Andrey Grigoryevich Nikitin (Russian: Андрей Григорьевич Никитин; 28 September 1891 – 4 February 1957) was a Red Army major general.

Nikitin was born to a peasant family on 28 September 1891 in the khutor of Khlebny, Kachalinskaya stanitsa of the Don Host Oblast, and completed primary school.

[1] From May 1920 he and the division with the army fought in the Polish–Soviet War on the Southwestern Front in operations in the direction of Zhitomir, Novograd-Volynsky, and Lvov and in the area of Zamość.

Nikitin participated in fighting in Northern Taurida and Crimea in October and the elimination of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine in November.

Nikitin entered the Frunze Military Academy in February 1932 and after graduation from its special faculty in November 1934 became assistant commander of the 11th Orenburg Cavalry Division.

[1][2][3] After the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, on 22 June 1941, Nikitin led the corps in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk as part of the Western Front.

Placed at the disposal of the Cadre Department of the Red Army in May 1943, Nikitin became commander of the 5th Reserve Cavalry Brigade of the North Caucasus Military District in October of that year.

Another negative evaluation, that he "showed his low training by allowing regimental commanders to withdraw units from captured positions" during the offensive, resulted in his relief in February 1945.