Nikolai Simoniak

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Buried at Leningrad Name Nikolai Simoniak Allegiance USSR		Service/branch Infantry Rank Lieutenant general Years of service 1918–1945

Birth name Nikolai Pavlovich Simoniak Born 17 February 1901Berezovka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire ( 1901-02-17 ) Commands held 8th Rifle Brigade136th Rifle Division63rd Guards Rifle Division30th Guards Rifle Corps67th Army3rd 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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