General who took Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg in 1918, led the Whites across Lake Baikal in 1920 and later served Czechoslovakia
A staff officer from a Vitebsk noble family of Polish descent, he took Chelyabinsk without loss in the Czechoslovak Legion's revolt of May 1918 and Yekaterinburg on 25 July. Returning to Kolchak's army in 1919, he commanded a corps, army groups and from October the 2nd Army, and in November personally shot General Grivin for abandoning the front. Succeeding the dying Kappel as commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front in January 1920, he bypassed Irkutsk after Kolchak was shot and led the army across Lake Baikal into Transbaikalia. In the Czechoslovak army from 1921, he rose to army general, urged armed resistance to the Munich Agreement in 1938, and after his arrest by SMERSH in 1945 died in the Ozerlag camp in 1951.
Also known as: Sergei Wojciechowski · Sergej Vojcechovský · Sergei Voytsekhovsky
Activities and affiliations
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1904–1917
Russian Empire state institutions
Military command -
1917–1919
Military command
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1918–1920
Military command
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1921–1939
Czechoslovakia state institutions
Military command -
1939–1943
Russian All-Military Union (ROVS)
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1912Graduated from the Nicholas General Staff Academy
- 1914–1917Staff officer of the 69th Infantry Division and XX Army Corps in the First World War
- 1917–1918Chief of staff of the Czechoslovak Rifle Brigade; commander of the 3rd Jan Žižka Regiment
- 1918Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion; took Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg
- 1918Major general; commander of the Directory's Samara Group
- 1919Commander of the 2nd Ufa Corps and of the Northern Group in the Chelyabinsk operation
- 1919–1920Commander of the 2nd Army
- 1920Commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front; crossed Lake Baikal
- 1921–1939General of the Czechoslovak army; army general from 1929
- 1938Urged armed resistance in the Munich crisis
- 1945–1951Arrested by SMERSH; ten-year sentence; died in the camps