Information AboutGayk Bzhishkyan |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT GAYK BZHISHKYAN | |
| armenian people | |
| soviet military personnel | |
| bzhishkyan | |
| exonerated soviet death sentences | |
| 1887 births | |
| bzhishkyan, gayk | |
| 1937 deaths | |
|
Gayk Bzhishkyan - Hayk Bzhishkyan ( February 6 ( February 18 ( O.S. )), 1887 – December 11 , 1937 ) was a Soviet military commander of the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War . ( is sometimes spelt as "Dimitrievich" or "Dimitriyevich", last name also spelt as Bzhishkyants (Бжишкянц); in Polish sources related to Polish-Soviet War he is referred to as either Gaj Brzyszkian, Gaj Dimitrijewicz Gaj or Gaj-Chan ( Khan )). His first name, Гайк, is a Russian transliteration of " Haik ", which was further corrupted in various Latinizations. Gayk was Armenian , born in Tabriz , Iran to a family of teachers. He joined the military of Imperial Russia as Praporshchik (an officer rank similar to Ensign ) and fought in World War I . After the Russian Revolution he joined the Bolshevik s and became a Party member and military commander in 1918 , when he fought against the Czech Legion (" White- czechs") and the Orenburg Cossacks of Ataman Alexander Dutov . He commanded some regiments, divisions and higher military formations. For instance:
Since 1922 he was the People's Commissar of the Army and Navy of the Armenian SSR and later a military history lecturer and researcher. Since 1933 he was a professor and the Chair of the Department of War History and Military Art in the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy . He was twice awarded with the of 1918 and in 1920 for the Polish campaign. On July 3 , 1935 he was arrested, accused of "participation in an anti-Soviet terrorist organization" by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court Of The USSR on December 13 , 1937 (АП РФ, оп. 24, дело 413, лист 252) and shot the same day. His books were declared politically harmful and banned. He was rehabilitated on January 21 , 1956 . The passenger river Motor Ship ( Riverboat ) ''Komdiv Gay'' (Комдив Гай, 1963) bears his name. But it must be ''Komkor Gay'', as Gay was a Commander of Corps. WORKS
|
|
|