Nikolay Pavlovich Efimov (1872–1943) - Russian military leader, lieutenant-general . Participant of the campaign to China in 1900-1901, the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905, the First World War, the White movement.
| Nikolay Pavlovich Efimov | ||||||||
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 General N.P. Efimov, 1919, Poltava | ||||||||
| Date of Birth | January 13, 1872 | |||||||
| Date of death | January 19, 1943 (71 years) | |||||||
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| Affiliation |  Russia White movement | |||||||
| Years of service | 1890- | |||||||
| Rank | lieutenant general | |||||||
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Biography
He graduated from the 2nd Cadet Corps , the 1st Pavlovsk Military School (1892) and the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff (1899).
After graduating from the Academy, he was an officer for special assignments at the headquarters of the 4th Army Corps . In 1901, after returning from China, he was the senior adjutant of the headquarters of the Vilna military district. During the war with Japan, he was a senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 55th Infantry Division, and then a staff officer under the management of the Siberian Separate Infantry Brigade. In 1908 - the colonel and the staff officer for assignments at the headquarters of the Vilna military district. In January 1912, the Chief of Staff of the 43rd Infantry Division .
During the First World War - from November 1914 - the commander of the 103rd Petrozavodsk regiment . From August 1915, Major General . In 1916, the Chief of Staff of the 23rd Infantry Division . October 23, 1916 - Chief of Staff of the 5th Caucasian Army Corps .
Member of the White movement. In the Volunteer Army from 1918. In May 1919, he replaced General Agapeyev as the chief of staff of the Volunteer Army under the commander, General May-Mayevsky . With the appointment of the Commander of the Volunteer Army, General Wrangel to the position of General May-Mayevsky on November 27, 1919, he was replaced as Chief of Staff by General Shatilov and appointed to the reserve Commander-in-Chief. In March 1920, he was appointed a member of the Military Council, on the orders of General Denikin, assembled for the election of a new Commander-in-Chief of the All-Soviet Union. In 1920 he emigrated with the Russian army of General Wrangel. He lived first in Titel, in the Kingdom of CXS, and then moved to France. He died in Paris on January 19, 1943. He was buried at the Russian cemetery in Sainte-Genevieve de Bois .
Sources
- Efimov, Nikolay Pavlovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150105131903/http://www.russiansoldiers.ru/full/russian_empire/002_1/