Aleksandr Glebovich Maykov (Russian: Александр Глебович Майков; 17 October 1902 – January 1977) was a Soviet Army colonel who held divisional command during World War II.
Maykov led the 257th in the Crimean Offensive and the Soviet advance into the Baltic states, ending the war in the blockade of the Courland Pocket.
A Russian, Aleksandr Glebovich Maykov was born on 17 October 1902 in the village of Maykovo, Nikolayevsky volost, Tomsky Uyezd, Tomsk Governorate.
Transferred to serve as a company starshina with the division's 106th Rifle Regiment on 10 October 1927, Maykov entered the Irkutsk Training Course for Infantry Commanders in August 1928.
He returned to his unit, which was redesignated the 8th Separate Rifle Regiment on 21 January 1934 and relocated to the Soviet Far East, where it was assigned to the Suchan Fortified Region of the Pacific Fleet.
[1] Five days after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, on 27 June 1941, Maykov, then a captain, was appointed commander of the 7th Reserve Rifle Regiment, a replacement unit at Gorky.
He led the regiment as the Battle of the Caucasus continued, with the division subordinated to the 58th Army of the Northern Group of Forces of the Transcaucasus Front.
In February 1943, Maykov rose to deputy commander for combat units of the 62nd Separate Naval Rifle Brigade of the 56th Army of the North Caucasus Front's Black Sea Group of Forces.
The recommendation read:[6]Lieutenant Colonel Comrade Maykov has served as brigade deputy commander for combat units since February 1943.
During the conduct of a local operation on 27 January 1944 to take Hill 17.4, two kilometers west of Urzhino, Krasnoperekopsky District, Comrade Maykov personally and the entire division showed high combat qualities – the height was taken by surprise, rapidly.
Based on the experience of the local operation Comrade Maykov prepared the division for the decisive offensive to break through the strongly fortified German defense.
After the end of the fighting in Crimea, the 257th and its parent 51st Army were withdrawn to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command, and relocated north to the 1st Baltic Front.
For his performance in the summer and fall operations 1st Guards Rifle Corps commander Ivan Missan recommended Maykov for the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, in late September, which was awarded on 8 December.
From 12 October, the 257th advanced along the Baltic Sea coast towards Libava, but was halted by German resistance and forced to go on the defensive on the approaches to the city.
Colonel Maykov personally was brave and valiant, in difficult moments of the battle often appeared in forward lines, raising the personnel to feats.
For personal courage and organization of impregnable defenses with the infliction of heavy losses on the enemy, he is deserving of the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class.
In January 1948, he was transferred to the North Caucasus Military District to serve as deputy commander of the 18th Separate Rifle Brigade, stationed in Stalingrad.