Nikolai Ivanovich Trufanov (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Труфа́нов; 15 May 190012 February 1982) was a
Soviet
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Colonel General
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who fought in World War II.
Biography
He was born on May 15, 1900, in the Yaroslavl Governorate in a poor family. At the age of 19 he joined the Red Army, participed in the Russian Civil War, and served in the cavalry division of
Grigory Kotovsky
Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky (russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Кото́вский, ro, Grigore Kotovski; – August 6, 1925) was a Soviet military and political activist, and participant in the Russian Civil War. He made a career ...
. In 1925 he graduated from the VTsIK military school and in 1939 he graduated from the
Frunze Military Academy
The M. V. Frunze Military Academy (russian: Военная академия имени М. В. Фрунзе), or in full the Military Order of Lenin and the October Revolution, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Academy in the name of M. V. Frunze (rus ...
. He participated in the
Soviet-Finnish war
The Winter War,, sv, Vinterkriget, rus, Зи́мняя война́, r=Zimnyaya voyna. The names Soviet–Finnish War 1939–1940 (russian: link=no, Сове́тско-финская война́ 1939–1940) and Soviet–Finland War 1 ...
as chief of staff of the
4th Infantry Division.
In August 1941, he participated in the
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran as Chief of Staff of the
28th Mechanized Corps. In July 1942 he was appointed commander of the
51st Army, was soon removed from office, but reappointed in October and commanded the army until February 1943.
Since June 1943, he was deputy commander of the 69th Army. Since March 1945, the commander of the
25th Rifle Corps The 25th Army Corps was an army corps of the Soviet Ground Forces active from 1957–1960 and 1980–89. In its first period of existence it was in the Odessa Military District, and in its second period of existence it garrisoned the remote Kamchatk ...
on the 2nd Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian Fronts. During the war he took part in the
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 19422 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later re ...
, the
Battle of the Caucasus
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, the
Battle of Rostov (1943) Three battles of the Eastern Front of World War II around the city of Rostov-on-Don on the Sea of Azov are known as the Battle of Rostov:
*In the Battle of Rostov (1941), the German 1st Panzer Army captured the city but was driven out by the Sovie ...
and a number of other battles and operations. He fought also in the
Battle of Berlin
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After the Vistula– ...
.
At the end of the war until October 19, 1945, he was a military commandant of the city of
Leipzig
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, then Chief of Commandant's Service Section, Soviet Military Administration, Saxony, and from December 1946, Commanding Officer Soviet Military Administration in Mecklenburg. He was promoted to lieutenant general on 11 July 1945.
Since June 1950, he was Head of the Directorate of Combat and Physical Training of the
Far Eastern Military District
The Far Eastern Military District (russian: Дальневосточный военный округ; Dalʹnevostochnyĭ voennyĭ okrug) was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific ...
. Since January 1954, Commander of the
15th Combined Arms Army on
Sakhalin Island
Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...
. Since January 1956, first deputy Commander of the Far Eastern Military District. Since June 1957, chief military adviser, then senior military specialist of the Minister of Defense of the
People's Republic of China
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.
He retired in 1960.
References
External links
Generals.dk
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1900 births
1982 deaths
People from Yaroslavl Oblast
People from Yaroslavsky Uyezd
Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1955–1959
Soviet colonel generals
Frunze Military Academy alumni
Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War
Soviet military personnel of the Winter War
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner