Grigorij Tatarkin

Григорий Васильевич Татаркин (born November 27, 1873 in Novokuznetsk, died October 14, 1947 near Munich) is a Russian military general in the army of the Cossacks. Armed Forces Committee for the Liberation of the Nations of Russia at the end of World War II.

Graduated from junior high school and Cossack school in Novakerkasku in 1894, then the Nikolaev Academy of General Staff. From 1895 he served in the 16th Cavalry regiment of the Kozaków dońskich. He participated in the First World War. In 1917, as Colonel, he took command of the 33rd Cavalry Regiment of the Kozaky. In May 1918 he joined the Cossack troops of the White Army. He became the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, and in the fall of the horse group of the Polish Army. From March 11, 1919, he commanded the 5th Cavalry Division of the Kozaki Dynasty, and from May 12th to 9th Cavalry Brigades of the Kozakans. He participated in the rally of the 4th Cavalry Cavalry Corps General Konstantin K. Manontow in the rear of the Bolshevik front forces. On October 19 he was promoted to lieutenant general. He took command of the 10th Cavalry Division of the Kozakans. On August 18, 1920 he became commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division of the Kozakans. After escaping with the White Army from Crimea to Gallipoli at the end of 1920, he was on the island of Limnos. In 1921 he moved to Bulgaria, one year later he moved to Yugoslavia, and in 1925 he returned to Bulgaria. He was the honorary commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division of the Kozakans. The outbreak of World War II found him in Germany. He cooperated with the Nazis. In 1941, the foreign army of the Ataman Army Mikhail N. Grabbe appointed him shortly before his death. However, G.W. Tatarkin, because of the war, was not able to personally take over this function and was therefore only a nominal ataman. In the second half 1941 and early In 1942 he participated in the formation of Cossack military units in the service of the German army. He was a supporter of the Russian liberation movement, Gen. Andrei A. Vlasov. In December 1944 he supported the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. At the same time he was part of the General Staff of the Cossack Army at the Staff of the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. At the end of the war he avoided repatriation to the USSR. He died on 14 October 1947 in the camp for the so-called. dipis under Munich.

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