Nichkov Pyotr Nikitich (1897 (new.1898), Nichkovo village, Cherdynsky district , Perm province , Russian Empire - May 30, 1971, Moscow , USSR ) - Soviet military commander, commander of artillery of a number of fronts in the Great Patriotic War , colonel general artillery (1944).
| Pyotr Nikitich Nichkov | |||||||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | 1898 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Nichkovo village, Staritsky district , Cherdynsky district , Perm province , Russian Empire [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Date of death | May 30, 1971 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||||||
| Type of army | artillery | ||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1918 - 1960 | ||||||||||||||
| Rank |  Colonel General of Artillery | ||||||||||||||
| Commanded | artillery of the Northwest Front, artillery of the 2nd Baltic Front, artillery of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil war in Russia , The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||||||
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| Retired | since 1960 | ||||||||||||||
Content
Biography
From the peasants . He was drafted into the Russian imperial army . Member of the 1st World War , in 1917 was wounded.
In the Red Army since 1918. In the Civil War, he fought on the Eastern and South-Western fronts , against the armies of A.V. Kolchak and A.I. Denikin . Since 1922 he commanded artillery units, then was the chief of artillery regiment . He graduated from artillery advanced training courses for command personnel (1929). Since 1937 - Chief of Artillery of the Ural Military District .
During the Great Patriotic War - from August 1941 - chief of artillery of the 22nd Army on the Western and Kalinin fronts. From May 1942, he was the chief (commander) of artillery of the North-Western Front , and from November 1943, he was the chief of artillery of the 2nd Baltic Front . During the war, he participated in the Vitebsk battle , the Smolensk defensive battle , the battle for Moscow , the Rzhev-Vyazemsky offensive operation (January – February 1942) , the Demyan operation (1942) , the Old Russian operation , the Demyan operation (1943) , the Leningrad-Novgorod operation , the Rezhitsa- Dvina operation , Madona operation , Baltic offensive operation , blockade of the Courland group .
After the war, he graduated from the Higher Academic Courses at the K.E. Voroshilov (1949). He served as commander of the artillery of a number of military districts, the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , Odessa Military District . He was dismissed from the Soviet Army due to illness in June 1960.
Member of the CPSU since 1925
Military ranks
- Kombrig (10.29.1939)
- Artillery Major General (06/04/1940)
- Artillery Lieutenant General (11/17/1942)
- Colonel General of Artillery (08/23/1944)
Rewards
- The order of Lenin
- four orders of the Red Banner (8/10/1942, 09/27/1944, 11/3/1944, ...)
- Order of Kutuzov 1st degree (11.16.1943)
- Order of Suvorov 2nd degree (06/29/1945)
- USSR medals
Notes
- ↑ Now the Krasnovishersky District , Perm Territory , Russia .
Sources
- Nichkov Peter Nikitich // The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945: Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. M.M. Kozlov . - M .: Sov. Encyclopedia, 1985 .-- 832 p. Archived July 6, 2010. Archived July 6, 2010 on Wayback Machine
- "Who was who in the Great Patriotic War." Ed. O. A. Rzheshevsky. - Moscow, Publishing House "Republic", 1995.
- Zalessky K.A. World War II. Big biographical encyclopedia. Litres, 2014.
- Ripenko Yu. B. “The Great Artillerymen of Russia: 100 Famous Names of Russian Artillery”. - M., "Centerpolygraph", 2012. - ISBN: 978-5-227-03862-3.