Vitaly Markowitsch Primakow

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Witali Markowitsch Primakow ( Russian Виталий Маркович Примаков ; * December 18 July / December 30,  1897 greg. In Semeniwka ; † June 12, 1937 in Moscow ) was a Soviet general of the Red Army and military attaché . He was appointed Komkor on November 22, 1935 .

Primakov, around 1925

Life

Primakov, son of a teacher, joined the RSDLP (B) in 1914 . As a schoolboy he was banished to Siberia in 1915 for distributing anti-war leaflets among soldiers of the Chernogov garrison .

In April 1917 he returned from exile and in June became a member of the Kiev Committee of the RSDLP (B). In August 1917 he joined the Chernigov Infantry Reserve Regiment. The regiment elected him a delegate to the II All-Russian Congress of Soviets in Petrograd. Primakov took part in the storming of the Winter Palace on November 7, 1917, and in the suppression of the counter-revolutionary uprising instigated by Kerensky and Krasnov in the Petrograd area.

During the Russian Civil War he was commander of the 1st regiment from January to August 1918, from August 1918 to November 1919 commander of the 1st brigade and from November 1919 to November 1920 commander of the 8th Cavalry Division of the Red Cossacks . He was then from November 1920 to April 1924 Commissioner and Commander of the 1st Cavalry Corps of the Red Cossacks. In 1922/23 he studied at the Military Academy of the Red Army.

In 1924/25 he headed the Higher Cavalry School in Leningrad . In 1925/26 he worked as a Soviet military advisor to the First National Army in northern China. From 1926 to September 1927 he was the commissioner and commander of the 1st Infantry Corps in the Leningrad Military District. In 1927/28 he worked as a Soviet military attaché in Afghanistan , and from 1928 to 1930 as a military attaché in Japan .

Primakov, 1935

From September 1930 to March 1933 he was commander of the 13th Rifle Corps (Ural Military District) and in 1933/34 deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In 1934/35 he worked as deputy inspector of the military educational institutions of the Red Army and in 1935/36 as deputy commander of the Leningrad military district.

In 1935/36 he was also a member of the war Soviets of the People's Commissariat for Defense,

On August 14, 1936, Primakov was arrested as part of the Great Terror . He was sentenced to death together with Tukhachevsky , Jakir and Uborewitsch at a special session of the Supreme Court of the USSR on June 11, 1937 and shot .

In 1957 he was posthumously rehabilitated.

Primakow was married three times, most recently to the director and sculptor Lilja Brik .

Fonts (selection)

Primakow is the author of several military-historical writings such as "Записки волонтера. Гражданская война в Китае “( Notes from a volunteer. Civil War in China ; first published in 1927 under the pseudonym Henry Allen ; again Moscow in 1967) and“ Афганистан в огне ”( Afghanistan on fire , 1930).

Awards

Primakov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner three times : in 1920 for his successes against the White Guards at Fatesch , in 1921 for the skilful command of his division in the fighting near the town of Proskurow in the Soviet-Polish War, and in 1929 for his against the Basmachi in Central Asia .

literature

  • Илья Владимирович Дубинский: Примаков . ( Жизнь замечательных людей ). Молодая гвардия, Moscow 1968.
  • В. И. Петров: Комкор червотх козагав (Про В. М. Примакова). Kiev 1964.

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personal data
SURNAME Primakow, Vitali Markowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet general of the Red Army
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Semenivka
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1937
Place of death Moscow