Dmitry Shuvayev

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Dmitry Savelyevich Shuvayev (Дмитрий Савельевич Шуваев in Russian) (10.(24).12.1854 — 1937) was a Russian military leader, Infantry General (1912).

Dmitry Shuvayev graduated from Alexander Military School (1872) and General Staff Academy (1878). He used to command a division (1905) and a corps (1907-1908). In 1909, Shuvayev was appointed head of Chief Quartermaster Department and chief quartermaster. He then held a post of Chief Field Quartermaster between December of 1915 and March of 1916. Shuvayev was appointed military minister in March of 1916 and remained on this post until January of 1917, when he became a member of the State Council. After the October Revolution, Shuvayev taught at different military schools.

He retired from military service in the late 1920s. In 1937, Shuvayev was arrested by the NKVD and later executed. He was rehabilitated posthumuously.