Ali - Agha Shikhlinski Ali - Agha Ismail - Agha oglu Shikhlinski ( , ; April 23 , 1865 — 18 August 1943 ) was lieutenant - general of the Russia n imperial army and Deputy Minister of Defense and General of the Artillery of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic . Life and military career . Ali - Agha Shikhlinski was born on April , 23 , in the village of Kazakhly of Kazakh uyezd . He descended from an old noble family first mention which relates in 1537 . His mother Shah Yemen Khanum was a grandchild of a famous poet Molla Vali Vidadi . In August 1876 he entered Tiflis military school and graduated in 1883 . He then finished Mikhaylovsky Artillery School in Saint Petersburg in 1886 , received the rank of podporuchik and was assigned to 39th artillery brigade , located in Alexandropol . In the course of military service he was promoted to poruchik , then shtabs - kapitan and appointed as commander of the training team . In 1900 , Captain Shikhlinski was transferred to Transbaikal artillery battalion . He took part in China Relief Expedition of the Russian army . During the Russo - Japanese War Shikhlinski was the commander of an artillery battery . He especially distinguished himself during the siege of Port Arthur when , despite being severely wounded in his leg , he personally aimed the guns which lost their guncrews and repulsed attacks of superior Japanese forces . For the services in battle on September 28 , 1905 , he was decorated with the Order of Saint George 4th degree . He was also awarded a golden sword and conferred the rank of lieutenant - colonel . In January 1906 , Shikhlinski was seconded to Tsarskoye Selo Officer ' s Artillery College , which he finished with honors in August of the same year and was appointed the instructor of the Artillery College . During his service as the instructor of the college Shikhlinski published a number of works on artillery , including a book titled “ " Use of Field Artillery in a Battle " ” , and invented an original target - finding device , which was called “ Shiklinski triangle ” . In 1908 Shiklinski was promoted to the rank of colonel , and in 1912 he was conferred the rank of major - general and assigned the deputy chief of Officer ' s Artillery College . World War I . When World War I started in 1914 Ali - Agha Shikhlinski was appointed the commander of St . Petersburg garrison artillery . In January 1915 Shikhlinski was seconded to the Northwestern front to manage the training of heavy artillery guncrews . On May 23 , 1915 , he was appointed the general for errands at the commander - in - chief of the Northwestern front , and after division of the front into two held the same position at the Western front . On October 31 , 1915 he was appointed to the position of the general for errands at the Supreme Commander - in - Chief . He was charged with creation of heavy artillery battalions and brigades . From April 1916 16 , Shikhlinski was the acting inspector of Western Front artillery . He was in charge of the artillery aspects of operations of the Western Front . On April 2 , 1917 Ali - Agha Shikhlinski was promoted to the rank of lieutenant - general . Later years . After the February Revolution in Russia , Ali - Agha Shikhlinski was appointed the commander of the 10th Russian army in September 1917 . After the October revolution , he resigned from his position and moved to Tiflis , where he was charged with formation of the Muslim ( Azerbaijani ) corps . The corps supported the Ottoman Army of Islam in the Battle of Baku with Bolshevik and British forces . In January 1919 , the government of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic appointed Shikhlinski a deputy to the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Republic Samedbey Mehmandarov . On June 28 , 1919 , Ali - Agha Shikhlinski was promoted to the rank of General of the Artillery of the Azerbaijani army . After the Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan and establishment of the Soviet regime in Azerbaijan in April 1920 , Shikhlinski was arrested and released two months later . In 1920 – 1921 , he was seconded to Moscow , where he was an adviser to the artillery inspection department of Red Army and taught in Higher Artillery School . On 18 July 1921 , Shikhlinski was transferred back to Baku , where he taught at a military school and became a deputy to the chairman of the military science society of Baku garrison . In 1926 , Shikhlinsky published the Russian - Azerbaijani Concise Military Dictionary . He resigned from military service in 1929 and wrote his memoirs , which were published in 1944 . Ali - Agha Shikhlinski died in Baku on 18 August 1943 .