Mikhail Khatskilevich

Mikhail Georgyevich Khatskilevich
Born November 21, 1895
Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire
Died June 25, 1941
Soviet Union
Allegiance Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Service/branch Imperial Russian Army
Soviet Red Army
Years of service 1916–1917 (Russian Empire)
1918–1941 (Soviet Union)
Rank Kombrig
Commands held 1st Cavalry Division
Battles/wars

Mikhail Georgyevich Khatskilevich (November 21, 1895 – June 25, 1941) was a Red Army major general. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the subsequent civil war. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War, the Order of the Red Star and the Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army". He was killed in action defending Belarus against the armies of Nazi Germany.


  • Drig, Yevgeny (2005). Механизированные корпуса РККА в бою. История автобронетанковых войск Красной Армии в 1940—1941 годах [Red Army Mechanized Corps in battle: The history of the Red Army armored forces 1940–1941] (in Russian). Moscow: Transkniga. ISBN 5-170-24760-5.
  • Vozhakin, Mikhail Georgievich, ed. (2006). Великая Отечественная. Комкоры. Военный биографический словарь [Great Patriotic War: Corps Commanders: Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). 2. Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 5901679083.
  • Выступление М. Г. Хацкилевича на совещании высшего командного состава Красной Армии в декабре 1940 года
  • Сайт «Механизированные корпуса РККА»
Military offices
Preceded by
Ivan Nikulin
Commander of the 1st Cavalry Division
November 1936 – June 1938
Succeeded by
division disestablished
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