Polyakov, Vasily Ivanovich (brigade commander)

Born in July 1894 in the village of Knyazevka (now the Penza district of the Penza region) in the family of an office clerk. Russian.

In 1915 he graduated from a village school and six classes of a real school in the city of Serdobsk . In May 1915 he was drafted into the Russian Imperial Army and sent to study at the Irkutsk Military School, which he graduated in October of the same year and was sent to a reserve brigade located in Omsk . Since November 1915, he was at the front of the First World War in the 54th Siberian Rifle Regiment, where he successively held the positions of a junior company officer, company commander and battalion commander. In October-December 1917 he was chairman of the regimental committee. In February 1918, due to illness, he left the regiment, where his last rank was headquarters captain .

He served in the Red Army voluntarily from June 1918. Member of the RCP (b) / CPSU (b) since December 1918. Member of the Civil War in Russia. He fought on the Eastern and Southern fronts, holding the positions of military leader of the Sheremetyevo volost of the Atkar district of the Saratov province, the head of the detachment during the fight against Czechoslovakians and White Cossacks, and the assistant company commander of the 417th infantry regiment of the Eastern Front. From September 1919 to March 1920 he was a student of the Higher Rifle School, then assistant commander of the reserve regiment of the 2nd Army of the Eastern Front, assistant commander and commander of the reserve regiment of the 6th Army of the Southern Front.

He was in the following positions in the Red Army :

• since February 1921 - assistant to the inspector of infantry of the 6th Army and the Kharkov Military District;
• from July 1922 - commander of the special forces of the Bryansk, and from July 1923 - the Chernihiv province;
• in July 1924 - head of the department for command staff of the Ukrainian military district;
• since November 1926 - chief of the 6th department of the headquarters of the same district.

In 1927, he graduated from advanced training courses for senior commanding officers at the MV Frunze Military Academy, then continued serving in senior positions:

• since July 1927 - head of the command department of the headquarters of the Ukrainian military district;
• from April 1929 - commander of the 67th Kupyansky Rifle Regiment;
• since March 1931 - assistant commander of the 10th Infantry Division ;
• since October 1931 - head of military training for students of civilian educational institutions of the Ukrainian military district;
• from February 1932 - assistant commander of the 99th Rifle Division and from April of the same year - commander and military commissar of the 58th Rifle Division;
• since December 1933 - commander of the 96th Vinnitsa Rifle Division in the Ukrainian Military District.

He was awarded the Order of the Red Star in 1936. Since August 1937, Polyakov was at the disposal of the Office for the Navy Red Army Staff. Until May 10, 1938 he was the commander of the 14th Guards Rifle Division (indicated in the article on the division). He was arrested on May 10, 1938. On October 2, 1938, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR was accused of participating in a military conspiracy and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on the same day.

By the definition of the Military Collegium of February 22, 1956, V.I. Polyakov was rehabilitated.

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• List of repressed high commanders and commanders of the USSR Armed Forces (1935-1945)

• Polyakov Vasily Ivanovich