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Ivan DubovoiSoviet military figure, 2nd rank army commander
Date of Birth: 24.09.1896
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Content:
- Childhood and Early Life
- Military Career
- Red Army
- Against Petliura and Denikin
- Soviet-Polish War
- Post-War Career
- Arrest and Execution
- Rehabilitation
Childhood and Early Life
Ivan Dubovoi was born into a Ukrainian peasant family. When his father found work as a miner in the Donbass region, the family relocated there, where Dubovoi spent his childhood. He studied at the Kiev Commercial Institute.
Military Career
Russian Army and RevolutionIn 1916, Dubovoi was conscripted into the Russian Army and assigned to the 30th Siberian Infantry Regiment. He graduated from the Irkutsk School of Warrant Officers in 1917. During his military service, he joined the Bolshevik Party in June 1917. He played a role in establishing Soviet power in Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk before returning to the Donbass to participate in revolutionary activities there.
Red Army
From March 1918, Dubovoi served in the Red Army. He held various positions, including Military Commissar of the Novomakeevsk district and Commandant of the Central Headquarters of the Red Guard of the Donbass. He fought against the German-Austrian occupiers and was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff of the 10th Red Army in May 1918. With this army, he retreated to Tsaritsyn and participated in its defense in 1918.
Against Petliura and Denikin
In 1919, Dubovoi became Chief of Staff of the Kiev Group of the Ukrainian Front. He was later appointed Chief of Staff of the 1st Ukrainian Soviet Army and briefly served as its commander. He then commanded the 3rd Border Division and the 44th Rifle Division. In August 1919, his division merged with Nikolai Shchors' 1st Ukrainian Rifle Division, with Dubovoi serving as Shchors' deputy. When Shchors was killed in battle, Dubovoi once again became commander of the 44th Rifle Division.
Soviet-Polish War
Dubovoi's division fought against the armies of Symon Petliura and Anton Denikin during the Civil War. He also participated in the Soviet-Polish War as part of the 12th Army on various fronts.
Post-War Career
After the war, Dubovoi continued to command his division until 1922. In 1924, he became commander of the 14th Rifle Corps, stationed in the Kiev and Chernigov provinces. He trained in the German Reichswehr for several months in 1927 and 1932. From 1929 to 1934, he held various deputy and assistant commander positions in the Ukrainian Military District. In 1935, he was appointed commander of the Kharkov Military District and became a member of the Military Council of the USSR People's Commissar of Defense.
Arrest and Execution
On August 21, 1937, Dubovoi was arrested. During interrogations, he confessed to participating in an anti-Soviet, Trotskyist, and fascist conspiracy within the Red Army. On July 28, 1938, he was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR and executed the same day in Moscow. His father, who worked in the party control committee in the North Caucasus, was also arrested and died in a Gulag labor camp in 1941.
Rehabilitation
Dubovoi was rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on July 14, 1956.
