The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Filipp Nikolaevich Matykin

Matykin, Filipp Nikolaevich

Major-General

* 24th of November 1899

† 25th of May 1942

(Филипп Николаевич Матыкин)

Promotions

1939-02-17 Kombrig
1940-06-04 Major-General

Service

1936-XX-XX 1937-XX-XX Military Adviser to the Spanish Republican Army
1938-01-XX 1940-XX-XX Commanding Officer 87th Rifle Division [Finland]
1940-XX-XX 1941-06-10 Assistant Commanding Officer XXVII Rifle Corps
1941-06-10 1941-06-29 Commanding Officer Strumilovsk Fortified Area
Chief of combat Training Section, Northern Caucasian Military District
1942-04-17 1942-05-25 Commanding Officer 47th Mountain Rifle Division
1942-05-25 Killed in Action
Picture source: Courtesy of Ilya Mukhin