Intelligence service in peacetime and wartime

Pavel Fedorovich Ryabikov (1875 - 1932) The son of the lieutenant colonel. He graduated from the Polotsk Cadet Corps (1893), the Konstantinovsky artillery school (1896) and the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff (1901) He served in the Life Guards of the Finland Regiment, in the artillery brigade, at the headquarters of the 3rd Army Corps. Member of the Russo-Japanese War, officer of the headquarters of the 2nd Manchu army. Since 1906 he served in the Main Directorate of the General Staff. In 1910-14 - the head of the training of the Academy of the General Staff. Member of the First World War. He served in the intelligence department of the headquarters of the 2nd Army, the chief of intelligence department of the headquarters of the Northern Front, commanded the infantry regiment. In 1917 he served in the Main Directorate of the General Staff. Since December 1917 - at headquarters in the Red Army. Member of the White movement on the Eastern Front since the summer of 1918. He taught at the I Military Academy, since May 1919, the 2nd Privarire General of Stavka, chief of staff of the Eastern Front. Member of the Siberian Ice campaign. Since March 1920 - representative of the chieftain G. M. Semenov in China and Japan. In exile, he lived first in China, since 1927 in Czechoslovakia. A teacher at the Russian People’s University in Prague, a member of the training committee of the Higher Military Educational Institution of General N.N. Golovina. Recognized as a major specialist in the field of theoretical developments in the organization of intelligence. Circulation 30 copies. Made using Print-on-Demand technology