Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Blyukher

Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher (also spelled Blücher, Blukher, Bliukher etc, Russian: Василий Константинович Блюхер) (November 19, 1889 - November 9, 1938), Soviet military commander, was among the prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)  listen; tr. ... Iosif (usually Anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ... The Great Purge is the name given to campaigns of repression in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s which included a purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...

Blyukher was born into a peasant family near Yaroslavl, north-east of Moscow. Despite his German surname, he was not of German descent as is sometimes written: the name was given to his family by a 19th century landlord after a famous Prussian Marshal Blücher. A factory worker before World War I, he joined the army of the Russian Empire in 1914 and served as a non-commissioned officer. In 1916 he joined the Bolshevik Party, and took part in the Russian Revolution in Samara. Yaroslavl (Russian: ) is a city in Russia, an administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, located 250 km NE of Moscow at 57°37′ N 39°51′ E The historical part of the city is located at confluence of Volga and Kotorosl. ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Maskvá  listen), capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and... Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (December 16, 1742 in Rostock (Mecklenburg) - September 12, 1819) in Krieblowitz (Silesia), graf((count), later elevated Prince of Wahlstatt, was a Prussian general who led his army against Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A non-commissioned officer (sometimes noncommissioned officer), or NCO, is an enlisted member of an armed force who has been delegated leadership or command authority by a commissioned officer. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... For other usage of the initials CPSU see CPSU (disambiguation). ... The phrase Russian Revolution can refer to three specific events in the history of Imperial Russia. ... Samara (fruit) — a type of winged tree fruit Samara, Russia — a large city to the east of the Volga River. ...

Blyukher joined the Red Army in 1918 and was soon a commander. During the Russian Civil War he was one of the outstanding figures on the Bolshevik side. The 10,000-strong South Urals Partisan Army under Blyukher's command marched 1,500km in 40 days of continuous fighting to attack the White forces from the rear, then join with regular Red Army units. He was the first recipient of the Order of the Red Banner, his citation saying: "The raid made by Comrade Blyukher's forces under impossible conditions can only be equated with Suvorov's crossings in Switzerland." Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Russian Civil War was fought between 1918 and 1920. ... The term may have the following meanings White Guard, Finnish Civil War White Army, Russian Civil War The White Guard - a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov about the Russian White movement. ... The Soviet government of Russia established the Order of the Battle Red Banner, better-known as the Order of the Red Banner (in Russian: Орден Крaсного Знамены Orden Krasnogo Znameni) on September 16, 1918 during the Russian Civil War. ... Monument to Suvorov as youthful Mars, the Roman god of war (Italy (November 24, 1729 - May 18, 1800), was a Russian Generalissimo, reckoned one of a few great generals in history who never lost a battle. ...

After the Civil War, he served as military commander of the Far Eastern Republic, bringing those territories into the Soviet fold in 1921-23. From 1924 to 1927 Blyukher was a Soviet military adviser in China, where he used the name Galen (a westernization based on a combination of the names of his children, Ka-lin) while attached to Chiang Kai-Shek's military headquarters. He was responsible for the military planning of the Northern Expedition which began the Kuomintang unification of China. Among those he instructed in this period was Lin Biao, later a leading figure in the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army. On his return he was given command of the Ukraine military region, and then in 1929 he was transferred to the vitally important military command in the Soviet Far East, known as the Special Red Banner Eastern Army (OKDVA). In 1935 he was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union. The Far Eastern Republic (Russian: Дальневосто́чная Респу́блика (ДВР)) was a government established in the Russian Far East and Siberia east of Lake Baikal on April 6, 1920. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887–April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. ... The Northern Expedition (北伐) was a military campaign led by Chiang Kai-Shek in 1927 intended to unify China under the rule of the Kuomintang and ending the rule of local warlords. ... The Kuomintang (KMT) or Nationalist Party of China (Traditional: 中國國民黨; Simplified: 中国国民党; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo Kuo-min-tang; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguo Guomindang) is a conservative political party currently active in the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan. ... Lin Biao (林彪; pinyin: lín biāo; Wade-Giles: Lin Piao;) (December 5, 1907 - September 13, 1971) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, once known as Mao Zedongs comrade-in-arms and likely successor, but later discredited as a traitor. ... Alternate meaning: Shining Path The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) (Traditional Chinese: 人民解放軍, Simplified Chinese: 人民解放军, pinyin: Rénmín Jiěfàng Jūn), which includes an army, navy, air force, and strategic nuclear forces, serves as the military of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term Russian Far East (Russian: Да́льний Восто́к Росси́и; English transliteration: Dalny Vostok Rossii) refers to the extreme south-east parts of Russia, between Siberian Federal District and the Pacific. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko in dress uniform The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union (Russian: Marshal Sovietskogo Soyuza, Маршал Совет́ского Союза) was in practice the highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ...

Based at Khabarovsk, Blyukher exercised a degree of autonomy in the Far East unusual for a Soviet military commander. With Japan steadily extending its grip on China and hostile to the Soviet Union, the Far East was an active military command. In the Russo-Chinese Chinese Eastern Railroad War of 1929-1930 he defeated the Chinese warlord forces in a lightning campaign. In July and August 1938 he commanded Soviet forces in a less decisive action against the Japanese at the Battle of Khasan Lake, on the border between the Soviet Union and Japanese-occupied Korea. Khabarovsk (Хабаровск) (population 582,700) is the capital city of the Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, some 30 km from the Chinese border, at 48°25′ N 135°07′ E In Chinese, the city is also known as Bуlм (伯力, pinyin: bai3 li4) Khabarovsk was founded in 1858 as a military outpost... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Battle of Lake Khasan ( July 29, 1938 – August 11, 1938) and also known as the Changkufeng Incident (張鼓峰事件) in Japan, was an attempted military incursion of Manchukuo (Japanese) into the territory claimed by the Soviet Union. ... Korea is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in northern East Asia, bordering on China to the west and Russia to the north. ...

The importance of the Far East Front gave Blyukher a certain degree of immunity from Stalin's purge of Red Army command, which had begun in 1937 with the execution of Mikhail Tukhachevsky. In fact, Blyukher had been a member of the tribunal that convicted Tukhachevsky. But in October 1938, possibly because of inadequacies shown by the Red Army at Lake Khasan and possibly because of his popularity in the Army at a time Stalin was purging thousands, he was recalled to Moscow and arrested. A contributory factor in Blyukher's downfall was the defection to Japan in June, 1938, of the NKVD chief in the Far East, Genrikh Lyushkov, who feared arrest. The Soviet Far East Front was a front (Soviet army group) of World War II that operated in the Far East, hence its name. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (also spelled Tukhachevski, Tukhachevskii, Russian: Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский) (February 16, 1893 - June 12, 1937), Soviet military commander, was one of the most prominent victims of Stalins Great Purge of the late 1930s. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Black Ravens by Boris Vladimirski, a depiction of the cars used by NKVD agents. ... Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov (Генрих Самойлович Люшков) (1900 – August 19, 1945) was an officer in the Soviet secret police and its highest-ranking defector. ...

In prison Blyukher refused to confess and was never formally tried. He was severely beaten and died in prison. He was formally "rehabilitated" by Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. He continues to be a popular figure in Russia, and a documentary film on his life and several publications by family members have appeared. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchyof (Khrushchev) (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв  listen, April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...