Evgeny Ivanovich Balabin ( December 22, 1879 , Region of the Don Army - October 27, 1973 , Vienna ) - military figure, Don Cossack , officer of the Russian Empire, Lieutenant General . Member of the First World War and the Civil War. During the Second World War, supported the German army in the fight against Bolshevism with the help of the Cossacks.
| Evgeny Ivanovich Balabin | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | December 22, 1879 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Region Don Cossacks , Russian Empire | |||||
| Date of death | October 27, 1973 (93 years) | |||||
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria | |||||
| Affiliation |
 White Guard ROA | |||||
| Type of army | Cavalry | |||||
| Years of service | 1898 - 1920 | |||||
| Rank | Lieutenant general | |||||
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Content
Start of military activities
Born on a horse farm at the Manych River ( Don Cossack District ) - now the Semikarakorsky District of the Rostov Region in the family of a Cossack colonel . He studied at the Don Cadet Corps in 1890-1898 and Nikolaevsk Cavalry School . A cornet was issued in 1900 in the Life Cossack Guard of His Majesty's regiment .
- 1904 - produced in the centurions .
- 1906 - married the daughter of a railway engineer, Alexander Vyacheslavovna Vorobyova.
- 1908 - podsyesul .
- 1910 - appointed commander of the 3rd hundreds.
- 1912 - Esaul .
- 1913 - appointed commander of hundreds of His Majesty.
World War I
1915 - Colonel , Assistant Commander of the regiment on the line. From April 29, 1916 - Commander of the 12th Don Prince Potemkin-Tauride Regiment. In the spring of 1917 - for the difference in the battles, he was promoted to major general . On August 19, 1917, he was appointed commander of the 2nd brigade of the 9th Don Cossack Division, from January 9, 1918 - head of this division, located in Novocherkassk ,
Civil War
In 1918 - commander of the Novocherkassk combat line of defense. After the election of P. N. Krasnov to Ataman of the Don Army, E. I. Balabin was appointed a member of the Don Government and the head of the horse breeding department of the army. July 20, 1919 order for the Don army promoted to lieutenant general . March 6, 1920, he left Novorossiisk for emigration to Constantinople .
Emigration, World War II
In December 1921 he moved to Czechoslovakia . From January 1922 to 1938 - teacher and teacher of the Russian gymnasium. After the German occupation of the Czech Republic, he headed the All-Cossack Association in the Protectorate of Bohemia (Czech Republic) and Moravia . Since 1940, the organization united the Cossack organizations in Germany, Hungary, and the countries they occupied and became known as the "All-Cossack Association in the German Empire, Slovakia and Hungary", and EI Balabin became its ataman (1940-1945).
In 1944 he was invited by A. A. Vlasov to the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia . From May 1945 to May 1947, he was hiding near Salzburg , Austria . In June 1947, fleeing from extradition to the USSR, he left for South America. Later returned to Austria.
Awards (in chronological order)
- 1909 - Order of St. Anne, 3rd degree
- 1912 - the Order of St. Stanislav 2 degrees
- 1914 - the Order of St. Anne 2 degrees with swords
- 1915 - the Order of St. Vladimir of 4 degrees with swords and bow .
- 1916 - the Order of St. Vladimir 3 st. with swords .
Works
- Memoirs: “Far and near, old and new” ISBN 978-5-9524-3718-0
Family
Brother: Nikolai Ivanovich Balabin (1868–1918) - colonel , chief of the Irkutsk provincial gendarme department (1914–1717), arrested the writer Maxim Gorky (January 11, 1905).
Links
- Balabin, Yevgeny Ivanovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."
- BALABIN Evgeny Ivanovich // Donskoy Temporary / Donskoy State Public Library. Rostov-on-Don, 1993–2014