Sergei Sergeyevich Kamenev

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Sergei Kamenev

Sergey Kamenev ( Russian Сергей Сергеевич Каменев ; born April 4 . Jul / 16th April  1881 greg. In Kiev ; † 25. August 1936 in Moscow ) was a Russian and Soviet officer, most recently coma intestinal first-rate , and commander in chief of the Red Army in the period of the Russian Civil War .

Life

Born into a noble family, the son of a military engineer and colonel in the artillery, Kamenev finished his training in the Kiev Cadet Corps in 1898. In 1900 he graduated from the Moscow Alexander Military School and joined the 165th Lutsk Rifle Regiment as a lieutenant , where he served as a battalion adjutant until 1904. He then studied at the Nikolaus General Staff Academy, which he left in 1907 as a staff captain . Until 1909 he then served as a company commander in his old regiment and as an instructor at the Kiev military school.

From November 1909, Kamenev was successively deployed to a staff post in the Irkutsk Military District, as a senior adjutant in the staff of the 2nd Cavalry Division and in the staff of the Vilna Military District. In the First World War he served from September 1914 as a senior adjutant in the General Quartermaster Staff of the 1st Army . In December 1915 he was promoted to colonel and led the 30th Poltava Infantry Regiment from April 1917. After the October Revolution he served from November 1917 to April 1918 successively as Chief of Staff of the XV. Army Corps and the 3rd Army before joining the Red Army, which was under construction. Here he initially acted as the commander of security forces in the Newel area and in June 1918 took over command of the 1st Vitebsk Rifle Division. From August 1918 he was deputy commander of the security forces in the west and at the same time commander of the Smolensk region.

In September 1918, Kamenev was transferred to the Eastern Front of the Civil War by Leon Trotsky as commander. For the successful management of operations against Kolchak's armies in the spring and summer of 1919, he was later awarded the Revolutionary Honor Weapon . As early as July 8, 1919, he had been appointed as the successor to Jukums Vācietis as commander-in-chief of the Red Army and a member of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic . Under his direction the military operations against Denikin and Wrangel and the Polish-Soviet War were conducted.

Kamenew (front, 3rd from left) with other members of the Revolutionary War Council, December 1927

From April 1924 Kamenev served as an inspector of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, as head of the headquarters of the Red Army and head of the Frunze Military Academy . He remained a member of the Revolutionary War Council until its dissolution in 1934. From 1927 he was Deputy People's Commissar for Warfare and the Navy. In 1930 he was on the XVI. Congress incorporated into the Communist Party . Kamenev's decline began in 1934 when he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces ( ПВО ). In 1935 he received the rank of coma intestinal first rank, while the formerly serving under him commander of the Civil War Voroshilov , Budyonny , Yegorov , Tukhachevsky and Blucher to marshals of the Soviet Union were appointed.

Kamenev also worked as an organizer of the OSSOAVIACHIM organization , as a book author and as a supporter of the exploration of the Arctic. He died of a heart attack in 1936. His urn was buried with military honors on the Kremlin wall . During the period of the Great Terror he was posthumously accused of participating in a "militarist-fascist conspiracy" and his involvement in the civil war was struck from the history books. After Stalin's death , he was fully rehabilitated.

The Sedov Islands belonging to Severnaya Zemlya were called the Kamenev Islands until 1937. A strait today in this archipelago is Kamenewstraße. He is also the namesake for the Kamenev Bight , a bay in the Antarctic.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GP Awetissow: Kamenev Sergei Sergejewitsch (04 (16) .04.1881-25.08.1936) . In: Imena na Karte Rossijskoi Arktiki , Nauka, Sankt Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-02-025003-1 , accessed on August 26, 2017 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Kamenew, Sergei Sergeyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Каменев, Сергей Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian and Soviet officer, last command arm of the 1st rank
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1936
Place of death Moscow