Background
KORK, Avgust was born on July 22, 1887 in village Ardlakyulya, Liflyand Province. Son of a peasant.
KORK, Avgust was born on July 22, 1887 in village Ardlakyulya, Liflyand Province. Son of a peasant.
1908 graduate Chuguyev Infantry Cadet College. 1914 graduate Nikolay Military Academy.
From 1905 in Russian Army. 1908-1911 officer, 98th Infantry Yur’yev Regiment 1914 worked on staff, Vilnius Military district.
1914-1917 senior officer-at-large, 20th Army Corps Staff. Senior adjutant, 3rd Siberian Army Corps and 8th Infantry Division Staffs. Assistant senior adjutant, Operations and Intelligence Branches, 10th Army Staff.
Air Force field officer, Western Front Staff. Acting chief Operations Department, Western Front Staff. Awarded five battlefield orders.
14 June 1918 joined Red Army. 1918 junior clerk, then branch head Operations Department, All-Russian General Staff.
Head. Operations and Intelligence Department, 9th Army Staff. 1918-1919 consultant for Est Labor Commune, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Military Affairs. Chief of staff, Est Army.
Assistant commander, 7th Army. June 1919-October 1920 commander, 15th Army at Petrograd and on Western Front. October 1920-May 1921 commander, 6th Army, Southern Front.
1921-1922 commander, Khar’kov Military district. 1922 assistant commander, Ukraine and Crimean Armed Forces. 1922-1923 commander, Turkcstani Front.
1923 assistant head, Main Board, Red Air Force, 1923-1925 assistant commander, then commander. Western Military district. 1925 commander, Caucasian Red Banner Army.
1925-1927 commander, Western Military district. 1927-1928 commander, Leningrad Military district. 1928-1929 military attachd in Germany.
1929 chief of supply, Red Army. 1929-1935 commander, Moscow Military district. 1935-1937 head, Frunze Military Academy.
From 1934 member, Military Council, People's Commissariat of Defense. Fall 1919 his 15th Army played an important role in repelling Yurcdich's attack on Petrograd. May 1920 fought in counterattack on the Polish Front.
November 1920 his 6th Army forded the Sivash, attacked General Wrangel’s troops from the rear and opened the way to the Crimea for the Red Army. May 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. 11 June 1937 sentenced to be shot along with Marshal Tukhachevskiy and others
Religion is bad because it divides people, and is a cause of conflict and war.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Communist Party member from 1927.