Eduard Davydovich Lepin | |
Birth Date: | 1889 |
Birth Place: | Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire |
Death Date: | 22 August 1938 |
Death Place: | Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union |
Allegiance: | Soviet Union |
Branch: | Soviet Red Army |
Rank: | Komkor |
Commands: | 15th Rifle Division 35th Rifle Division 13th Rifle Corps |
Battles: | World War I Russian Civil War |
Eduard Davydovich Lepin (ru|Эдуард Давыдович Лепин, lv|Eduards Liepiņš; 1889 – 22 August 1938) was a Soviet division commander and Komkor of Latvian ethnicity. He fought in the Russian Civil War against the White movement. Lepin was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner.
During the Great Purge, as a part of the so-called "Latvian Operation", Lepin was arrested on 2 December 1937 and shot at the Kommunarka shooting ground on 22 August 1938. In 1956, after the death of Joseph Stalin, he was rehabilitated.[1]