Nikolai Vedeneyev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1897
Place of Birth: Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Date of Death: 16-Nov-1964
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Nikolai Vedeneyev
- Nikolai Denisovich Vedeneyev (Russian: ??????? ????????? ????????; 28 March 1897 – 16 November 1964) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Vedeneyev was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and fought in World War I as a non-commissioned officer.
- He became a Red Guard and became a partisan on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War.
- Vedeneyev joined the Red Army and became a Political commissar.
- He held posts in cavalry units during the interwar period and later served in mechanized units.
- In 1938 he became chief of the commanders' improvement courses at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization.
- Vedeneyev became chief of staff and deputy commander of the 6th Mechanized Corps in 1940, and then was deputy commander of the 20th Mechanized Corps.
- After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the corps was encircled in the Siege of Mogilev.
- Vedeneyev escaped the encirclement and later became head of the faculty at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization.
- In April 1944 he returned to the front as the deputy commander of the 8th Guards Tank Corps.
- Vedeneyev took command of the 3rd Tank Corps, which became the 9th Guards Tank Corps.
- For his leadership of the corps in the Vistula–Oder Offensive, Vedeneyev received the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Postwar, he became head of combat training of the Soviet Army Armored and Mechanized Forces.
- In 1947, Vedeneyev again became head of the faculty at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization, retiring in 1951.
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