Jukums Vācietis

Jukums Vācietis
Jukums Vācietis
	Vācietis before 1937
Other names	Иоаким Вацетис (in Russian); Ioakim Vatsetis
Born	23 November 1873; near Saldus, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (now Saldus municipality, Latvia)
Died	28 July 1938 (aged 64); Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Buried	Riga
Allegiance	Russian Empire (1891–1917); Russian SFSR (1917–1922); Soviet Union (1922–1938)
Branch	Imperial Russian Army; Red Army
Service years	1891–1938
Rank	Polkovnik (Russia); Komandarm 2nd rank (Soviet)
Conflicts	First World War; Russian Civil War Latvian War of Independence; ;

Jukums Vācietis (Russian: Иоаким Иоакимович Вацетис, romanized: Ioakim Ioakimovich Vatsetis; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1873 – 28 July 1938) was a Latvian and Soviet military commander. He was a rare example of a notable Soviet leader who was not a member of the Communist Party (or of any other political party), until his demise during the Great Purge in the 1930s.