Nikandr Yevlampievich Chibisov was born on 17 November 1892 in the stanitsa of Romanovskaya, Don Host Oblast.

He graduated from the four-year Don Theological Seminary in 1912 and in June of that year passed the exam for admission to the army as a volunteer of the 2nd category.

After World War I began, Chibisov was called up for military service in October 1914 and enrolled in the reserve battalion of the Life Guards Jager Regiment.

Graduating from the regimental training detachment in March 1915, he was sent to the 1st Petergof School of Praporshchiks (Warrant officers).

With the Life Guards Jager Regiment, Chibisov fought on the Western and Southwestern Fronts as a battalion junior officer and company commander.

At the beginning of 1918 he was captured by German troops in Lutsk, but escaped with a group of soldiers and arrived in Petrograd.

[1] Chibisov joined the Red Army in May 1918, serving as a platoon commander of a border post on the Karelian Isthmus.

In late April 1919 he was appointed commander of the 86th Rifle Regiment, which he led in the fighting against White forces in the Pskov sector and was wounded.

[1] After Operation Barbarossa began, the Odessa Military District was reorganized into the Southern Front on 25 June, under the command of Army General Ivan Tyulenev.

In the first days of the war he worked to bring the troops of the district to full combat readiness, carry out the process of mobilization, form new units for the front, and evacuate industry and state facilities deeper into the country.

In March 1949 he became deputy chairman of the Central Committee of DOSAAF, then assistant commander of the Belorussian Military District in October.