Yuriy Vladimirovich Sablin (

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: Юрий Владимирович Саблин; 24 November 1897 – 1937) was a Russian military leader and

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. Yuriy was born in Yuryev,

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, into a family of a book publisher Vladimir Sablin (1872-1916) and daughter of the Russian playwright Fyodor Korsh, Varvara. Yuriy Sablin studied at the Moscow Commerce Institute and completed academic audit of the

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. In 1915 he joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party. During the

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, in 1916 Sablin volunteered to army and served in artillery as a battery sergeant (vice-fireworker). He served at the Southwestern Front and the

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where he was poisoned with gases. After his recovery in a hospital, Sablin graduated the 2nd Moscow school of ensigns in 1917 and then served in the 56th Reserve Infantry Regiment. Since March 1917 Sablin was a member of

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and the Moscow city Council Ispolkom. He was appointed a military governor of Moscow by the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs. At the 2nd

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he was elected to the

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, participated in the

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, was a member of the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee headquarters and the

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presidium. In December 1917 Sablin led the 1st Moscow Revolutionary formation to the Southern Russia and Ukraine. Taking charge of the northern segment of the Southeastern front, he participated in taking the city of

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. In 1918 he became a commissar of the Western curtail of Moscow district. The same year Sablin participated in the Left SR uprising due to which he was convicted by a revolutionary tribunal to a year in prison and was detained in

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on 16 July 1918. He however was soon amnestied by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and in December 1918 headed the Kupyansk revkom. In 1918-20 Sablin participated in the second Soviet invasion of Ukraine fighting the national government of Ukraine and the troops of Denikin and Wrangel commanding the 16th Cavalry Division and the 41st Rifle Division. In 1921 he participated in extinguishing the

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. By the end of the

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, Sablin finished the Military Academy and Higher academic courses in 1923 and pilot school in 1925. Since 1931 he headed administration of military engineering works and commandant of a fortified district in Ukraine. In 1936 Sablin was commander of the 97th Rifle Division, but on 25 September 1936 he was arrested and killed by a firing squad in 1937 and was buried in common grave at the Donskoye Cemetery. Sablin was rehabilitated in 1956.

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