Biography of Marshal Mikhalkin

Born on June 30 in the city of Bobruisk, the Mogilev region of Belarus. Father - Mikhalkin Mikhail Semenovich - mother - Mikhalkina Alexandra Fedorovna - wife - Mikhalkina Vera Stepanovna G. Daughter - Mikhalkina Irina Vladimirovna Vladimir Mikhalkin was brought up in the family of a personnel soldier in the best traditions of Russian officers. His father is an active participant in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, the Polish Campaign, and the Belofinns.

He was an artillery colonel, occupied a number of large posts in the army. Both of his son - Vladimir and Yuri - also became artillerymen, participants in the Patriotic War. Yuri died at the front. When the war broke out, the summer teenager Volodya, adding himself for almost three years, voluntarily asked for the front after the victory had to be corrected again. At the request of the boy in July, he was sent to the artillery unit, which took a position at Pulkovo heights and entered the UR Army that defended the Blockade Leningrad from the south.

There was a day and night the fight against enemy artillery. The intelligent young fighter was first identified as a telephone operator, and then an artillery intelligence officer. From experienced soldiers, he learned to intelligence the front edge of the enemy front, to identify the accumulation of his troops, military equipment and weapons, to determine the positions of the shooting batteries by sound and flashes.

Intelligence was immediately reported to the command. They were effectively used for next strikes on the enemy. Once from a closely exploding shell, the young corporal was shell -shocked, but the young body quickly coped with the disease. Participation in continuous and heavy battles from the beginning of the war to January, when the blockade of Leningrad was removed, tempered the will and character of Vladimir Mikhalkin.

This is reminded by the rewards that are dear to him related to that period: the orders of the Patriotic War of the II degree and the Red Star, the medals "For Courage" and "For the Defense of Leningrad". Then its artillery part participated in the Vyborg offensive operation of the year, as a result of which our troops liberated the northern part of the Leningrad region and took possession of Vyborg.

Mikhalkin is proud of the participation in this, as well as, later, in the Lviv-Sandomir offensive operation conducted by the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front. The last battle for him in his native artillery part was under Brno, this is already on the Czechoslovak land. In December, the commander of this unit, capable of a warrior, sent to short -term courses, after which the junior lieutenant became the commander of an artillery platoon in the troops of the Leningrad Military District.

In the year, he heads a platoon of cadets at the 1st Leningrad Artillery School, which he graduated from an exterior in the year. Then he commands the battery of heavy mortars. An experienced artilleryman with front -line hardening is sent to study at the Military Artillery Academy named after M. After graduation is appointed deputy commander of the artillery regiment to the group of Soviet troops in Germany, then he commands the regiment for three and a half years, already with the rank of colonel.

In the year, an energetic officer is nominated for the post of commander of a missile brigade in the North Caucasus Military District, and two years later he becomes the commander of the artillery division in the city of Ternopol and receives the title of Major General. In his activities at a high military post, he constantly adheres to the principle of the need for tireless improvement of the professional training of the commanders of all links.

He believed: a well -prepared officer is obliged to personally complete any task, any operation on military equipment, to clearly show how the best way to do. Then he will be able to achieve that any younger officer, sergeant, soldier will successfully cope with his duties. Moreover, they are entrusted with complex missile equipment and the latest artillery, which should be used very effectively in battle.

At the same time, the commander opposed the petty guardianship of the officers of his subordinates, for respect for each defender of the Motherland. He took care that in their army life there was everything necessary for life and study, including solid food. I especially paid attention to maintaining the health of personnel, systematic sports, and increasing the cultural level. It is no coincidence that the inspection of the Ministry of Defense highly appreciated the level of training of the division, and soon it was deployed to the full state and successfully acted on exercises with combat shooting under the leadership of the commander in chief of the ground forces.

Further, V. Mikhalkin was appointed head of the missile forces and artillery of the tank army in the Belarusian military district, the head of the missile forces and artillery of the same district in the latter case, he again received a high appreciation of the training of his troops as a result of the inspection by the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defense and encouraged by the Minister.

Then the general occupied such responsible posts: the chief of staff - the first deputy commander of the missile forces and artillery of the ground forces, commander before leaving for the reserve in January of the year.At these posts, the military activity of the artillery marshal was combined with the state and political, because in response to the deployment of medium-range missiles “Pershing-2” and other American weapons in Europe, the country had to contrast its equipment, in particular, domestic Temp-S, and accordingly train personnel.

All this required a large intense work of specialists and managers of all levels. A significant place in the official biography of V. Mikhalkin is occupied by efforts aimed at ensuring the combat activities of the limited contingent of our troops in Afghanistan. However, he was engaged not only in purely military affairs. After the earthquake in Armenia, the units subordinate to him were sent to participate in the salvation of the injured soldiers and officers and civilians, in the preservation and evacuation of military equipment.

After dismissal of artillery, Marshal of Artillery, an experienced military leader continues to actively promote the strengthening of our army, being a leading inspector of the Office of the Commander of the missile forces and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Participates in the organization and conduct of all -Armenian competitions of battery commanders to shoot and fire control at landfills.

It devotes a lot of effort and research to scientific and research work at the Academy of Military Sciences and the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, whose honorary academician is. He also contributes to the activities of the Coordinating Council on the issues of retraining officers, dismissed in the reserve under the Government of the Russian Federation, the Russian Committee of War Veterans, the Public Fund of Megapir, whose president is.

He is fond of sports, in particular ski, struggle and football, goes hunting and fishing. A lover of memoir literature and Russian classics. Lives in Moscow.