Boris Feldman


Boris Mironovich Feldman was a Soviet military commander and politician of Jewish ethnicity.

Biography

Feldman was born in Pinsk, Minsk Governorate into a Jewish family. In 1920 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From July 1934, Feldman was the head of the administration of personnel of the Red Army. At the beginning of 1937 he was named head of the Administration of General Staff of the Red Army and on 15 April 1937 was named assistant manager of the military district of Moscow.
Feldman was executed on June 12, 1937, during the Great Purge. He was rehabilitated posthumously under Nikita Khrushchev on January 31, 1957.