Alexander Todorsky

Alexander Ivanovich Todorsky (8 September 1894 – 27 August 1965) was a Soviet general and komkor (corps commander).

After the February Revolution, he was elected chairman of the regimental committee, and from November 1917 as the commander of the 5th Siberian Army Corps.

In October 1920, he fought against the rebels in Dagestan and in 1923, Todorsky was sent to Turkestan to fight the Basmachi at the head of the 13th Rifle Corps.

Between 1934 and 1936, he was the head of the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and between 1936 and 1938, of the Directorate of Higher Military Educational Institutions of the Red Army.

In the summer of 1956, he worked in the so-called Shvernik Commission and carried out the release and rehabilitation of Gulag prisoners, in particular from Kazakhstan.