Mikhail Tukhachevsky
| Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky | |
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Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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| Born |
16 February 1893 Alexandrovskoye, Russian Empire |
| Died | 12 June 1937 (aged 44) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Allegiance |
 Russian Empire (1914–1917) Russian SFSR (1918–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1937)
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| Service/branch |
Imperial Russian Army Red Army |
| Years of service | 1914–1937 |
| Rank | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
| Commands held | Chief of General Staff |
| Battles/wars |
First World War Russian Civil War Polish-Soviet War |
| Awards |
Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner Order of Saint Vladimir Order of Saint Anna Order of Saint Stanislaus |
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Тухаче́вский; February 16 [O.S. February 4] 1893 – June 12, 1937) was a leading Soviet military leader and theoretician from 1918 to 1937. He commanded the Soviet Western Front in the Russo-Polish War of 1920–21 and served as chief of staff of the Red Army from 1925 through 1928, as assistant in the People's Commissariat of Defense after 1934 and as commander of the Volga Military District in 1937. He contributed to the modernization of Soviet armament and army force structure in the 1920s and 1930s and became instrumental in the development of aviation, mechanized, and airborne forces. As a theoretician, he was a driving force behind Soviet development of the theory of deep operations. The Soviet authorities accused him of treason and had him shot during the military purges of 1937–38, but rehabilitated his reputation in the 1960s.
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