Nejvýznamnější funkce: (maximálně tři) Most Important Appointments: (up to three)
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Jiné významné skutečnosti: (maximálně tři) Other Notable Facts: (up to three)
- Hrdina Sovětského svazu in memoriam - sovětský špión se specializací na vraždy vysokých představitelů říše na okupovaných územích, do své smrti provedl 7 úspěšných atentátů a 4 neúspěšné - zahynul při přestřelce s Banderovci
- Hero of the Soviet Union in memoriam - soviet spy with specialization in assassinations of high ranking reich members on occupied territories, until his death he completed 7 successful assassinations and 4 unsuccessful - killed in firefight with members of Ukrainian Insurgent Army
As mentioned in the table, during his career he carried out 7 successful and 4 unsuccessful assassinations of high officials of the empire, mainly in the territory of Ukraine. His main target was the Reichskommissar of Ukraine and later the Eastern Lands, Erich Koch. He carried out two unsuccessful assassinations in 1943. First during a military parade on April 20, 1943, the anniversary of Hitler's birthday, and the second After these failures, he targeted his deputy and chief of staff, Paul Dargel. But even with him, he failed twice. The first time, on 20 September 1943, he tried to kill Dargel, but made a mistake, and instead shot Koch's deputy in financial matters, Hans Gehl, and his secretary and inspector general for the Rovno region, Adolf Winter. A second time, on 30 September 1943, he threw an anti-tank grenade at him, but Dargel survived thanks to early help, although he lost both legs.
On 15 November 1943, together with his deputy Strutinsky and partisans Stefansky and Kaminsky, they ambushed the car of the commander of the Eastern Battalions, Major General Max Ilgen and Erich Koch's personal driver, Captain Paul Granau, at 16:15. They were assisted in the operation by his assistant Lydia Ivanovna Lisovskaya (a Polish ballerina before the war, an NKVD officer during the war), who worked for Ilgen in disguise as a housekeeper and reported Ilgen's daily habits to Kuznetsov. Originally it was planned to transport them to Moscow, but due to the situation this was not possible, so after interrogation they were both shot and buried on a farm near Rovno. A day later, Alfred Funk, the president of the German Supreme Court of Ukraine, successfully assassinated the president of the court in Rovno.
On February 9, 1944, he carried out his last successful assassination when he shot and killed the deputy governor of the Halych district, Otto Bauer, and his secretary, Dr. Heinrich Schneider, outside their apartment.
Nikolai Kuznetsov used several pseudonyms during the war: Rudolf Schmidt, Nikolai Vasilievitch Grachev and Lieutenant Paul Siebert. He was very linguistically gifted; at 16 he began to teach himself German and gradually became so fluent that not only was he fluent in it, but he knew 6 German dialects. In addition to German, he also studied Esperanto and Komi (a specific Russian dialect used in the Urals, which ranks with Udmurtia in the Permian subgroup, which belongs to the Finnic group of the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family), as well as Ukrainian and Polish.
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