Nikolai Gusev

Nikolai Ivanovich Gusev
Born	26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1897 Brodnikovo, Maryinskoy volost, Novotorzhsky Uyezd, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	16 May 1962(1962-05-16) (aged 64) Moscow, Soviet Union
Buried	Novodevichy Cemetery
Allegiance	Russian Empire Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army Red Army (later Soviet Army)
Years of service	1916–1918 1918–1962
Rank	Colonel general
Commands held	4th Army 20th Army 47th Army 48th Army Kazan Military District 3rd Army 28th Army Special Mechanized Army
Battles/wars	Russian Civil War World War II
Awards	Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner (4) Order of Suvorov, 1st class (2) Order of the Red Star Order of the Badge of Honor

Nikolai Ivanovich Gusev (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Гу́сев; 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1897 – 16 May 1962) was a Soviet Army colonel general.

Drafted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Gusev did not see action and was drafted into the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Serving with cavalry units, he ended the latter as a junior commander. During the interwar period, Gusev continued to serve in command and staff positions with cavalry units and by the end of 1930s was an officer of the Red Army General Staff. He commanded the 25th Cavalry Division between July 1941 and January 1942, the 13th Cavalry Corps to June 1942, the 4th Army to November 1943, and successively the 20th, 47th and 48th Armies until the end of the war. Postwar, Gusev successively served as commander of several armies, military attaché to Czechoslovakia, and as head of a directorate of the General Staff before his death in 1962.