Mikhail Levandovsky
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Mikhail Karlovich Levandovsky
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Born | May 15, 1890 Tiflis, Russian Empire |
Died | July 29, 1938 Moscow, Soviet Union |
Allegiance | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
Service/ |
Imperial Russian Army Soviet Red Army |
Commands held | 9th Army (RSFSR) 11th Army (RSFSR) 10th Terek-Dagestan Army Red Banner Caucasus Army Siberian Military District Transcaucasian Military District Maritime Group of Forces |
Battles/wars |
Mikhail Karlovich Levandovsky (Russian: Левандовский, Михаил Карлович; May 15, 1890 – July 29, 1938) was a Soviet Komandarm 2nd rank. He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army and in the Russian Civil War in the Soviet Red Army. He participated in the Soviet invasions of Georgia and Azerbaijan. He commanded forces in both the Caucasus and Siberia.
During the Great Purge, he was arrested on February 23, 1938 and later executed.
Decorations
- Order of Saint Stanislaus (1916)
- Order of the Red Banner (1920)
- Order of Lenin (1935)
References
Bibliography
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia, XIV, Moscow 1973.
- W. M. Ivanov, Marshal Tukhachevsky, Wojeizdat, Moscow 1990.
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Preceded by | Commander of the Red Banner Caucasus Army November 1925 – October 1928 |
Succeeded by Konstantin Avksentevsky |
Preceded by | Commander of the Siberian Military District 1930–1933 |
Succeeded by Yan Gaylit |
Preceded by | Commander of the Red Banner Caucasus Army November 1933 – May 1935 |
Succeeded by himself as Commander of the Transcaucasian Military District |
Preceded by
himself as Commander of the Red Banner Caucasus Army
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Commander of the Transcaucasian Military District May 1935 – June 1937 |
Succeeded by Nikolay Kuibyshev |
Preceded by | Commander of the Maritime Group of Forces June 1937 – February 1938 |
Succeeded by Kuzma Podlas |
Categories:
- Articles containing Russian-language text
- 1890 births
- 1938 deaths
- Military personnel from Tbilisi
- People from Tiflis Governorate
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War
- Great Purge victims from Georgia (country)
- People executed by the Soviet Union
- People of the Russian Empire of Polish descent
- Soviet people of Polish descent