Gotovtsev, Alexey Ivanovich

Born in Rostov in the family of medical assistant Ivan Savelievich Gotovtsev and Epistimia Petrovna Gotovtseva (Gromova).

He graduated from the Yaroslavl Men's Gymnasium (1901) and the St. Petersburg Infantry Junker School (1902-1905); released as second lieutenant in the 2nd Finland Rifle Regiment . In 1911-1914 he studied at the Nikolaev Military Academy ; graduated from the 1st category and was seconded to the headquarters of the Irkutsk military district .

With the outbreak of the First World War , in 1914 he was appointed temporary (acting) chief of staff of the 3rd Transcaucasian Cossack Brigade, since 1915 - senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 2nd Caucasian Cossack Division ( Caucasian Front ), from 22 March 1915 - senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 4th Caucasian Cossack Division , then chief of staff of the combat detachments, from July 21, 1916 - senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 6th Caucasian Army Corps , from the beginning of 1917 - deputy. Assistant to the Head of the Department of Management , Quartermaster General of the Headquarters of the Caucasian Army , then - senior adjutant of the same department, from November 19, 1917 - head of the department of the quarter-master general’s headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Caucasian Front . August 15, 1918 was demobilized .

He lived in retirement in Tiflis , was engaged in private trade, since August 1919 - assistant manager of the warehouse of the American charity in Tiflis, since October 1919 - sales agent in the representative office of an Italian company in Tiflis. ^[one]

In July 1920, he was placed at the disposal of the Military Department under the Plenipotentiary Representative of the RSFSR in Georgia . From January through July 1921, he was on a special business trip in Constantinople along the line of Razvedupra ; on July 29, 1921, he was arrested by the British and sent to the RSFSR - he was extradited by former colleagues. He entered the Red Army on August 22, 1921, and was placed at the disposal of the head of the 2nd Division of Razvezdupr, and from August 25, 1921, he was head of the Red Army headquarters of the Red Army headquarters (until July 15, 1921).

In August 1921, he transferred to teaching at the Military Academy of the Red Army : a group lecturer, then the head of practical classes in strategy and tactics, a teacher of tactics of higher formations. At the beginning of the 30s, he trained in the 46th Infantry Regiment of the 16th Infantry Division , v.i.d. Chief of Staff of the regiment. S.P. Ivanov , at that time serving in the same regiment, recalled:

“Alexei Ivanovich Gotovtsev, being a teacher of tactics of higher formations at the MV Frunze Military Academy, was in our regiment for a long internship. He was a comprehensively erudite military specialist, who had already graduated from the General Staff Academy in the pre-revolutionary years, and was a participant in the first world and civil wars. He was also distinguished by a high general culture. Thanks to this, as well as enviable performance and punctuality, A. I. Gotovtsev easily coped with his duties, put the headquarters service in the unit at a very high level. At the same time, he had enough time to help young and not so young commanders deepen their professional and general knowledge. Using every free minute for self-education, Alexey Ivanovich instilled in us a taste for reading military-theoretical literature. He taught us to easily go to his house when there were any difficulties in comprehending what was read. Here, without observing the strictness of subordination, we spoke in a relaxed atmosphere on a wide variety of issues. Gotovtsev was intolerant of those who neglected the daily work to replenish knowledge. ”

- Ivanov S.P. Army Headquarters, Front Headquarters

With the creation of the Military Chemical Academy of the Red Army in 1932, he moved to it as the head of the department of command and control of the troops, after which he worked as a senior teacher at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army , then headed the department at it.

During World War II in the same position. In addition to the training of military personnel, he was engaged in military scientific work, wrote works on methodology, tactics and military history.

After the war, in 1945 he retired.

Alexei Ivanovich Gotovtsev died in Moscow in 1969, was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery .

• daughter - Pugacheva (Gotovtseva), Iya Alekseevna (1912-1995), married the scientist Pugachev, Vladimir Semenovich (1911-1998).

Russian Empire

• second lieutenant - ( seniority (Art.) 04/22/1905)
• lieutenant - (v. 09.08.1908)
• staff captain - (v. 09.08.1912)
• captain - (st. 08/09/1914, later changed to 08/09/1912, then to 09/09/1911)
• lieutenant colonel - 08/15/1917
• Colonel - 1918

USSR

• brigade commander - 01.24.1936
• division commander - 02.20.1939
• major general - 06/04/1940
• lieutenant general - 05/05/1943

Russian Empire

• St. George's Arms - PAF 04/19/1917
• Order of St. George 4th degree - 03/27/1918 - Order on the Caucasian Front No. 61
• Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree - 12/28/1916
• Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree - 05/08/1914
• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree - 12/06/1911

Soviet Union

• Order of the Red Banner (11/03/1944) ^[2]
• two Orders of the Red Star - 02.22.1938 - for 20 years of the Red Army and 55th anniversary; 02/22/1944 - 25 years of the Red Army and 60th anniversary.

• Ivanov S.P. Army headquarters, front-line headquarters. - M .: Military Publishing House, 1990.
• Tinchenko Y. Yu. Golgotha ​​Russian officers in the USSR, 1930-1931. - M .: Mosk. societies. scientific fund, 2000.

• Award sheet for the second Order of the Red Star, site Feat of the People
• Gotovtsev, Alexey Ivanovich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
• Biography on the website of the Red Army
• Biography on the site of V. Berdnikov
• Tombstone photo