Kamenev SS Biography

Kamenev Sergey Sergeevich Soviet military leader. The officer of the Russian army, the colonel, after the October Revolution, went over to the side of the Soviet regime. Party member from the year. Since April, the military leader of the Nevelsky district of the western section of the curtain detachments, from July - the head of the 1st Vitebsk Infantry Division, from August - assistant to the military leader of the western section of the curtain and at the same time military instructions of the Smolensk district.

In September - July - the commander of the Eastern Front. The 1st rank commander Sergei Sergeevich Kamenev was born in the family of a military engineer on April 4 in Kyiv. In the year he graduated from the Vladimir Kiev Cadet Corps. He graduated from the school third in seniority. Kamenev was released on August 9, according to the first category as a second lieutenant in the Lutsk Infantry Regiment, where he served the battalion adjutant of the regiment for years.

In the year, Sergei Kamenev graduated from the Nikolaev Military Academy of the General Staff in St. Petersburg in the first category. Pyotr Semenovich Makhrov was so characterized by Kamenev: Kamenev was one release with me from the Academy of the General Staff, and we were on friendly relations. Despite his perseverance, the Academy was difficult for him ...

He was a good officer of the General Staff and perfectly commanded the regiment at the end of the war. I did not know his political beliefs, but during the revolution he knew how to get along with the committees, and then, having got into the Red Army, he served as the Bolshevik government as honestly as the king and the Provisional Government. From November 6 to November 7, Kamenev was serving the census command of the company in the Mr.

Lutsk regiment. During the command of the company Kamenev, along the way, a freelance teacher of the Kyiv Military School is made, where he taught tactics and topography. Since November 26, he worked as an assistant to the senior adjutant of the headquarters of the Irkutsk Military District. Since December 6, the captain. Since February 10, he served as a senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 2nd Cavalry Division.

Being in the initial service by the infantry commander, Sergey Kamenev intensely studied the cavalry business, participated in all cavalry maneuvers and trips. Since November 26, he is an assistant to the senior adjutant in the operational and mobilization department of the headquarters of the Vilnius Military District. Stanislav 3rd degree. In the year he took part in the Kyiv military game, on which the future plan of the war was played.

The First World War from September 4, Sergei Kamenev-senior adjutant of the department of the quartermaster General of the headquarters of the 1st Army. The colonel seniority with the rank of then held the position of chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the 1st Army. Kamenev enjoyed the reputation of a bona fide and zeal officer. There were no special talents in it.

It was a typical “moment”, no better and no worse than others. Somewhat closed, silent, he did not stand out from the ranks of the colleagues Yuri Galich. In the year, Kamenev came across a collection of Grigory Zinoviev and Vladimir Lenin “Against the Stream”, which, according to him, “made a stunning impression, opened new horizons.” He knew how to find a common language with the soldiers, on April 4 of the same year, Kamenev was elected by them to the post of commander of the Infantry Poltava Regiment.

During the July crisis of the Provisional Government, together with Lev Trotsky, Kamenev was arrested. Since November 25, - chief of staff of the Civil Defense Code of the Army Corps. Until April,-the chief of staff of the 3rd Army, was nominated for this position by the army committee. He worked on the demobilization of the 3rd Army and evacuation of military property.

According to the Germans, Polotsk, Kamenev with the army committee moved to Nizhny Novgorod, where he completed the demobilization and liquidation of the 3rd Army. He was appointed military leader of the Nevelsky district of the western section of the curtain detachments. Since June, with the support of L. since August, the military leader of the western section of the curtain and at the same time the military instructed of the Smolensk district.

From August September to July with a break in May - commander of the troops of the Eastern Front. He led the offensive of the Red Army on the Volga and the Urals. Here, during the defensive and offensive operations against the armies of Admiral Kolchak, his leading talent was clearly revealed. From July 8 to April - Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic.

It is alleged that at the post of commander -in -chief he replaced Vacetis at the suggestion of I. Sklyansky and a group of non -partisan specialists, consisting of the Commander -in -Chief of Kamenev, Shaposhnikov and Lebedev. This group is very conscientious, hardworking and knowledgeable workers. Trotsky of October 8, Lenin, under the leadership of Kamenev, carried out operations to defeat Denikin and Wrangel, repel the attack of Poland.

In the city of Kamenev, he was awarded with gold military weapons with the sign of the Order of the Red Banner. In the same year, he developed a plan for the attack on Poland, but could not implement it because of the underestimation of the enemy forces, as well as counteracting the command of the South-Western Front-A. Egorov and I. with his participation, counter-revolutionary uprisings in Karelia, Bukhara, Ferghana and the Tambov uprising were suppressed.

Kamenev was undoubtedly capable of a military leader, with imagination and the ability to risk.He lacked depth and hardness. Lenin was then very disappointed in him and more than once very sharply characterized his reports: “The answer is stupid and illiterate” L. Trotsky, “Stalin”. Since November, the chief inspector, and since August, is the head of the Main Directorate of the Red Army, the chief manager of the Tactics cycle of the Military Academy named after Since May - Deputy People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR.

With the reorganization of the People’s Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs in the People’s Commissariat of Defense and the abolition of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, the Kamenev’s reinforced persons in June, in June of the same year.

In the year, Kamenev was awarded the title of commander of the 1st rank, while the five military leaders who served during the Civil War under the command of Kamenev Voroshilov, Budyonny, Blucher, Egorov and Tukhachevsky were awarded the higher rank of marshal. The author of memoirs “Notes on the Civil War and Military Construction”, the author of the memoirs of Lenin.

He was one of the organizers of the Oswavihim, he was engaged in the development of the Arctic, providing assistance to the Italian expedition of Umberto Nobile and the ice -clamped “Chelyuskin” []. He died on August 25 from a heart attack. The urn with the ashes of Kamenev with military scratches was buried in the Kremlin wall. Soon after death, on the wake of purges in the Red Army - GG.

Kamenev was completely rehabilitated. Proceedings of the Notes on the Civil War and Military Construction, Comrade Order of St. Anna of the 2nd degree with the swords of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner of the Khorezm Soviet Republic, the Order of the Red Crescent of the 1st degree of the Bukhara People's Soviet Republic with a sign of the Order of the Red Banner Honical Revolutionary Weapons