Background
KALMYKOV, Mikhail was born on December 4, 1888 in Vyshniy Volochek Uyezd, Tver' Province. Son of a glass-blower.
KALMYKOV, Mikhail was born on December 4, 1888 in Vyshniy Volochek Uyezd, Tver' Province. Son of a glass-blower.
1924 graduate Red Army Military Academy:.
Until 1910 glass-blower (Bohemian) at various Russian glassworks. 1910-1917 private and noncom, various Russian Army engineering units. Fought in World War 1.
1918 commander of a Red Guard unit, then commander and military comissar of all Red Guard Units, Krasnousol'skiy Soviet Republic in rear of White Army. Commander, Bogoyavlensk Red Guard Detachment. From September 1918 in Red Army.
1918 also took part in Bluchcr’s march behind the White Army lines in the Southern Ural to join up with Red Army. 1918-1920 commander, 269th Rifle Regt, 86th Brigade, 30th Rifle Division on Eastern and Southern Fronts. 1920 also took part in storming of Pcrekop.
1920-1921 commander, 42nd Rifle Division in Ukraine. 1924-1927 commander, 2nd Turkcstani Rifle Division in Centr Asia, where he fought against the Basmachi and became member, Uzbek Central Executive Committee and candidate member, Central Committee, Communist Party Uzbekistan 1927-1930 commander, 1st Rifle Corps.
Head, Red Army Command (Personnel) Board. 1930-1932 corps commander and deputy commander, Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army. 1932-1937 commander, Special Far Eastern (Kolkhoz) Corps, which was created at his suggestion to combine military service with agric work at special kolkhozes.
1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. Hiiiards: Order of Lenin. Two Orders of the Red Banner.
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 1917.