Klych Shakhanovich Sultan-Girey , also known as Sultan-Klych-Girey , Sultan-Kelech-Girey , Girey-Sultan Klych , Sultan-Kirich-Girey ( 1880 , aul Ulyap , Russian Empire - January 16, 1947 , Russia, Moscow , Russia commander. The figure of the White movement . The pioneer . During the Second World War, he collaborated with the Nazis , extradited by the British to the Soviet command , convicted and executed in Moscow .
| Sultan-Girey Shahanovich Klych ( tour: Sultan Kılıç Girey ) ( Adyghe Sultan Klysh Kӏeryy ) | |
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| Date of Birth | 1880 |
| Place of Birth | aul Ulyap , Russian Empire (now in the Krasnogvardeisky district of the Republic of Adygea ) |
| Date of death | January 16 1947 (67 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire White movement Third Reich |
| Type of army | cavalry |
| Years of service | to 1921 |
| Rank | Colonel Major General |
| Commanded | Circassian equestrian division of the Volunteer Army |
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil war in Russia The Second World War |
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Biography
Representative of one of the younger branches of the Crimean Khan dynasty Gireev ( Genghiside ). One of the sons of the ensign Sultan Shan (Shahan) Giray (1810 / 1815-1898). The brothers are Azamat-Giray, Jan-Giray, Shir-Giray (Chery) and Bayset-Giray.
He was born in 1880 in the aul of Ulsky of the Maykop department of the Kuban region (now the Republic of Adygea ). He graduated from the cadet corps and the Elisavetgrad cavalry cadet school . Member of the suppression of the revolution of 1905 .
World War I
Sultan Klych Girey started World War I with a captain and commanded the 3rd hundred Circassian cavalry regiment of the Caucasian native cavalry division , and in this position he ended the war as a colonel and received all possible awards in his position.
Revolution and Civil War
In the summer of 1917 - Colonel , participant in the Kornilov speech . On March 25, 1918, on the proposal of the commander of the troops of the Kuban Territory, he was promoted to major general for military distinctions. In the Volunteer Army , by the autumn he was appointed commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division, and on December 21 - the head of the Circassian Cavalry Division (also called the "Wild Division"), which actively fought the Bolsheviks and distinguished himself with repression against the non-resident population of the Kuban, who sympathized to the Bolsheviks. In 1920, after the defeat and evacuation of the All-Union Socialist League , Crimea , along with the remnants of his division, he crossed the border of the Georgian Democratic Republic with the permission of the Georgian government, where he was interned. Then he went to the Crimea , and from there, by order of General Peter Wrangel, to the Karachayev region of the North Caucasus, to organize "white-green" detachments. Commanding the formed units in battles with the Red Army , he was defeated and again fled to Georgia . In the spring of 1921 he emigrated abroad.
Emigration
In exile, he became one of the leaders of the nationalist People’s Party of Highlanders of the North Caucasus, who fought for tearing the North Caucasus from the USSR and creating the North Caucasus Republic. He was a member of its Central Committee, was a member of the "Caucasus Independence Committee", which consisted of leaders of Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani and mountain nationalists.
During the Second World War, he, along with other Caucasian and Transcaucasian nationalists, organized a number of "National Committees" and took an active part in the formation of military mountain units on the side of the Third Reich , commanded the highlanders in the Cossack Corps of General P. N. Krasnov . At the beginning of 1943, the Caucasian division he created was transferred to Italy , where in May 1945 it was interned by the British in Oberdrauburg .
Execution
On May 29, 1945, among 125 Caucasian officers, he was taken to Judenburg and handed over by the British to the NKVD authorities, who transported him to Moscow . Together with generals Krasnov P.N. , Krasnov S.N. , Shkuro A.G. , Domanov T.N. and Pannvits G. , by the sentence of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, he was sentenced to be hanged and executed in Moscow on January 16, 1947 . [one]
He was married, had a daughter.
On December 25, 1997, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation declared him not subject to rehabilitation.
Memory
In the village of Ulyap , the remains of the buildings of the Gireev estate were preserved, in particular those houses where Sultan-Klych-Giray was born. For a long time the estate was a local hospital.
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (?)
- Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with swords and bow (VP 9.01.1915)
- Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree with swords and bow (VP 21.11.1915)
- swords and bow to the Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (VP 12.5.1916)
- Order of St. Anne of the 4th degree with the inscription "For courage" (VP 7.08.1916)
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree with swords (VP 5.10.1916)
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree with swords (PAF 10/23/1917)
See also
- Extradition of Cossacks in Lienz
Notes
- ↑ The Truth, 1947, January 17
Links
- Tooth, Sultan Giray . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- Historical background compiled by A. Deryabin; Cossacks // Spy, 1994, No. 1
- "GENEALOGY OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS" Historical and genealogical scientific-abstract independent journal
- A.V. Kazakov. Adygs (Circassians) in the Russian military service. Governors and officers, 2010
- Inevitable retaliation: Based on materials from trials of traitors to the motherland, fascist executioners and imperial intelligence agents. - M .; Military Publishing, 1979