Background
PETIN, Nikolay was born on May 2, 1876 in Vologda. Son of a nobleman and officer
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Nikolay Nikolayevich PETIN
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1894 graduate Nizhniy Novgorod Cadet Corps. 1897 graduate Nikolay Engineer College. 1907 graduate General Staff Academy.
Career
1897—1905 officer with engineering units of Russian Army. 1904 fought in Russo-Japanese War. 1907-1914 staff posts in Warsaw Military district.
1914-1918 fought in World War 1. 1914-1918 assistant department head Staff of Northwestern Front.
Senior adjutant, Quartermaster-General Department, 12th Army. Department head, Quartermaster-General Board, Northwestern Front. Commander, infantry regiment
Chief of staff, 8th Siberian Infantry Division. Chief of staff, 34th and 50th Army Corps. Assistant quartermaster-general and acting quartermaster-general, Southwestern Front, from 1918 in Red Army.
1918-1920 fought in Civil War on Northern and Southern Fronts. Helped rout Polish forces at Kiev and Zhitomir. 1918 head, Draft Board, White Sea Military district.
Commandant, officers training school, Krasnoborsk. 1918-1919 chief of staff, 6th Army. 1919 chief of staff Western Front, 1919-1920 chief of staff
Southern Front; 1920 chief of staff, Southwestern Front, 1920 denounced to the Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation former army colleagues who tried to persuade him to side with the Whitist forces. 1921 commander, Kiev Military district. 1921-1922 assistant commander in chief, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Armed Forces (for Siberia).
And member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Revol Military Council. 1922-1923 commander, Siberian Military district. 1923-1924 commander, West Siberian Military district.
1924-1925 chief Red Army Main Board. 1925-1928 commander, Siberian Military district, 1928-1930 attached for special assignments to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Revol Military Council, also deputy chief, Red Army Main Board. 1930-1932 inspector, of engineering troops.
Red Army; 1932-1934 chief of engineering, Red Army. Directed construction of roads, fortified areas, naval bases and coastal defenses along Soviet borders. 1934-1937 chief, Red Army Engineer Board.
Member, Military Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense. 1921 member, Kiev City Soviet. 1921-1924 member, Siberian Revol Committee.
1924 member, Novonikolayevsk Province Executive Committee. 1925 member, Moscow City Soviet. 1925 Presidium member, Siberian Kray Executive Committee.
Candidate member, All-Russian Central Executive Committee of 11th convocation and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee of 2nd convocation. 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Religion
Religion divides people, and is a cause of numerous wars and conflicts throughout the human history.
Views
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Membership
Member, Soviet Army General Staff, Communist Party member from 1932.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics