Soviet military commander (1882?1938)
Vladimir Lazarevich
(August 13, 1921)
Vladimir Salamovich Lazarevich
(
Russian
:
Влади?мир Салама?нович Лазаре?вич
,
Belarusian
:
Уладз??м?р Саламо?нав?ч Лазарэ?в?ч
;
Sokołka
,
Grodno Governorate
, 15 September 1882 ? Moscow, 20 June 1938) was a
Soviet
military commander, who commanded several military units of the
Red Army
during the
Russian Civil War
.
Biography
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Lazarevich was born into a Belarusian noble family. He entered the
Vilnius Military School
in 1903 and studied at the
General Staff Academy
in Saint Petersburg between 1909 and 1912.
He participated in the First World War, first as senior adjutant at the headquarters of the 2nd Army Corps and ending the war as Lieutenant Colonel in 1917. After the
October Revolution
of 1917, he was elected chief of staff of the
18th Army Corps
.
In 1918 he voluntarily joined the Red Army. He fought in the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920 first in the East, as chief of staff of the
4th Army
(November 1918 - March 1919), of the Southern Group of the
Eastern Front
Forces (March?May 1919), and as commander of the
4th Army
(May - November 1919), in which capacity he participated in the successful
Counteroffensive of the Eastern Front
against the forces of
Admiral Kolchak
.
From November 1919 to March 1920, he became Chief of Staff of the
Western Front
, and then commander of the
3rd Army
(June - October 1920), with which he fought in the
Polish-Bolshevik War
of 1920. He fought in the
Battle of Warsaw (1920)
, where he managed to pull back his divisions over the Vistula. But he did not meet expectations in the
Battle of the Niemen River
, where his Army was attacked from the rear and suffered heavy casualties.
He was moved to command the
4th Army
again on the
Southern Front
(October 1920 - February 1921). From February 1921 to January 1922, he became commander of the
Turkestan Front
, where he was in charge of suppressing the Counter-revolutionary
Basmachi movement
.
In the twenties and thirties, he held various command positions and was a lecturer, also at the
Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
of which he was the director in 1925-1927. On November 23, 1935, he received the rank of
Komdiv
.
He was arrested on February 4, 1938, and on June 20, he was sentenced to be shot by the
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
, on charges of belonging to a military conspiracy. The verdict was executed on the same day and he was buried at the
Kommunarka shooting ground
.
He was
rehabilitated
in 1956.
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Media related to
Vladimir Lazarevich
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