Sukin, Nikolai Timofeevich

Early years. Career

Nikolai Sukin was born on November 23 ( December 5 ), 1878 in the village of Burannaya of the first military department of the Orenburg Cossack army in the noble family of Esaul Timofei Petrovich Sukin (born 1858). Nikolai graduated from the Orenburg Neplyuyev cadet corps , where he studied with the future ataman A.I. Dutov , and then entered the capital's Mikhailovsky Artillery School , from which he graduated in 1899 in the first category. In May 1908, he also, in the first category, completed his studies at the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff ^[1] .

On August 31 ( September 12 ), 1887 , Nikolai Sukin began military service in the Russian Imperial Army . In 1899, he received the rank of coronet ( with seniority from 1898), then, in 1902, became a centurion , and in 1906 - a substitute . Since May 1908, Sukin had the rank of captain (Yesaul), and he rose to the rank of army sergeant after the outbreak of the First World War , on December 6 ( 19 ), 1914 . A year later, he became a colonel , and with seniority since 1914. The title of Major General went to Sukin already during the Civil War - in 1918; he completed his military career in the White Army with the rank of lieutenant general (1920) ^{[1] [2]} .

1917. Conflict with Dutov

On August 5 ( 18 ), 1917 , Nikolai Timofeevich was appointed commander of the Orenburg 9th Cossack Regiment , and in December he was transferred to a similar position in the Orenburg 5th Cossack Regiment . In the period from July 1918 to January 1919 he was the chief of staff of a separate Ural army corps (the corps was renamed III Ural) ^[1] .

In January 1919, Sukin received the post of commander of the VI Ural Army Corps ^[3] , which he held until the end of May. In February 1919, at the military circle of the Orenburg Cossack army, he filed a note sharply criticizing the military chieftain Dutov - as a result, he was deprived of the rank of Cossack "for gross slander" ^{[1] [2]} .

Initially, classmates Dutov and Sukin were friends: Sukin was even the godfather of Dutov’s daughter. But then their relationship clearly deteriorated ^[4] . According to the assumption of General S. A. Shchepikhin , confirmed by Colonel M. F. Vorotov , Sukin constantly intrigued against Dutov ^{[5] [6]} :

Together with his corps, Sukin took part in the spring offensive against the Volga in 1919. After the defeat of his units ^[2] , from the summer he was at the disposal of the chief of staff of the Glavkom A. V. Kolchak , and then - in the reserve of ranks of the administration. He became a member of the Great Siberian ice campaign - until mid-February 1920 he led the Northern Column of the 2nd Army ^[1] .

Emigration and return. Execution

Since the summer of 1920, Nikolai Timofeevich served as Chief of Staff of the Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces of the Russian eastern outskirts G.M. Semenov . Later he found himself in exile, lived in China ( Mukden ), where he worked as a railway agent on the CER ^[1] . In 1933 (or 1922 ^[1] ), Nikolai Sukin, together with his brother Alexander, responded to the call of the Soviet leadership, who addressed the former officers, to serve in the Red Army . He went to Soviet Russia , where he became a teacher of military disciplines (in 1937) ^[2] .

There is a version that Nikolai Timofeevich was recruited in China in 1924 by Soviet military intelligence and returned to the USSR already in 1925 - he was hired by the Red Army Intelligence Agency ^[7] . While living in Alma-Ata , Sukin was arrested by the State Security Directorate of the NKVD of the Kazakh SSR on April 21 (or 23 ^[8] ) April 1937. He was convicted on November 26 by the Special Conference of the NKVD of the USSR on charges of article 58-1a of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and sentenced to death ; The sentence was carried out on the same day. Nikolai Sukin was rehabilitated on December 30, 1989 by the Military Prosecutor of the Turkestan Military District on the basis of a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 16 ^{[1] [8]} .

• Order of St. Stanislav 3 degrees with swords and bow (1909)
• Order of St. Anne 3 degrees (1912)
• Order of St. Stanislav 2 degrees (1915)
• Order of St. Anne 2 degrees (1915) ^[1]
• Order of St. Vladimir 3 degrees with swords (1919) ^[2]

General Sergei Schepikhin left the following description to Nikolai Timofeevich ^[4] :

Brother: Alexander Timofeevich Sukin (1887-1938) - major general, commander of the Orenburg 11th Cossack Regiment (1918-1920).

In 1914, Nikolai Sukin was married; had one child - a daughter ^{[1] [4]} :

Books and orders

• Ganin A.V. , Semenov V.G.Sukin Nikolay Timofeevich // Officer corps of the Orenburg Cossack army. 1891-1945: Biographical reference book . - M .: Russian way ; Library Fund “Russian Abroad” , 2007. - 676 ​​p. - ISBN 978-5-85887-259-7 .
• Volkov, E. V. Sukin, Nikolai Timofeevich // 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 .
• Ganin A.V. Ataman A.I. Dutov . - M .: Centerpolygraph , 2006 .-- 688 p. - ISBN 5-9524-2447-3 .
• Alekseev M.N. Soviet military intelligence in China and the chronicle of “Chinese unrest” (1922-1929). - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2010 .-- 820 p. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0085-3 .
• Nikolai Timofeevich Sukin // Victims of Political Terror in the USSR / Memorial International Society. - 3rd edition on compact discs. - M .: Publishing House "Links", 2004.
• Kolchak A.V. Order of the Supreme Ruler and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief by all Russian land and naval armed forces. - Omsk, 1918 .-- December 24.

Articles and archival sources

• Vorotov M.F. In Transbaikalia and on the Primorsky Front in 1920-21 (Notes of the participant) // Hoover Institution Archives. Colonel Vorotovov Collection. Folder VW Russia V954. - 1921.
• GA of the Russian Federation . F. P-6605. Op. 1. D. 8. L. 46ob. – 47.