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A board meeting was held at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Ivanovo region, in which the chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kashaev, took part.

A board meeting was held at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo Region, at which the heads of the regional police summed up the results of their operational activities for the first half of 2013. The meeting was chaired by the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo Region, Police Major General Alexander Nikitin. The meeting was attended by Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Central Federal District Nikolai Ovsienko, Governor of the Ivanovo Region Mikhail Men, heads of security and law enforcement agencies of the region, as well as Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Ivanovo Region Vladimir Kashaev.
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Members of the Public Council at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo Region took part in the award ceremony for SOBR officers

The awards ceremony was attended by the leadership of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, members of the Public Council, special forces officers and members of their families. High state awards were presented personally to the best representatives of one of the elite police units by the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo Region, Police Major General Alexander Nikitin. He thanked the SOBR members for their service. “Honor and praise to the employees of the special forces who successfully fulfill their duty to the Russian Federation,” the general concluded his speech.
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A ceremony was held to present the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo Region, Police Major General Alexander Nikitin, to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin

In the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, a ceremony was held to present the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo Region, Police Major General Alexander Nikitin, on the occasion of his appointment to a command position. Among the officers appointed to higher command positions were representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia , Federal Security Service, Foreign Intelligence Service, State Drug Control Service, Investigative Committee, Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation and Federal Penitentiary Service.
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The head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo region, Alexander Nikitin, visited traffic police officer Evgeniy Kharaneko in the hospital

Today, the head of the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Major General Alexander Nikitin, visited in the hospital a traffic police officer, senior police lieutenant Evgeniy Kharaneko, who was attacked on July 23 on Stroiteley Avenue in Ivanovo. The policeman, who received a severe head injury, was operated on. The other day he was transferred from intensive care to the neurosurgical department of the Ivanovo Regional Clinical Hospital. According to Alexander Nikitin, Evgeniy Kharaneko still requires additional treatment. In the near future, the issue of nominating a traffic police officer for a state award will be decided.
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The head of the Ivanovo Regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Nikitin, was injured in an accident

On July 28, at about 10:10 p.m., an accident occurred on the M-7 Volga-1 highway, in which the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo region, Alexander Nikitin, and his driver were injured. Alexander Dmitrievich was returning from a business trip. Five kilometers before the turn to the village of Loma, an elk suddenly jumped out of the forest onto the road. As a result of the collision, the car of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs slid into a ditch. The driver was hospitalized with cut injuries to his face and body. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received an incised wound to his hand and was prescribed outpatient treatment.
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Deputy head of the Siberian department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs headed the Ivanovo police

Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Siberian Federal District, Police Major General Alexander Nikitin was appointed head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo Region. “To appoint Major General of Police Alexander Dmitrievich Nikitin as the head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Ivanovo Region, releasing him from his position,” the presidential decree says.
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The Ivanovo region was strengthened by Siberians
Police Major General Alexander Dmitrievich Nikitin has been appointed head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Ivanovo region. The corresponding Decree was signed by President Vladimir Putin. Here is the track record of the new head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo region.
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The general was interrogated in the Solodkins case

In the Novosibirsk Regional Court, in the case of the Solodkins-Andreevs - alleged members of the Trunovsky criminal community - Police Major General Alexander Nikitin, former deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Siberian Federal District, was interrogated. The defendants were looking forward to the interrogation of Nikitin, whose name had already been heard more than once at the scandalous trial. And they waited - so that the first thing they could do was accuse him of falsification. “Tell me you were mistaken!” — another defendant, Alexander Solodkin Sr., the father of the vice-mayor and a former adviser to the governor, suggested to Alexander Nikitin. In response, the general said that he was never wrong. At this point, the discussion of the certificate ended, and Alexander Solodkin had to be content with the fact that he finally expressed to the general’s face what had been painful in his cell over all these years.
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NIKITIN Alexander Makarovich(b. December 9, 1947, Novikovka village, Asinovsky district, Tomsk region) – lawyer, graduate of the Faculty of Law of Tomsk State University.

Family

Father A.M. Nikitina, Makar Prokopievich (1916–?) worked on the railway. A.M.'s mother Nikitina, Zoya Vasilievna (1916–?) ran the household. In addition to Alexander, the family had 6 children: Victor (b. 1934) worked at the Tomsk Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums (now NPO Virion); Galina Starkova (b. 1936) worked at the State Bearing Plant No. 5 (now Tomsk Bearing CJSC); Nikolai (b. 1938) served in the Soviet Army; Vasily (b. 1942) worked at Sibsantehmontazh; Peter (b. 1950) worked at Sibelektromontazh and Anatoly (b. 1953), a school teacher.

Childhood, military service, student years

In 1955–1966 A.M. Nikitin studied at Novikovskaya secondary school. After graduating from school, he was drafted into the Soviet Army, where he served in the Pacific Fleet. In 1969 – demobilized.

