caption serviceyears commands death_place death_date birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
marshal of the soviet union mikhail tukhachevsky . 1914 -- 1937 chief of general staff moscow , russian sfsr , soviet union 12 june 1937 alexandrovskoye , russian empire russian 1918-1922 -rrb- -lrb- 1922-1937 -rrb- empire -lrb- 1914-1917 -rrb- russian sfsr 1918 -lrb- order of saint vladimir order of saint anna order of saint of stanislaus lenin order of the red banner order world war i russian civil war polish-soviet war 16 february 1893 marshal of the soviet union М.Н . Тухачевский.jpg mikhail tukhachevsky
 mikhail nikolayevich tukhachevsky
mikhail tukhachevsky

mikhail nikolayevich tukhachevsky -lrb- ; -- june 12 , 1937 -rrb- was a leading soviet military leader and theoretician from 1918 to 1938 : commander of the soviet western front in the russo-polish war of 1920-21 ; chief of staff of the red army from 1925 through 1928 ; an assistant in the people 's commissariat of defense after 1934 ; and commander of the pre-volga military district in 1937 .
he contributed to the modernization of soviet armament and army force structure in the 1920s and 1930s and was instrumental in the creation of aviation , mechanized , and airborne forces .
as a theoretician , he was a driving force behind soviet development of the theory of deep operations .
he was accused of treason and shot during the military purges of 1937-38 , but his reputation was `` rehabilitated '' in the 1960s .
