Konstantin Kromiadi

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Константин Григорьевич Кромияди (born 1893 in Kars in Russia, died in 1991 in the US) - Russian military officer (colonel), commander of the Russian National People's Army, Chief of Staff of the Guardsian Battalion Russian Army of the Liberation, then Commander of the Headquarters of General Andrey Vlasov during World War II, emigre activist and anti-communist columnist

He was of Greek origin. He volunteered for the Russian army. He participated in the rank of lieutenant in World War I in the Caucasus. In the spring of 1917, he participated in the expedition of the Persian army, General Lazar Biczerachov, as commander of the infantry battalion. During the Russian Civil War, he joined the White Army, attaining the rank of colonel. At the end of his life he went to Germany to emigrate to Germany. as a Berlin taxi driver. During the Second World War he cooperated with Germans. From 1 September 1941 he worked at Alfred Rosenberg's Ostministerium. At the end of March 1942 he came to Smolensk, where he took part in formation and became commander of the Russian National People's Army. On August 29, however, he was removed from office and summoned to Berlin. Then he approached Gen. A. Vlasov, who in the spring of 1943 entrusted him with the role of Chief of Staff - created under the Pskov - the ROA Guards battalion. At the beginning. September this year was taken over by the headquarters of General A. Vlasov. At the same time he was the head of his law firm. He supported the Russian liberation movement, Gen. A. Vlasov, by Russian emigration. At the end of 1944 he joined the Committee of the Liberation of the Nations of Russia. After the war ended, he settled in western Germany. He was active in Russian anti-communist organizations and worked for Radio Free Europe. In 1980, San Francisco published a book titled " "For Land, for freedom ...", describing his experience of war activity in the Russian liberation movement.

Biography of Colonel Konstantin G. Kromiadi (Russian) Bibliography

K. M. Aleksandrow, Officer Corps of the Army of Lieutenant-General AA Vlasov 1944-1945, Moskwa 2001

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