In 1969–1971 he worked as an inspector of the criminal investigation department of the Kirov district department of internal affairs of the Tomsk region.

In 1971, he entered the correspondence department of the Law Faculty of Tomsk State University, majoring in jurisprudence, and graduated in 1977 with the qualification “lawyer”. As a student, on April 15, 1977 A.M. Nikitin defended his thesis “Administrative supervision of persons released from prison” under the supervision of V.F. Volovich. Among his teachers were: A.I. Kim, A.L. Remenson, B.L. Haskelberg..

From a university graduate to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Udmurt USSR

After graduating from university, A.M. Nikitin served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice of the USSR, then the Russian Federation. In 1988–1991 - Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1998–2002 – Head of the Legal Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. Professor of the Department of Administrative Law, Vologda Institute of Law and Economics. Lieutenant General of Police.

Research activities

In 2000 A.M. Nikitin defended his dissertation “Criminological problems of the development of property relations during the transition to the market” at the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the degree of Doctor of Law.

Proceedings

• Criminological features of transformations of forms of ownership during the transition to the market. M.: Legal. Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, 1999.

Sources and literature

• State Archive of the Tomsk Region (GATO). F.R.815. Op. 67. D. 1162;
• Outstanding graduates of Tomsk State University / author.-comp. S.F. Fominykh, S.A. Nekrylov, M.V. Gribovsky and others. Tomsk, 2013.

Zhukova Tatyana Grigorievna,
history teacher MBOU Dubrovskaya No. 1 secondary school
them. Major General Nikitin I.S.,
Dubrovka village, Bryansk region.

Tormented

But not broken!

Disappeared

But not forgotten!

B. Brecht

A book could be written about the life and fate of our wonderful fellow countryman, Major General Ivan Semenovich Nikitin. The very personality of this man, the tragedy of his fate are worthy of becoming the subject of research.

Ivan Semenovich Nikitin was born on October 22, 1897 in the village of Dubrovka, Bryansk region, into the family of a railway employee - a switchman. In 1913 he graduated from the Higher Primary School, in 1915 – from the Bryansk Electrical Engineering Railway School.

He began his career in 1913 at the Dubrovsk twine factory, and after graduating from electrical engineering school he served as a telegraph operator at the Dubrovka station.

In May 1916, Ivan Nikitin was drafted into the army. Until the summer of 1917, non-commissioned officer of the 4th Hussar Mariupol Regiment Nikitin participated in the First World War on the Western Front. In mid-July 1917, he returned to Dubrovka and became involved in active revolutionary activities, becoming one of the founders of a proletarian youth organization in the village, one of the first in the Bryansk region. He became a member of the CPSU(b) in 1918 in the Dubrovsk volost party organization. Nikitin was later transferred as a telegraph operator to the railway station in Smolensk.

To the Red Army I.S. Nikitin joined voluntarily in July 1918, becoming a fighter in the Petrograd cavalry detachment. During the Civil War, from December 10, 1918, as a Red Army soldier as part of the Tver separate cavalry squadron, he took part in hostilities against the troops of General N.N. Yudenich near Yamburg and at Krasnaya Gorka near Petrograd. From February to August 1919, Nikitin was a cadet at the Tver Soviet cavalry courses. After completing the courses, he is appointed platoon commander of the 22nd separate cavalry division of the 22nd Infantry Division, and two months later - commander of the cavalry squadron of this division. As part of the Special Group of the Southern Front under the command of V.I. Shorin, then the 1st Cavalry Corps S.M. Budyonny and the 1st Cavalry Army of the Southern Front, the division took part in battles with the troops of General A.I. Denikin on the Don, near the stations Mikhailovskaya, Ust-Khoperskaya, Veshenskaya, in 1920 - in the Don-Manych and Tikhoretsk operations, in the offensive in the North Caucasus.

For the courage and heroism shown in the battles during the capture of the city of Maykop, Nikitin was awarded an Honorary Revolutionary Weapon - “Mauser” with the inscription engraved on a silver plate: “To the staunch defender of the revolution.”

In April 1920, Nikitin was appointed assistant commander of the 1st regiment of the 22nd Infantry Division, and in July 1920, commander of the 2nd regiment of this division. Participated in battles with the troops of General P.N. Wrangel, in the fight against rebels in the Donbass, in the area of ​​st. Kamenskaya.

After the end of the Civil War, I.S. Nikitin commands a regiment of the 9th Army (July 1920-February 1921), then is assistant commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Kuban Brigade (February-April 1921), commander of the cavalry regiment of the 39th Rifle Brigade (April-June 1921 g.), commander of the 82nd cavalry regiment of the 14th cavalry division (June 1921-May 1922), commander of the 79th cavalry regiment of the 14th cavalry division (May 1922-July 1924).

