page_title: Viktor Obukhov
section_title: Postwar
hierarchical_section_title: Viktor Obukhov / Postwar
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Барель`єф генерала В. Обухова, Золотоноша, міськрайонний центр зайнятості населення по вул. Обухова This is a photo of a monument in Ukraine, number: 71-104-0015
context_page_description: Viktor Timofeyevich Obukhov was a Soviet Army colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
  The son of an Orenburg Cossack, Obukhov fought on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War and commanded cavalry against the Basmachi Revolt until the late 1920s. He held staff positions during the late 1930s after a stint as an advisor in China and commanded a tank division in Belarus at the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa. His division suffered heavy losses, but Obukhov broke out of encirclement with the remnants and reached Soviet lines. He spent more than a year as a cavalry inspector and from May 1943 commanded the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps, which he led for the rest of the war. Made a Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership of the corps during Operation Bagration, Obukhov continued in command of the corps after the end of the war. Postwar, he held army command and ended his career as deputy chief of the Soviet tank troops, retiring in the mid-1960s.
context_section_description: After the end of the war, Obukhov continued to command the corps, which was reorganized as the 3rd Guards Mechanized Division in November 1945. From May 1946 he served as deputy commander of the 10th Mechanized Army, and from March 1947 was chief of the armored and mechanized forces combat training department as well as assistant commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces for armored and mechanized forces. From August of the latter year Obukhov commanded the 4th Guards Separate Cadre Tank Division of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, which was expanded into the 4th Guards Mechanized Army in March 1950. Sent to the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy in December 1950 for Higher Academic Courses, upon graduation in December 1952 Obukhov was named assistant commander of the Carpathian Military District. From October 1953 he commanded the 3rd Guards Mechanized Army, which was designated the 18th Guards Army in April 1957. Obukhov received a promotion to colonel general on 8 August 1955. In April 1958 he was appointed the deputy chief of the Armored Forces of the Soviet Armed Forces, a position that became deputy chief of tank troops in January 1961. Obukhov retired in September 1965 and lived in Moscow.  He wrote a volume of memoirs about his experiences during the Russian Civil War, Radi nashego shchastya (For the Sake of Our Happiness), published by DOSAAF in 1972. Obukhov died on 26 November 1975. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
caption: Bas-Relief of Obukhov on a plaque in Zolotonosha
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