Alexander Ilyich Yegorov
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| Native name | Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Его́ров |
| Birth name | Alexander Ilyich Yegorov |
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October 13, 1883 Buzuluk, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | February 22, 1939 (aged 55) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Buried at | Donskoi Cemetery |
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| Years of service | 1902 — 1938 |
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| Commands held | Chief of the General Staff |
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Alexander Ilyich Yegorov or Egorov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Его́ров, Alexandr Iljič Jegorov) (October 25 [O.S. October 13] 1883 – February 22, 1939), was a Soviet military leader during the Russian Civil War, when he commanded the Red Army's Southern Front and played an important part in defeating the White forces in Ukraine. In 1920 Yegorov was one of the Red Army commanders during the Polish-Soviet War. In this campaign he was a close colleague of Stalin and of Semyon Budyonny.
Yegorov was born into a peasant family near Samara in central Russia. He joined the army of the Russian Empire in 1902 and qualified as an officer in 1905. As an army officer, he helped quell the Revolution of 1905. During World War I he rose to the rank of Lieutenenant-Colonel and was wounded five times. In 1904 he had joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party, but after the Bolsheviks took power (1917) he accepted the new régime and became a commander in the Red Army.
After the Russian Civil War, Yegorov was sent as a military adviser to China (1925-1926). In 1927 he became commander of the Belarussian Military District. In 1931 Yegorov was appointed Deputy People's Commissar for Defence and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army. In 1934 he became a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1935 he became one of the first five Marshals of the Soviet Union when this rank was created.
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