Sedyakin, Alexander Ignatievich

Alexander Sedyakin was born on November 14 ( 26 ), 1893 in St. Petersburg in the family of a worker who served in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment .

Since 1908, the Sedyakins family lived in Kurgan . The family had four sons: Alexander (1893), Constantine (1898), Theophylact (1899), Michael (1905) and daughter Claudius (1907) ^[2] .

In 1914 he graduated from the Krasnoyarsk land surveying school, worked as a land surveyor in the Tobolsk province .

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I , in November 1914 he was drafted into the Russian Imperial Army ^[3] . In 1915 he graduated from the Irkutsk Military School, after which in October 1915 he was sent to the front as a warrant officer. He fought on the Northern Front as part of the 151st Pyatigorsk Infantry Regiment . For personal courage, during the two years of the war he rose in rank to headquarters captain . He was twice wounded. Commander of an infantry platoon, company, battalion, head of the regiment's machine gun team.

Actively participated in the revolutionary events of 1917 at the front . In March 1917 he was elected chairman of the regimental soldiers' committee. Since May 1917 - Deputy Chairman of the Soldiers Committee of the 38th Infantry Division. Since August 1917 - member of the RCP (b) . He was elected as a deputy of the Constituent Assembly from the Northern Front according to list No. 5 ( RSDLP (b) ). After the October Revolution in November 1917, he was appointed chairman of the Council of Army Commissars and, in fact, commander of the 5th Army , formed Red Guard detachments. He facilitated the transition of many parts of the army to the side of the Bolsheviks, and in particular, ensured the safety and transfer to them of army depots of weapons and equipment ^[4] .

After the revolution, he remained at the front. In March 1918 he joined the Red Army , was appointed chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Novorzhevsky section of the curtain units, participated in military operations against German interventionists. Since May 1918 - a military commissar of the 2nd Pskov Rifle Division.

From August 6, 1918 - commander of an armored train on the Eastern Front , but from August 22 - commander of the 1st Kursk Infantry Regiment, he fought against the armies of A.V. Kolchak . In September 1918 he was transferred to the Southern Front and was appointed commander of the 2nd separate Kursk infantry brigade (until November). Since January 1919 - assistant commander of the 13th Army on the Southern Front, he fought against the troops of A.I. Denikin . For a short time in August 1919 he was the military commissar of the headquarters of the Southern Front, then appointed commander of the 3rd separate Voronezh Rifle Brigade. From October 12, 1919 - the head of the 31st Infantry Division, from November 12, 1919 - the head of the 15th Inzen Infantry Division . At the head of it he continued to fight on the Southern Front, during the defensive battles in Northern Tavria against the army of General P.N. Wrangel on June 25, 1920 he was seriously wounded.

From October 1920 - the commander of the 1st, from February 1921 - the commander of the 10th reserve rifle brigade.

He distinguished himself in the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising in March 1921. He was appointed commander of the 7th Army Southern Group of Forces. The group consisted of up to 13,000 bayonets, its commissioner was K. Voroshilov . During the storming of the fortress, the group was assigned the main role. Parts of Sedyakin were the first to break into the fortress. In the midst of street fighting, he ordered the cavalry to support the attack of infantry units, operating on the ice of the Gulf of Finland , which made a break in the course of the battle. After the suppression of the uprising, he was appointed commandant of the Kronstadt fortress .

In April 1921 he was appointed infantry inspector of the Petrograd Military District , in August 1921 he became commander of the Petrograd fortified area and commandant of Petrograd ^[3] (in this position until September 1923). In October 1921 he was urgently sent to Karelia , where the invasion of Finnish troops began (in modern science it is often referred to as the second Soviet-Finnish war, in Soviet times it was called the “Belofin adventure in Karelia” ). Appointed commander of the Karelian-Murmansk region, together with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic S. S. Kamenev, he developed an operation to defeat Finnish and White Guard detachments. In January-February 1922 he led the offensive operations of the Soviet troops: first he surrounded the main enemy group, then without a pause carried out a decisive frontal attack against the remaining disparate enemy units, throwing him abroad. He widely applied the actions of mobile ski teams, thereby depriving the Finns of their superiority in maneuverability.

He graduated from the Military Academic Courses of the High Command of the Red Army in 1923.

Since November 1923 - commander of the 5th Red Banner Army in the Far East , participated in the suppression of uprisings in the Far East.

Since March 1924 - commander of the Volga Military District .

Since the summer of 1926 - Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Red Army, inspector of infantry and armored vehicles of the Red Army.

Since 1931 - Head and Commissioner of the Military Technical Academy of the Red Army named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky .

Since the fall of 1932 - head of the Red Army Combat Training Directorate.

Since 1933, he served as deputy chief of staff of the Red Army and head of the Directorate of Combat Training. ^[5]

Since 1934 - Member of the Military Council at the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR.

Since the fall of 1934 - deputy chief of the General Staff of the Red Army and inspector of higher military schools of the Red Army.

Since December 1936 - Head of the Air Defense Administration of the Red Army. On the initiative of the head of the Red Army Combat Training Directorate, 2nd rank commander A. I. Sedyakin, the badge “Red Army Sniper” was established ^[6] .

Since July 1937 - the commander of the troops of the Baku district air defense ^[3] . ^[7]

Arrested on December 2, 1937. He pleaded guilty to participating in an anti-Soviet, Trotskyist and fascist military conspiracy in the Red Army. On July 29, 1938, he was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to capital punishment. Shot the same day in Moscow , the Kommunark shooting range .

The definition of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of August 4, 1956 rehabilitated. ^[8]

• Order of St. Anna of the IV degree with the inscription "For courage" (02/14/1917)
• St. George's weapon (09/11/1917)
• Two orders of the Red Banner ( 1921 - for the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising, 1922 - for the victory in Karelia).
• Combat badge "Honest warrior of the Karelian front" ( 1933 ) ^[9]

He was married twice. The second wife, Valentina Aleksandrovna Dybenko-Sedyakina (1898 - August 26, 1938), the former wife of P. E. Dybenko , was arrested on December 2, 1937 and shot at the Kommunarka training ground for “espionage”.

• A. Sedyakin. Fundamentals of the methodological guidance of the summer (camp) training of troops // War and Revolution, No. 5, 1928

• Radio monitoring - Tachanka / [under the total. ed. N.V. Ogarkova ]. - M .: Military Publishing House of the USSR Ministry of Defense , 1980. - 693 p. - ( Soviet military encyclopedia : [in 8 vols.]; 1976-1980, vol. 7).
• Sedyakin A.I. // Civil Protection. Encyclopedia in 4 volumes / V. A. Puchkov . - 3rd, revised and supplemented. - Moscow: EMERCOM of Russia , FSBI VNII GOCHS (FC), 2015. - T. 3: P-S. - S. 464. - 658 p. - ISBN 978-5-93790-129-7 .
• Sedyakin A.I. Autobiography. // Military History Journal. 1989. No. 3.

• The star and death of Commander Sedyakin