Nikolai Efimovich Varfolomeev

Military career Varfolomeev was a graduate of the last class, in 1918, of the General Staff Academy. He obtained the rank of a Captain

. He joined the Red Army in March 1918 voluntarily and was involved in defining the new borders between Soviet Russia and Germany. By June 1922 he was Deputy Commander of the armies on the Western Front reporting to Mikhail Tukhachevsky. In 1925 he was appointed as deputy to Tukhachevsky in his role as head of strategic training for all Red Army officers. This was likely to be at Frunze Military Academy where he was awarded the title of Professor. Here he published as a joint effort with Tukhachevsky and Shilovkii "The Army Operation. The Work of the Command and Field Directorate, in 1926".

Death He was arrested on March 3, 1938 as part of the Great Purge between of 1936 and 1938. He was convicted by Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on the charges of "participation in a counterrevolutionary officer organization and an anti-Soviet military-fascist conspiracy" He was sentenced to death on March 19, 1939 and was executed on May 8, 1939. He is buried in Donskoye Cemetery, Grave 1, a mass grave, with 4259 other named victims.

On April 11, 1956, by the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, he was rehabilitated.

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