Dedaev, Nikolai Alekseevich

Russian, from the peasants. From childhood he was a laborer. He participated in revolutionary actions. For participating in the strike, he was arrested, imprisoned, then sent to the front of the First World War, which he graduated with the rank of junior non-commissioned officer of the Guards reserve cavalry regiment .

Member of the RCP (b) since 1918 . Active participant in the Civil War. From November 1917 - assistant commander, from March 1918 - commander of the "1st Red partisan detachment of the Guards cavalry", commander of a separate squadron (from April 1918), squadron commander (from June 1918).

From August 1918 - commander of the 1st Tsaritsyn cavalry regiment , then, from January 1919 he commanded the 1st Kamyshin cavalry regiment. For military merits, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner .

Since July 1921 - assistant to the head of the school of the 2nd Cavalry Division. In December 1924 he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Cavalry School of the Red Army and was sent as commander and commissar of the 29th Cavalry Regiment of the 5th Cavalry Division.

In May 1933 he graduated from the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze , after which he was appointed assistant commander of the 12th Cavalry Division , from January 1934 - commander and military commissar of a separate combined mountainous nationalities of the cavalry regiment , commander and commissar of the 127th cavalry regiment.

Since March 1937, he was at the disposal of the Office for the command and command staff of the Red Army, assistant commander of the 29th cavalry division, from June 1938 - the 5th cavalry corps, then from October 1939 - commanded the 25th cavalry division.

The division commander participated in the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940) . For courage he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

In the future - the commander of the 22nd cavalry division, from March 14, 1941 - the commander of the 67th rifle division , which was deployed in the area of ​​the Latvian town - the sea base of Liepaja (Libava).

As part of the 8th Army of the North-Western Front, from the first days of World War II, he fought with his division against the Nazis on the outskirts of Liepaja .

Being a talented military leader, a day before the start of the war N. Dedaev gave the order to withdraw troops from the barracks for training and disperse them 15-25 km around the city. Thus, the first wave of fascist bombers bombed the empty barracks of the garrison.

On the third day of the fighting, June 25, General Dedaev, being at the division’s command post, was mortally wounded as a result of shelling. The retreating fighters of the Liepaja garrison were buried on the same day in a mass grave in the territory of the naval hospital.

In the summer of 1947, he was reburied at the Tosmar cemetery, and in October 1977 - at the Liepaja Central Cemetery.

In Soviet times, the name of General Dedaev was one of the streets of Liepaja.

• Team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / Ed. Coll .: N. B. Akberdin, I. I. Basik, S. A. Botzvin, n. I. Nikiforov, I. A. Permyakov, M. V. Smyslov . - M .: “Kuchkovo Field”. Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation , General Directorate of Personnel, State Institution for Work with Personnel, Institute of Military History of the Military Academy of the General Staff. The Central Archive ., 2014 .-- T. III. Commanders of rifle, mountain rifle divisions, Crimean, polar, Petrozavodsk divisions, Rebolsky divisions, fighter divisions. - S. 801-803. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0382-3 , UDC 94, BBK 63.3 (3) 722.78.

• 67th Infantry Division