Mikhail Hanzhin
October 17, Mikhail Khanzhin (1871 – 1961) was a general from artillery, one of the leaders of the White movement in Siberia.
Hereditary Cossack of the Orenburg Cossack army. He graduated from the Orenburg Neplyuevsky Cadet Corps, the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy. He took part in the Russo-Japanese War and commanded the battery of the 3rd East Siberian Rifle Artillery Brigade. Participated in the work of commissions on army reform. He entered the First World War as commander of an artillery brigade. From July 1915 he was commander of the 12th Infantry Division. From April 1916 he was an inspector of artillery of the 8th Army, played a large role in organizing the offensive of the South-Western Front (the Brusilov breakthrough), which was noted in the Stavka: Khanzhin was promoted to lieutenant general for his role in the Lutsk breakthrough, which was the most significant award among the generals participating in the operation. From the end of 1916 he was inspector of artillery of the Romanian Front. From April 1917 he was field inspector general of artillery under the Supreme Commander. During the First World War he established himself as a talented artillery commander and combined arms commander. The General (1916).
After the Bolsheviks came to power, he went to Siberia. Being in an illegal situation, he began the formation of white rebel groups in the south of the Urals, collaborated with the head of the officer underground in Siberia, Lieutenant Colonel A. N. Grishin-Almazov. From the summer of 1918 he commanded the Ural Army Corps he formed (then the 3rd Ural Corps). From January 1919 he was commander of the Western Army of the Western Front. In March 1919, he began an offensive in the general direction of Ufa, Samara and Kazan, initially achieved success, his troops took Ufa and Belebey, and reached the approaches to Samara and Kazan, not reaching the Volga in some areas 30 km (in general - 80-100 km). For his successes he was promoted by Admiral A. V. Kolchak to the rank of general from artillery - the highest distinction of this kind, which was appropriated by Kolchak when he was his Supreme Ruler. Then came the summer of 1919. He was accused of "failing to stop the retreat and decomposition of troops", was replaced by General K. V. Sakharov and enlisted in the reserve of the Stavka. From October 1919 he was minister of war. In January 1920 he became a member of the "troika" - a committee of three members of the government, who in Irkutsk took over the management of the cabinet of ministers in the conditions of the collapse of the regime of the Supreme Ruler Kolchak. In January 1920, he was able to flee to China (two other members of the “troika” were shot by the verdict of the extraordinary revolutionary tribunal in June 1920).
I lived in Harbin for a while. From 1928 to 1930 he was head of the Far Eastern Department of the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS). From October 1933 he worked as a draftsman in the research department of the Southern Railway, engaged in cartography and map proofreading. After the occupation of Manchuria by Soviet troops, he was arrested in September 1945 by SMERSH in Dairen. Spent 10 years in camps. In 1955 he was in a local prison in Ukhta in the Komi ASSR. After his release, he lived in Orsk (Orenburg region) with his sons, died in Jambul.
General Khanzhin is one of the characters in the feature film Thunderstorm Over White (1968).
The film takes place in 1919. The film tells about the episode of the Civil War, when the troops under the command of M. V. Frunze captured Ufa. The plot begins in February 1919, when Frunze leads the 4th Army of the Red Army. The 4th Army is a poorly dressed and equipped, poorly armed, and very undisciplined mass. Commissars are killed, commanders are free. Frunze has to balance on the brink to rally the army. At the same time, the offensive of the Russian army is developing. The plan of Frunze, already the commander of the Southern Group of the Eastern Front of the Red Army, to organize a counteroffensive meets resistance at the very top. The Red Army, which seems to them to be “more visible”. Yet Frunze's troops are going on a counteroffensive. On the White River, near Ufa, Frunze's troops will meet with the white general Khanzhin opposing them.
In roles:
Alexander Mikhailov as Frunze Alexey Yakovlev and Karpov Yefim Kopelyan - Khanzhin Natalia Tenyakova - Sasha Vladimir Kashpur - Veselykov Gennady Yukhtin - Abalov Nikolai Volkov and Fedor Fedorovich Novitsky Georgy Taratorkin - Kuibyshev Valery Yeremichev - Tukhachevsky Savely Kramarov Bruno Freundlich as Admiral Kolchak Boris Kokovkin Georgy Kulikov - representative of the People's Commissariat Source:https://m.vk.com/alexxxxxxander
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