Nikolay Shkodunovich information

Nikolay Nikolayevich Shkodunovich
Born	24 April 1900 Tver, Russian Empire
Died	19 October 1964(1964-10-19) (aged 64) Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Allegiance	Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Service/branch	Red Army (later Soviet Army)
Years of service	1919–1964
Rank	Lieutenant general
Commands held	58th Rifle Division 223rd Rifle Division 68th Rifle Corps
Battles/wars	Russian Civil War World War II
Awards	Order of Lenin (2)

Nikolay Nikolayevich Shkodunovich (Russian: Николай Николаевич Шкодунович; 24 April 1900 – 19 October 1964) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held corps and division command during World War II.

Shkodunovich became a military commissar during the Russian Civil War and served in the Volga Military District and the Soviet Far East during the interwar period. He rose to division chief of staff before being arrested during Great Purge. Released after more than a year of imprisonment, he was reinstated in the army. Holding a staff position at a military school when Operation Barbarossa began, Shkodunovich commanded a replacement unit before commanding the 58th and 223rd Rifle Divisions. In mid-1943 he rose to command the 68th Rifle Corps, which he commanded for the rest of the war in the Red Army's advance westward through Ukraine, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria before ending the war in Czechoslovakia. Postwar, Shkodunovich was posted to the Higher Military Academy and the Frunze Military Academy as a faculty member. He was among several senior officers killed in a 1964 air crash in Belgrade.