Richard Tesařík

{{Infobox military person

| name = Richard Tesařík

| image = Richard Tesařík (officer).jpg

| birth_date = 3 December 1915

| birth_place = Prague

| death_date = 27 March 1967 (aged 51)

| death_place = Ústí nad Labem

| rank = Major-General

| battles = World War II

| awards = Hero of the Soviet Union
Czechoslovak War Cross

}}

Richard Tesařík (3 December 1915 – 27 March 1967) was a Czechoslovak officer (Major General in 1956) and World War II hero.

Career

Tesařík first emigrated to Poland after the occupation of Czechoslovakia and then, at the outbreak of World War II, fled to the USSR.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

He became commander of an infantry platoon in the Battle of Sokolovo (1943) and later a commander of a tank battalion, during which time he fought in the Battle of Kiev (1943), Battle of Dukla Pass (1944) and in the Ostrava Offensive (1945). He also became a Hero of the Soviet Union.{{cite web |last1=Brož |first1=Miroslav |title=Gen. mjr. v. z. Richard Tesařík |url=http://www.dukla1944.com/pametnici/gen-mjr-v-z-richard-tesarik/ |website=Dukla 1944 |publisher=Společnost Ludvíka Svobody |accessdate=17 June 2018 |language=Czech |archive-date=30 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630052146/https://www.dukla1944.com/pametnici/gen-mjr-v-z-richard-tesarik/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1558|title=Тесаржик Рихард|website=www.warheroes.ru|access-date=2019-12-23}}

Awards

= Soviet state awards =

Hero of the Soviet Union (December 21, 1943)
Order of Lenin (December 21, 1943){{Cite web |title=Тесаржик Рихард Ярославович :: Память народа |url=https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/podvig-chelovek_nagrazhdenie22517642/ |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=pamyat-naroda.ru}}
Order of the Red Star (1945)