From 1924 to 1927 he was a student at the Military Academy of the Red Army (since 1925 - named after M.V. Frunze). From June 1927 to October 1928 he taught at the Cavalry Command Improvement Courses (KUKS) in the city of Novocherkassk. In October 1928, he was appointed chief of staff of the 9th Crimean Cavalry Division. Since November 1, 1930, I.S. Nikitin has been the head of the Ukrainian Cavalry School named after S.M. Budyonny. On February 14, 1933, he received a new assignment - commander of the 5th Cavalry Division. For the successful conduct of the Kyiv maneuvers of 1933, he was awarded a gold pocket watch. In 1935 I.S. Nikitin was awarded the rank of brigade commander.

In March 1936, brigade commander Nikitin was transferred to the disposal of the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army and sent as a military adviser to the army of the Mongolian People's Republic. In January 1937, Nikitin was awarded the Order of the Red Star, and later the Order of the Mongolian People's Republic.

The year was 1937. Repression gained momentum, and a wave of denunciations swept the country. A shadow of suspicion also touched Nikitin. In October 1937, he was recalled from Mongolia because... he "did not participate in the criticism of the chief military adviser Weiner, who was declared an enemy of the people." In August 1938, by decision of the PC of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, they were transferred from party members to candidates with the wording “for the loss of party vigilance, a conciliatory attitude towards sabotage leadership in the training of troops.” Until September 1938, Nikitin was at the disposal of the Command Staff Directorate of the Red Army.

His comrades advise him to leave Moscow. According to the memoirs of Nikitin’s wife Vera Maksimovna, Ivan Semenovich lived in his father’s house in Dubrovka. “Seven months of thoughts, painful experiences: “For 20 years, not a single disciplinary action and suddenly... For what?”

An old resident of the village, Iraida Georgievna Radoshkevich, whose family lived next to the Nikitin family, recalled: “They were kind and open people. They lived simply and willingly communicated with their neighbors. Ivan Semyonovich helped his wife with all the housework, carried water from the well on a yoke, and carried huge baskets of laundry to the river for rinsing. And the brigade commander also loved to mess with the Dubrovsky boys. He cheerfully and fervently rushed along the street, playing Cossack robbers, lapta, and gorodki.”

Without losing composure, I.S. Nikitin from Dubrovka sent letters to various authorities asking for a review of his case. Nikitin's colleagues gave excellent characteristics to Ivan Semenovich. And the disgrace ends, Nikitin is reinstated in the party and in September 1938 he is appointed senior teacher, and in March 1939 - head of the cavalry department of the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze.

In September 1939, Nikitin was appointed to the Belarusian Military District as an assistant in the operational department of the army cavalry inspection of the district headquarters. Since February 1940, he has been assistant district commander. On June 4, 1940, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR I.S. Nikitin was awarded the rank of major general. On February 22, 1941, Major General I.S. Nikitin was awarded the second Order of the Red Star.

On June 21, 1940, the People's Commissariat of Defense addressed the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks with a request to approve I.S. Nikitin as commander of the 6th Cossack Cavalry Corps named after Stalin, whose headquarters was located in the city of Lomza. Soon General Nikitin replaced General A.I. in this post. Eremenko.

On June 22, 1941, the troops of the western military districts had only two cavalry corps. One of them is the 6th Cavalry Corps of Major General I.S. Nikitina was part of the most powerful 10th Army of the ZapOVO under the command of Major General K.D. Golubev and was stationed in the Bialystok ledge. He took part in the Belarusian defensive operation (June 22 - July 9, 1941).

The 6th Cavalry Corps was considered one of the most trained formations of the Red Army. G.K. wrote about the level of training of the corps in his memoirs. Zhukov, who commanded it until 1938: “The 6th Cavalry Corps in its combat readiness was much better than other units. In addition to the 4th Don, the 6th Chongar Kuban-Tersk Cossack Division stood out, which was well prepared, especially in the field of tactics, equestrian and firefighting.”

At the beginning of the war, the 6th Cavalry Corps consisted of the corps administration and two cavalry divisions of the former legendary 1st Cavalry Army, which kept the rich military traditions of the Civil War: the 6th Chongar Kuban-Terek Division (commander - Major General M.P. Konstantinov, headquarters and units were located in the Lomza area) and the 36th Cavalry Division (commander - Major General E.S. Zybin, headquarters and units - in the Volkovysk area). The 6th cavalry division was in the first echelon, and the 36th cavalry division was in the second echelon of operational cover.

June 22, 1941. The beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The general’s wife, Vera Maksimovna Nikitina, recalls: “On June 21, 1941, in the evening, my husband warned me that at night he would go to corps headquarters, because a combat alert may be declared. And at dawn he ran home for a minute, kissed me, asked me to immediately get out of the city and left, after which I never saw him again or heard anything about him until my arrest in October 1942.”

In the first days of the war, the corps faced the most serious trials, which predetermined the future fate of the association and its personnel. By order of the commander of the 6th Cavalry Corps, General I.S. Nikitin at 3 o'clock on June 22, units of the 6th Chongar Cavalry Division were alerted and moved to the state border. At 4 o'clock the division, together with units of the 1st Rifle Corps of the 10th Army, entered into battle with the Nazis advancing in the direction of Lomza.

