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An outstanding Soviet military leader, general of the army (1943), Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously), who went through the path of a Red Army soldier to.

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15.4. 1944 General Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin died

He was respected for his originality of leadership and aggressiveness. Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin was one of the best generals of the Red Army and a favorite of Stalin. He died on April 15, 1944.

Vatutin was born in Chepukhin, near Valuye, Voronezh province. In 1920 he joined the Red Army and the Communist Party. He diligently attended command courses in Poltava and, from 1924, the military school in Kiev and later the Frunze Military Academy, where he studied postgraduate studies from 1934. In 1937 he became assistant chief, a year later chief of staff of the Kiev Special Military District.

All the time Vatutin combined intensive military service with party activities. He was one of the great favorites of Stalin himself and one of the few Soviet officers to escape Stalin's repression in the 1930s.

"In the autumn of 1939, he was promoted to chief of the General Staff's Operations Administration and the...subsequently became deputy chief of the general staff in charge of mobilization and force development. After the German

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Full Name

Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin

Origin

Chepukhino, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire

Occupation

Soviet General

Goals

Defeat Adolf Hitler (succeeded)

Family

Fyodor Grigorievich Vatutin (father)

Vera Efimovna Vatutina (mother)
Matrena Fyodorovna Vatutina (sister)
Daria Fyodorovna Vatutina (sister)
Elena Fyodorovna Vatutina (sister)
Afanasy Fedorovich Vatutin (brother)
Semyon Fedorovich Vatutin (brother)
Pavel Fedorovich Vatutin (brother)
Tatyana Romanovna Vatutina (wife)
Leonid Nikolaevich Vatutin (son)
Vitaly Nikolaevich Vatutin (son)

Enemies

Adolf Hitler

Nazi-German
Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Type of Hero

Russian Hero

Vatutin Nikolay Fedorovich An outstanding Soviet military leader, general of the army (1943), Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously), who went through the path of a Red Army soldier to a commander. During the Great Patriotic War, he consistently led the troops of a number of fronts.

At the headquarters of Field Marshal Manstein N.F. Vatutin was nicknamed "Grandmaster". In the Red

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Nikolai Vatutin

Surname	Vatutin
Given Name	Nikolai
Born	16 Dec 1901
Died	15 Apr 1944
Country	Russia
Category	Military-Ground
Gender	Male

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseNikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin was born in Chepujino, near Kursk, Russia into a poor peasant family. He attended the Infantry School of Poltava and was commissioned in the Russian Army in 1920. He fought against the Ukrainian peasant partisans of Nestor Makhno in 1920, and in the following year joined the communist party. Between 1926 and 1936, he attended the Frunze Military Academy and the General Staff Academy in-between several service assignments. In 1937, when Joseph Stalin began purging the Russian military of potential political enemies, Vatutin used it as an opportunity to advance, becoming the Chief of Staff of a Kiev Military District. In 1939, he planned for the Russo-German joint attack on Poland and served as the Russian Southern Group during the invasion. In 1940, while serving under Georgi Zhukov, his unit seized Bessarabia from Romania