Education
1909 graduate General Staff Academy.
1909 graduate General Staff Academy.
During World War 1 rose to rank of colonel. From April 1918 served in Red Army. Commander, 1st Kursk Infantry Division, then commander, reserve army.
Chief of staff, Ukraine Front. Commander, 6th Army, Northern Front. Commander, 16th Army, Western Front.
From September 1919 commanded 11th, then 12th Cavalry Division in battles against General Denikin’s Army. Summer 1920 commanded 10th Army on search-and-destroy missions in Tver’ Oblast. After Civil War held following posts in succession: deputy chief of staff, Amur Kray.
Chief of staff, 5th Army. Special duties, Red Army Weapons Department. Assistant to chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Revol Military Council.
Special duties. Red Army central organs. 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.