Yelisey Goryachev

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Yelisey Ivanovich Goryachev
Born1892
Kalachyovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 12, 1938
Proskuriv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
AllegianceRussian Empire
Soviet Union
Service/branchImperial Russian Army
Soviet Red Army
Battles/warsWorld War I
Russian Civil War

Yelisey Ivanovich Goryachev (1892 – December 12, 1938) was a Soviet Komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks.

He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner. During the Great Purge, he was one of the military judges in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization of Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky on June 11, 1937. On February 4, 1938, Goryachev was formally promoted to Komkor and was named as commander of the cavalry army in Kiev on July 26, 1938. Fearing arrest, he committed suicide by shooting himself in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.

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