In World War I he commanded a regiment. He died in Moscow and is buried in the Red Square near the Kremlin Wall. Civil War (1918-1919) - commander of Eastern Front 1919-1924 - Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic April 1924 - March 1925 - Inspector of the Red Army March 1925 - November 1925 - Chief of the Staff of the Red Army November 1925 - August 1926 - Chief Inspector of the Red Army August 1926 - May 1927 - Chief of the Main Directorate of the Red Army May 1927 - June 1934 - Undersecretary in Ministry of Military and Navy Forces and deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics From 1934 - the head of the Air Defence Department of Red Army.
He became a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1930. He was a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics from April 1924 to May 1927.