Aleksandr Baltiysky

Aleksandr Alekseevich Baltiysky (June 18, 1870 - March 7, 1939) - Russian and Soviet military leader, Kombrig (1936).

Aleksandr Alekseevich Baltiysky
BornJune 18, 1870
Baltiski, Russian Empire
DiedMarch 7, 1939
Moscow, Soviet Union
AllegianceRussian Empire
Soviet Union
Service/branchImperial Russian Army
Soviet Red Army
Ranklieutenant general (Russian Empire)
Kombrig (Soviet Union)
Commands held4th Army (RSFSR)
Battles/warsWorld War I
Russian Civil War

Biography

Alexander Alekseevich Baltiysky was born on June 18, 1870 in the city of the Baltic port of the Estland province.

He graduated from Riga Real College.

In June 1891 he was drafted into the ranks of the Russian Imperial Army and sent to the military training course of the Moscow Infantry Junker School, after which in 1893 the Kexholm Regiment was released at the Life Guards.

In 1903, Baltiysky graduated from the Nikolayev Academy of the General Staff in the 1st category. From October 29, 1903 to November 15, 1904 he served the qualifying command of the company in the Life Guard of the Kexholm Regiment. On October 22, 1904 he was appointed senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 4th Infantry Division (Russian Empire). From October 31, 1904, he served as the head of the General Staff, and from June 25, 1905, he served as the head of the GUGS.

In 1908 he completed a two-year course in naval sciences at the Nikolayev Naval Academy. On August 25, 1908, he was appointed to the post of assistant clerk of the Main Department of State Security, and on June 7, 1912, to the post of headquarters officer in charge of officers studying at the Nikolayev Military Academy.

During World War I in September 1914 he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 72nd Infantry Division (Russian Empire), and then to the post of chief of staff of the 43rd Infantry Division (Russian Empire). In February 1915 he was the chief of staff of the 64th Infantry Division (Russian Empire). In the winter and spring of 1915 he took part in the battles in East Prussia. On March 19, he was appointed commander of the 291st Trubchevsky Infantry Regiment. On May 20, 1916, Baltiysky was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 3rd Siberian Rifle Division (Russian Empire), then he served as chief of the staging department of the staff of the 12th Army (Russian Empire). On October 3, 1917, Lieutenant General Alexander Alekseevich Baltiysky was dismissed from his post for illness with the appointment of ranks at the headquarters of the Petrograd Military District, then he was at the disposal of the Minister of War.

In 1918, Baltiysky voluntarily joined the Red Army. From April to June 1918 he headed the Higher Military Inspectorate. On October 12, he was appointed to the post of chief of staff, and on November 5, 1918, to the post of commander of the 4th Army. Since March 1919 he was for special assignments under the commander of the Southern Army Group of the Eastern Front. On August 15, 1919 he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the Turkestan Front, and on April 20, 1920 - to the post of deputy commander of the troops of the Zavolzhsky Military District. From October 17, 1920, it was at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the RVSR, and from October 7, 1921, in the reserve of the headquarters of the Red Army.[1]

From the beginning of 1922 he worked as head of the department of tactics of the Red Army Military Academy. As of August 1922 and August 1923, Baltiysky was a military adviser to the chairman of the RVSR.

During "Case Spring", Baltiysky appeared in many documents and testimonies of military experts, but was not arrested,[2] however, on June 1, 1931 he was dismissed from service, then the senior head of the department of naval disciplines at the Naval Transport Academy.

With the introduction of personal ranks in the Red Army, he received the rank of Kombrig.[2]

Kombrig Alexander Alekseevich Baltiysky was arrested on March 27, 1938[3] on charges of involvement in a counter-revolutionary officer terrorist organization.[4] He pleaded guilty and sentenced[4] by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to capital punishment on March 7, 1939, and was shot on the same day.[3] Burial place: Don cemetery in Moscow.[5]

Alexander Alekseevich Baltiysky was rehabilitated by the definition of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on June 2, 1956.[3]

Awards
  • Order of St. Vladimir 3 degrees with swords (VP June 15, 1915) and 4 degrees with swords and a bow (1915, Scout No. 1292);[6]
  • Order of St. George, 4th degree (VP May 25, 1916);
  • Order of St. Anna 3 degrees (1909);
  • Order of St. Stanislav 2 (1913) and 3 degrees (1906);
  • St. George's Arms (PAF August 28, 1917).

Ranks
Military offices
Preceded by
Tichon Hvesin		 Commander of the 4th Army RSFSR
November 5, 1918 - January 31, 1919		 Succeeded by
Mikhail Frunze
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References
  1. Список лиц с высшим общим военным образованием состоящих на службе в РККА 1923.
  2. Биографические справки наиболее видных военачальников, проходивших по делу «Весна», либо упоминавшихся в материалах
  3. M 1998, p. 402.
  4. M 1998, p. 160.
  5. "Мемориал: Захоронение на Донском кладбище" [Memorial: Burial at the Don cemetery] (in Russian). Общество «Мемориал». Retrieved 2015-03-18.
  6. Журнал «Разведчикъ» № 1297 от 15.09.1915.

Literature
  • List of persons with higher general military education in the service of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. - Petrograd: Military type. The headquarters of the Red Army, 1923.- S. 17. - 261 p. - 1000 copies.
  • M (1998). Сувениров [Souvenirs of O. F. Tragedy of the Red Army 1937–1938] (in Russian). TERRA. ISBN 5300022209.
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