- Ali-Agha Shikhlinski
Infobox Military Person
name=Ali-Agha Ismail-Agha oglu Shikhlinski
caption=Ali-Agha Shikhlinski
born=23 April 1886
died=18 August 1943
placeofbirth=Kazakh
placeofdeath=Baku
nickname=
allegiance=Imperial Russian Army,Azerbaijan Democratic Republic ,USSR
branch=
serviceyears=1886 - 1929
rank=Lieutenant-general , General of the Artillery
unit=
commands=
battles=Russo-Japanese War ,World War I
awards=Order of Saint George of IV degree
relations=
laterwork=Ali-Agha Ismail-Agha oglu Shikhlinski (Azerbaijani: Əliağa İsmayılağa oğlu Şıxlinski, Russian: Алиага Шихлинский) was
lieutenant-general of theRussia ntsarist army and Deputy Minister of Defense and General of the Artillery ofAzerbaijan Democratic Republic .Ali-Agha Shikhlinski was born on
April 23 ,1865 in the village of Kazakhly of Kazakhuyezd . In August 1876 he enteredTiflis military school and graduated in 1883. He then finished Mikhaylovsky Artillery School inSankt-Petersburg in 1886, received the rank ofpodporuchik and was assigned to 39th artillery brigade, located inAlexandropol . In the course of military service he was promoted toporuchik , then shtabs-kapitan and appointed the commander of the training team. In 1900, Captain Shikhlinski was transferred toTransbaikal artillery battalion. He took part inChina Relief Expedition of the Russian army.During the
Russo-Japanese War Shikhlinski was the commander of anartillery battery . He especially distinguished himself during thesiege of Port Arthur when, despite being severely wounded in his leg, he personally aimed the guns which lost their guncrews and repulsed attacks of superior Japanese forces. For the services in battle on September 28, 1905, he was decorated with theOrder of Saint George of IV degree. He was also awarded a golden sword and conferred the rank oflieutenant-colonel .In January 1906, Shikhlinski was seconded to
Tsarskoye Selo Officer's Artillery College, which he finished with honors in August of the same year and was appointed the instructor of the Artillery College. During his service as the instructor of the college Shikhlinski published a number of works on artillery, including a book titled “"Use of Field Artillery in a Battle"”, and invented an original target-finding device, which was called “Shiklinski triangle”. In 1908 Shiklinski was promoted to the rank ofcolonel , and in 1912 he was conferred the rank ofmajor-general and assigned the deputy chief of Officer's Artillery College.When
World War I started in 1914 Ali-Agha Shikhlinski was appointed the commander ofSt. Petersburg garrison artillery. In January 1915 Shikhlinski was seconded to the North-Western front to manage the training of heavy artillery guncrews. On May 23, 1915, he was appointed the general for errands at the commander-in-chief of North-Western front, and after division of the front into two held the same position at Western front. On October 31, 1915 he was appointed to the position of the general for errands at the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. He was charged with creation of heavy artillery battalions and brigades. From April 1916 16, Shikhlinski was the acting inspector of Western Front artillery. He was in charge of the artillery aspects of operations of the Western Front. On April 2, 1917 Ali-Agha Shikhlinski was promoted to the rank oflieutenant-general .After the
February Revolution in Russia Ali-Agha Shikhlinski was appointed the commander of the 10th Russian army in September 1917, but resigned after theOctober revolution and moved to Tiflis, where he was charged with formation of the Muslim (Azerbaijani) corps. The corps supported the TurkishArmy of Islam in the battles forBaku withBolshevik and British forces. In January 1919 the government ofAzerbaijan Democratic Republic appointed Shikhlinski a deputy to the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan RepublicSamedbey Mehmandarov . On June 28, 1919 Ali-Agha Shikhlinski was promoted to the rank of General of the Artillery of the Azerbaijani army. AfterRed Army invasion to Azerbaijan and establishment of the Soviet rule in Azerbaijan in April 1920 Shikhlinski was arrested, but was released two months later.In 1920–1921 he was seconded to
Moscow , where he was an advisor to the artillery inspection department ofRKKA and taught in Higher Artillery School. On 18 July 1921 he was transferred back to Baku, where he taught in a military school and became a deputy to the chairman of military science society of Baku garrison. In 1926, Shikhlinsky published Russian-Azerbaijani Concise Military Dictionary. He resigned from military service in 1929 and wrote his memoirs, which were published in 1944.Ali-Agha Shikhlinski died in Baku on
August 18 ,1943 .External links
* [http://www.grwar.ru/persons/persons.html?id=545 Russian Army in World War I (in Russian)]
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