caption serviceyears native_name_lang death_date death_place relations birth_place children image_size native_name birth_date rank image article_title name
nikolai , 1944 fyodorovich vatutin , commander-first ukrainian front , january 1920 - 1944 rus 15 april 1944 kiev , ukrainian ssr , soviet union tatiana , 1930 - ? -rrb- viktor -lrb- son , 1932 romanovna - ? -rrb- vatutina -lrb- wife -rrb- elena -lrb- daughter chepuhino -rrb- , russian empire , voronezh governorate -lrb- now in belgorod oblast elena - ? -rrb- -lrb- 1930 - ? -rrb- viktor -lrb- 1932 300 Никола́й Фёдорович Вату́тин 16 december 1901 army general vatutin.jpg nikolai fyodorovich vatutin
 nikolai fyodorovich vatutin
nikolai fyodorovich vatutin

nikolai fyodorovich vatutin -lrb- ; 16 december 1901 -- 15 april 1944 -rrb- was a soviet military commander during world war ii .
vatutin was responsible for many red army operations in ukraine as commander of the southwestern front , the voronezh front during the battle of kursk and the 1st ukrainian front during the liberation of kiev .
he was ambushed and killed in february 1944 by the ukrainian insurgent army .
