Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Alexejew (Marshal)

Nikolai Nikolayevich Alexeyev ( Russian Николай Николаевич Алексеев ; born May 31, ^jul. / 13. June  1914 ^greg. In Rostov , Governorate Yaroslavl ; † 12. November 1980 in Moscow ) was a Russian-Soviet officer and the Soviet air defense forces , a Marshal of Communications troops .

Life

Since 1930 Nikolai Alexejew worked in the St. Petersburg company Elektroapparat (Электроаппарат) founded by the Pullmann brothers in 1877 and since 1935 he served in the Red Army . In the winter of 1940, Nikolai Alexejew took part in the Soviet-Finnish War and in 1940 graduated from the Budyonny Military Academy of Telecommunications Forces . In the German-Soviet War he served from July 1942 at the headquarters of the anti-aircraft and was in the air defense of Leningrad and Moscow to the radar systems RUS-1 , RUS-2 , and as of January 1942, the SON-2 used. In the war against the German Air Force , Nikolai Alexejew had been the head of radar bearings at the front since 1943 .

After the war, Nikolai Alexejew was employed in the head office for rockets and artillery with the artillery reconnaissance radar and led the development of the station for ground-based artillery reconnaissance SNAR-1 (Russian CHAP-1). In the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 1955 he was responsible for the production of radio equipment in the armaments sector. In the Soviet General Staff Nikolai Alexejew headed the Scientific and Technical Committee from 1960. Since 1970 he was Deputy Soviet Minister of Defense. In 1972 he took part in the negotiations for the ABM treaty with the USA . On October 25, 1979, Nikolai Alexeyev became marshal.

Honors

• Order of Lenin
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Red Banner
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Red Star
• Order "For Service to the Fatherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• 1954 Stalin Prize
• Medal "For Merit in Combat"
• Medal "Victory over Germany"
• Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

• Poland: Order of Polonia Restituta
• Romania: Order of Tudor Vladimirescu
• Bulgaria: Order "People's Republic of Bulgaria"
• Mongolia: Order of the Red Banner

A street in Rostov and a school in Nizhny Novgorod are named after Nikolai Alexejew.

source

• June 10, 2004: Commemoration at old.redstar.ru (Russian)

Web links

• February 18, 2009, Stanislaw Jegorow (Станислав Егоров): Entry on vpk-news.ru (Russian)
• October 2, 2014: A. Abramychew (А. Абрамычев): on his 100th birthday at radnews.ru (Russian)
• Entry at sm.evg-rumjantsev.ru (Russian)
• Entry at myfront.in.ua/biografiya (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Электроаппарат (предприятие)
2. ↑ Russian station СОН-2 (German SON-2) at militera.lib.ru
3. ↑ see also introduction in article AFMS-10
4. ↑ Russian Орден Тудора Владимиреску
5. ↑ Russian Орден Красного Знамени (Монголия)