Nikolai Vladimirovich Feklenko

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Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Feklenko (Russian: Николай Владимирович Фекленко, born December 12, 1901 in the village of Tifinka, Ujesd Tambov , † October 12, 1951 in Moscow ) was a Soviet army leader in World War II , last lieutenant general of the armored forces (1943).

Life

In the Red Army

He joined the Red Army in August 1918 . During the Russian Civil War , he fought in the 5th Cavalry Regiment from September 1919 to fight insurgents in the Voronezh province . From May 1920 he was deputy commander of a squadron in the same cavalry squadron and from June 1920 he was adjutant to the leader of the 5th Cavalry Regiment, which was used on the western and southern fronts. In 1922 he completed the courses for political commanders in Stavropol . From March 1922 he was political chief in the training squadron of the 5th Cavalry Regiment. In 1925 he graduated from a military political school and in May 1925 of the same year took over the leadership of a squadron in the 25th Cavalry Regiment. In 1928 he completed the cavalry commanders refresher courses and was then appointed chief of the regimental school of the 27th Cavalry Regiment. From December 1931 he was adjutant to the commander of the 26th Cavalry Regiment and from June 1932 in the same position with the 5th Mechanized Regiment of the 5th Cavalry Division. In 1933 he graduated from the Military Mechanization Academy of the Red Army. On February 27, 1936, he was promoted to colonel . Since June 1937 he served in the 57th Special Rifle Corps in Mongolia: first as commander of the 7th mechanized brigade, from December 1937 as commander of the independent 32nd tank brigade and from September 1938 as commander of the 57th rifle corps. On August 16, 1938, he was appointed brigade commander , and on September 10 of the same year he was promoted to division commander. He commanded the corps in the early stages of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol (May 1939), but was removed from his post on June 6, 1939, according to a report by GK Zhukov , because he had lost control of the situation during the fighting. He was then available for several months to the People's Defense Commissioner of the USSR and was only appointed commander of the 14th Tank Brigade after the beginning of World War II in November 1939. On June 4, 1940 he was promoted to major general of the armored forces and appointed commander of the 15th Panzer Division. From March 11, 1941, he was in command of the 19th Mechanized Corps in the Kiev military district . At the 18th party congress of the CPSU (March 1939) he was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU. By the resolution of the XVIII. At the CPSU conference (in February 1941), however, he was struck off the list of candidates for the Central Committee.

In World War II

At the beginning of the Patriotic War he commanded the 19th Mechanized Corps on the Southwest Front , which suffered heavy losses in the tank battle near Dubno-Lutsk-Rivne . From August 15 to September 20, 1941 he was the commander of the 38th Army on this front, but was unable to successfully carry out his duties during the Battle of Kiev . In November 1941 he served temporarily as the commander of the Kharkov military district. From November to December 1941 he commanded the troops in the military district of Stalingrad . Since January 1942 he was deputy commander of the southern front . Since May 1942 deputy director of the main office of the armored forces of the Red Army. In June 1942 he took command of the 17th Panzer Corps, which participated in the defense of Voronezh as part of the operational group of the Bryansk Front . From July 1942 he was head of the Stalingrad tank center and from August 1942 commander of the tank and tractor depot on the lower section of the Don. From January 1943 he became the commander of the tank reserve troop camp in Tula . On July 27, 1943, he was appointed commander of the armored and mechanized troops of the steppe front , and from December 1943 he served as the head of the main directorate for the education and combat training of the armored and mechanized troops of the Red Army. On November 5, 1943 he was appointed lieutenant general of the armored forces.

post war period

Feklenko remained after the war until May 146 in his last position as an instructor for the tank troops. Since September 1946 he was the commander of the armored and mechanized troops of the Belarus Military District . Since April 1948 he completed higher technical leadership courses at the Voroshilov Military Academy. In February 1949 he was appointed commander of the armored and mechanized forces of the Carpathian Military District , and since October 1950 he was available to the commander of the armored and mechanized forces. In July 1951 he was retired due to illness. On October 12 of the same year he died in Moscow and was buried in the Vvedenskoye cemetery .

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SURNAME Feklenko, Nikolai Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Фекленко, Николай Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Tifinka village, Ujesd Tambov
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1951
Place of death Moscow