Kasyan Alexandrovich Chaykovsky was a Soviet military officer and Red Army Komkor.
29 Facts About Kasyan Chaykovsky
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Kasyan Chaykovsky volunteered for the First Balkan War and fought with the Serbian Army.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky was wounded twice and returned to the university in January 1913.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky volunteered for the Imperial Russian Army after World War I began and became an officer.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky was seriously wounded and captured by German troops in 1915.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky remained in a POW camp until October 1918, when he joined the Red Army.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky became a commissar and then a VOHR officer in the Russian Civil War.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky taught at the Frunze Military Academy from 1929 to 1931, when he became commander of the 11th Rifle Division.
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Three months later Kasyan Chaykovsky became deputy head of combat training.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky was arrested during the Great Purge and died in prison.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky was born in February 1893 in Tambov in the family of a lawyer of the nobility.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky was wounded twice and returned to Moscow in January 1913.
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In July 1914, Kasyan Chaykovsky volunteered for the Russian Imperial Army as a private.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky graduated from an accelerated course at a military school in January 1915 and became an officer.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky fought in World War I, serving with the 211th Nikolskoye Infantry Regiment as a Praporshchik and company commander.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky attempted to escape six times and was repatriated in October 1918.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky became chief of the prisoners and refugees echelon and commissar of the military-sanitary institutions on the Alexandrovsky Railway.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky became a Russian Communist Party member in February 1919.
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In January 1921, Kasyan Chaykovsky became head of the combat troops in Tambov Governorate.
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In 1921, Kasyan Chaykovsky was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky became acting commander of the 5th Army and the East Siberian Military District in August 1922.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky led the 12th Rifle Corps between January and September 1923.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky studied at the Higher Academic Courses at the Military Academy of the Red Army from September 1923.
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Between July and September 1924 Kasyan Chaykovsky led the 2nd Separate Caucasian Cavalry Brigade in the suppression of the August Uprising.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky was placed at the disposal of the Main Directorate of the Red Army in November 1926.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky went to America to buy horses in 1928.
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In July 1931, Kasyan Chaykovsky was appointed commander of the 11th Rifle Division in the Leningrad Military District.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky was arrested on 21 May 1937 at his dacha in the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo District after suffering a heart attack, during the Great Purge.
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Kasyan Chaykovsky died during the investigation at the Chita prison hospital on 23 April 1938.