Yelisey Ivanovich Goryachev (1892 – December 12, 1938) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

Komkor (russian: комкор) is the abbreviation for Corps commander (russian: командир корпуса, komandir korpusa; ), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It was also the d ...

(corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in

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before going over to the

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. He was a recipient of 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 one of the military judges in the

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of Marshal

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 ...

on June 11, 1937. On February 4, 1938, Goryachev was formally promoted to Komkor and was named as commander of the cavalry army in Kiev on July 26, 1938. Fearing arrest, he committed suicide by shooting himself in

Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Khmelnytskyi ( uk, Хмельни́цький, Khmelnytskyi, ), until 1954 Proskuriv ( uk, Проску́рів, links=no ), is a city in western Ukraine, the administrative center for Khmelnytskyi Oblast (region) and Khmelnytskyi Raion (dist ...

Bibliography

* Жуков Г. К. Воспоминания и размышления. В трёх томах. Десятое издание, дополненное по рукописи автора. Издательство «Новости». Москва, 1990. С.274-277. * Горбатов А. В. Годы и войны. — М.: Воениздат, 1989. С.102. Книга на сайте: http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/gorbatov/index.html * * * * http://www.budenney.ru/memoirs/2_09.html Будённый Семён Михайлович. Воспоминания. Глава 9. Даёшь Новоград-Волынский.

External links

Репрессированные военнослужащие Красной армии. Комкоры.

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