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Gorev had combat experience in the [[Russian Civil War]] (1918-1921) and had then an advisor in China (known under aliases "Nikitin" and "Gordon") to accelerate sovietization during the [[Chinese Civil War]]. |
Gorev had combat experience in the [[Russian Civil War]] (1918-1921) and had then an advisor in China (known under aliases "Nikitin" and "Gordon") to accelerate sovietization during the [[Chinese Civil War]]. |
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Gorev joined the Spanish Republican front in late August 1936 as military attache under the alias "Sancho."<ref> |
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Revision as of 07:31, 26 January 2014
Vladimir Gorev | |
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| Birth name | Vladimir Efimovich Gorev |
| Nickname(s) | Vladimir Gorev, Sancho, Nikitin, Gordon |
| Born | 1900 Velizh, Russian Empire (now Russian Federation) |
| Died | 20 June 1938 Soviet Union |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Service | Red Army |
| Years of service | 1918 - 1938 |
| Rank | General |
| Battles / wars | Russian Civil War, China Civil War, Spanish Civil War |
Vladimir Efimovich Gorev (1900 - 20 June 1938), known as Vladimir Gorev, was a military Belarusian known to have participated in the defense of Madrid as a Soviet military advisor during the Spanish Civil War. He was born in 1900 in Velizh, Vitebsk Governorate (now in Smolensk Oblast). He was of Belarusian ethnicity. [1]
Career
Gorev had combat experience in the Russian Civil War (1918-1921) and had then an advisor in China (known under aliases "Nikitin" and "Gordon") to accelerate sovietization during the Chinese Civil War.
Gorev joined the Spanish Republican front in late August 1936 as military attache under the alias "Sancho."[2][3] Upon his return to the Soviet Union, he was arrested during the Great Purge by the NKVD on 25 January 1938, sentenced to death on 20 June 1938 and shot the same day. He was posthumously rehabilitated in October 1956.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Жертвы политического террора в СССР". Lists.memo.ru. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
- ^ Aizpuru, Mikel. El informe Brusiloff: la Guerra Civil de 1936 en el Frente Norte vista por un traductor ruso. Madrid: Irún : Alberdania Editora. p. 255. ISBN 9788498680560.
- ^ András Rojo, José (1993). Anátesis / José Vicente Rojo. Madrid: Amós Belinchón. ISBN 8486796415.
- ^ "Жертвы политического террора в СССР". Lists.memo.ru. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
External sources
- Aizpuru, Mikel. El informe Brusiloff: la Guerra Civil de 1936 en el Frente Norte vista por un traductor ruso. Madrid: Irún : Alberdania Editora. p. 255. ISBN 9788498680560.
- András Rojo, José (1993). Anátesis / José Vicente Rojo. Madrid: Amós Belinchón. ISBN 8486796415.
- Fernández Sánchez, José (1990). Los voluntarios de Vladimir Gorev / José Fernández Sánchez. Madrid: Ediciones El Museo Universal. p. 78. ISBN 8486207320.