Nikandr Chibisov

Colonel General Nikandr Evlampievich Chibisov (Russian: Никандр Евлампиевич Чибисов; November 5 (O.S. October 24), 1892 in stanitsa Romanovskaya (Rostov Oblast) – 20 September 1959 in Minsk) was a Soviet military commander and Hero of the Soviet Union (1943).

Nikandr Chibisov
Born5 November 1892
Romanovskaya, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire
Died20 September 1959(1959-09-20) (aged 66)
Minsk
Allegiance Russian Empire (1913–1918)

RSFSR (1918–1922)

 Soviet Union (from 1922)
Service/branchImperial Russian Army (1913–1918)
Red Army/Soviet Army (1918–1954)
Years of service1913–1954
RankColonel general
Commands held4th Rifle Corps

Odessa Military District
Separate Coastal Army
Bryansk Front
38th Army
3rd Shock Army
1st Shock Army

Frunze Military Academy
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union

General Fotii Kobrisov, the protagonist of the 1994 novel The General and His Army by Georgi Vladimov, was based on Chibisov. The book focused on the Battle of Moscow (1941) and the Battle of Kiev (1943). The novel differed from the real-life biography of Chibisov in that he did not take part in the former.[1] The book was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 1995 and the Sakharov Prize in 2000.

References
  1. Rosalind Marsh: Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006, p. 207


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