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| Mikhail Karlovich Levandovsky | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 May 1890 Tiflis, Russian Empire |
| Died | 29 July 1938 (1938-07-30) (aged 48) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Buried | Kommunarka shooting ground |
| Allegiance | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
| Service | Imperial Russian Army Soviet Red Army |
| Commands | 9th Army (RSFSR) 11th Army (RSFSR) 10th Terek-Dagestan Army Red Banner Caucasus Army Siberian Military District Transcaucasian Military District Maritime Group of Forces |
| Battles / wars | |
Mikhail Karlovich Levandovsky (Russian: Михаил Карлович Левандовский; 15 May 1890 – 29 July 1938) was a Soviet Komandarm 2nd rank. He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army and in the Russian Civil War in the Soviet Red Army. He participated in the Soviet invasions of Georgia and Azerbaijan. He commanded forces in both the Caucasus and Siberia.
During the Great Purge, he was arrested on 23 February 1938 and later executed.
Decorations
- Order of Saint Stanislaus (1916)
- Order of the Red Banner (1920)
- Order of Lenin (1935)
References
Bibliography
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia, XIV, Moscow 1973.
- W. M. Ivanov, Marshal Tukhachevsky, Wojeizdat, Moscow 1990.
| Military offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byAugust Kork | Commander of the Red Banner Caucasus Army November 1925 – October 1928 |
Succeeded byKonstantin Avksentevsky |
| Preceded byNikolay Kuibyshev | Commander of the Siberian Military District 1930–1933 |
Succeeded byYan Gaylit |
| Preceded byIvan Smolin | Commander of the Red Banner Caucasus Army November 1933 – May 1935 |
Succeeded byhimself as Commander of the Transcaucasian Military District |
| Preceded byhimself as Commander of the Red Banner Caucasus Army | Commander of the Transcaucasian Military District May 1935 – June 1937 |
Succeeded byNikolay Kuibyshev |
| Preceded byIvan Fedko | Commander of the Maritime Group of Forces June 1937 – February 1938 |
Succeeded byKuzma Podlas |
- 1890 births
- 1938 deaths
- Military personnel from Tbilisi
- People from Tiflis Governorate
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War
- Great Purge victims from Georgia (country)
- People executed by the Soviet Union
- People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent
- Soviet people of Polish descent