Nikolai Dmitrievich Yakovlev

Nikolai Dmitrievich Yakovlev ( Russian Николай Дмитриевич Яковлев ; born December 19, ^jul. / 31 December  1898 ^greg. In Staraya Russa , province Novgorod , Russian Empire ; †  9. May 1972 in Moscow , Russian Soviet republic , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet-Russian Marshal of the Artillery .

Yakovlev's grave (2014)

Life

Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Jakowlew was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1916 and took part in the First World War as a non-commissioned officer . In 1918 Yakovlev joined the Red Army and participated as a soldier in the Russian Civil War and as commander of the 7th Army artillery from 1939-1940 in the Winter War.

From 1941 to 1946 - and thus during the Great Patriotic War - he was head of the headquarters for rockets and artillery . Under the leadership of Yakovlev, new models of artillery weapons and ammunition were developed. On February 21, 1944, he was promoted to Marshal of the Artillery.

From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (2nd legislative period). From 1955 to 1960 he was the representative of the Commander in Chief of the Soviet Air Defense Forces .

Yakovlev died in 1972 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. His sons - the historian Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Jakowlew (1927-1996) and the theater critic Sergei Nikolajewitsch Jakowlew (1944-1991) - were buried next to him.

Awards

Promotions

• June 4, 1940: Lieutenant General
• February 22, 1941: Colonel General
• February 21, 1944: Marshal of the Artillery

• 6 × Order of Lenin (1941; 1942; 1945; 1948; 1956; 1958)
• 2 × Order of the Red Banner (1944; 1949)
• 2 × Suvorov medals, 1st class (1944)
• Order of Kutuzov 1st class (1943)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1968)
• Anniversary medal "XX years of the Red Workers and Peasants Army"
• Medal "For the Defense of Moscow"
• Medal "Victory over Germany"
• Medal "For Victory Over Japan"

Web links

• Яковлев Николай Дмитриевич , histrf.ru (Russian)
• Яковлев Николай Дмитриевич , biograph-soldat.ru (Russian)
• Яковлев Николай Дмитриевич , hrono.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Николай Дмитриевич Яковлев , deduhova.ru (Russian)
2. ↑ Яковлев Николай Дмитриевич , okp.mil.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Боевой путь 67 пехотной дивизии в Первой Мировой ( Memento from August 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), blogs.mail.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Яковлев Николай Дмитриевич , военная-энциклопедия.рф (Russian)
5. ↑ Яковлев Николай Дмитриевич , 1slovar.ru (Russian)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Яковлев Николай Дмитриевич , novodevichiynecropol.narod.ru (Russian)
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Яковлев Николай Дмитриевич , elita-army.ru (Russian)