Kasyan Chaykovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Kasyan Alexandrovich Chaykovsky (Russian: ?????? ????????????? ??????????; February 1893 – 23 April 1938) was a Red Army Komkor.
Born in the family of a lawyer, Chaykovsky became a law student at Moscow State University.
He volunteered for the First Balkan War and fought with the Serbian Army.
Chaykovsky was wounded twice and returned to the university in January 1913.
He volunteered for the Imperial Russian Army after World War I began and became an officer.
He was seriously wounded and captured by German troops in 1915.
Chaykovsky remained in a POW camp until October 1918, when he joined the Red Army.
He became a commissar and then a VOHR officer in the Russian Civil War.
After the end of the war, he led the 35th Rifle Division, was acting commander of the 5th Army, and commanded the 12th Rifle Corps.
Chaykovsky led a cavalry brigade in the suppression of the August Uprising.
He taught at the Frunze Military Academy from 1929 to 1931, when he became commander of the 11th Rifle Division.
The division became the 11th Mechanized Corps a year later with Chaykovsky still commanding.
In February 1936 he became deputy head of the 2nd Department (Organization and Mobilization) of the Red Army General Staff.
Three months later Chaykovsky became deputy head of combat training.
He was arrested during the Great Purge and died in prison.
He was posthumously pardoned in 1956.

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