Daniil Kazakevich

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Soviet lieutenant general (1902-1988)

PoliticiansLived 1902 to 1988 · aged 85

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Awards 24

Order of the Red Banner

Order of Lenin

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Badge of Honour

Hero of the Soviet Union

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

Honorary Officer of the State Security

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Honorary worker of the NKVD

Connected to Daniil 6

Agasalim AtakishiyevAlso won Honorary worker of the NKVD

Ivan NikishovAlso won Honorary Officer of the State Security

Vlado ŠegrtAlso won Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class Shalva TsereteliAlso won Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

Vasily SenkoAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

Ivan FesinAlso won Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

About this person

Daniil Vasilievich Kazakevich was a Soviet Lieutenant general and Hero of the Soviet Union. Kazakevich was drafted into the Red Army in 1920 and fought in the Polish-Soviet War. In 1923 he transferred to the Soviet Border Troops. Kazakevich became an officer and by 1939 was chief of staff of a border district in the Soviet Far East. In December 1942 he became chief of staff of the Far Eastern NKVD Rifle Division, which became the 102nd Rifle Division some months later. After fighting in Operation Kutuzov, Kazakevich was given command of the 399th Rifle Division in September 1943. Kazakevich led the division through the Battle of the Dnieper, Operation Bagration and the East Prussian Offensive. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership in the battle for the Narew bridgeheads during September 1944. Postwar, Kazakevich returned to the Border Troops and led the Moldovan and Southwestern Border Districts. After a two-year period as an advisor to the East German Border Troops, Kazakevich became chief of the Border Troops military educational institutions. He retired in 1959 and lived in Moscow, working in the Intourist Directorate.