- Dmitri Zhloba
Dmitri Petrovich Zhloba ( _ru. Дмитрий Петрович Жлоба) (
June 3 ,1887 –June 10 ,1938 ) was a Soviet military commander involved in theRussian Civil War .He was born in
Kiev ,Ukraine , then part ofImperial Russia . During theRussian Revolution of 1905 , he was a member of an armed workers’ detachment inMykolaiv . In May 1916, he was arrested for participation in an anti-governmental strike and sent to theWorld War I fronts. In the days of theBolshevik October coup 1917, he was a member of theMoscow Soviet and commanded a Red Guard detachment against theKremlin -based Junkers. At the end of 1917, he was sent as a war commissar toDonbass where he organized a miners’ Red Guard unit which fought at Kiev andRostov . He was assigned to theCaucasus Front of the Russian Civil War in May 1918. As a commander of the “Steel Brigade”, he led, in October 1918, a raid in the rear of the WhiteCossacks underPyotr Krasnov . In 1919-1920, he commanded a cavalry brigade and then the 1st Cavalry Corps operating againstDenikin ’s and Wrangel’s armies. In February 1921, he led the 18th Cavalry Division which reinforced the11th Soviet Red Army in the war against Georgia. During the MarchBatum Operation in Georgia, he traversed a virtually impermeableGoderdzi Pass in theLesser Caucasus , to occupyBatumi for the Soviet government. For his successful campaigns, Zhloba was awarded with twoOrders of the Red Banner . Since 1922, he served in theNorth Caucasus until being sacked and executed duringStalin ’sGreat Purges in 1938.External links
*ru icon [http://www.hronos.km.ru/biograf/bio_zh/zhloba.html Жлоба, Дмитрий Петрович]
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