Vyacheslav Naumenko

Vyacheslav Grigorievich Naumienko, Russian Вячеслав Григорьевич Науменко (born February 25, 1883, died October 30, 1979 near New York City) is a Russian military general (lieutenant general), senior officer in the Cossack Army General Staff during the Second World War II.

He graduated from the Mendelian Cadet Corps in Voronezh in 1901, the Nicolayan cavalry school in 1903 and the 2nd class of the Nikolayev Academy of General Staff in 1914. He participated in the First World War. From March 1915 he was a senior adjutant in the staff of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Cuban Cossacks. He was then a lieutenant colonel of the 4th Cavalry Division of the Cuban Cossacks. On January 28, 1917, he became head of the field officer commanding the Cossacks. In January 1918 he joined the Cossack troops fighting in the south of Russia with the Bolsheviks. In April of this year, he became the Chief of Staff of the Cavalry Brigade Gen. Pokrowski. From June he commanded 1 cavalry regiment, 1 cavalry brigade, and then 1 cavalry cavalry division. On 8 December he was promoted to Major General. From December 18th, he was a member of the Cuban Cossack National Missions for Military Affairs. On February 1, 1919, he became the Cuban Cossack Army's march. From 14 September he was in reserve of Cossack troops. On October 11th General Lieutenant General assumed the command of the II Corps of Cuban Cavalry Corps. In April 1920, with the remaining white troops, he withdrew his troops to the Crimea. At the end of July, he participated in the unsuccessful attempt at the Cuban military group Gen. Sergey G. Ulagaya (Kuczuka) in the Taman area. After retiring to Crimea in late August, he became commander of the 1st Cavalry Division. On October 1, he took command of the cavalry group, but was wounded three days later. In November, with the remaining troops, he evacuated to Limnos Island, where the soldiers chose him as a Cuban military ataman. In 1920 he settled in Germany. During the Second World War he cooperated with Germans. From March 1944 he served in the General Board of the Cossack Forces. He represented the attitude in support of Russian liberation movement Gen. Andrey Vlasov. After the war ended, he emigrated to the United States. He died on October 30, 1979 near New York. He was the author of a book titled " "Великое предательство", a collection of documents and materials for the publication of the Cossacks in 1947 (New York, 1962).

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