Nikolai Mikhailovich Nikolsky (July 1883 - October 5, 1970 ) - Head of the Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army , Corvette Doctor ( 1935 ).
| Nikolai Mikhailovich Nikolsky | |
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 Corvette N. M. Nikolsky | |
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| Place of Birth | the village of Radozhdevo, Kozelsky District, Kaluga Province , Russian Empire |
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| Type of army | Veterinary Service |
| Years of service | 1914 - 1937 |
| Rank | Corvette doctor |
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Biography
Member of the CPSU (b) since 1919 . Born in a Russian rural priest family. After graduating from a seminary in Kaluga in 1905, he entered the Warsaw Veterinary Institute . For participation in the revolutionary student movement was arrested. In 1906 he transferred to the Kazan Veterinary Institute . In Kazan, he was secretary of the social democratic student faction. After graduating from the institute in 1910, he was sent to the South Caucasus to fight the plague of cattle. In 1911–1912 he was in charge of the slaughter in the village of Mashtagi (near Baku). In 1912 he entered the service in the zemstvo of Zhizdrinsky district of the Kaluga province as a district veterinarian. Then he worked at the same position at Babinino station. In April 1914 he entered the courses on animal husbandry at the Riga political technical school. With the beginning of the war with Germany, he was drafted into the army and appointed a senior veterinarian of the 28th Artillery Brigade. For conscientious service awarded four orders. The last rank in the old army is a titular councilor .
After the February Revolution in 1917, he was elected deputy chairman of the divisional court and chairman of the veterinary committee of the 20th army corps . He was elected to the congresses of the Western and South-Western fronts, as well as the All-Russian Veterinary Congress (April 1917). At this congress he was elected a member of the Chief Veterinary Council. Since July - member of the Main Military-Veterinary Committee. From May 1918 - member of the board of the Military-Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army . From January 1919 - Assistant Chief of this department. In May 1920, he was appointed head of the Military-Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army, which he headed until his arrest in 1937. Simultaneously, since 1921, deputy head of the Central Veterinary Administration of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the RSFSR . Since 1924 - responsible editor of the magazine " Soviet Veterinary ". From July 1927 - Representative of the People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs in the Committee on Veterinary Affairs at the Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR, member of the presidium of this committee. He was on business trips abroad (in 1926 - in Germany and Austria, in 1929 - in France and Italy).
Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor of the RSFSR (1928).
“ May 1, 1935 marks 15 years of work as Commander of the Red Army Veterinary Department Comrade. Nikolsky Nikolai Mikhailovich. During this period, veterinary medicine in the Red Army under the direct supervision of Comrade. Nikolsky has made significant progress, especially in the savings of horse composition. The workers of the veterinary service are working hard on the training of veterinary personnel, on the veterinary training of the fighter and the commander, on the application of our new socialist technology in medical and antiepizootic measures. For the good work and leadership of the veterinary service in the Red Army I announce Comrade. Nikolsky thanks and rewarded with a car. I am sure that veterinary workers under the intelligent leadership of Comrade. Nikolsky will continue to work with the same perseverance to save his horse, to increase the combat readiness of the Red Army . ”
- From the order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 75 of April 30, 1935
He was arrested on September 30, 1937. He was sentenced to fifteen years in a forced labor camp by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court on May 4, 1939, on charges of sabotage . The conclusion was serving in Vorkuta ITL. The term has left completely. He was released from the camp on September 30, 1952. He was rehabilitated by the definition of the Military Collegium of June 18, 1955. He died in Moscow on October 5, 1970.
Publications
Author of over 100 papers on various veterinary issues, editor of a number of manuals and books. With the participation of Nikolsky began to publish magazines on veterinary medicine. Participated in the work of the veterinary section of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Literature
- Cherushev N. S. , Cherushev Yu. N. The executed elite of the Red Army (commanders of the 1 st and 2 nd ranks, com-corps, divisional divisions and their equal): 1937-1941. Biographical dictionary. - M .: Kuchkovo field; Megapolis, 2012. - p. 164-165. - 496 s. - 2000 copies - ISBN 978-5-9950-0217-8 .