Mikhail Meandrov

Mikhail Alekseyevich Meandrov
Mikhail Alekseyevich Meandrov
Михаил Алексеевич Меандров
	General Mikhail Alekseyevich Meandrov (Probably mid 1944)
Chairman of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
	In office; May 1945 – February 1946
Preceded by	Andrey Vlasov
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	22 October 1894; Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	1 August 1946 (aged 51); Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union;
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Political party	Russian People's Labour Party (1942–1943); National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (1942–1945)
Military service
Allegiance	Russian Empire; Soviet Union; Nazi Germany; KONR
Branch/service	Imperial Russian Army; Soviet Army; Russian Liberation Army
Years of service	1915—1945
Rank	Staff captain; Colonel; Major general
Unit	192nd Romanian Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars	First World War Southwestern Front; ; Second World War Winter War; Battle of Uman; ;

Mikhail Alekseyevich Meandrov (Russian: Михаи́л Алексе́евич Меа́ндров) (22 October 1894 – 1 August 1946) was an Imperial Russian and later Soviet officer. Taken prisoner by the Germans in World War II near Leningrad in 1941, he later became an important commander (general) in the Nazi-allied Russian Liberation Army. Taken prisoner by the Soviets, he was executed in 1946.

Early career

Meandrov graduated from an officer academy at the time of World War I. During that conflict, he fought on the Southwestern Front. He originally commanded the 37th Rifle Corps, before being reassigned to the command staff of the 6th Army in 1941. He fought around Kiev and later was taken prisoner by German Army forces near Uman.

Defection and death

Meandrov joined Lieutenant General Andrey Vlasov, a Red Army defector, in the Russian Liberation Army (Русская освободительная армия, РОА; in Latin "ROA"), and was promoted to the rank of major general. He fought with the ROA until the end of the war, and was captured by the Red Army. He was found guilty of treason and was executed in Moscow, on 1 August 1946, with eleven other ROA officers, including Vlasov.^[2]

References

^ Михаил Алексеевич Меандров. Штрихи к портрету // К. М. Александров. Против Сталина. Сборник статей и материалов. СПб, 2003.
^ From Heroes to Traitors: Vlasovites Archived 2014-03-18 at archive.today Zoomby.ru documentary.

External links

(in Russian) Biography^{[permanent dead link]}
(in Russian) K. M. Alexandrov, Офицерский корпус армии генерал-лейтенанта А. А. Власова 1944–1945, Moscow 2001
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[1] Михаил Алексеевич Меандров. Штрихи к портрету // К. М. Александров. Против Сталина. Сборник статей и материалов. СПб, 2003.

[2] From Heroes to Traitors: Vlasovites Archived 2014-03-18 at archive.today Zoomby.ru documentary.

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v t e Russian collaborationism with the Axis powers
Political organizations	Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) Lokot Autonomy National Socialist Party of Russia [ru; uk; pl] Russian People's Labour Party Zuyev Republic
Combat formations	Russian Liberation Army Kaminski Brigade XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps 1st Cossack Cavalry Division First Russian National Army Russian National People's Army Russian Protective Corps 1st SS Special Regiment Waräger 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS
People	Sergei Bunyachenko Vladimir Gil Bronislav Kaminski Sultan Klych-Girey Pyotr Krasnov Constantine Kromiadi Antonina Makarova Vasily Malyshkin Viktor Maltsev [ru] Mikhail Meandrov Vyacheslav Naumenko Mikhail Oktan Anatoly Rogozhin Igor Sakharov Andrei Shkuro Boris Shteifon Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt Sergey Taboritsky Fyodor Truhin Andrey Vlasov Konstantin Voskoboinik Milety Zykov [ru]
See also Eastern Front of World War II Prague uprising Lienz extradition Russian Fascist Party National Alliance of Russian Solidarists