Likhovid biography

The tombstone of the Likhovids Semyon Fedorovich-the commander of the pontoon company of the separate motorized pontoon-bridge battalion, I am the army, the central front, senior lieutenant. He was born on February 18 on the Hutor of the Hyusnka of the Karginsky yurt of the Donetsk district of the Donskoy army now within the farm of the Klimovka farm of the Bokovsky district of the Rostov region.

In the years he worked on the K. collective farm in the year graduated from 7 classes of the school in his native farm, in the year - 3 courses of an agricultural college in the city of Millerovo, Rostov Region. In the army since December. In June, he graduated from the Grozny Military Infantry School. Member of the Great Patriotic War: in June-May-the commander of the pontoon platoon, deputy commander and commander of the pontoon company GO since September-a separate motorized pontoon-bridge battalion.

He fought in the south of June-July and the North Caucasus July-August Fronts, as part of Northern August-September and the Black Sea September-February of the Transcaucasian Front group, Transcaucasian February-March, Central September-October, Voronezh October, February 2, February and 2nd February-March of Ukrainian, 2nd 2, 2 March-April and 1st March-May of Belarusian fronts.

Particularly distinguished when crossing the Dnieper. At the end of September, he organized a ferry-pom cross for a bridgehead in the area of ​​the village of Vyshgorod now the city of Kyiv region, Ukraine. During the night, the pontooners of his companies made 5 flights to the right bank of the Dnieper, crossing the paratroopers to the battalion, a large number of machine guns and ammunition.

Having arrived at the rescue of the fighters who fought on the bridgehead, they squeezed the enemy, ensuring the successful actions of the formations to liberate Kyiv. A participant in the Soviet-Japanese war of the year as commander of the pontoon company of a separate motorized pontoon-bridge battalion of the 1st Far Eastern Front. He participated in the Harbino-Girin operation.

After the war, until the war, he continued to serve in the engineering troops commander of the pontoon company, the chief of staff of the battalion, the commander of the engineer-sugar company and the battalion engineer in the Primorsky and North Caucasus military districts. In the year he graduated from the Military Engineering Academy. In the year he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff.

He served in the main operational department of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces: the chief of the group, deputy chief and head of the department of training theater, head of the operational training of the theater of military operations since July, Major General S. Likhovidov, retired.

He lived in Moscow. He died on April 18. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. Major General was awarded the Order of Lenin Military titles:.