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Indriķis Eihe, born October 12, 1893 in Riga, died July 25, 1968 in Jurmala) - military commander of the Russian Empire and Soviet Russia. Curriculum vitae Born in a Latvian family, he was the cousin of Soviet party and state activist Robert Eiche. In 1914 he graduated from a commercial school in Riga and was appointed to the Russian army. In 1915, he graduated from a non-commissioned school. On the front of the First World War he was a commanding officer and a staff officer. After the February Revolution he was elected a member of the regimental committee, during the October Revolution he was the chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Infantry Regiment. In November 1917 he became a member of the Soldiers' Deputies and the "Military-Revolutionary Committee" of the 10th Army. Later he joined the Red Guards and at the beginning of 1918 he participated in the fights with the Germans, after the Brzesko Treaty he commanded the regiment, 1918 took part in the fighting with the Polish corps of Jozef Dowbor-Muśnicki. From 1918 commanded the "1st revolutionary infantry regiment" in the summer of 1918, consisting of the 5th Army on the Eastern Front, with which in autumn 1918 he made a march from Symbirsk to Bugulma, as part of the reorganization of the army he became commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 26th Infantry Division on 31 December 1918 The brigade was involved in occupying Ufa. In the spring of 1919 he became commander of the 26th Infantry Division of the Eastern Front. In June 1919 he participated in fighting under Birsmith and Zlatech, then Chelyabinsk, and in the occupation of Miassu. From November 1919 to March 1920 he commanded the 5th Army of the Eastern Front, defeating the Admiral Army. From March 1920 to April 1921 he was the commander-in-chief of the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far East, 1921-1922 commander of the Minsk Front Front (fighting against Bulak-Bałachowicz's troops), and 1922-1923 commander of the Fergana Army Group Of the Turks, 1923 was demobilized. He worked in leadership positions in the Supreme Economic Council and later in the People's Commissar of Foreign Trade of the USSR. He was decorated with the Order of Lenin and two Red Banner Commands.

In April 1938 he was arrested, spent 16 years in prison, prison and exile, 1954 released and rehabilitated. Bibliography

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