Former Imperial colonel who commanded the Red 2nd Army, the Northern Group of the Eastern Front and the South-Eastern Front
An Imperial colonel from an artisan family of Kalyazin, he was elected division commander by his soldiers after the October Revolution, volunteered for the Red Army in September 1918 and led the Eastern Front's 2nd Army in the Izhevsk–Votkinsk operation. From spring 1919 his Northern Group carried out the Perm and Yekaterinburg operations; at the end of July he took over the Southern Front's Special Group against Tsaritsyn, and from September led it as the South-Eastern Front in the year-end counteroffensive against Denikin. In 1920–1921, as assistant to the Commander-in-Chief for Siberia, he directed the suppression of the West Siberian risings and the fight against Ungern, and in 1922 the Turkestan Front against the Basmachi. Arrested in 1938, he was shot or died in prison; the records differ.
Activities and affiliations
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1892–1917
Russian Empire state institutions
Military command -
1918–1925
Soviet Union state institutionsMain
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1892Graduated from the Kazan Infantry Cadet School
- 1904–1905Company commander in the Russo-Japanese War
- 1915Order of St George, 4th class
- 1916Colonel, 333rd Glazov Infantry Regiment
- 1917Elected commander of the 26th Infantry Division by its soldiers
- 1918–1919Commander of the 2nd Army, Eastern Front
- 1919Commander of the Northern Group, Eastern Front; Perm and Yekaterinburg operations
- 1919Commander of the Special Group, Southern Front
- 1919–1920Commander of the South-Eastern Front
- 1920Commander of the Caucasian Front
- 1920–1921Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief for Siberia
- 1922Commander of the Turkestan Front
- 1923–1925Deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District
- 1938Arrested