Vladimir Kiriakowitsch Triandafillow

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Vladimir Triandafillov ( Russian Владимир Кириакович Триандафиллов ., Scientific transliteration Vladimir Kiriakovič Triandafillov ; born 14 jul. / 26. March  1894 greg. In Magaradschik, Oblast Kars ; † 12. July 1931 in Moscow ) was a Soviet military theorist.

In his work he laid the basis for the “ theory of deep military operations ” and dealt with the importance of the preparation and initial phase of a war. He was regarded in the Soviet Union as the "father of Soviet operational art". His ideas were applied by Zhukov in August 1939 during the Soviet-Japanese border conflict on Halchin Gol .

biography

Vladimir Triandafillow was born on March 14, 1894 in the village of Magarajik (Russian Магараджик, also Магараджи / Magaraji; Turkish: Mağaracık) in the Kars Oblast (now Turkey ). He came from a family of Pontic Greeks who had fled to Russia from the Turkish riots against this population group. After completing the Transcaucasian teachers' seminar in 1914, he was drafted into the army and sent to the Southwest Front as a soldier in February 1915. From the front he was soon sent to the ensign school in Moscow, which he graduated on November 8, 1915. Then he was sent again to the Southwest Front, where he took part in fighting. At the beginning of the revolution in 1917 he had the rank of staff captain and commanded the 6th Finnish rifle regiment.

After the revolution he was elected by the soldiers first as regimental commander and in December as commander of the 7th Army . According to his official Soviet biography, he was " persecuted for his revolutionary activities by the Kerensky government and later in Ukraine by the Petlyura government ".

On June 1, 1918 Triandafillow joined the Red Army (RKKA - Red Workers and Peasants Army). On June 20, 1919 he was appointed battalion commander. In the civil war he took part in the fighting on the Ural Front against Dutow and on the Southern Front and the Southwest Front against Denikin and Wrangel . In the fight against the Cossacks in the Don area on May 31, 1919, he was injured in the hand, but continued to fight regardless.

In May 1919 he joined the RKP (B) . In September 1919 he was posted to the RKKA Military Academy for training , which he graduated on April 15, 1923 with excellent results. The training was connected with fighting on the civil war fronts , in which he participated as a brigade commander in the 27th and 41st rifle divisions. Here he took part in the fighting in the village of Perekop and in the "fight against the White Army " in 1921 in the Volga region.

With the completion of the military academy Triandafillow was commanded by Mikhail Frunze to work in the staff of the RKKA. Here he was appointed head of the operational department (= 1st department) and then head of the operational management of the RKKA staff. From 1928 he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the RKKA. From November 19, 1929 to October 15, 1930 he was commander and war commissioner of the 2nd Rifle Corps and then again deputy chief of staff of the RKKA until his death.

Triandafillow died in the course of his service on July 12, 1931 in a plane crash.

He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for his services during the civil war . His urn was buried on the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

Works

  • Vladimir Kiriakowitsch Triandafillow: Extent of the Operations of Modern Armies Moscow 1926 ( Russian : Размах операций современных армий)
  • Vladimir Kiriakowitsch Triandafillow: Character of the operations of modern armies Moscow-Leningrad 1929 (Russian: Характер операций современных армий) The text of the book online in Russian

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personal data
SURNAME Triandafillow, Vladimir Kiriakowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Триандафиллов, Владимир Кириакович (Russian); Triandafillov, Vladimir Kiriakovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet military theorist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Magarajik, Kars Oblast
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1931
Place of death Moscow