Sergey Kamenev

Sergey Kamenev
Birth nameSergey Sergeyevich Kamenev
Born(1881-04-16)16 April 1881
Kiev, Russian Empire
Died25 August 1936(1936-08-25) (aged 55)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance Russian Empire (1891–1917)
 Russian SFSR (1917–1922)
 Soviet Union (1922–1936)
Service/branchImperial Russian Army
Red Army
Years of service1898–1936
RankPolkovnik (Russia)
Komandarm 1st rank (Soviet)
Battles/warsFirst World War
Russian Civil War
Polish–Soviet War

Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Ка́менев; April 16 [O.S. April 4], 1881 – August 25, 1936) was a Soviet military leader who reached Komandarm 1st rank.

Kamenev was born in Kiev. In World War I he commanded a regiment in the rank of colonel. He became a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1918. In July 1919, Kamenev replaced Jukums Vācietis as Commander-in-chief of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Kamenev was a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR from April 1924 to May 1927. He died of a heart attack on 25 August 1936 following the Trial of the Sixteen, incidentally on the same day that Lev Kamenev (no relation) and Grigory Zinoviev were executed.


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