Vladimir Aleksandr Chermoev (1866 - not earlier than 1931) - Russian general, hero of the First World War .
| Vladimir Alexandrovich Chermoev | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | February 23 ( March 7 ) 1866 | |||||
| Date of death | is unknown | |||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||
| Type of army | infantry | |||||
| Years of service | 1882-1917 | |||||
| Rank | major general | |||||
| Battles / wars | World War I | |||||
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Biography
Orthodox.
He graduated from the 2nd Cadet Corps (1882) and the Nikolaev Engineering School (1885), from where he was released as a second lieutenant in the 12th Velikolutsk Infantry Regiment with a secondment to the Life Guards Moscow Regiment . In 1886 he was transferred to the Life Guards Moscow Regiment with the rank of second lieutenant.
Ranks: lieutenant (1891), staff captain (art. 6.12.1897), captain (1900), colonel (art. 6.12.1907), major general (1915).
On October 8, 1913 he was appointed commander of the 94th Yenisei Infantry Regiment , with whom he entered the First World War . He was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree
| For courageously stormed the regiment entrusted to him on October 11, 1914, der. Kazimierz, took an important position near this village and captured 12 enemy guns and 6 machine guns. |
February 23, 1915 promoted to major general. On May 28, 1915 - the commander of the same regiment. September 16, 1915 was appointed brigade commander of the 67th Infantry Division . Granted by St. George's Arms
| Because, being the brigade commander of the 67th Infantry Division, skillfully and fearlessly directing the actions of the 1st brigade of the named division with the 20th Infantry Galitsky Regiment assigned to it, in the battle of 20 Jn. 1916, in the area of state. Skrobov’s court, when the situation began to develop unfavorably for us, he resolutely introduced the troops entrusted to him, took control of his two enemy lines and, having fixed himself on them, repelled all the enemy counter-attacks, which decisively contributed to the success of the strike group 9 and - the corps. |
On February 7, 1917, he was appointed commander of the 170th Infantry Division. On August 6, 1917, he was included in the reserve of ranks at the headquarters of the Moscow military district, and on October 1, 1917 he was appointed commander of the 1st Grenadier Division .
After the revolution, he remained in the USSR. By 1931, unemployed in Leningrad, he was repressed in the Vesna case along with other Muscovite officers.
Rewards
- Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1904)
- Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd art. (1908)
- Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. (1911)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (1913)
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. with swords (VP 03.01.1915)
- Order of St. George 4th Art. (VP 11.03.1915)
- swords and bow to the Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (VP May 28, 1915)
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. with swords (VP 08.01.1916)
- swords for the Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. (VP 05.25.1916)
- Order of St. Anne 1st Art. with swords (VP 29.07.1916)
- St. George's Arms (PAF 05/22/1917)
Sources
- A list of colonels of seniority in 1909.
- Army and Fleet of Free Russia , No. 165. Official Division. - July 18, 1917 - S. 1.
- Chermoev, Vladimir Alexandrovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".