Vladimir Nichiporovich

2 March] – 31 January 1945) was a Red Army major general during World War II who organized partisans in occupied Belarus.

The troop was incorporated into the 96th Rifle Battalion of the Red Army 1st Moscow Workers' Regiment in December 1918 and sent to the Eastern Front, where it fought against the White forces of Alexander Kolchak in Vyatka Governorate during the Russian Civil War.

[2][3] Shortly after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on 22 June, the army became part of the Western Front.

Nichiporovich was appointed deputy commander of the 4th Guards Cavalry Corps in April 1943 and promoted to major general on 18 May, but later that month was again arrested by the NKVD on fabricated charges of treason, and died in prison under investigation on 31 January 1945.

He was posthumously declared fully rehabilitated by a decision of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union with restoration of rank and awards on 4 October 1952.