Background
Yakov Fedorenko was born on October 20, 1896 in village Krasnyy Oskol, Izyum Rayon, Khar’kov Oblast. Son of a longshoreman.
Yakov Fedorenko was born on October 20, 1896 in village Krasnyy Oskol, Izyum Rayon, Khar’kov Oblast. Son of a longshoreman.
He graduated from Khar’kov Higher Artillery School and in 1934 graduated from Frunze Military Academy.
After being a herdsman, a miner in the Donets basin, and a merchant seaman, he was drafted into the navy in 1915. Fedorenko joined the Oct 17 revolt in Odessa, entering the Red Guard and the CP that year. During and after the civil war he commanded armored trains. After graduating from the Kharkov Higher Artillery School and the Frunze MA, in 1934 he took over a tank regiment before moving up to command the 15th Mech Bde.
After heading mechanized, armored, and tank forces of the Kiev MD from 1937, in June 1940 Fedorenko succeeded D. G. Pavlov in Moscow as chief of the Main Armored Directorate. Six months later he took action to increase production of the new T-34 and KV heavy tanks.
In Dec 1942 Fedorenko became Commander of Armored and Mechanized Troops of the Soviet Army and Deputy Commissar of Defense. Creating the first four Soviet tank armies in 1942, he showed a better grasp of mechanized warfare than ihe Germans and great superiority over the Americans and British, who never formed such decpenetration forces. (Scotts.) In 1944 Fedorenko and Rotmistrov became the Red Army’s only Marshal of Armored Troops (Scotts). Having continued to hold the same post in Moscow, Fedorenko died on 26 Mar 1947.
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