At 4 o'clock on June 22, the 36th Cavalry Division was also alerted, which soon set out with the task of uniting with the 6th Chongar Division and jointly repelling the enemy's offensive in the Lomzhevo direction. All day long, enemy aircraft hovered over the division, causing damage to people and cavalry. And only in the evening the cavalrymen concentrated southeast of Bialystok in the area of ​​​​Novosad, Zabludov. At 18.00 on June 22, 1941, the 6th Cavalry Corps was located south of Lomza. At 10.00 on June 23, the 6th Cavalry Corps captured Lomza and fought at the Lomzica-Zavady line (1-2 km west of Lomza).

By this time, the 3rd and 2nd tank groups of the enemy had advanced 60-70 km deep into Belarus and hung over the wings of the Western Front. They were followed by troops of the 9th and 4th Nazi armies.

The High Command of the Red Army, trying to turn the tide of events, by Directive No. 3 set the task for the troops of the Western Front: to launch a counterattack with combined arms armies and mechanized corps, with the support of long-range bomber aircraft, and by the end of June 24 to encircle and defeat the invading enemy in the Suwalki area, north-west of Grodno . To solve this problem, the 6th Mechanized Corps and the 6th Cavalry Corps of the 10th Army, as well as the 11th Mechanized Corps of the 3rd Army, were involved. General command of the troops was entrusted to the deputy commander of the Western Front, General I.V. Boldin. However, the counterattack of the right wing of the Western Front, carried out in accordance with the directive, did not bring the expected result. In the direction of the counterattack that was being prepared, only the 11th Mechanized Corps of the 3rd Army was located, which already on the first day of the war was drawn into battles on a wide front. By the indicated time, the 6th Cavalry Corps was unable to concentrate in the Bialystok, Lomza area, since the 6th Cavalry Division fought bloody battles east of Lomza, and the 36th, after a 60-70 kilometer march, reached the Bialystok area. Consequently, the formations intended to carry out a counterattack were located at a great distance from each other and it took at least 12-14 hours to bring them to the intended line. During June 23 and 24, the 36th Cavalry Division and units of the 6th Mechanized Corps fought stubborn battles in the Sokolki area, south of Grodno. They pinned down up to four enemy infantry divisions and delayed their advance to the east. But the enemy brought in new forces and stubbornly pushed towards Minsk.

The situation on the left wing of the front was not the best. Under the pressure of superior enemy forces, the 6th Kuban-Tersk Cossack Division and units of the 1st, 5th Rifle and 13th Mechanized Corps, after heavy fighting, were forced to leave Bialystok and retreat to Volkovysk. By the end of the day on June 25, the 6th Mechanized Corps and units of the 36th Cavalry Division were barely holding back enemy attacks. The situation was extremely difficult. We ran out of ammunition and fuel. To prevent the enemy from getting the tanks, they were forced to destroy them.

By the end of June, the enemy's 3rd and 2nd Tank Groups had linked up east of Minsk and cut off the escape routes for the 3rd and 10th Armies, which were retreating from Grodno and Bialystok. The troops of these armies and units of the 6th Cavalry Corps were surrounded in the area of ​​Nalibokskaya Pushcha. Their remnants escaped the encirclement in small groups through the Neman and Berezina rivers into Polesie. Many died, and those who remained in the rear launched a partisan fight against the invaders. On June 30, 1941, the 6th Cossack Cavalry Corps named after I.V. Stalin ceased to exist. On September 19, 1941, by order of Headquarters, it was disbanded.

Subsequently, Marshal G.K. Zhukov will find strength and publicly admit that the directive he signed was a mistake by the High Command and the General Staff. In his memoirs, he highly appreciates General I.S. Nikitin. “General I.S. did not leave the battle either. Nikitin, who deservedly had a reputation as an intelligent, strong-willed and brave commander of the cavalry corps,” writes Marshal Zhukov.

Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko, reflecting on the events of the first days of the war, also noted in his memoirs that in Moscow they had very little idea of ​​the situation at the front. “The task was,” the marshal wrote, “to quickly withdraw from under attack the formations located in the border areas to those lines where it was possible to organize a tough defense, and not throw scattered formations into a counter-offensive that was aimless in those conditions. As a result of these events, many of our units found themselves encircled and suffered huge losses or were completely destroyed in unequal battles. Among these troops was the 6th Cavalry Corps...”

Marshal Eremenko also highly appreciates the activities of the commander of the 6th Cavalry Corps, General I.S. Nikitin in the difficult conditions of the first days of the war. “Starting from the morning of June 22, the cavalrymen knew neither sleep nor rest. Despite this, people showed miracles of fortitude and courage. The general himself did not leave his horse for days, appeared in the most difficult areas, and repeatedly personally led units in counterattacks. But every hour it became more and more difficult. Enemy aircraft continuously hovered over the retreating cavalry columns; they were cut and crushed by fascist tank units. In one of the battles, Nikitin and a handful of cavalrymen were cut off and pressed to the river. And here the wounded and seriously shell-shocked general was captured by the Nazis in an unconscious state.” This happened on July 5, 1941 in the area of ​​​​the Ratomka station on the territory of Belarus.

