Orlov, Dmitry Dmitrievich

He graduated from the Siberian Military Gymnasium and the 2nd Military Konstantinovsky School (1876), from where he was released as second lieutenant to the 2nd East Siberian Line Battalion .

Ranks: lieutenant (1877), staff captain (1879), captain (1886), lieutenant colonel (1892), colonel (for distinction, 1897), major general (for distinction, 1908)

He was a clerk for the educational part of the Irkutsk cadet school . Commander of the 11th East Siberian Line Battalion, later deployed to the 16th East Siberian Regiment.

Member of the campaign in China 1900-1901 and the Russo-Japanese War. Commander of the 138th Infantry Bolkhovsky Regiment . Consisted on a secondment to the General Staff . Commander of the 127th Putivl Infantry Regiment (until 30.01.1908).

Commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 35th Infantry Division (1908-1910). Commander of the 1st Brigade of the 35th Infantry Division (from 02.21.1910).

After the outbreak of World War I , he was the commander of the 72nd Infantry Division (07/19/1914-31/31/1915), which took part in the East Prussian operation . Head of the 28th infantry reserve brigade (from 14.09.1915).

• Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree with the Imperial Crown (1896)
• Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree with swords (1901)
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree with swords (1904)
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1911)
• Order of St. Anne 1st Class (1916)

Foreign:

• Austrian Order of the Iron Crown of the Great Cross (1874)
• Italian Order of the Saints of Mauritius and Lazarus the Great Cross (1891)
• The Serbian Order of Such is the 1st degree (1894).

• Orlov, Dmitry Dmitrievich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".