Background
GAYLIT, Yan was born on May 25, 1894 in village Neyland, Lifland Province. Son of a peasant.
GAYLIT, Yan was born on May 25, 1894 in village Neyland, Lifland Province. Son of a peasant.
1916 graduate Chistopol’ Officer Cadet School. 1931 graduate Special Department, Frunze Military Academy.
1915 drafted into Russian army. From 1918 in Red Army, 1918-1921 commander, 1st Latin Detachment. Chief of staff, later commander, Penza Army Group.
Deputy commander, 5th Army, Eastern Front. Chief of staff, then commander, Infantry Brigade. Commander, 26th Infantry Division.
Commander, Altay Military district. 1921 commander, expeditionary corps in the Far East. 1922-1930 commander, 10th Infantry Corps.
Deputy commander, Siberian, then North Caucasian Military district. 1930 deputy head Red Army Main Board. 1931-1937 commander, Siberian Military district.
1934-1937 member, Military Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense. 29 August 1918, commanding a combined detachment, repulsed an attack by General KappeF’s troops on Sviyazhsk, where Trotskiy’s train was then stationed. Although wounded, refused to leave the battlefield.
1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
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 1918.