Xenofont Mikhailovich Aslamov ( January 24 ( February 5 ), 1875 , Trans-Baikal Region - August 23, 1938 , Harbin ) - major general , teacher of military tactics at the Orenburg Cossack Cadet Junker School , St. George Knight, deputy chairman of the "Union of Cossacks in the Far East" .
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| Affiliation |  Russian Empire →White movement | ||||||||
| Type of army | Orenburg Cossack army | ||||||||
| Years of service | 1897-1920 | ||||||||
| Rank | major general | ||||||||
| Battles / wars | Russian-Japanese war , World War I Civil War | ||||||||
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Biography
Early years. Service
Xenophon Aslamov was born on January 24 ( February 5 ), 1875 in the village of Kopunskaya of the Trans-Baikal Cossack army in a family of Cossacks. Xenophon was educated at the Orenburg Cossack Junkers College , which he graduated in 1902. In 1914, he became a graduate of the Officer Cavalry School [1] .
January 1 ( 13 ), 1897 , Aslamov entered the service of volunteers of the second category. In 1897 he became a conscript , in 1902 - a corral , and in 1906 - a centurion . The rank of Asalamov arrived at the beginning of September 1910, and the Yesaul in exactly 4 years. After two revolutions , in December 1918, he became an army foreman , then a colonel (1919) and a major general (1919-1920) [1] .
Aslamov began to serve in the Second Trans-Baikal Cossack Regiment, then he studied at the Irkutsk Junkers (1900-1901) and at the Orenburg Cossack Junkers Schools (1901-1902). After training, Xenophon Aslamov served in the 1st Argun Cossack Regiment of the Trans-Baikal Cossack Army, then in the 2nd Trans-Baikal Cossack Regiment, where he became a regimental adjutant and treasurer (1906-1907). At the beginning of September 1914 he was again listed in the 1st Argun Regiment [1] [2] .
For three years, from October 1 ( 14 ), 1907 to 1910, Aslamov served as the head of the training team. After that, he studied at the Officer Cavalry School. In 1914 he became a commander of hundreds , and then - a junior officer and teacher of tactics in his native Orenburg Cossack School (from June 1915 to 1918) [1] .
Revolution and Civil War
In the initial period of the Civil War, Xenophon Aslamov was the commander of a cadet detachment [1] , which defended Orenburg in December 1917 - January 1918. After that, in May 1918, he commanded a rebel detachment near Orenburg, managing to occupy the village of Pavlovskaya in the middle of the month [3] .
Aslamov was appointed headquarters officer for special assignments under the military ataman of the Transbaikal Cossack army in early February 1919, and soon, in March, he became acting quartermaster general of the headquarters of a separate East Siberian army . Since mid-May, he was an assistant to the head of the Directorate of the Far Eastern Cossack Army , after which he was at the disposal of the military chieftain [3] .
Xenofont Mikhailovich became the chief of the military headquarters of the Trans-Baikal Cossack army on June 16, 1919, and in February 1920, the quartermaster general of the headquarters of the commander in chief of all armed forces of the Russian eastern outskirts [3] [4] . In June 1920, Aslamov was elected by the military circle of the Trans-Baikal Cossacks the chief of staff [4] . On December 1, 1920, he ended up in exile in China ( Harbin ). He took part in the Amur Zemsky Cathedral in Vladivostok in July-August 1922, after which, in October, he returned to Harbin [3] .
Xenophon Aslamov was a member of the Harbin Russian Public Committee. From 1935 to 1938 he was engaged in private work, being a member of the Russian National Association for the Struggle for Truth, General A. P. Baksheev . Already in the 1930s, he became a member of the board of the Union of Cossacks in the Far East and the former ranks of the Far East Army, located in the Manchurian Empire - in this union in March 1935, Aslamov took the post of deputy chairman. In addition, until 1935, Ksenofont Mikhailovich was a member of the Harbin department of the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS) and was in the Transbaikal Cossack village named after Ataman Semenov . He became seriously ill and died in August 1938 [3] .
