Kasyan Chaykovsky
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Tambov, Russian Empire
Chita, Soviet Union
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| Native name | Касьян Александрович Чайковский |
| Born | February 1893 Tambov, Russian Empire |
| Died | 23 April 1938 (aged 45) Chita, Soviet Union |
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| Rank | Komkor |
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| Awards | Order of the Red Banner |
Kasyan Alexandrovich Chaykovsky (Russian: Касьян Александрович Чайковский; February 1893 – 23 April 1938) was a Soviet military officer and 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.
Chaykovsky was born in February 1893 in Tambov in the family of a lawyer of the nobility. In 1911, he graduated from a Gymnasium in Moscow and became a law student at Moscow State University. In 1912, he volunteered for the First Balkan War and fought with the Serbian Army. Chaykovsky was wounded twice and returned to Moscow in January 1913. He continued his studies at the university. In July 1914, Chaykovsky volunteered for the Russian Imperial Army as a private. He graduated from an accelerated course at a military school in January 1915 and became an officer. He fought in World War I, serving with the 211th Nikolskoye Infantry Regiment as a Praporshchik and company commander. Chaykovsky was wounded five times and concussed once. In February 1915 he was seriously wounded and captured by German troops.[1] He attempted to escape six times and was repatriated in October 1918.[2]
Russian Civil War
Chaykovsky served in the Red Army from December 1918. He became chief of the prisoners and refugees echelon and commissar of the military-sanitary institutions on the Alexandrovsky Railway. In January 1919, he became a board member, head of supply, and chairman of the Smolensk Provincial Committee of Prisoners and Refugees. Chaykovsky became a Russian Communist Party (b) member in February 1919. In July, he became commissar of the 28th Separate Rifle Battalion and then the 41st Separate Rifle Brigade. In October, he became the assistant chief and then chief of the Western Sector of the Internal Security Forces (VOHR). Chaykovsky held this position until August 1920.[2]