Valentin Trifonov
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Valentin Andreyevich Trifonov (Russian: Валентин Андреевич Трифонов; 8 September 1888 – 15 March 1938) was a
Born into a
Trifonov was prominent in formation of the Red Army, especially in the Ural regions. During the Russian Civil War, he led the Don Expeditionary Corps and was the first Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Don. In 1919 he commanded the South-Eastern Front operating against Anton Denikin. In 1920 and 1921 he was in command of the Caucasian Front of the Red Army.
When the war was over, Trifonov presided over the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. His vital services to the Communist Party did not save him from being arrested and executed during the Great Purge; His wife, his daughter and his son, (the future writer Yury Trifonov) survived him. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955.
Notably shares a name with the character of "Valentin Trifonov" in the film Tetris, they are not the same person.
Cited literature
- ^ Trifonov, Yu.V. (1965). Fireglow (Отблеск костра).