Grave of the Soviet Russian tank General Colonel Matvey Timofeevich Nikitin (1911-1981) at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, Russia
Matvey Timofeevich Nikitin (1911- 1981). In the Red Army since 1933. He graduated from the Armored School (1936), the Military Academy of the General Staff. Was on staff work. In the Great Patriotic War - chief of staff of the regiment, brigade, tank corps, chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the 1st Guards Tank Army. After the war, the chief of staff of the division, the Odessa military district, the chief of staff, the 1st deputy commander and the commander of the Southern Group of Forces, the chief of the Main Staff of the Ground Forces, the 1st deputy commander-in-chief of the Land Force, then worked in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. He was awarded 5 Orders of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov 2nd degree, Kutuzov 2nd degree, Patriotic War of the 1st degree, 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Red Star awards, "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" of the 3rd degree, medals, the Polish order "Virtut militar", the Czechoslovak Orzhen of the White Lion. Honorary citizen of Bogodukhov, Kharkiv region.
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Location: Novodevichy Cemetery, 2 Luzhnetski Proezd, Moscow, Moscow Region, Russia, Eastern Europe
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