Alexander Lvovich Shifres ( 1898 , Grodno - September 25, 1938 , Moscow ) - Soviet military leader, head of the Military Academy of the Red Army and the Red Cross . A member of the Military Council under the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR, army commissar of the 2nd rank .
| Alexander L. Shifres | |||
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 A.L. Shifres | |||
| Date of Birth | 1898 | ||
| Place of Birth | Grodno , Russian Empire | ||
| Date of death | September 25, 1938 | ||
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR | ||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire RSFSR the USSR | ||
| Years of service | 1919 - 1937 | ||
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| Battles / Wars | Russian civil war | ||
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Biography
By nationality - a Jew . A student who graduated from one course at Tomsk University and the school of ensigns. Since July 1917 a member of the RSDLP (b) , the founder and leader of the Bolshevik organization in Vitebsk , a member of the executive committee of the local Council. In 1917 - 1918 the Commissioner for the fight against counterrevolution in Tomsk . In 1918 he returned to Vitebsk , a member of the Provincial Committee of the RCP (b) . Since 1919 - in the Red Army , the head of the political department of the division on the Eastern Front [1] , was awarded the Order of the Order of the Red Banner . After the Civil War, he graduated from the Military-Political School and the Military-Political Academy. From 1922 - in the Political Administration of the Red Army , in 1928 - 1932 the head of the Military-Political Academy, was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner. Since 1933 the head of the political department of the Caucasian Red Banner Army , a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) . Since 1936, the head of the Military Academy of the Red Army and the RKKF , a member of the editorial board of the journal " Military Gazette ". Member of the Military Council of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR.
Repression
November 10, 1937 dismissed and arrested after 2 days. September 25, 1938 sentenced by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court to capital punishment. Shot May 18, 1956 rehabilitated.
Awards
- Order of the Red Banner (two awards)
Notes
- ↑ “The Struggle for the Urals and Siberia” Collection of memoirs. State Publishing House 1926 A Shifres: "To the East" Стр. 61
Literature
- Lazarev S. E. Military-Political Academy in the 1930s // Scientific Gazette of Belgorod State University. Series “History. Political science. Economy. Computer science". 2013. № 8 (151). Issue 26. S. 140-149.
- Lazarev S. Ye. The sociocultural composition of the Soviet military elite of 1931–1938. and its assessment in the press of Russian emigration. - Voronezh: Voronezh Center for Scientific and Technical Information - a branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “REA” of the Ministry of Energy of Russia, 2012. - 312 p. - 100 copies - ISBN 978-5-4218-0102-3 .
- Cherushev N. S. , Cherushev Yu. N. The executed elite of the Red Army (commanders of the 1 st and 2 nd ranks, com-corps, divisional divisions and their equal): 1937-1941. Biographical dictionary. - M .: Kuchkovo field; Megapolis, 2012. - p. 53-54. - 496 s. - 2000 copies - ISBN 978-5-9950-0217-8 .