Oleksandr Ossezkyj
Oleksandr Wiktorowytsch Ossezkyj ( Ukrainian Олександр Вікторович Осецький ; born June 12 . Jul / 24. June 1873 greg. In Kremenets , volhynian governorate , Russian Empire ; † 26. February 1937 in Paris , France ) was a Ukrainian general and defense minister .
Life
Oleksandr Ossezkyj served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War. After the October Revolution , he joined the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, where he held senior positions. From December 1918 to January 1919 he was Defense Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UVR) and then he was in the Ukrainian state commander of the Kholm department in the Ukrainian-Soviet war and military leader in the Polish-Ukrainian war . In 1920 he was head of a military-diplomatic mission of the UVR in Belgium. After the dissolution of the Ukrainian People's Republic, he emigrated to the West and died in Paris in 1937.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on Oleksandr Ossezkyj in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 6, 2017
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| SURNAME | Ossezkyj, Oleksandr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ossezkyj, Oleksandr Viktorovych (full name); Осецький, Олександр Вікторович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian general and defense minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kremenets , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1937 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |