Shkodunovich, Nikolai Nikolaevich

Nikolai Nikolaevich Shkodunovich was born on April 24, 1904 in Tver.

Civil War

In May 1919 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent by the Red Army to the 12th Saratov Food Regiment, after which he took part in the hostilities on the Southern Front .

In January 1920, he was appointed to the post of chairman of the cultural committee and secretary of the military commissar of the 111th separate infantry battalion of VOKhR , in October - to the post of assistant military commissar of the 155th regiment of the VNUS , then to a similar post in the 52nd brigade ( 18th division of the VNUS , Western Front ), and in February 1921 - to the post of military commissar of the headquarters of the 77th Rifle Brigade ( 26th Division of the All-Russian National Military University ).

Interwar

Since April 1921, he served in the Volga Military District as military commissar of the headquarters of the 50th Infantry Division , instructor of the political department of the 126th and 97th Infantry Brigades, assistant military commissar of the 5th Ural Infantry Regiment, military commissar of the automobile detachment of the 32nd Infantry Division , assistant military commissar and military commissar of the 94th Peasant Rifle Regiment of the same division. In November 1926, Shkodunovich was sent to study at the Rifle tactical courses " Shot ", after which he returned to the 32nd Infantry Division, where he served as battalion commander, commander and chief of staff of the 95th Volga Rifle Regiment.

In October 1930, he was appointed commander of the cadet battalion of the Ulyanovsk Red Banner Infantry School named after V.I. Lenin, but in November of the same year he was sent to study at the Moscow Advanced Training Courses for the higher command, which he graduated in January 1931 and in April. the same year he was appointed commander and commissar of the 91st Astrakhan Rifle Regiment, in April 1932 - to a similar position in the 3rd Collective Farm Rifle Regiment ( 1st Red Banner Rifle Division , OKDVA ), and in January 1937 - to the post of chief of staff of the 39th Pacific Rifle Division .

In July 1938, Shkodunovich was arrested and was under investigation by the NKVD , but in October 1939, by the decision of the military tribunal of the 1st Separate Red Banner Army, he was acquitted, after which he was at the disposal of the Personnel Directorate of the Red Army.

In January 1940 he was appointed to the post of assistant chief for the combat drill unit, and then to the post of deputy chief of the Kuibyshev Infantry School .

World War II

With the outbreak of war he was in his former position.

In December 1941, he was appointed commander of the 58th Infantry Division , which from March 1942 conducted offensive military operations in the Mosalsky direction, and since May of that year was on the defensive.

In November, Shkodunovich was sent to study at accelerated courses at the K.E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy , after which in May 1943 he was appointed commander of the 233rd Infantry Division , and in August - the commander of the 68th Infantry Corps , who soon took part in hostilities during the Belgorod-Kharkov offensive operation and in the battle for the Dnieper , during which he liberated the cities of Kharkov and Dneprodzerzhinsk . Soon, the corps participated in the Odessa , Bereznegovato-Snigirevskaya , Iasi-Kishinev , Belgrade , Budapest , Vienna and Prague offensive operations , as well as in the liberation of the cities of Bobrinets , Bender , Hollabrunn , Gyor , Komarom , Magyarovar , Vienna and Budapest . For the distinction during the liberation of Belgrade, the corps received the honorary name “Belgrade”, and Nikolay Shkodunovich was awarded the Order of Suvorov of the 2nd degree for the skillful organization of control of the corps during the Iasi-Kishinev and Vienna offensive operations.

Post-War Career

After the war he was in his former position.

In January 1946, he was appointed to the post of senior lecturer at the Higher Military Academy named after K. E. Voroshilov , in September 1952 - to the post of deputy head of the Military Academy named after Frunze for operational-tactical training, and in November 1955, to the post of deputy chief of the same academy for scientific research. In September 1961, the post was renamed and Shkodunovich became deputy head of the academy for scientific and educational work.

Lieutenant General Nikolai Nikolayevich Shkodunovich died on October 19, 1964 in a plane crash at the Belgrade airport . He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow .

In honor of Shkodunovich, the bulk tanker of the Novorossiysk Shipping Company General Shkodunovich was named ^[1] .

At the site of the death of the military delegation, which included Nikolai Shkodunovich, on Mount Avala near Belgrade ( Serbia ), a monument was erected to Soviet war veterans .

• Two Orders of Lenin ;
• Three Orders of the Red Banner ;
• Order of Kutuzov 1st degree;
• Order of Suvorov 2 degrees;
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2 degrees
• Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree;
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor ;
• Order of the Red Star ;
• Medals.

• Major General ( 1943 );
• lieutenant general ( 1949 ).

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