 years in hospitals where his leg was amputated.
Since 1947, Colonel Makovetsky F.E. - in reserve.
He lived and worked in the urban settlement of Kohanovo, Tolochin district, Vitebsk region of Belarus, where he died on May 7, 1974.
Member of the CPSU
The division commander Colonel Gorishny V.A. gave him such a characteristic:
Excellent discipline, energetic, competent commander. In battles for the city of Stalingrad from 18.9.1942 showed a personal restraint of calm and courage. Quickly mastered the features of the regiment and the situation in which he was, and daily, personal hard work ensured successful actions.
In one of the offensive battles, when a regulating situation developed on the regiment's site, being in the divisions, corrected the shortcomings and restored the situation and ensured the fulfillment of the task with personal calmness and confidence. The personnel of the regiment, solving a number of difficult tasks, showed perseverance and high combat skills during the fighting, destroyed hundreds of enemy soldiers and officers, more than ten tanks and a number of other equipment.