User:Kges1901/Vyacheslav Tsvetayev

Vyacheslav Dmitryevich Tsvetayev (Вячеслав Дмитриевич Цветаев; 17 January 1893 – 11 August 1950) was a Soviet Army colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Early life, World War I, and Russian Civil War
Tsvetayev was born on 17 January 1893 at the railway station of Maloarkhangelsk in Oryol Governorate, the son of the station master. According to his autobiography, he studied at the Tula Secondary School between 1910 and 1914. After World War I began, Tsvetayev was called up for military service in the Imperial Russian Army and enlisted as a private in the 203rd Reserve Infantry Battalion at Oryol. Sent to study at the Tiflis School of Ensigns in 1916, he was appointed a junior officer in the Yekaterinograd Separate Infantry Battalion upon graduation. Tsvetayev was decorated for his actions in fighting during the Caucasus campaign. After the February Revolution of 1917, he served as a junior officer in the corps engineering directorate of the 6th Caucasian Army Corps, ending his service in the Imperial Army with the rank of poruchik.