Soviet military commander (1870?1938)
Vasily Ivanovich Shorin
(
Russian
:
Василий Иванович Шорин
; 26 December 1870 [7 January 1871],
Kalyazin
?
29 June 1938, Leningrad) was a Soviet military commander, who commanded several military units of the Red Army during the
Russian Civil War
.
Biography
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He graduated from the Kazan infantry school of the Junkers in 1892. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 he commanded a company, and a battalion at the start of World War I.
By June 1916, he was Colonel of the 333rd Infantry Glazovsky Regiment.
After the
October Revolution
, he took the side of the Soviet government. He was elected by the soldiers as commander of the
26th Infantry Division
. In September 1918, he was appointed commander of the
Second Army
of the Eastern Front. Shorin successfully reorganized the army and directed her actions in the
Izhevsk-Votkinsk operation
in 1918 during the spring offensive of
Admiral Kolchak
's troops. Since May 1919 he was the commander of the Northern Group of the Eastern Front, and led the
Perm and the Ekaterinburg operations
.
From the end of July 1919, he commanded a special group of the
Southern Front
(9th, 10th, and later 11th Army), reorganized in September 1919 into the
Southeastern Front
.
He participated in the
Southern Front counteroffensive
, but was beaten by
Denikin
's White forces.
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The troops of the front successfully operated during the counteroffensive against the Army of General Denikin at the end of 1919. In January 1920, he commanded the
Caucasian Front
.
In 1920 he was a member of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee.
From May 1920 to January 1921 he was an assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the
Far Eastern Republic
, led the suppression of anti-Soviet uprisings (Grigory Rogov in Prichumyshye 1920, the People's Insurgent Army in the
Altay
Steppe 1920, the
Western Siberia Uprising
of 1921) and the struggle with the troops of Baron
Ungern von Sternberg
.
From January 1922, he commanded the troops of the
Turkestan Front
and participated in the
struggle against the Basmachi
, in particular in November 1922, when
Enver Pasha
was liquidated.
In 1923?1925, he was deputy commander of the troops of the Leningrad Military District. In 1925, he was retired and put in the reserve. He supervised the formation of
OSOAVIAKHIM
in Leningrad.
He was arrested in 1938. According to some reports he was shot, according to other sources he died in prison before trial. He is buried on the
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
in St. Petersburg.
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Military offices
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Preceded by
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Commander of the 26th Infantry Division
1917-1918
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Succeeded by
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