Sannikov Alexander

He graduated from the Kiev Cadet Corps, Pavlovsk Military School and Mykolaiyv General Staff Academy (1892). Of the schools came in the 16 th Artillery Brigade, and then moved to the 21-th Belorussian Dragoon Regiment. According to the General Staff he served in the Kiev Military District. Since 1892. by 1894. - Senior Staff of the adjutant 31 th Infantry Division. Since 1894. by 1898. - Staff officer for special assignments at the headquarters of the 21 st. Army Corps. Since 1898. by 1901. - A senior aide staff of the Kiev military district. Since 1901. by 1908. - Head of the movement of troops of the Kiev region. In 1902, Mr.. - Colonel. In 1908 - 1910 he. - Commander of the 2 nd Chuguevsky Lancer Regiment. Since 1910. - Major General and Quartermaster-General Staff of the Amur Military District, and in 1913, at the request of the commander of the Amur Military District, General Lechitskogo - Chief of Staff of the District. Since December 1914. on the front of the First World War - Chief of Staff, Army 2. From February 1915 - once chief of staff General Lechitskogo - Commander of the 9 th Army. George Knight for preparing the breakthrough 9-Army of the Austrian front in May 1916, resulting in the occupied Bukovina and inflicted a decisive defeat to 2-nd of the Austrian army of General Pflyantsena. In 1917 - Lieutenant-General and Chief Captain of the Rumanian front.

After the revolution in early 1918. took elected office in Odessa mayor. In early August, 1918. arrived in the Volunteer Army and was appointed by General Denikin Chief of Supply. In January 1919. Odessa after the occupation by French troops was appointed Chief of the General Denikin in Odessa, . where in March the same year, was withdrawn, . when it became clear rejection of the voluntary command from the political line of the French general Anselm,
. After returning to Ekaterinodar again took the post of Chief Supply VSYUR, where he remained until 1919. In 1920, Mr.. - The disposal of the Commander in Chief. In emigration he lived first in Constantinople and then in the Kingdom of C x C, in Zemun, where travel to France in mid-1920. He died in Paris on February 16, 1931