Vytautas Putna
Vytautas Putna , even Vitovt Kasimirowitsch Putna , Russian Витовт Казимирович Путна (born March 31, jul. / 12. April 1893 greg. In Mackonys , Vilna Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 12. June 1937 in Moscow ) was a Lithuanian- Soviet Corps commander , Military attaché and author.
Life
Vytautas graduated from Riga Commercial School and was imprisoned in 1913 for revolutionary activities. During the First World War , the son of a Lithuanian farmer served in the Russian army from 1915 . In 1917 Vytautas became an ensign and commanded a battalion . In February of the same year he joined the RSDLP (B) .
In April 1918 he and his battalion defected to the Red Army in Polotsk . In May 1918 Putna became military commissar of Vitebsk , from September 1918 to May 1919 commissar of the 1st Smolensk Division (later 26th Rifle Division), had been the commander of the 228th Karelian regiment since May 1919 , and since June the commander of the 2nd brigade of the Karelian division and since December 1919 head of the 27th Rifle Division in the fight against Admiral Kolchak in Siberia .
1920–1921 Putna took part in the Polish-Soviet War and put down the Kronstadt sailors 'uprising and a peasants' uprising on the lower Volga .
In 1923 he studied at the Moscow Military Academy and was part of Trotsky's Left Opposition at times . From 1923 Putna was director and commissioner of the 2nd Moscow Infantry School and worked in the headquarters of the Red Army.
Also in 1923 he was the first of the Soviet military advisers in China . 1927–1928 Putna was a military attaché in Japan and Finland , and from 1929–1930 in Germany . From 1930 to July 1932 he commanded the Red Army in the Far East of the Soviet Union . From 1934 he was a military attaché in Great Britain .
In 1936 he was recalled to the Soviet Union and arrested on August 20. Together with Tukhachevsky , Jakir and Uborewitsch , he was convicted by a military tribunal on June 11, 1937 during the Stalin purges in one of the Moscow trials , and shot on June 12.
On January 15, 1957 - during the Khrushchev thaw - he was posthumously rehabilitated.
Works
all published in Moscow:
- 1927: К Висле и обратно (To the Vistula and back)
- 1959: Восточный фронт (The Far Eastern Front)
- 1962: Пятая армия в борьбе за Урал и Сибирь (The 5th Army in the fight behind the Urals and in Siberia)
Honors
- 1920 and twice in 1921: Order of the Red Banner
Web links
- WorldCat entry
- Entry at hrono.ru
- Entry at dic.academic.ru, quoted from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia Edition 1959
- Entry at encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com, quoted from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia Edition 1979
Individual evidence
- ^ Russian. The Kalgan Group
- ↑ Russian short review of Az Nevtelen in 2014 at ru-civil-war.livejournal.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Putna, Vytautas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Putna, Witowt Kasimirowitsch; Путна, Витовт Казимирович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian-Soviet corps commander, military attaché and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mackonys , Vilnius Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1937 |
| Place of death | Moscow |