Was born in Chepujino, in the region of Kursk, in 1901. His natal land afterwards fleshed serious battles center. His father, sargeant in the czarist cavalry, impelled to him to be enlisted in the army en1920, accomplishing its first studies in the infantry School of Poltava, and then, with the degree of officer, in the superior military School  of Kiev, in the Academy Frunze and, finally, in the War High School of general Vorosilov. 
Chief of the military region of Kiev, and thereinafter destined general Greater State, Vatutin was ordering to be unfettered the offensive of 
November of 1942 the front of the Southwest.  Advancing on Kalach, it achieved be empowered of the bridge on the Sir in that point, and to lace with 
Yeremenko, peaing the fence to the 6º German Army in Stalingrad. After the capitulation of von Paulus would undertake the series of offensive operations that drove to him until the Donets.  In July of 1943, in the moment in which the red Army was returning on assault, Vatutin happened to the command of the lº Ukrainian front.  Recovered Kiev of hands of von Manstein and advanced beyond Zhitomir, though it should abandon the city little afterwards.  However, it would obtain to preserve 
Kiev.  A new offensive permitted to him to recapture Zhitomir (31 of December) and enter Rovno and in Liitzk.  Gravely it injured in March 
of 1944, in dark circumstances, expired little after.