Anisimov, Nikolai Pavlovich

Born on August 28, 1896 in Moscow.

In 1912 he graduated from the 4-class commercial school in Moscow and worked as a clerk, and since December 1914, he worked as an assistant accountant.

He served in the Russian Imperial Army from January 1916 to February 1918. He was a member of the First World War - in January 1916 he was called up for military service and sent to the 82nd infantry reserve battalion. On April 15, 1916, the battalion was reorganized into the 82nd infantry reserve regiment as part of the 41st infantry reserve brigade. A month later, after completing the course of the training team, Nikolai Anisimov was promoted to corporal . At the end of January 1917 he was promoted to junior non-commissioned officer , and in February he was seconded to the head of the Kiev schools for training infantry ensigns, where he was enrolled as a cunker at the 4th Kiev school of ensigns. After graduating from school at the end of June 1917, he was promoted to ensign and served as a junior officer in the 251st infantry reserve regiment in Moscow, where he was demobilized after the October Revolution. Since February 1918, he worked as an assistant accountant at the warehouse of the Supreme Council of the National Economy in Moscow.

Civil War

Member of the Civil War in Russia. On February 5, 1919 he was mobilized in the Red Army and was appointed platoon commander in the special forces detachment of the 9th Army of the Southern Front. In June of the same year, he suffered from typhus and went on vacation. After recovering in September 1919, he was appointed platoon commander of the Red Army command personnel at the 16th Army of the Western Front. Since June 1920, Anisimov commanded a company in the Western Infantry School of the command staff of the Western Front. In March 1921, as part of the combined battalion of cadets, he took part in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion.

Interwar

After the Civil War, Nikolai Anisimov continued to command a cadet company in the Western Infantry School. From September 1923 to August 1924 he studied at the Moscow Higher Military Pedagogical School, from where he returned to the Western Infantry School and was appointed commander of the battalion. From October 1926 he served as an assistant commander of the regiment for the combatant unit in the 86th infantry regiment of the 29th infantry division , and since October 1927 - in the 109th infantry regiment of the 37th infantry division . From December 1928 to August 1929 he studied at the "Shot" courses, at the end of which he was sent to the Belarusian Military District as an assistant commander for the combatant unit of the 11th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division . From October 1929 he served in the same position in the 23rd Infantry Regiment of the 8th Infantry Division . Since February 1930, Anisimov served as assistant chief of the combat training department of the headquarters of the Belarusian military district, and in December 1931 he was appointed commander and commissar of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Belarusian Infantry Division. Since April 1936 - assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division. In January 1937 he was transferred as the chief of the 2nd department of the headquarters of the Belarusian military district. He took part in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940, while in the 15th Army of the North-Western Front, where he held the post of chief of the operational department of the army headquarters. At the end of hostilities, he continued to serve as chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the same army, and in December 1940 he was transferred as chief of the military training department of the headquarters of the Western Military District .

World War II

Member of the Great Patriotic War from the very beginning. On June 28, 1941, with the rank of Colonel N.P. Anisimov, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Western Military District. Since July 25, the district administration has been subordinated to the commander of the troops of the Western Front. From August 5 to September 20, 1941, Anisimov temporarily served as commander of the district’s troops until he was disbanded. From the end of September to October of the same year, Anisimov was in the reserve of the front, then he was appointed chief of staff of the 31st Army of the Western Front. Since November 1941, he commanded the 3rd Moscow division of the people's militia, and took with her in the battle for Moscow. Then the division was transformed into the 130th Infantry and became part of the 3rd strike army of the Kalinin Front. In February 1942, as part of the 34th Army of the North-Western Front, the division took part in the Demian offensive operation. In September 1942, N.P. Anisimov was appointed deputy commander of the 1st shock army of the North-Western Front. However, for the indecisiveness shown in the management of the army in combat, on January 24, 1943 he was relieved of his post and was appointed temporary acting commander of the 7th Guards Rifle Division . In August, for the division’s failure to fulfill a combat mission, he was transferred to the post of commander of the 391st Infantry Division . In October 1943, Major General N.P. Anisimov was appointed head of the Directorate of Training Units of the Main Directorate of Formation and Staffing of the Red Army, and since December, he served as Deputy Head of the Directorate of Spare and Training Units of the same Directorate. Since the end of April 1945, he commanded the 30th Training Rifle Ivanovo Division.

After the war

After the end of the war, from June 1945, Nikolai Pavlovich Anisimov served as head of the 1st department of the Department of Military Educational Institutions of the Main Directorate of Personnel of NPOs. Since September 1947 he was enrolled as a student of advanced training courses for the commanders of rifle divisions at the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze, after which from December 1949 he continued to serve in the Directorate of Military Educational Institutions of Rifle Forces as the Head of the 2nd and 1st divisions; from May 1952 he was deputy head of the department (from May 1953 - as part of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Ground Forces).

On October 17, 1958 he was fired due to illness. He died on February 5, 1981 in Moscow.

• He was awarded the Order of Lenin, five orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, medals, as well as a foreign order.

• 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. 93-95. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0382-3 , UDC 94, BBK 63.3 (3) 722.78.

• Anisimov Nikolay Pavlovich
• Anisimov Nikolay Pavlovich
• Collection of materials on the history of the 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division