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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Andreyevich and the family name is Reyter.
Max Andreyevich Reyter
Born
24 April [O.S. 12 April] 1886 Sirgen, Kreis Windau, Courland Governorate Russian Empire (in present-day Ziras, Ventspils Municipality, Latvia)
Died
6 April 1950(1950-04-06) (aged 63) Moscow, Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Allegiance
Russian Empire (1906–1917) Soviet Russia (1919–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1950)
Service/branch
Imperial Russian Army Red Army / Soviet Army
Years of service
1906–1917 1919–1950
Rank
Colonel-general
Commands held
20th Army (1942)
Bryansk / Reserve Front (1942–1943)
South Ural Military District (1943–1945)
Battles/wars
World War I
Russian Civil War
World War II
Awards
Order of Lenin
Order of Suvorov, 1st class
Order of the Red Banner (4x) and other awards
Max Andreyevich Reyter (Russian: Макс Андреевич Рейтер, Latvian: Mārtiņš Reiters; 24 April 1886 [O.S. 12 April] – 6 April 1950)[a 1] was an Imperial Russian and Soviet military officer of Latvian origin.
A lieutenant-general in the Red Army at the time of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Reyter was a commander of the 20th Army and the commander-in-chief for the Bryansk Front in 1942–1943. Promoted to colonel-general in 1943, he headed the South Ural Military District September 1943 to July 1945.
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