Family
Information about the marital status of Xenophon Mikhailovich Aslamov is not known; only data was preserved about his three children: Alexander (d. in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in 1970), Vladimir (d. in the city of Harbin in 1949) and Tatyana (married - Kosnyreva, d. in the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma in 1973) [5] , Love (married - Beauvais, d. In 1979 in the city of Petropavlovsk in Kazakhstan ). Currently, descendants live in Moscow, Yekaterinburg , Tyumen and Zavodoukovsk .
Rewards
- Order of St. Anne 4 degrees with the inscription "For courage" (1904) [6]
- Order of St. Stanislav 3 degrees with swords and bow (1904) [7]
- Order of St. Vladimir 4 degrees with swords and bow
- Order of St. Anne 3 degrees with swords and bow
- Order of St. Anne 2 degrees with swords (1914): "for the excellent completion of the course of the Officer Cavalry School" [2]
- Order of St. Stanislav 2 degrees with swords
- St. George’s Weapon (1915): “because, from November 8 to 12, 1914, being with hundreds of reconnaissance in the area of the village of Shertsova and entering into battle several times with small equestrian units of the enemy, I obtained very valuable information about the grouping of enemy forces, which helped the success of our troops ” [3] [8]
- Order of St. George 4 degrees [9]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Ganin, Semenov, 2007 , p. 96.
- ↑ 1 2 Highest Orders, 1914 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ganin, Semenov, 2007 , p. 97.
- ↑ 1 2 Volkov, Egorov, Kuptsov, 2003 , p. 40.
- ↑ Archives of the Khabarovsk Territory .
- ↑ [[# CITEREFWarriors_of_Japan_1905 | Chronicle of the war with Japan , 1905]], p. 7.
- ↑ [[# CITEREFWarriors_of_Japan_1905 | Chronicle of the war with Japan , 1905]], p. 12.
- ↑ Highest Orders, 1915 .
- ↑ Aprelkov, Barinov .
Literature
- Books
- Ganin A.V. , Semenov V.G. Aslamov Ksenofont Mikhailovich // Officer corps of the Orenburg Cossack army. 1891-1945: Biographical reference book / Library Fund “Russian Abroad” . - M .: Russian Way , 2007 .-- 676 p. - ISBN 978-5-85887-259-7 .
- Aslamov Ksenofont Mikhailovich // White Generals of the Eastern Front of the Civil War: Biographical Reference / E.V. Volkov , N.D. Egorov, I.V. Kuptsov. - M .: Russian Way , 2003 .-- 239 p. - ISBN 5-85887-169-0 .
- Shabanov V.M. Military Order of the Holy Great Martyr and Victorious George. Nominal lists 1769-1920. (Bibliographic reference) . - M .: Russian World, 2004 .-- 922 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-89577-059-2 .
- Articles
- Ministry of War of Russia . The highest orders of military ranks. - Pg. , 1914. - September 1.
- Ministry of War of Russia . The highest orders of military ranks. - Pg. , 1915. - July 14.
- Lists Mercifully awarded in the Russo-Japanese War. The highest order on August 12 [1904]. The highest order on November 12 [1904] // Chronicle of the war with Japan (Chronicle of the Russo-Japanese War). - SPb. , 1905. - February 3 ( No. 47 ). - S. 7, 12 .
- Aprelkov V. Yu., Barinov A.O. Aslamov K.M. // Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia.
- Archival Sources
- GACHO . F. 138. Op. 1. D. 313.
- Aslamov Ksenofont Mikhailovich // RGVIA . F. 400. Op. 12. D. 26959. L. 946-950.
- Aslamov Ksenofont Mikhailovich // RGVIA . F. 725. Op. 53. D. 3385.
- Aslamov Ksenofont Mikhailovich (1933-1938) // Archives of the Khabarovsk Territory. Main Bureau for Russian Emigrants in the Manchurian Empire.