Alexei Mikhailovich Pronin - Soviet military leader, since 1945 Lieutenant General. A close friend and colleague of the famous Marshal Zhukov. He took an active part in the development of a plan for the storming of Berlin at the end of the Great Patriotic War.
Biography
The future military leader was born in February 1899 on the sixteenth of the Gregorian calendar in the small Russian village of Popyshovo. After receiving secondary education, he went to the village of Gorodishche, where he continued his studies at the primary school. After two years of study, he moved to the village of Vacha, where he studied at a factory school. Later he studied at the Bagrationovsk Higher School for three years.
At the end of 1916, Alexei decided to go to Moscow. His parents accepted his ideas calmly, his mother collected a bag of food for him, and his father gave him some money for the first time. The Pronins had neither relatives nor acquaintances in the capital. At first, it was quite difficult for Alexei. After living for about a week in a homeless shelter, he finally found a job, he was hired as an assistant mail sorter in one of the branches of Moscow.
During the period of turmoil and revolution, Pronin did not show much activity, but on the whole he supported Bolshevik ideas. In 1918, he volunteered for the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. By the end of the year he was admitted to the Bolshevik Party. In December of the same year, Andrei was nominated to the post of commissar and appointed responsible for harvesting in the Kursk province.
From 1926 to 1929 he studied at the Communist University, studied the basics of Marxism-Leninism. In the mid-thirties, he took special courses to improve the management staff.
Military career
In 1941, the Great Patriotic War began. From the first days Pronin took an active part in planning actions and conducting special operations. Throughout the war he was a member of the military council. In December of the same year, he was transferred from the 32nd Army to the Northwestern Front. In December 1942, Alexey Mikhailovich was promoted to the rank of Major General.
At the beginning of 1944, he was transferred to the Belorussian Front, where he again became a member of the military council. In the spring of 1945, he took an active part in the development and implementation of the plan for the storming of Berlin.
After the end of the war, he worked for a long time as a military consultant in various educational institutions. In 1958, a special body was created in the Soviet Union under the Ministry of Defense, which included experienced military leaders who were able to share their knowledge. Alexey Mikhailovich Pronin was among the first members of the group of general inspectors.
Personal life and death
The famous military leader was married twice. He lived with Evdokia Vasilievna from 1925 to 1954. Pronin lived with his second wife from 1955 until his death. The general had three children, all from the first wife of Evdokia Vasilievna. Pronin died in 1987 in Moscow, where he was buried at the Kuntsevo cemetery.
