Nikolai Nikolaevich Radkevich ( February 22, 1904, Metro Logoisk , now a city, Logoisk District , Minsk Region - June 4, 1982 , Moscow ) - Soviet military leader, Lieutenant General of Tank Forces ( 1954 ).
| Nikolai Nikolaevich Radkevich | ||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | February 22, 1904 | |||||||||
| Place of Birth | m. Logoisk , now village , Logoisk district , Minsk region | |||||||||
| Date of death | June 4, 1982 (78 years) | |||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow | |||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||
| Type of army | Infantry Tank forces | |||||||||
| Years of service | 1920 - 1959 | |||||||||
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| Commanded | 5th Tank Brigade 63rd Special Tank Brigade 121st Panzer Brigade 14th tank corps 11th tank corps | |||||||||
| Battles / Wars | Russian civil war The Great Patriotic War Soviet-Japanese War | |||||||||
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Content
Initial biography
Nikolai Nikolaevich Radkevich was born on February 22, 1904 in the metro station of Logoisk, now the city of Logoisk district of the Minsk region.
Military Service
Civil wars
In October 1920, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent to a special detachment by a Red Army man, after which he took part in hostilities to eliminate gangs in Borisov district .
Interwar Time
In June 1921, he was sent to study at the Petrograd Higher Military Avtobroneskol School, after which he was sent to the school of the military fleet of the 5th Red Banner Army , where he served as an instructor of an auto workshop, a guard platoon commander and a garage manager.
In January 1925, he was appointed to the post of an overseer of an automaker, then to the post of commander of a guard platoon of the Leningrad district warehouse of military technical equipment. In October 1926, he was sent to the Leningrad armored advanced training courses for commanders , where he served as platoon commander of a tractor company, tank commander, tank platoon commander and training battalion company, and in May 1932 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Moscow command improvement courses. composition of motorized troops.
In 1933 he was sent to study at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization , after which he was appointed in 1937 to the post of Chief of Staff of the 5th Tank Brigade , and from January to June 1938 he temporarily served as commander of this brigade.
In December 1938, he was sent to study at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army , but in June 1939 he was placed at the disposal of the Military Council of the Belarusian Military District, and in November he was appointed head of the 1st Division of the Armored Directorate of the Western Military District . In October 1940, continued his studies at the Academy.
Great Patriotic War
In July 1941, he was appointed commander of the 63rd Special Tank Brigade of the Russian State Control Committee , and in August - Commander of the 121st Tank Brigade , which conducted military operations in the Orsha - Roslavl direction and on the Seim River in the Rylsk region, and then in Izyum area held a bridgehead until the main troops.
In May 1942, he was appointed commander of the 14th tank corps , who conducted military operations during the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad and Donbass defensive operations , as well as in the battle for the Caucasus .
On June 8, 1943, he was appointed commander of the 11th Tank Corps , who took part in hostilities during the Battle of Kursk , the Donbass offensive and the Battle of the Dnieper .
In October 1943 he was appointed commander of the armored and mechanized forces of the Far Eastern Front , after which in August 1945 he took part in hostilities during the Manchurian offensive operation during the Soviet-Japanese war .
Post War Career
After the war, he was appointed commander of the armored and mechanized troops of the Far Eastern Military District .
In April 1948 he was sent to study at the higher academic courses at the Higher Military Academy named after KE Voroshilov , after which in May 1949 he was appointed commander of the Central Armed Forces armored and mechanized troops, in December 1950 - to the position of 1st first deputy, in May 1953 - the post of Deputy chief Tank Directorate of the Soviet Army , and in July 1954 - as a senior military adviser to the commander of armored and mechanized forces of the Hungarian People rmii .
From November 1956, he was at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces and in March 1957 he was appointed military attaché at the USSR Embassy in Czechoslovakia .
Lieutenant-General of Tank Forces Nikolai Nikolayevich Radkevich in March 1959 went into the reserve. He died on June 4, 1982 in Moscow .
Awards
- Two Orders of Lenin ;
- Five Orders of the Red Banner ;
- Medals
Memory
Literature
The team of authors . Great Patriotic: Komkory. Military Biographical Dictionary / Under the general editorship of M. G. Vozhakina . - M. Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Pole, 2006. - T. 2. - p. 171-172. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .