Mikhail Meandrov

Mikhail Alekseyvich Meandrov
Native name	Михаил Алексеевич Меандров
Born	(1894-10-22)October 22, 1894 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	August 1, 1946(1946-08-01) (aged 51) Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Allegiance	Russian Empire  Soviet Union  Nazi Germany Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
Service/branch	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	World War I Southwestern Front Winter War World War II Battle of Uman

Mikhail Alekseyvich Meandrov (Russian: Михаил Алексеевич Меандров) (October 22, 1894, Moscow - August 1, 1946, Moscow) 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 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 August 1, 1946, with eleven other ROA officers, including Vlasov.^[1]

References

• (Russian) Biography
• (Russian) K. M. Alexandrov, Офицерский корпус армии генерал-лейтенанта А. А. Власова 1944-1945, Moscow 2001
• Russian Wikipedia