Kalmyk Red cavalry commander who led the 2nd Cavalry Army in Northern Taurida in 1920
Born to a poor Kalmyk family on the Don, he served in Don Cossack regiments of the Imperial army and after the February Revolution formed a Kalmyk Red Guard unit. Captured by Don Cossacks in February 1918 and sentenced to be shot, he escaped that night, and as squadron and brigade commander under Dumenko and Budyonny made his name in the defence of Tsaritsyn. In August 1919 he took over the 4th Cavalry Division, which burst unexpectedly into Rostov, and that year he joined the Bolshevik party. From July 1920 he led the 2nd Cavalry Army against Wrangel in Northern Taurida but was replaced by Mironov on 6 September after heavy losses, and from October commanded the 6th Cavalry Division of the 1st Cavalry Army in the Perekop–Chongar operation. He was inspector of Red Army cavalry in the Second World War and became Hero of the Soviet Union in 1958.
Activities and affiliations
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1903–1917
Russian Empire state institutions
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1918–1947
Soviet Union state institutionsMain
Military command -
1919–1960
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1903–1907Served in the 9th Don Cossack Regiment
- 1915–1917Platoon commander, 43rd Don Cossack Regiment
- 1917Member of the Platovskaya revolutionary committee; formed a Kalmyk Red Guard half-squadron
- 1918Captured, sentenced to be shot, escaped
- 1918Squadron commander in Dumenko’s and Budyonny’s units; cavalry brigade commander
- 1919Commander of the 19th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Cavalry Division
- 1919Joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- 1919–1920Commander of the 4th Cavalry Division
- 1920Commander of the 2nd Cavalry Army; removed on 6 September
- 1920–1921Commander of the 6th Cavalry Division, 1st Cavalry Army; Perekop–Chongar operation
- 1925–1932Commander of the 1st Red Cossack Cavalry Corps
- 1940Colonel general
- 1941–1943Inspector general and commander of Red Army cavalry
- 1958Hero of the Soviet Union