Background
SHIFRES, Aleksandr was born in 1898 in Grodno.
SHIFRES, Aleksandr was born in 1898 in Grodno.
1916-1918 studied at Tomsk University.
1917 active in February Revol in Tomsk. Company-founder and first chairman, Vitebsk Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Organisation Agitated for Bolsheviks in Vitebsk Garrison.
After 1917 October Revol co-ed, Tomsk Province Bolshevik newspaper. Comissar for combatting countcrrevol. Member, Tomsk Revol Tribunal.
Presidium member, Vitebsk Province Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. Spring 1919 joined Red Army via Party draft. 1919-1920. political officer, 1st Reserve Regt, 5th Army.
Head, Polit Department, 126th and 35lh Division. 1920-1922 dim, Cheremkhovo Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. Head, Polit Department, then comissar, Kuznets Basin Labor Troops Brigade.
1922-1924 deputy head, Agitation and Propaganda Department, Red Army Polit Board. Active in campaign against Trotsky opposition. 1924 deputy head, Polit Board, Moscow Military district.
1924-1926 assistant commandant (political), Red Army Military Academy (from 1925 Frunze Academy). 1926-1928 head, Press Department, Red Army Polit Board. 1928-1933 commandant, Military Polit Academy.
1933 member, Military Council and head, Polit Board, Caucasian Red Banner Army. 1934 deleg at 17th All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress. 1934-1935 head, Polit Board and deputy commander, North Caucasian Military district.
1935-1937 commandant and comissar, Red Army Military Administration Academy. From 1934 also member, Military Council, People's Commissariat of Defense. 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Communist Party member from 1917.