Biography Vatutina Nikolai Fedorovich
Vatutin Nikolai Fedorovich (1901 – 1944). A prominent Soviet military commander. During the Great Patriotic War, Chief of Staff of the North-Western Front, Deputy Chief of General Staff, since 1942 the commander of the Voronezh, Southwestern, and 1 of the First Ukrainian Front. In 1943 General of the Army. Hero of the Soviet Union (1965, posthumous).