Mikhail Vorobyov (engineer)

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| birth_name = Mikhail Petrovich Vorobyov

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1896|12|29}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1957|06|12|1896|12|29}}

| birth_place = Khasavyurt, Terek Oblast, Russian Empire

| death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union{{harvtxt|Сборник|2020|p=130}}

| image = Michaił Worobiow.jpg

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| allegiance = {{flag|Russian Empire}} (1916–1917)
{{USSR}} (1918–1957)

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| rank = File:SA A-engin F9Mars 1974.svg

| branch = Imperial Russian Army
23px Red Army

| commands = Engineer Troops of Soviet army

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| awards = Order of Lenin (2)
Order of the Red Banner (3)
Order of Suvorov, 1st Class
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For the Victory over Japan"

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Mikhail Petrovich Vorobyov (December 29, 1896 – June 12, 1957) was a Soviet Marshal of the engineer troops from the start of World War II (1941–1945) – inspector-general of engineer troops, then chief of engineer troops of the Western Front, and later commander of the 1st Field Engineer Army (1944[https://sun.tsu.ru/mminfo/2020/000462771/1944/1944_012.pdf Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О присвоении генерал-полковнику инженерных войск связи Воробьёву М. П. военного звания маршала инженерных войск» от 21 февраля 1944 года] // Ведомости Верховного Совета Союза Советских Социалистических Республик : газета. — 1944. — 29 февраля (№ 12 (272)). — С. 1).

Early life

Mikhail Petrovich Vorobyov was born December 29, 1896, in Khasavyurt, Terek Oblast. He came from the family of a prominent railway engineer.{{harvtxt|Соловьев| 2019|p=22}}

Military service

In 1916, Vorobyov was drafted into the Russian Imperial Army.{{harvtxt|Залесский|2020|p=1948}}

He joined the Red Army in 1918.

In the Battle of Moscow, he was one of the leaders in building defenses on the approaches to Moscow and engineer support of the West Front offensive.

In April 1942, he became commander of engineer troops of the Red Army. He headed the building of defenses near Stalingrad,{{harvtxt|Залесский|2020|p=1949}} coordinated actions of the engineer troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts in lifting the Leningrad blockade;{{cn|date=November 2021}} did a great amount of work in preparing defenses in the Battle of the Kursk Bulge and made a tangible contribution to engineering support in crossing major water obstacles, especially the Dnieper. He left his position in 1952.{{cn|date=November 2021}}