At first, General I.S. Nikitin was kept in the Vladimir-Volyn prison camp, where he was one of the organizers of the underground struggle. At the beginning of August, having passed through several intermediate prisoner of war camps (Minsky, Belo-Podlassky), I.S. Nikitin ends up in flag 13-D in Hammelburg in Germany. Prisoners of war from among the command staff of the Red Army, including 38 generals, were kept in this camp.

The Nazis were active among prisoners of war, persuading them to cooperate. In the Hammelburg camp, personnel for intelligence schools were selected, agents were recruited, who were then sent to the territory of the USSR. Senior officers and generals were asked to create the National Socialist Party of the Russian People, to encourage prisoners of war to fight on the side of Germany against “Judeo-Bolshevism”, and to create the Russian National Liberation Army.

In these incredibly difficult conditions, General Nikitin, together with General Kh.S. Alaverdov, Lieutenant Colonel N.D. Novodarov and Major N. Panasenko create an underground organization of prisoners of the Hammelburg camp. Soon officers A.K. joined this organization. Uzhinsky, B.I. Nikolaev, G.I. Kikot, R.R. Eruste, N.T. Kapelets and others began distributing leaflets written with a pencil stub on a piece of paper. The organization set the task of carrying out educational work among prisoners of war, informing them about the situation at the front, protecting their interests, exposing traitors and provocateurs, organizing sabotage in enterprises where prisoners of war worked, and organizing escapes.

Comrades-in-arms of General I.S. Nikitin recall:

Samokhvalov Alexander Vasilievich: “Among the prisoners of war commanders, Nikitin enjoyed great authority, he was very respected, loved, and willingly listened to. With his conversations, he gathered around himself people loyal to the Soviet regime, which was undesirable for the camp command.”

Orlovsky Ivan Illarionovich: “While in the Hammelburg camp, Nikitin did not doubt for a minute the victory of the Soviet Union and instilled this confidence in other prisoners of war. Of the officers in the camp, Nikitin was the senior in rank and position, and the camp command charged him with maintaining internal order, ensuring timely inspection, etc. However, Nikitin did not have any administrative rights and did not enjoy any privileges. Using your the right of the elder, Nikitin influenced the prisoners of war in maintaining their vigor and confidence in the victory of the Red Army. He protested to the camp administration about the abuse of prisoners of war. This behavior of Nikitin displeased the Germans, and he was repeatedly searched. At the end of December 1941, Nikitin was summoned to the Gestapo and upon his return he told me that he was accused of carrying out agitation against the Germans and was being threatened.”

Novodarov Nikolay Deniso Vich: “Arriving in Hammelburg on the evening of August 1, Generals Nikitin and Alaverdov invited me to a conversation. Nikitin and Alaverdov, turning to me, asked what I thought about the organization of the underground Bolshevik committee. In response to my affirmative answer that this was even necessary, we decided that for the first time it would be enough to limit ourselves to the trio, consisting of Nikitin, Alaverdov and me. During this conversation, it was agreed that our tasks would be to maintain the morale of prisoners of war officers and generals, and also, if possible, to improve the financial situation of weakened prisoners of war through collective assistance.

Nikitin directly opposed officers who began to engage in anti-Soviet activities. Nikitin directly branded generals Trukhin, Zybin, Naumov, Blagoveshchensky and others with contempt. Nikitin instructed the officers he trusted, in particular Colonel Orlovsky, Major Panasenko and Captain Ivanov, to go to the masses of prisoners of war officers and promote the inevitable victory of the USSR, strengthen their moral strength and comradely mutual assistance.”

Vasily Aleksandrovich Nikolsky: “Nikitin called on the prisoners of war to hold on, not to give in or submit to the Germans, and not to engage in treason. I personally witnessed when Nikitin made the same appeal to prisoners of war in Bielo Podlaska and later in Hammelburg. The Germans treated Nikitin with hatred. This can be seen from the fact that one day, around November or December 1941, interpreter Koch, speaking to prisoners of war, said: “You still live in the Nikitin spirit, we will knock it out of you.”

The activities of the underground organization and General Nikitin could not go unnoticed by the fascists. At the beginning of January 1942, generals Nikitin and Alaverdov were taken to a Berlin prison by the Gestapo. According to the memoirs of A.V. Samokhvalova, Nikitin was sent from the camp as part of a party of prisoners of war consisting of 60-70 people. They were first stripped of their uniforms and dressed in old clothes and pads. The prisoner of war Komov took off his boots and threw Nikitina over the fence. “We, prisoners of war,” says Samokhvalov, “were very depressed by Nikitin’s arrest, worried about him, many cried, since he enjoyed great authority and respect among captured commanders loyal to the Soviet regime.”

