Background
Biasi was born into an Italian family which had long settled in Russia.
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Nicholas Biasi
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Biasi was initially educated in at the drama school in Odessa and appeared on the stage as a child. He moved with his family to Street St. Petersburg at the age of 12. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and joined the Bolsheviks after the revolution.
During the Russian Civil War he fought on the Caucasus Front and was one of the commanders of the railway guards.
From 1922 Biasi developed a career in military education. In 1922 he taught in the Infantry School in Tbilisi.
From 1923 to 1927 he was chief at TVOKU in Tashkent. In 1928-1931 he was director of military studies at Tomsk University.
Biasi was appointed Military Attache to Italy between 1936 and 1938.
He was the founding Principal of the Institute of Military Interpreters and ran the institute between 1940 and 1944, during this time he compiled several military dictionaries. During this time Biasi was deputy to the commander of the Caucasus Front and led a special mountain warfare school. Biasi was appointed Lieutenant General in 1944.
Biasi was a keen sportsman.
He competed at football, boxing, yachting, athletics, shooting and cycling at the highest level in Russia. Biasi settled in Yessentuki, Stavropol Krai after his retirement.
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April 7, 1973 (aged 79)
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Order of the Red Banner; Order of Lenin; Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"; Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"; Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"; Medal "For the Victory over Japan"Order of the Red Banner; Order of Lenin; Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"; Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"; Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"; Medal "For the Victory over Japan"