Mikhail Svechnikov

Mikhail Stepanovich Svechnikov (30 September 1882 – 26 August 1938) was a Russian military officer in the Imperial Russian Army and the Red Army. He is best known as one the military leaders of the Red Guards in the 1918 Finnish Civil War.

Mikhail Svechnikov
Mikhail Svechnikov
Born(1882-09-30)30 September 1882
Ust-Medveditskaya, Russian Empire
Died26 August 1938(1938-08-26) (aged 55)
Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow, Soviet Union
Buried
Kommunarka shooting ground
Allegiance Russian Empire
Red Finland
Soviet Russia
 Soviet Union
Service/branchImperial Russian Army
Red Guards
Red Army
Years of service1901–1937
RankColonel (Red Army)
Battles/warsBoxer Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War
First World War
October Revolution
Finnish Civil War
Russian Civil War

Career

After his service in the Imperial Russian Army, Svechnikov took part at the 1917 October Revolution.[1] During the 1918 Finnish Civil War he worked as a military advisor for the Red Guards. In February 1918, Svechnikov was shortly the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front, replaced then by Hugo Salmela. He was the highest ranked Russian officer who joined the Finnish Red Guards.[2]

As the Finnish Civil War was over, Svechnikov fought in the Russian Civil War, in which he led the Caspian-Caucasian Front in the unsuccessful Northern Caucasus Operation (1918–1919).

Since 1922 he worked as a military lecturer. In 1934 Svechnikov was transferred to the Frunze Military Academy. He was arrested in 1937, accused on "Fascist conspiracy", and later executed at the Kommunarka shooting ground in Moscow. Svechnikov was rehabilitated after Stalin's death in 1956.[1]

References
  1. Свечников Михаил Степанович (Черушевы, 2014) (in Russian). Расстрелянное поколение. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. ″Suomen itsenäistymisen kronikka″, Gummerus, 1992. ISBN 951-20-3800-5.
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