I.I. Orlovsky and N.D. Novodarov recalled that, saying goodbye to his comrades in the camp, Nikitin said that he would be devoted to Soviet power until the end of his life, and expressed his conviction that the Soviet Union would still be the winner in the war . Ivan Semenovich said: “If I die, then know that I will die as a Bolshevik, as a son of my Motherland.”

According to the State Administration of the Moscow Region, in April 1942, General I.S. Nikitin was shot by the Nazis in Nuremberg prison for refusing to cooperate with the enemy. The exact date of the death of General Nikitin is unknown.

The underground organization of prisoners of the Hammelburg camp, created by General Nikitin, operated until the day of liberation. This work was led by Major General of Aviation Grigory Illarionovich Thor, and after he was captured by the Gestapo, Major General of Tank Forces Nikolai Filippovich Mikhailov.

When the Hammelburg prisoner of war camp was liberated on May 1, 1945, Nikitin’s colleague P. Prokhodtsev wrote a simple, unpretentious, poorly rhymed, but very touching poem on the same day, dedicating it to his commander, General Ivan Semenovich Nikitin, whose call to fight was heard by the camp prisoners .

And in the homeland of hero general I.S. Nikitin was declared a traitor and traitor. In August 1942, a criminal case was opened against him on the basis of a slander by enemy agents arrested by security officers. On October 23, 1942, on the basis of Article 58, paragraph 1 “b” of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced I.S. Nikitin in absentia: execution with deprivation of the military rank of “major general” and confiscation of property.

His wife Vera Maksimovna was arrested on October 16, 1942 and placed in an internal prison in the city of Alma-Ata, and then exiled for five years to the Pavlodar region. After her release on December 20, 1947, she came to Dubrovka, where people helped her survive. She was hired as a stoker in an orphanage, where she lived in a closet. Vera Maksimovna did not doubt her husband’s innocence for a minute. And she wrote letters to various authorities asking for the return of his good name.

In December 1948, Vera Maksimovna's petition was rejected. In the struggle to return the good name of General I.S. Nikitin was joined by his comrades in arms. In his letter to Nikitin’s sister Elena Semenovna G.A. Trembich writes that for him, the image of General Nikitin embodied “in all his greatness a wonderful man, a wonderful comrade, a genuine Russian general who bravely held his own in fascist captivity.”

Only after Stalin’s death at the end of 1953, a conclusion was sent to the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR from the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office to cancel the sentence against Ivan Semenovich Nikitin and send the case for further investigation based on newly discovered circumstances. These circumstances were the testimony of those who knew Nikitin from their joint stay in the Hammelburg camp.

After further investigation, on June 25, 1954, the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a resolution to terminate the investigation against General I.S. Nikitin for the absence of corpus delicti in his actions. About the feat of General Nikitin, a large essay “True to Duty” was published in three issues of the newspaper “Red Star” on August 28, 29 and 31, 1956.

Vera Maksimovna Nikitina was allowed to return to Moscow and was given a small apartment near the Belorussky railway station.

Colleagues of General Nikitin General I.A. Pliev, Lieutenant Colonel Novodarov, Majors Ioganson, Ponosov and others during the Thaw period tried to achieve the assignment to Major General I.S. Nikitin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. They wrote letters addressed to the First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee N.S. Khrushchev, but to no avail: there was no response.

Dubrovskaya secondary school, where Ivan Semenovich Nikitin once studied, at the turn of the 50-60s. began an active search for materials about its heroic graduate. This work was headed by Deputy Director for Educational Work Alexandra Nikitichna Eremina. And her brother-in-chief of the Dubrovsky regional newspaper “Znamya Truda” Arkady Nikitich Moskvichev wrote a documentary-historical essay about Nikitin “The Stars Do Not Go Out”, which was published on the pages of the local newspaper.

Since 1963, Dubrovskaya Secondary School No. 1 bears the name of its heroic graduate, patriot Major General Ivan Semenovich Nikitin. In the school room of military glory, the exhibition “Our school bears his name” was set up. With funds earned by schoolchildren, a bust of General Nikitin was commissioned in Leningrad. Today it stands in the school lobby. One of the streets in the village of Dubrovka also bears the name of General I.S. Nikitina.

In recent years, the search for new materials about General I.S. Nikitina is led by local historian, chairman of the editorial board of the regional Book of Memory Nikolai Yakovlevich Geets, who managed to get from The Central Operational Archive of the FSB of the Russian Federation previously strictly secret case R-364 on charges of General Nikitin of treason. The council of the museum of the first school in the village of Dubrovka is also engaged in the search.

At the turn of the 80-90s. The school museum council made another attempt to achieve public recognition of the feat and military merits of General Nikitin and award him (posthumously) with a government award. After all, generals G.I. Thor and N.F. Mikhailov, who led the underground organization of Hammelburg prisoners after the death of Nikitin, were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, our efforts were not successful. However, we do not lose hope.

