Anatoly Ilyich Gekker (Russian: Анатолий Ильич Геккер; 6 September [O.S. 25 August] 1888 – 1 July 1937) was a Soviet military commander (Komkor) involved in the Russian Civil War.
In September 1917, he joined the Bolshevik Party. He joined the Red Army in 1918. He held commanding posts on various fronts of the Russian Civil War. From April 1919 until February 1920 he commanded the 13th Red Army. From March to August 1920, he served as a Chief of Staff of Interior Forces of the Russian SFSR. From September 1920 to May 1921, he commanded the 11th Soviet Red Army which established Bolshevik rule in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.
As early as 1922, he was military adviser to the Bolshevik government in Mongolia, and in 1924 he was made political commissar on the Chinese Eastern Railway, then a Soviet military attaché to China. He was made a Soviet military attaché to Turkey in 1929. In 1933, he was transferred to the General Staff of the Red Army and promoted to Comcor in 1935.
He was executed during the Great Purge in 1937 and rehabilitated in 1956.
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(in Russian) Геккер, Анатолий Ильич
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