Vladimir Efimovich Gorev (1900 - 20 June 1938), known as Vladimir Gorev, was a Belarusian soldier known to have participated in the defense of Madrid as a Soviet military advisor during the

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. He was born in 1900 in

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(now in

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). He was of Belarusian ethnicity.

Career

Gorev had combat experience in the

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(1918-1921) and had then been an advisor in China (known under aliases "Nikitin" and "Gordon") to accelerate sovietization during the

Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on m ...

. Gorev joined the Spanish Republican front in late August 1936 as a military attache under the alias "Sancho." His presence as a military advisor in the Siege of Madrid was praised by Lieutenant Colonel Vicente Rojo Lluch, as well as later with the Chief of State greater army of the North, the Communist military

Francisco Ciutat de Miguel Francisco Ciutat de Miguel, known as Angelito (1909 – November 30, 1986), was a Spanish communist, lieutenant of infantry and commander. Spanish Civil War He fought the Battle of Santander, during the Spanish Civil War, in the summer of 1937 as ...

(called "Angelito"). With such prestige he joined the

Spanish Republican Army The Spanish Republican Army ( es, Ejército de la República Española) was the main branch of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic between 1931 and 1939. It became known as People's Army of the Republic (''Ejército Popular de la Rep� ...

in the North in the spring of 1937 instead of Kiril Jackson. In the

War in the North The War in the North was the campaign of the Spanish Civil War in which the Nationalist forces defeated and occupied the parts of northern Spain that had remained loyal to the Republican government. The campaign included several separate battl ...

, for example in the Defense of Bilbao Basque officials reports were not so good and questioned its merits in the war tactics of such fighting. Dropped the northern front, Gorev failed to escape Franco's siege and took refuge, along with other soldiers many Republicans, in the Asturian mountains, although at the end of year it managed to be rescued. He was called back to

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, and from there returned to the USSR in October 1937. Upon his return to the Soviet Union, he was awarded the

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration ...

and the

Order of the Red Banner The Order of the Red Banner (russian: Орден Красного Знамени, Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration. The Order was established on 16 September 1918, during the Russian Civil War by decree of t ...

. During the

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, he was arrested by the

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

on 25 January 1938, sentenced to death on 20 June 1938 and shot the same day. He was posthumously rehabilitated in October 1956.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gorev, Vladimir 1900 births 1938 deaths People from Velizh People from Velizhsky Uyezd Soviet kombrigs Frunze Military Academy alumni Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Soviet people of the Spanish Civil War Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Great Purge victims from Russia Soviet rehabilitations

Career

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