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Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev (born October 14, 1880 on Omsk, Russian Empire) was a Hero of the USSR, Lieutenant General of Engineer Troops, a professor of the General Staff Military Academy and a Doctor of Military Science.-
His father died when he was twelve. In spite of grave financial problems, Karbyshev did brilliantly in the Siberian cadet corps and in 1898 was accepted into the St. Petersburg Nikolaevskoe School of Military Engineering, from which he graduated at the top of his class in 1890.-
Karbyshev took part in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and the World War I from its first day. He fought in the Carpathian Mountains in General Brusilov’s Eighth Army (the South-Western Front). He was the division engineer in the 78th and 69th infantry divisions and in the 22nd Finnish rifle corps. At the beginning of 1915 he took part in the assault on the Przemysl Fortress in South-Eastern Poland and was wounded in the leg. For his courage, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and awarded the Order of St. Anna with swords (specifically awarded for bravery in battle). In 1916 he took part in the famous Brusilov Offensive, which is considered the Russian Empire’s greatest success of World War I and one of the most lethal battles in world history, with around two million casualties.-
In December 1917 Karbyshev joined the Red Army.-
Karbyshev was the first Soviet scientist to fully research and develop the military use of destruction and man-made obstacles. He also contributed significantly to the research on across-water operations. He published over 100 works on military engineering and war history. His articles and textbooks on the theory of engineering support and engineering troops tactics were the main materials in the preparation of Red Army commanders in the pre-World War II period.-
Karbyshev participated in the Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939-1940. As part of the group headed by the Deputy Chief of the Main Military Engineering Department, he handed out recommendations to the troops on the engineering support of the breakthrough of the key Finnish Mannerheim line of defense. At the beginning of June 1941 Karbyshev was transferred to the Western Special Military District. The German Invasion found him in the Third Army headquarters in Grodno (in modern Belarus). Two days later he moved to the Tenth Army headquarters. On June 27 the headquarters was surrounded, and in August, during an attempt to escape the encirclement, Karbyshev received a heavy concussion in a fight near the Dnepr River and was taken prisoner.-
The Germans tried to persuade him into betrayal numerous times, but failed. In the German concentration camps Sajmiste, Hammelburg, Flossenburg, Majdanek, Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen, Karbyshev was one of the resistance chiefs. On the night of 18 February 1945 in the Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, he was killed together with around 500 other prisoners. The Nazis had them soaked with water in freezing cold.-
Dmitry Karbyshev was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 16 August 1946, as well as the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner and the Red Star. A white marble monument to Karbyshev was erected at the entrance to the memorial at the former Mauthausen concentration camp.-
Monument to Lt. Gen. Dmitry Karbyshev in Mauthausen Camp.
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His father died when he was twelve. In spite of grave financial problems, Karbyshev did brilliantly in the Siberian cadet corps and in 1898 was accepted into the St. Petersburg Nikolaevskoe School of Military Engineering, from which he graduated at the top of his class in 1890.-
Karbyshev took part in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and the World War I from its first day. He fought in the Carpathian Mountains in General Brusilov’s Eighth Army (the South-Western Front). He was the division engineer in the 78th and 69th infantry divisions and in the 22nd Finnish rifle corps. At the beginning of 1915 he took part in the assault on the Przemysl Fortress in South-Eastern Poland and was wounded in the leg. For his courage, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and awarded the Order of St. Anna with swords (specifically awarded for bravery in battle). In 1916 he took part in the famous Brusilov Offensive, which is considered the Russian Empire’s greatest success of World War I and one of the most lethal battles in world history, with around two million casualties.-
In December 1917 Karbyshev joined the Red Army.-
Karbyshev was the first Soviet scientist to fully research and develop the military use of destruction and man-made obstacles. He also contributed significantly to the research on across-water operations. He published over 100 works on military engineering and war history. His articles and textbooks on the theory of engineering support and engineering troops tactics were the main materials in the preparation of Red Army commanders in the pre-World War II period.-
Karbyshev participated in the Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939-1940. As part of the group headed by the Deputy Chief of the Main Military Engineering Department, he handed out recommendations to the troops on the engineering support of the breakthrough of the key Finnish Mannerheim line of defense. At the beginning of June 1941 Karbyshev was transferred to the Western Special Military District. The German Invasion found him in the Third Army headquarters in Grodno (in modern Belarus). Two days later he moved to the Tenth Army headquarters. On June 27 the headquarters was surrounded, and in August, during an attempt to escape the encirclement, Karbyshev received a heavy concussion in a fight near the Dnepr River and was taken prisoner.-
The Germans tried to persuade him into betrayal numerous times, but failed. In the German concentration camps Sajmiste, Hammelburg, Flossenburg, Majdanek, Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen, Karbyshev was one of the resistance chiefs. On the night of 18 February 1945 in the Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, he was killed together with around 500 other prisoners. The Nazis had them soaked with water in freezing cold.-
Dmitry Karbyshev was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 16 August 1946, as well as the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner and the Red Star. A white marble monument to Karbyshev was erected at the entrance to the memorial at the former Mauthausen concentration camp.-
Monument to Lt. Gen. Dmitry Karbyshev in Mauthausen Camp.
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