Boris Mironovich Feldman (russian: Борис Миронович Фельдман) (1890 – June 12, 1937) was a Soviet military commander and politician. He was executed during the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...

and rehabilitated during the

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Early years

Feldman was born in

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into a

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family. As a young man he sympathized with the revolutionary movement and was repeatedly arrested. In 1913 he was mobilized into the

Imperial Russian Army The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...

. As an ordinary soldier he participated in the First World War (1914-1917).

Red Army career

In May 1918 he joined the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

. In 1918 he was the secretary of the headquarters of the Army's Bryansk region, from February 1919 he was a student at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army, and, in the same year, he rose to being assistant chief of the operational department of the 13th army, while in June-September he was chief of staff of the 1st brigade of the 9th rifle division. In 1920 he became a member of the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

. In May 1920, he was first assistant chief, then chief of staff of the 57th rifle division, and then in September-December, the head of the 55th rifle division. After the division was folded into the 55th separate rifle brigade, he remained its chief until the end of June 1921. In October-December 1921, he commanded the Expeditionary Corps, which participated in the suppression of the Tambov peasant uprising. In May-July 1922 he was the Chief of Staff of the People's Revolutionary Army of the

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. In 1922-1925 he was the commander of the 17th, then in 1925-1928 he commanded the 19th rifle corps. In 1927, he was on a study trip to Germany for two months. In 1928-1934 he was chief of staff of the Leningrad Military District. In 1932, together with

Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, p=tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj; – 12 June 1937) nicknamed the Red Napoleon by foreign newspapers, was a Sovie ...

, he went to large

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maneuvers in Germany. From 1934 to 1937, Feldman was the head of the Directorate for the Commanding Staff of the Red Army and a member of the Military Council under the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR. With the introduction of personal military ranks in 1935, he was awarded the military rank of commander. On 15 April 1937 was named assistant manager of the military district of Moscow.MyEtymology
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Arrest, execution and rehabilitation

In May 1937, Feldman was transferred to the post of deputy commander of the troops of the Moscow Military District, and on May 15 he was arrested, after which he was removed from all posts and expelled from the CPSU (b). He was shot on June 12, 1937, together with Tukhachevsky,

Iona Yakir Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir (russian: Ио́на Эммануи́лович Яки́р; 3 August 1896 – 12 June 1937) was a Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II. He was an ear ...

and other military leaders in the basement of the building of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. He was buried in Donsk cemetery, Moscow. His son ended up in the Nizhneisetsky orphanage. He was rehabilitated posthumously under

Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...

on January 31, 1957 and reinstated in the party.

Early years

Red Army career

Arrest, execution and rehabilitation

References

See also