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Vladimir Triandafillov
Vladimir Kiriakovitch Triandafillov (Russian:
Влади́мир Кириа́кович Триандафи́ллов; 14 March
Vladimir Kiriakovitch
1894 – 12 July 1931) was a Soviet military commander and Triandafillov
theoretician. Born 14 March 1894
Kars, Russian
Biography Empire (today
Turkey)
He was born on 14 March 1894 in Magaradzhik village in Kars Died 12 July 1931
Oblast, then in the Russian Empire (today in Mağaracık, (aged 37)
Turkey) of Pontic Greek parents. The family name derives Soviet Union
from triantáfyllo, τριαντάφυλλο, Modern Greek for the rose
Allegiance Russian
flower. His family had moved to Russia. Graduating from the
Empire
Moscow Praporshchik School in 1915, he served in the Russian
Army in World War I, earning the rank of captain. During the (1914–1917)
Russian Civil War, he rose in rank up to brigade commander Soviet Union
while fighting on various fronts.[1] In 1923, he was appointed (1917–1931)
chief of the Operations Directions of the Soviet General Staff Years of 1914–1931
and Deputy Chief of the General Staff. service

Vladimir Triandafillov was the author of two fundamental Rank General

military doctrine works: Scale of the operations of modern Commands Red Army
armies, published in 1926 and Characteristics of the held
operations of the modern armies, published in 1929. In these
two works, he elaborated his deep operations theory about the Battles/wars World War I
future warfare. The objective of a "deep operation" was to Russian Civil War
attack the enemy simultaneously throughout the depth of his Awards Order of the Red
ground force to induce a catastrophic failure in his defensive Banner
system.[2] Highly mobile formations would then exploit this
failure by breaking into the deep rear of the enemy and destroying his ability to rebuild his
defenses.

Vladimir Triandafillov was killed in an aircraft crash on 12 July 1931 and was buried in the
Kremlin Wall Necropolis. The quality of his work was realised late during World War II, when
Georgy Zhukov said that his success was due to closely following Triandafillov's deep operations
doctrine.

Notes
1. B. J. C. McKercher; Michael A. Hennessey (1996). The Operational Art: Developments in the
Theories of War (https://books.google.com/books?id=TVauTMPjqN0C). Greenwood Publishing
Group. p. 71.
2. Allan R. Millett; Williamson Murray. A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Belknap
Press. p. 20.

K.A. Zalessky, Stalin's empire (biographic dictionary), Moscow, Veche, 2000

Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Moscow, 1969 — 1978
Triandafillov, Vladimir, Kipp, Jacob W., (trans.), The Nature of the Operations of Modern
Armies (Cass Series on the Soviet Study of War, 5), Routledge, 1st edition, 1994

Military offices

Preceded by Chief of the Staff of the Red Army Succeeded by

Boris Shaposhnikov May 1931 – 12 July 1931 Alexander Yegorov

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