Yakov Sheko information

Yakov Sheko
Sheko in the mid-1930s
Born	1 April 1893 Yeskovo village, Krasninsky Uyezd, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	5 June 1938(1938-06-05) (aged 45) Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Russian Empire Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army Red Army
Years of service	1914–1917 1918–1937
Rank	Komdiv
Commands held	1st Tomsk Cavalry Division 20th Rifle Division 1st Rifle Corps 10th Cavalry Division 4th Cavalry Corps
Battles/wars	World War I Russian Civil War Polish–Soviet War
Awards	Order of the Red Banner (2)

Yakov Vasilyevich Sheko (Russian: Яков Васильевич Шеко; 1 April 1893 – 5 June 1938) was a Red Army Komdiv.

He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, rising from private to officer, and joined the Red Army in 1918, fighting in the Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War. He received the Order of the Red Banner for one action while a chief of staff of a division of the 1st Cavalry Army. Sheko held division and corps commands during the 1920s and 1930s, and had two stints in Mongolia as Chief of Staff of the Mongolian People's Army and as an adviser to the Mongolian War Ministry. During the Great Purge, Sheko spent several months as a cavalry corps commander due to vacancies created by arrests but was himself arrested in August 1937 and executed the next year.