Mikhail Alafusov

Mikhail Ivanovich Alafusov
Born 1891
Mykolaiv, Russian Empire
Died July 13, 1937
Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Service/branch Imperial Russian Army
Soviet Red Army
Years of service 1918-1937 (Soviet Union)
Rank Komkor
Battles/wars World War I
Russian Civil War

Mikhail Ivanovich Alafusov (1891 – July 13, 1937) was a Soviet general who received the title of Komkor on November 11, 1935. He was born in Mykolaiv in what it is now Ukraine. He was a recipient of the Order of St. Anna and the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian) from the Russian Empire and the Order of the Red Banner from the Soviet Union. He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army and in the Russian Civil War in the Soviet Red Army. During the Great Purge, he was arrested on April 15, 1937 and later executed in Moscow. He was on the death list of July 10, 1937, which was signed by Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov.

Biography

The naval officer's family. In the First World War, the service was held in the 50th Białystok Infantry Regiment,[1] and at the beginning of 1916 he had the rank of he. By 1917, he served as a commander. In early 1918, he was mobilized into the Red Army, a member of the Civil War. To the question of how he could work honestly with the red, he answered,

Don't hide, I sympathize with the white, but I'll never be demeaning. I don't want to meddle in politics. We had a little work at the HQ, and I already feel like I'm becoming a patriot of the army. I am an honest officer of the Russian army and faithful to my word, even less an oath ... Do not change. The task of the officer, as stated in our charters, is to protect the motherland from the enemies of the outside and the internal. And that debt, if I came to your service, I would be honest.[2]

Head of operational control of the North Ural-Siberian front (28.) (vii.)-30. (viii. 18), Chief of Staff of the 3 armies (30.18 G-1.19 and 2.)-The commander of the Army in August–October 1918. Member of the Commission for the Accounting and organization of the armed Forces of the Republic (1.19), Assistant Chief of staff of the South-West front (6-28.), Chief of staff of the Kiev office. 1921-1924 Chief of Staff of Moscow in. 1924-1927 Chief of Staff of the North Caucasus in. 1927-1935 Chief of Staff of the Red Caucasian Army In 1935, he was promoted to the rank of Komkora. 1935-1937 head of the Department of the Organization and mobilization of the Military Academy of the General Staff.[3] Education is a higher level, graduating from the General Staff Academy. Alafusov was arrested on April 15, 1937 on charges of espionage, sabotage and participation in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization. In his testimony of May 22, Marshal Tukhachevsky, on June 1, was accused of transmitting information to German intelligence. In the so-called Stalin's lists,[4] the NKVD lists prepared by the organs to be tried by the military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. The list was categorized as Category 1, which authorized the use of the death penalty as an attack. The list of July 10, 1937, containing the name of M. E. Alafuzo, was endorsed in person [5] and Molotov. On July 13, 1937, the military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR was sentenced to death by a high degree of punishment. The sentence was enforced on the same day. The ashes are buried in Don Cemetery.[6] Rehabilitated November 22, 1960 decision of the ECCU USSR.[7]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ ВП от 3 января 1916 года по Русскому Инвалиду № 15
  2. ↑ С. Т. Минаков Советская военная элита в политической борьбе 20-30-х годов
  3. ↑ Комкоры
  4. ↑ Список от 10 июля 1937 года
  5. ↑ Фотография визы Сталина на списке с М. И. Алафузо
  6. ↑ Захоронение на Донском кладбище: Июль 1937
  7. ↑ ПРИКАЗ РЕВОЛЮЦИОННОГО ВОЕННОГО СОВЕТА СОЮЗА СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК по личному составу армии № 101. 23 февраля 1928 года. Москва (430 экз ed.). М.: Центральная Типография НКВМ. 1928. p. 36.

Bibliography

  • Сувениров О. Ф. Трагедия РККА 1937—1938. — Москва: ТЕРРА, 1998. — 528 с. — ISBN 5-300-02220-9.
  • Cherushev, Nikolai Semyonovich; Cherushev, Yury Nikolaevich (2012). Расстрелянная элита РККА (командармы 1-го и 2-го рангов, комкоры, комдивы и им равные): 1937—1941. Биографический словарь [Executed Elite of the Red Army (Komandarms of the 1st and 2nd ranks, Komkors, Komdivs, and equivalents) 1937–1941 Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 9785995002178.
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