Makhrov, Nikolai

Nikolai Makhrov (1877–1936) was a general. Born in Borisov, he e graduated from Minsk Real School, Moscow Military School (1898), and Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff (1904). He reached the ranks of lieutenant (1898), lieutenant (1901), staff captain (1904), captain (1906), lieutenant colonel (1909), colonel (1913), major general (1917). He fought in the First World War as acting chief of staff of the 79th Infantry Division (1914), commander of the 316th Khvalyn Infantry Regiment, commander of the 313rd Balashov Infantry Regiment (1915), chief of staff of the 2nd Turkestan Infantry Division (1916), chief of the 2nd Siberia Division Army Corps (from 1917 to demobilization). He joined voluntarily the Red Army in 1918.

Honors:
Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with Swords and Bow (1915);
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree with Swords (1915);
St. George’s Weapons (1915);
Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree with Swords (1915);
Swords and Bow to the Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree (1916);
Order of St. Anne 2 nd degree with Swords (1916).