Nikolaev, Ivan Fedorovich

Ivan Fedorovich Nikolaev was born on May 6, 1890 in Yaroslavl.

He was drafted into the Russian army in 1912 .

World War I and Civil War

In 1915 he graduated from the ensign school in Moscow .

During World War I, he commanded a battalion on the Western Front , where he rose to the rank of staff captain .

In 1918, he sided with the Red Army .

He fought in the Don and Transcaucasia as chief of staff of a separate infantry brigade, senior assistant chief of staff and chief of staff of an infantry division, as well as as commander of a brigade of the 32nd infantry division .

From September 1920 to June 1921 he commanded the brigade of the 34th Infantry Division .

The interwar period

From July 1921 to October 1922, Nikolaev served in the Caucasus Army as a brigade commander and regiment. Since 1923, he served in the Siberian Military District as regiment commander and chief of the operational part of the division headquarters.

With the completion in 1929 of advanced training courses for the command staff "Shot" he was appointed to the post of commander of the Turkestan regiment, then to the post of military commissar, while on which, he took part in the fight against basmachi

From 1931 to 1933 he served as chief of staff of the division, regiment commander, assistant chief of the Leningrad Infantry School , and from 1937 to 1940 - as chief of staff, assistant commander and commander of the 19th Rifle Corps . He participated in the Soviet-Finnish war .

February 19, 1940 Nikolaev was appointed to the post of commander of the 10th Rifle Corps ( 8th Army , Baltic Military District ).

In 1941 he graduated from advanced training courses for the highest command of the Academy of the General Staff. K. E. Voroshilova

World War II

Since the beginning of World War II, the corps as part of the 8th Army of the North-Western Front took part in border battles, including in the battle of Raseiniai . The corps fought heavy defensive battles with superior enemy forces in Šiauliai UR . Soon the corps retreated to Riga and further to Pärnu . In July, the corps waged defensive battles at the Parnu- Tartu line , and also destroyed several enemy naval assault forces on the coast of the Gulf of Riga , but on August 6, the enemy split the army into two groups, where the corps under the command of Nikolaev formed the basis of the eastern army group, which defended until the end of August Tallinn By the decision of the Supreme High Command Headquarters of August 17, the city’s defense was assigned to Vice Admiral Vladimir Filippovich Tributs , and Major General Nikolaev was appointed deputy commander of the KBF on land defense. From August 26 to 29, the corps was evacuated to Leningrad using KBF ships, after which it became part of the Leningrad Front . In September he was appointed to the post of deputy commander, and on October 24 - to the post of commander of the 42nd Army , which led defensive battles on the outskirts of Leningrad.

Since January 1944, he commanded the 70th Army , which was in the reserve of the Supreme Command. In February, the army was redeployed to the area north of the city of Kovel with the transfer to the 2nd Belorussian Front . In March, during the Polesie offensive operation, the army, operating in a wooded area, advanced 30-40 kilometers. During the offensive, the army defeated a large enemy group.

Ivan Fedorovich Nikolaev died on August 18, 1944 in Moscow due to an illness.

• Three Orders of the Red Banner ;
• Medals.

Team of authors . The Great Patriotic War. The commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / Under the General Ed. M. G. Vozhakina . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2005 .-- S. 159-160. - ISBN 5-86090-113-5 .

• N.V. Ogarkov. Nikolaev, Ivan Fedorovich // Soviet Military Encyclopedia. - M: military publishing house, 1978. - T. 5. - S. 594-595. - 688 p. - 105,000 copies.

• Biography of I.F. Nikolaev on the site "az-libr.ru"