The memory of the feat of our fellow countryman, commander of the 6th Cavalry Corps of the 10th Army of the Western Front, organizer and first leader of the underground organization of prisoners of the Hammelburg camp, Major General Ivan Semenovich Nikitin, lives and will live forever.

© mvd.ru. Alexander Nikitin

Former head of the Siberian police Alexander Nikitin was released on parole from the Kirov colony. As Taiga.info learned, he was released on June 6 - earlier than the former vice-mayor of Novosibirsk Alexander Solodkin, his opponent in the Trunov OPS case.

The release of Nikitin, who worked for a long time in Novosibirsk, and then in Ivanovo, Taiga.info was reported by two independent sources. According to them, former high-ranking colleagues who still hold positions in government structures went to meet him from the colony.

Information about the parole was confirmed jointly with colleagues from the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Ivteleradio. Alexander Nikitin served his sentence in a general regime colony in the Kirov region. Another May 24 Kirovo-Chepetsky The district court decided on parole release. On June 6, the decision came into force and he was released. The media did not report this.

Nikitin was found guilty of abuse of power in 2016. During the construction of the new building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo Region, which he headed after moving from Novosibirsk, 91 million rubles were spent inappropriately. Instead of work to ensure the secrecy, security and protection of the facility, the money was spent on expensive decoration of the personal office of the general and his deputies.

The damage from Nikitin’s actions, as calculated by the investigation, exceeded 218 million rubles; during the trial, the amount was reduced to 91 million rubles, Taiga.info. The court sentenced him to three years in a general regime penal colony and stripped him of the rank of Major General of Police, as well as the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, second degree. .

Many witnesses spoke about the ex-policeman’s involvement in illegal activities at the Gusinobrod clothing market

Pasmi.ru drew parallels between Nikitin’s arrest and the fact that he vouched for the ex-head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the fight against economic crimes and the fight against corruption, General Denis Sugrobov. Previously, some of Sugrobov’s guarantors were dismissed from the authorities or were subject to inspections.

Before his appointment to the Ivanovo region, Alexander Nikitin worked for more than 10 years at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Siberian Federal District: he headed the department for combating interregional organized crime groups, the center for combating terrorism, and the operational search bureau. On May 6, 2011, he became deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Siberian Federal District, Yuri Proshchalykin, and chief of police of the Siberian Federal District. He went to work in the Ivanovo region in March 2013, and was fired in December 2014, after the initiation of a criminal case. Proshchalykin was appointed vice-governor of the Novosibirsk region in 2014.

Nikitin’s name was mentioned loudly at meetings with ex-officials Alexander Solodkin, Alexander Solodkin Jr. and ex-deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service Andrei Andreev in the Novosibirsk Regional Court. Many witnesses spoke about the involvement of the former policeman in illegal activities at the Gusinobrodsky clothing market.

The victim Frunzik Khachatryan stated that he “thought and is still thinking” about Nikitin as the organizer of the assassination attempt, and the killer Dmitry Buol, who shot Khachatryan, claimed that Nikitin demanded that he give “certain testimony” in relation to Andreev and the Solodkins. During the trial, the general was questioned as a witness. Andreev called Nikitin and Proshchalykin possible “customers” of his criminal prosecution.

Alexander Solodkin Jr. from a colony in Yekaterinburg on June 27. His father asked Taiga.info and other media for some time for the interview so that it would not look like an “excuse for crimes they did not commit.”

Human psychology is one of the most mysterious things in the world. It is believed that the motives driving the criminal are based on greed, laziness, envy, and malice. It is difficult to explain the cases when quite wealthy people take a slippery slope, especially those who are called upon by duty to resist crime. Psychiatrists are very well aware of the phenomenon, to which they have assigned the special term “induction psychosis.”

Briefly it is as follows. A person who daily encounters, for example, deviations from generally accepted norms of behavior gradually loses the ethical boundaries of what is permitted within him. The doctors themselves, forced to treat their violent or quiet patients, but with the obligatory oddities, over time can become like them, having seen enough or talked enough with crazy people.

This is just one version of the explanation for the frequent cases of law enforcement officers becoming hardened criminals, who at some point begin to actively steal themselves. Another option is based on the truly Russian habit, rooted in many generations, of anyone who has received the slightest bit of power to take full advantage of the opportunities that come their way and the privileges of power that have fallen to them. On Russian soil, a boss easily turns into a satrap, a tyrant, and often into an ordinary thief.

