11 Facts About Ieronim Uborevich

Ieronim Uborevich was executed during the Great Purge in June 1937 and was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.

Ieronim Uborevich joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in March 1917 and, after the October Revolution of that year, began recruiting Red Guards in Bessarabia.

Ieronim Uborevich was a member of All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1922 and consecutively, commander of a series of military districts: Ural ; North Caucasus ; Moscow ; Belorussia ; and Central Asia.

Ieronim Uborevich attended the military academy of the German General Staff twice.

Ieronim Uborevich had a close relationship with his counterparts in the Reichswehr, acquiring important information on developments in German weaponry.

Ieronim Uborevich was a member of the Soviet Revolutionary Military Council and chief of armaments for the Red Army.

Ieronim Uborevich acted as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party from 1931 to 1937 and from 1934 was a member of the military council of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union.

Ieronim Uborevich was survived by his wife Nina and daughter Vladimira.

Nina Ieronim Uborevich was arrested in late 1937 and executed in 1941.

Mira Ieronim Uborevich was sent to an orphanage and later arrested and convicted.

Ieronim Uborevich's memoirs were published in 2008; in 2013 she was interviewed in a multi-part documentary for the Russia-K television channel.