Yelisey Goryachev Explained

Yelisey Ivanovich Goryachev
Birth Date:1892
Birth Place:Kalachyovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russian Empire
Death Date:December 12, 1938
Death Place:Proskuriv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Allegiance:Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Branch:Imperial Russian Army
Soviet Red Army
Battles:World War I
Russian Civil War

Yelisey Ivanovich Goryachev (1892 – December 12, 1938) was a Soviet Komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks.

He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner. During the Great Purge, he was one of the military judges in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization of Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky on June 11, 1937. On February 4, 1938, Goryachev was formally promoted to Komkor and was named as commander of the cavalry army in Kiev on July 26, 1938. Fearing arrest, he committed suicide by shooting himself in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.

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