Nikolai Nikolayevich Kupchinsky ( December 4, 1870 - after 1920) - Russian general, hero of the First World War .
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| Date of Birth | December 4, 1870 | ||||||||
| Date of death | after 1920 | ||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||||
| Type of army | infantry | ||||||||
| Years of service | 1888-1920 | ||||||||
| Rank | major general | ||||||||
| Commanded | Yelets 33rd Infantry Regiment | ||||||||
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil War | ||||||||
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Biography
Orthodox. From the hereditary nobles of the Poltava province.
He graduated from the Poltava Cadet Corps (1888) and the 1st Military Pavlovsk School (1890), from where he was released as second lieutenant to the 33rd Infantry Elets Regiment .
Ranks: lieutenant (1893), staff captain (1900), captain (1902), lieutenant colonel (1905), colonel (for distinction, 1911), major general (1917).
He was a junior officer of the Chuguevsky infantry cadet school (1894-1899) and an educational officer of the Poltava Cadet Corps (1899-1914). Since 1911 he was also the company commander of the cadet corps.
On August 27, 1914 he was transferred to the 33rd Infantry Regiment of Yelets, with which he entered the First World War . He was awarded the Order of St. George , 4th degree
| Because on October 7, 1914 near the village. Vysotsko on the left bank of the river. Sana , commanding the regiment, under strong and real fire, repelled the repeated attacks of the superior enemy forces and, being wounded in the arm, remained in the ranks for the next 16 days until the end of the fighting, being in the trenches all the time, setting the example by courage and stamina, repelled everything the enemy’s attempts to knock down the regiment from a position, which facilitated parts of the 9th and 10th corps to cross to the left bank of the river. Sana'a. |
April 16, 1915 was appointed commander of the regiment. He was awarded the St. George arms
| For the fact that in the battle of April 26, 1915, at the crossing of the river. Under the strong and destructive fire of the enemy, Vyslok, near the village of Dobrzhekhov, was stopped and put in order by the retreating regiment, set it in position and detained the enemy, which made it possible for the neighboring troops and convoys to move through the Vistula river crossing. |
On November 29, 1916 he was appointed commander of the brigade of the 134th Infantry Division, and on February 19, 1917 he was promoted to major general with approval in office. By the end of 1917 he was appointed director of the Poltava Cadet Corps.
Since June 8, 1918 he was the head of the 6th division of the hetman army , on November 20 he was transferred as the head of the 11th division in Poltava. In November 1918, during the fall of Skoropadsky’s regime, he commanded a combined detachment of officers of the 6th Poltava Army Corps in battles against the troops of the UNR Directory .
Then he went to the Crimea . He participated in the White Movement as a part of the All-Union Socialist Liberation Union and the Russian Army, Baron Wrangel . He was in the reserve of ranks at the headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the All-Union Union of Liberal Democratic Forces (since January 1, 1919), in the reserve of ranks at the headquarters of the Crimean-Azov Volunteer Army (from January 22, 1919) and in the reserve of ranks of the officers of the All-Union Union of Socialist League (from June 22, 1920).
Fate after 1920 is unknown.
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1902);
- Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd art. (1907);
- Order of St. Anne , 2nd art. (1913);
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. with swords and bow (VP 02.03.1915);
- Order of St. George 4th Art. (VP 05.19.1915);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. with swords (VP 12.06.1915);
- Order of St. Anne 4th Art. (04/21/1916);
- St. George's weapons (VP 13.10.1916);
- swords for the Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. (PAF 04/13/1917).
Links
- Kupchinsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- Kupchinsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich on the site History of Poltava