Andrey Nikitin (general)
Andrey Grigoryevich Nikitin | |
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| Born | 28 September 1891 Khlebny khutor, Kachalinskaya stanitsa, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died | 4 February 1957 (aged 65) Simferopol, Soviet Union |
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| Rank | Major general |
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Andrey Grigoryevich Nikitin (Russian: Андрей Григорьевич Никитин; 28 September 1891 – 4 February 1957) was a Red Army major general.
Drafted into the Imperial Russian Army just before World War I, Nikitin fought in the war as a non-commissioned officer with a Cossack cavalry regiment. Joining the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, he served as an assistant regimental commander with a division of the 1st Cavalry Army. Nikitin commanded a cavalry regiment during the 1920s and rose to cavalry division command in the 1930s. At the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, he commanded the 20th Mechanized Corps in Belarus. After his unit suffered heavy losses during the Battle of Białystok–Minsk, Nikitin was wounded and evacuated during the Siege of Mogilev. He never held another combat command during the rest of the war and served as an army deputy commander, cavalry inspector, reserve brigade commander, and division deputy commander, being dogged by repeated unsatisfactory performance evaluations. As a result, Nikitin retired soon after the end of World War II.
Early life, World War I, and Russian Civil War
Nikitin was born to a peasant family on 28 September 1891 in the
Nikitin joined the
From May 1920 he and the division with the army fought in the
Interwar period
After the end of the war, Nikitin continued to serve with the 4th Cavalry Division as commander of the 21st Don-Stavropol Cavalry Regiment. He studied at the Cavalry Officers Improvement Course of the Higher Military School in Moscow between November 1924 and August 1925 and the Cavalry Officers Improvement Course at Novocherkassk between November 1929 and April 1930. Nikitin entered the
World War II
After the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union,
Despite Gorodovikov's evaluation, Nikitin was not given a combat command but instead was sent to the
Postwar
Nikitin was placed at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army Cavalry again after the end of the war, and retired in April 1946. He died on 4 February 1957 in Simferopol.[1][2]
Awards and honors
Nikitin was a recipient of the following decorations:[1][2]
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h Vozhakin 2006, pp. 238–239.
- ^ a b c d e f Bulkin 2018, pp. 527–528.
- ^ a b c Drig, Yevgeny (3 January 2006). "Биографии – Н" [Biographies – N]. mechcorps.rkka.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ^ Glantz 2010, p. 278.
Bibliography
- Bulkin, Anatoly (2018). Генералитет Красной Армии (1918-1941). Военный биографический словарь в 3-х томах [Red Army Generals, 1918–1941: Three-volume Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Penza.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Glantz, David M. (2010). Barbarossa Derailed: The German Advance to Smolensk, the Encirclement Battle, and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July – 24 August 1941. Philadelphia: Casemate. ISBN 9781906033729.
- Vozhakin, Mikhail Georgievich, ed. (2006). Великая Отечественная. Комкоры. Военный биографический словарь [Great Patriotic War: Corps Commanders: Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 5901679083.