Nikolai Gusev

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Nikolai Ivanovich Gusev
Born26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1897
Brodnikovo, Maryinskoy volost, Novotorzhsky Uyezd, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
Died16 May 1962(1962-05-16) (aged 64)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Buried
Novodevichy Cemetery
Allegiance
Service/branch
Years of service
  • 1916–1918
  • 1918–1962
RankColonel general
Commands held
Battles/wars
Awards

Nikolai Ivanovich Gusev (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Гу́сев; 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1897 – 16 May 1962) was a Soviet Army colonel general.

Drafted into the

25th Cavalry Division between July 1941 and January 1942, the 13th Cavalry Corps to June 1942, the 4th Army to November 1943, and successively the 20th, 47th and 48th Armies until the end of the war. Postwar, Gusev successively served as commander of several armies, military attaché to Czechoslovakia
, and as head of a directorate of the General Staff before his death in 1962.

Early life, World War I, and Russian Civil War

Gusev was born on 26 November [

senior non-commissioned officer (unter-ofitser) until returning to his home area as the army dissolved in February 1918.[1]

During the

Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine as part of the Southwestern and Southern Fronts.[1][2]

Interwar period

After the end of the war, Gusev continued to serve with the regiment as a platoon and squadron commander. When the regiment was reduced to a separate cavalry squadron of the division in December 1922, he became the squadron commander. After graduating from Higher Refresher Courses for senior and mid-level command staff at

Kharkov in 1924, he transferred to the 1st Cavalry Division of the Troops in Ukraine and Crimea as acting assistant commander for personnel of its 1st Cavalry Regiment. Gusev became chief of staff of its 2nd Cavalry Regiment in 1926, graduating from the Air Defense Commanders' Improvement Courses at the anti-aircraft artillery school in 1928, and Cavalry Commanders' Improvement Courses at Novocherkassk in 1929. After completing the latter, he became commander and commissar of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, and in July 1931 was appointed division chief of staff after completing the Cavalry Commanders' Improvement Courses at Novocherkassk again. Transferred to the Staff of the Red Army in January 1935, he served as head of a subunit of the 4th Staff Department. From November 1937 he was secretary of a party bureau, and from September 1939 he was acting military commissar of the Red Army General Staff. Gusev entered the Military Academy of the General Staff in July 1940 and graduated from it in 1941.[1][2]

World War II

After the beginning of

Western Bug and at the end of the month reached the Vistula in the Warsaw area. On 14 September, after four days of fighting, the army captured Praga, a suburb of Warsaw.[1][2]

Transferred to command the

Frisches Haff on 25 March, fighting in heavy defensive and offensive battles against the German troops on the Baltic coast.[2] On 5 May 1945, Gusev was promoted to colonel general.[1]

Postwar

After the end of the war, Gusev continued to command the 48th Army, withdrawn to the

Belorussian Military District to take command of the 3rd Army at Slutsk, then became commander of the 28th Army at Grodno in March 1947. From April 1949 he temporarily served as commander of the Special Mechanized Army in Romania.[1][2]

Gusev became the chief military advisor to the Ministry of National Defense of Czechoslovakia in July 1950, simultaneously serving as the Soviet military attaché in Czechoslovakia. He transferred to become deputy head of the 10th Directorate of the General Staff in July 1954, and from May 1956 simultaneously served as deputy chief of staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact. In October 1958 both positions were combined in title, and in December 1960 Gusev became head of the 10th Directorate. He died in Moscow on 6 May 1962,[1] and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.[2]

Awards and honors

Gusev received the following decorations:[1]

He was a delegate to the second and third convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[1]

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Tsapayev & Goremykin 2011, pp. 136–137.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Vozhakin 2005, pp. 61–63.
  3. ^ Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, p. 354.
  4. ^ Glantz 2002, pp. 165, 167.
  5. ^ Glantz 2002, p. 202.
  6. ^ Beloborodov 1963, p. 473.

Bibliography

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