Aleksandr Ivanovich Lisitsyn
Soviet Army major general / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aleksandr Ivanovich Lisitsyn (Russian: Александр Иванович Лисицын; 25 December 1901 – 28 January 1975) was a Soviet Army major general who held divisional commands during World War II.
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Born | 25 December 1901 Aleksandrovsk-Grushevsky, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire |
Died | 28 January 1975(1975-01-28) (aged 73) Krasnodar, Soviet Union |
Allegiance | Soviet Union |
Service/ | Red Army (Soviet Army from 1946) |
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Rank | Major general |
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Awards | Order of Lenin (2) |
A veteran of the Russian Civil War, Lisitsyn rose through a series of staff and command posts in the interwar Red Army, but was dismissed from the army during the Great Purge. Restored to the army in 1939, he took command of a cavalry regiment after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Lisitsyn commanded the 110th Cavalry Division in the Battle of the Caucasus. He led the 394th Rifle Division from spring 1943 to the end of its combat service during the war in the advance through Ukraine and into Romania. Postwar, Lisitsyn rose to corps command before the end of his career in the early 1950s.