caption serviceyears death_place death_date birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
vitovt putna 1915 -- 1937 moscow 12 june 1937 mackonys utena county , lithuania , vilna governorate , russian empire -lrb- now russian russia -lrb- 1918 -- 1922 -rrb- -lrb- 1922 -- 1937 empire -rrb- -lrb- 1915 -- 1917 -rrb- 23px soviet order of the red banner -lrb- three times -rrb- world rebellion war i russian civil war polish-soviet war kronstadt 31 march 1893 komkor putna vitovt01.jpg vitovt putna
 vitovt putna
vitovt putna

vitovt kazimirovich putna -lrb- , ; 1893 -- 1937 -rrb- was a soviet red army officer of lithuanian origin .
a world war i veteran of the imperial russian army and bolshevik since 1917 , putna was a `` komdiv '' during the polish -- soviet war and commanded a variety of divisions .
during the retreat following the battle of warsaw , he gathered around him ad-hoc corps out of defeated units and allowed the remnants of the red army to escape from a large cauldron near białystok .
in 1921 he took part in suppressing the kronstadt rebellion and peasant uprisings on the lower volga .
in 1923 he was sent as a military advisor to china and between 1927 and 1931 he was military attaché to japan , finland and germany .
he was posted to the far east military district in 1931 and was made military attache to great britain in 1934 .
he was promoted to `` comcor '' in 1935 .
putna was arrested during the great purge on 20 august 1936 , tried for alleged espionage and anti-soviet activities together with mikhail tukhachevsky in the so-called case of trotskyist anti-soviet military organization , sentenced to death on 11 june 1937 and executed the next day .
the soviet government posthumously exonerated him after joseph stalin 's death , when he was formally rehabilitated in 1957 .
