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Buried at
  
Leningrad

Name
  
Nikolai Simoniak

Allegiance
  
USSR

Service/branch
  
Infantry

Rank
  
Lieutenant general

Years of service
  
1918–1945


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Birth name
  
Nikolai Pavlovich Simoniak

Born
  
17 February 1901 Berezovka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (
1901-02-17
)

Commands held
  
8th Rifle Brigade 136th Rifle Division 63rd Guards Rifle Division 30th Guards Rifle Corps 67th Army 3rd Shock Army

Died
  
1956, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Battles and wars
  
Winter War, Eastern Front, Siege of Leningrad

Similar People
  
Kirill Meretskov, Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Place of burial
  
Saint Petersburg, Russia

Nikolai Pavlovich Simoniak (Russian: Симоняк Николай Павлович, February 17 [O.S. February 4] 1901 – April 23, 1956) was a Soviet military commander.

Honours and awards

  • Gold Star Medal (№ 558) Hero of the Soviet Union (10 February 1943)
  • Order of Lenin, three times (10 February 1943, ?, ?)
  • Order of the Red Banner, three times
  • Order of Suvorov, 1st and 2nd classes
  • Order of Kutuzov, 1st class
  • Order of the Red Star
  • Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
  • Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic"
  • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
  • Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
  • Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

    • References

    Nikolai Simoniak Wikipedia
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