CITY: Art. Lomovatka, Kadievsky district, Lugansk region DATE OF BIRTH: 10/26/1902 DATE OF DEATH: 01/08/1995 HISTORY: Title: Colonel Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Born October 26, 1902 in the village. Lomovatka, Yekaterinoslavskaya province, Yelenovskaya volost, Slavyanoserbsk district (Lomovatka station, Kadievsky district, Lugansk region) - Donbass. Father Andreev Ivan Nikitich from the townspeople of Kasimov, Ryazan province. He worked at the Annensky mine, first as a worker, then as an employee. Andreeva's mother Marta Andreevna is a native of the Saratov province from among workers, a housewife. He began his studies at the mining school at the Annensky mine, where he graduated from the 2nd grade, then studied at the Taganrog Commercial School, where he graduated from the 3rd grade. In 1918, during the occupation of Ukraine and Donbass by the German occupation forces, he left home and, having reached the city of Tambov, entered the service in the Tambov provincial Cheka. He entered the Red Army voluntarily in June 1918, was enlisted as a Red Army soldier in the Gubchek detachment, then in the 1st Lugansk Communist Regiment and the 3rd Lugansk International Regiment as the secretary of the political committee, and in the 532 Rifle Regiment as a machine gunner, head of a machine gun. At the end of 1919, he was appointed commander of a pulverizer platoon and was sent to study at the machine-gun courses "Shot", which he graduated in May 1920. Upon completion of the courses, he was sent to the tank department of the Higher Automotive Armor School, which he graduated from in October 1920 staff positions mainly in tank units. In 1926 he graduated from an external secondary school, a school of mechanical traction in Leningrad and in 1935 academic courses at the Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army. He served in a separate tank division in Kharkov, 9 and 2 tank detachments, armored train number 36 in Tiflis, in the 3rd tank regiment in Moscow, in the mechanized detachment of the Moscow proletarian division and in the 3rd auto-armored division. In 1932 he was appointed to the command directorate of the Red Army, where he served until 1938 in the positions of assistant chief of a sector, assistant chief of a department, and deputy chief of a department. In 1938 he was appointed chief of a department, and then chief of the personnel department of the Main Armored Directorate where he served until 1941. After that he was appointed deputy chief of Minsk and then 2, 4 Ulyanovsk tank schools. In May 1942 he left for the front - he was appointed head of the personnel department of the 5th Tank Army, and after the 5th Tank Army was disbanded he was appointed head of the personnel department of the 12th Army. At the end of 1943, after the disbandment of the 12 armies, he was transferred to the head of the personnel department of the 46th Army. In the fall of 1944, he was appointed head of the personnel department of the Main Automobile Directorate.In the Patriotic War he took part in battles on the Bryansk, Southern and 3 Ukrainian fronts, as part of the 5th Tank, 12th and 46th Army. In the Finnish campaign, he performed a special assignment of the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense for personnel.