After graduating from the Faculty of Law of Tomsk State University, he returned to his native Novosibirsk. After working a little as an employee in the district executive committee, he firmly decided to put on a uniform with shoulder straps. The first position in the police was the trivial position of an OBKhSS detective in the Central district of Novosibirsk. Even then, the young operator became acquainted in practice and learned to identify numerous methods of theft of public funds when conducting business activities. His actions seem all the more strange when, three decades later, a shaggy general’s star shone on his shoulder straps, and from his own experience in investigating thefts, a general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs could write a good textbook. Delusions of grandeur or a sense of impunity overcame common sense and fear of the inevitability of punishment for a crime. Or maybe this fear no longer existed? Maybe Major General Nikitin had already successfully tasted the sweet forbidden fruit before?

The next direction of his work was the fight against corruption, and he, even then a young officer, was entrusted with especially important, responsible and complex cases. He became the chief in 2000, heading the department for combating criminal communities, where he personally dealt with interregional connections of criminal groups in the West Siberian region. As a result, his work was considered quite successful. Alexander Nikitin received the title of “Honorary Officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, and to it the “Order of Honor” and the medal of the Order “For Services to the Fatherland, 2nd degree”. At the age of 46, Nikitin became a major general, and 2 years later received an important appointment as head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo Region. In March 2013, he arrived in the “city of brides”, not expecting that the change from Western Siberia to the central Non-Black Earth Region would be fatally unlucky for him.

Trouble awaited the new boss not in operational activities, but in his non-core construction field. The fact is that 5 years before his appointment, the old building of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs burned to the ground. An unextinguished cigarette butt practically made the employees of the central office homeless. In 2010, a grandiose-scale construction of a modern headquarters building for crime fighters began in Ivanovo. Nikitin had to complete this work and personally cut the traditional ribbon in front of the entrance to the building after construction was completed. But there was no formal event with his participation. Instead, the major general faced arrest, the capital's Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, and, finally, the Frunzensky District Court of Moscow.

Fatal construction in the Ministry of Internal Affairs

The resolution of all issues regarding the new building was entrusted to the head of the capital construction department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Sheenkov. At the final phase of construction, it turned out that the customer and contractor did not fit into the approved estimate and they needed additional funding, quite significant at that. This fact alerted the internal security department and the control and audit department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Investigators from the prosecutor's office and the FSB took part in the work of the specially created commission. Their findings were disappointing. They discovered facts of document forgery by Alexander Sheenkov, according to which the contractor received about 122 million rubles for work that was not actually completed, but was accepted on paper without criticism. In addition, the inspectors were shocked by the luxurious furniture in the future office of the regional head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the frescoes on the walls, and the involvement of an expensive company specializing in this type of activity in developing an individual design project for finishing the premises.

At the same time, such important protection and information security systems for such buildings were left without proper funding. Initially, General Nikitin appeared in the investigation as a witness. But as the investigative team worked, a lot of questions accumulated for him. Suddenly his subordinate Sheenkov spoke up. He testified that everything he did was done not only with the knowledge, but on the direct personal instructions of the head of the department. Investigators began to carefully look for traces of a “kickback” that is very likely in such situations.

Nikitin was removed from his post, having served in it for less than 2 years, arrested and transported to the capital. For almost 2 years of investigation, the former head of the department stubbornly denied all the facts and his involvement in the embezzlement. Using the richness of the Russian language, he argued that Sheenkov was confusing his wishes with orders. All work, according to Nikitin, was carried out in full accordance with the design documentation, the luxury and excesses that seemed to the commission were dictated by sincere concern for the personnel, and in fact the purchased office furniture is a cheap imitation of exclusive options.

Rollback unknown

Alexander Nikitin explained the reason for the “assault” from his former colleagues very simply. At one time, he met another scandalous police officer, a general, and, in contrast to the accusatory public opinion formed in the ranks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, publicly expressed doubts about his guilt, becoming the “black sheep” in the ranks of the generals.

Revenge came in the form of a completely fabricated case, based on the testimony of only one witness. To be fair, it is worth noting that at the trial, the initially stated amount of embezzlement of a respectable 219 million rubles “shrinked” by more than 2 times – to 91 million rubles. At the trial there were not even attempts to try to prove the personal interest of Major General Nikitin and the facts of his receipt of kickback money. He was convicted under the article of abuse of official position, expressed in violation of the terms of the State contract, leading to the waste of financial resources. The court, having weighed all the arguments presented by the parties, sentenced General Nikitin to 3 years in a general regime colony, followed by a ban on holding positions in the public service for 1 year.

Initially, the prosecutor requested 10 years for the accused. Alexander Sheenkov got off with a suspended sentence. The court took into account his active repentance and active cooperation with the investigation. The public, who closely followed the court proceedings, realized that certified lawyers and professional servants of the law, in the dock, behave the same way as ordinary street hooligans or pickpockets, trying at any cost, drowning in the testimony of their former accomplices, to get at least some leniency. The career of Major General Alexander Nikitin can be considered over. Little consolation for him can be the fact that he served almost his entire sentence in Lefortovo, which is quite comfortable by the standards of the Russian penitentiary system. Perhaps Nikitin still has pleasant memories of his former greatness and omnipotence. Or maybe there is something hidden “in the stocking”?