Shoshin, Alexey Petrovich

Service in the Privislinsky Territory

Alexey Shoshin was born in Kostroma in a family of philistines. He graduated from a real school in 1880 and a military topographic school in 1883, after which he studied in St. Petersburg at the Nikolaev Engineering Academy . After its graduation in 1889, he was appointed to the Warsaw Military District , where he served more than 20 years. During this time, Shoshin took part in the design and construction of many fortifications, including the fortress Novogeorgievsk (now Modlin) , Brest-Litovsk , Grodno, Zegrzh , Osovets , Warsaw , Lomzhinsky fortifications, numerous crossings, hydraulic structures, defensive positions. In 1909, Shoshin was appointed to Vladivostok after the removal from the Main Serf Committee by the decision of the Minister of War V.A. Sukhomlinov , to whom Shoshin, together with another member of the Main Serf Committee, Colonel Alexei Schwartz protested against the closure of four fortresses in the Privislinsky Territory .

Service in Vladivostok

In 1910 , Shoshin became an assistant to the construction manager of the Vladivostok fortress, Major General V. A. Kukharsky, and a year later he was appointed builder of the Vladivostok fortifications and chief of engineers of the Vladivostok fortress, receiving the rank of major general. With the participation of Shoshin, unique fortifications were created that had no analogues in the world due to the peculiarities of the mountainous terrain on which the fortress was built. Non-standard solutions and the use of advanced technologies allowed Shoshin to create the first fortress in Russia, improved taking into account the experience of the Russo-Japanese War .

World War I

With the outbreak of World War I, a huge amount of military cargo began to pass through Vladivostok to the European part of Russia. April 25, 1915 Shoshin was appointed to the post of chairman of the commission for sending military cargo from Vladivostok. On his initiative, a number of works on the construction of railways, bridges, culverts were carried out in Vladivostok. Then, for the first time, a project was created to build a tunnel under the watershed between the valley of the First River and the Buyakovka River, which was implemented only in Soviet times and is now known to the townspeople as a tunnel to them. Stalin. In August 1915, Shoshin left for the front . He participated in the construction of fortifications near Kiev, across the Danube, built a 400 km long position in Northern Romania, on which Russian forces were held for more than a year. In 1917, Shoshin was appointed head of engineering supplies of the Northern Front, led the evacuation of engineering property after the fall of Riga.

After the October Revolution

As a result of a deep retreat to the rear, in 1918, Shoshin headed the Yaroslavl District Engineering Department. The property evacuated by him was used by the Bolshevik forces and allowed them to successfully conduct military operations for several years with the insignificant production of ammunition and weapons in military factories. Under the leadership of Shoshin, the engineering troops of the Red Army are created, while Shoshin himself was recognized among the leaders of the Bolshevik leadership. Until the end of his days, he worked in the Engineering Committee, also engaged in scientific activities. He died in 1924.

• Shoshin named the street, hill and bay in Vladivostok .

• Major General Alexei Petrovich Shoshin.
• SHOSHIN Alexey Petrovich (08/31/1861 - 1924).