Sergei Trofimenko

Sergei G. Trofimenko (10 (22) September 1899 in Ryovny – 16 October 1953 in Moscow) was a Soviet military commander, active in the Russian Civil War and Second World War. His final rank was colonel-general. He had been promoted to major general 4 June 1940, lieutenant-general 13 June 1942, and colonel-general 13 September 1944.

Sergei G. Trofimenko was born 10 (22) in September 1899 in Ryovny (now in Bryansk Oblast) to a working-class family. He graduated from high school and two-year railway school. With the death of his father, he was head of a family with six brothers and sisters. At age 10 began working in the railway depot Bryansk-2 as a messenger

He took an active part in the revolutionary events of 1917 in Bryansk, where the depot was one of the organizers of the Komsomol. In 1918 he joined the Communist Party (b), and when Denikin's army approached the city, he joined the Red Army.

During the Civil War he served as a private, squad leader, platoon leader, and assistant chief of the machine-gun platoon infantry regiment in the 41st Infantry Division, 14th Army. He fought in the South, Southwest, Western Front, fought against the forces of Anton Denikin, S. Petlura, and J. Pilsudski.

In 1926 he graduated from the courses: "The Shot" in 1932 - the Military Academy of Frunze in 1937 - the General Staff Academy.

After September 1923 he served as chief of the machine-gun team, and from February 1924, the military commissar of the 132nd Infantry Regiment, Donetsk 44th Infantry Division in the Ukrainian Military District; from September 1926, commander of an infantry battalion of the 7th Caucasus (then 133rd Rifle, 135 Infantry) Regiment, 45th Infantry Division in the same district after May 1932, chief of staff of the 61st Infantry Division of the Volga Military District; from December 1935, chief of the 1st (operational) staff of that district; from June 1937, of the Kiev military district; from July 1938, chief of staff of Army Group forces Zhitomir; and in September 1939, the 5th Army of the Kiev Special Military District.

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