08-31-2006, 12:01 AM
Here is an update that was just received...
On Nizov's Award Record Card, made out 1 October 1946, it says he was at that time Chief of the Wood-Preparing Unit of the Third UkrTorgLesoTara, which if I am reading the impenetrable Soviet compound abbreviations right, comes out to "Ukrainian Trade Wood Packing" (Unspecified Factory or whatever).
Lived in Kiev at Apartment 7, House #10 Vasodavsky Ulitsa with his wife Vera Feodorevna Nizova. No children, apparently.
One version of his two "short form" wartime type personnel cards says he was wounded-- four times.
Senior Lieutenant 1935 (day and month illegible).
Captain 26 September 1942. Deputy Commander of his Regiment's Scouts per 31st Guards Rifles Corps of 9.9.44, and Senior Deputy Commander of same per 4th Guards Army 15.1.45.
Discharged to Kiev City Veterans Commissariat 8.8.45 for "reduction in forces." He was an OLD Captain-- 41, up from the ranks, obviously troublesome-- certainly underdecorated and underpromoted given his crucial troop command and heroic war record (wounded 4 times in 2 years, as regimental scouts officer!!!!).
First went into the Red Army 9 November 1926 as a Private in 133rd Rifles Regiment.
There is the typical sadly too dark postage stamp sized photo on his service record, which perhaps Paul can enlarge and crop.
9.10.27 Commander of a squad
1.11.29 Deputy Commander of a platoon
19.5.30 "Vtorshnik." (Your guess is as good as mine. I have a SOVIET dictionary. No such word.)
1.9.30 Cadet at School for NCOs
1931 Squad Commander 6th Independent Machine Gun Battalion
5.12.32 Commander of Instruction Platoon 27th Independent Machinegun Battalion
13.??.33 something I can't read about since 1929
1935 Company Commander (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did I mention !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 49th Machine Gun Battalon
1.8.37 as Company Commander
"discharged to the reserves"
Yup, that ever--popular Soviet doublespeak for Arrested In The Great Purge.
Signed off on at that point by a Senior Lieutenant of the Reserve, who must have been awaiting arrest himself. Can't read the unit stamp, but dated in the city of Kiev, so that must have been where Nizov's unit was.
Notice that he was a company commander-- a captain's slot-- in 1935-- and never advanced higher. Obviously BLOCKED following his arrest, because he was in the most dangerous, into-enemy-lines, crucial posting in any infantry regiment after that.
NEXT entry is dated...
31.3.42 (although his short cards say "participant in Patriotic War since June 1941"--- ??? rankless? Penal Battalion? Or just shoddy record ckeeping for a "marked" man?) 134th Reserve Infantry Regiment as Company Commander
25.7.42 Deputy Commander of a Rifles Battalion in that
29.11.43 Deputy Battalion Commander 911th Rifles Regiment, 244th Rifles Division
12.12."42" (sic-- 1943? 1944?) Deputy Commander of STAFF 911th Rifles Regiment 244th Rifles Division (so it was NOT lack of aptitude, talent OR personal reliability that held him back,was it?)
15.1.45 To 4th Guards Army Reserve of Officers
There are a lot of things which do not gibe in the three sets of records. Much that was left... unsaid. Glossed over. Gaze averted. Move along, nothing to see here Comrades stuff.
I don't "see" anything in his personnel record "bare bones" that accounts for his continued involvement in such a vital position of absolute MILITARY trust. His Lichnoe Delo must be a doozy, though.
Attached is his photo from one of his documents.
Thank you all for reading!
On Nizov's Award Record Card, made out 1 October 1946, it says he was at that time Chief of the Wood-Preparing Unit of the Third UkrTorgLesoTara, which if I am reading the impenetrable Soviet compound abbreviations right, comes out to "Ukrainian Trade Wood Packing" (Unspecified Factory or whatever).
Lived in Kiev at Apartment 7, House #10 Vasodavsky Ulitsa with his wife Vera Feodorevna Nizova. No children, apparently.
One version of his two "short form" wartime type personnel cards says he was wounded-- four times.
Senior Lieutenant 1935 (day and month illegible).
Captain 26 September 1942. Deputy Commander of his Regiment's Scouts per 31st Guards Rifles Corps of 9.9.44, and Senior Deputy Commander of same per 4th Guards Army 15.1.45.
Discharged to Kiev City Veterans Commissariat 8.8.45 for "reduction in forces." He was an OLD Captain-- 41, up from the ranks, obviously troublesome-- certainly underdecorated and underpromoted given his crucial troop command and heroic war record (wounded 4 times in 2 years, as regimental scouts officer!!!!).
First went into the Red Army 9 November 1926 as a Private in 133rd Rifles Regiment.
There is the typical sadly too dark postage stamp sized photo on his service record, which perhaps Paul can enlarge and crop.
9.10.27 Commander of a squad
1.11.29 Deputy Commander of a platoon
19.5.30 "Vtorshnik." (Your guess is as good as mine. I have a SOVIET dictionary. No such word.)
1.9.30 Cadet at School for NCOs
1931 Squad Commander 6th Independent Machine Gun Battalion
5.12.32 Commander of Instruction Platoon 27th Independent Machinegun Battalion
13.??.33 something I can't read about since 1929
1935 Company Commander (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did I mention !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 49th Machine Gun Battalon
1.8.37 as Company Commander
"discharged to the reserves"
Yup, that ever--popular Soviet doublespeak for Arrested In The Great Purge.
Signed off on at that point by a Senior Lieutenant of the Reserve, who must have been awaiting arrest himself. Can't read the unit stamp, but dated in the city of Kiev, so that must have been where Nizov's unit was.
Notice that he was a company commander-- a captain's slot-- in 1935-- and never advanced higher. Obviously BLOCKED following his arrest, because he was in the most dangerous, into-enemy-lines, crucial posting in any infantry regiment after that.
NEXT entry is dated...
31.3.42 (although his short cards say "participant in Patriotic War since June 1941"--- ??? rankless? Penal Battalion? Or just shoddy record ckeeping for a "marked" man?) 134th Reserve Infantry Regiment as Company Commander
25.7.42 Deputy Commander of a Rifles Battalion in that
29.11.43 Deputy Battalion Commander 911th Rifles Regiment, 244th Rifles Division
12.12."42" (sic-- 1943? 1944?) Deputy Commander of STAFF 911th Rifles Regiment 244th Rifles Division (so it was NOT lack of aptitude, talent OR personal reliability that held him back,was it?)
15.1.45 To 4th Guards Army Reserve of Officers
There are a lot of things which do not gibe in the three sets of records. Much that was left... unsaid. Glossed over. Gaze averted. Move along, nothing to see here Comrades stuff.
I don't "see" anything in his personnel record "bare bones" that accounts for his continued involvement in such a vital position of absolute MILITARY trust. His Lichnoe Delo must be a doozy, though.
Attached is his photo from one of his documents.
Thank you all for reading!
