Kuchinsky, Dmitry Alexandrovich

Born in June 1898 in Minsk in the family of a postal official.

He graduated from the Yaroslavl gymnasium in 1916 and the Alekseevsk Military Engineering School in 1917.

Then he served in the army, served as commander of the sapper half-company and company commander. The last rank in the Russian imperial army - ensign .

Civil War

In the Red Army - since May 1918. He fought on the Southern Front as part of the 10th Infantry Division. From May to December 1918 - Senior Instructor of the 1st Moscow Cavalry Regiment. From January to March 1919 - Commander of a separate consolidated cavalry division. In the same year he was enrolled in the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army .

Soviet period

In 1921–1922, Kuchinsky was a senior assistant to the chief of staff of the division for the operational unit, chief of staff of the 3rd combat sector of the Tambov province, and head of the socio-economic sciences of the Red Army Military Academy.

After graduating from the Red Army Military Academy in 1922, he was appointed head of the 1st Division of the Organizational Department of the Red Army Headquarters.

From November 1924 - Head of the Department of the Organizational-Mobilization Directorate of the Red Army Headquarters. From April 1925 - assistant, and from November of the same year - deputy head of the same department. In September 1926, he was appointed head of the 1st Division of the 2nd Directorate of the Red Army Headquarters. From August 1928 - Chief of Staff of the 14th Rifle Corps . From November 1930 - Head of the 6th Directorate of the Headquarters of the Red Army. From February 1931 - Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian (since May 1935 - Kiev ) military district. By order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 2398 of November 21, 1935, he was given the rank of division commander . In April 1936, he was appointed chief and commissioner of the Academy of the General Staff .

Member of the Military Council of the People's Commissar of Defense.

Repression

Arrested on September 20, 1937 . On July 29, 1938, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death on charges of belonging to a military conspiracy. The sentence was executed on the same day.

The definition of the Military Collegium of August 4, 1956 was rehabilitated.

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