Education
1916 graduate medical orderlies school. 1927 graduate Frunze Military Academy.
1916 graduate medical orderlies school. 1927 graduate Frunze Military Academy.
1915 drafted into Russian Army. Fought in WVV 1 on Rumanian Front. After 1917 February Revol chairman, regt comt.
Member, div comt; February 1918 demobilized. Fought with partisans against Germans and Petlyura’ forces. From ¡918 in Red Army.
1918-1920 assistant commander, 1st Ukraine Division and one of its regt commanders. Assistant commandant, Division School of Red Commanders, 44th Division. After Civil War held various commands.
1927-1934 chief of staff, 41st Perekop Infantry Division. 1934-1939 commandant, Kazan’ Infantry College. 1939-1940 commander. 70th Infantry Division on the Northwestern Front (Soviet-Finnish War).
His div distinguished itself in the operation to capture Vyborg by crossing the thin ice of the Straits of Finland behind the Finnish lines in Vyborg. June 1940-January 1941 commander, Leningrad Military district. February-June 1941 commander, Kiev Special Military district.
From 22 June 1941 commander, Southwestern Front. 14 September 1941 his troops, and 20 September 1941 his headquarters were encircled near Kiev.