Petro Dyachenko
Petro Hawrylowytsch Dyachenko ( Ukrainian Петро Гаврилович Дяченко ; born January 18 . Jul / 30th January 1895 greg. In Beresowa Luka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 23. April 1965 in Philadelphia , United States ) was a Ukrainian and Polish military leaders.
Life
Petro Djachenko was a lieutenant in the Imperial Russian Army . In 1917 he joined the Ukrainian People's Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) and from 1920 was a colonel in the regiment of the Black Cossacks (also Black Zaporoge or Chornoschlychnyky). After the generals Omeljanowytsch-Pavlenko and Rydz-Smigly carried out a review of the regiments of the Zaporizhia Division on May 20, Dyachenko was appointed colonel in the Polish army on May 23, 1920 because of his military merits . In 1928 he became Divisional General of the Polish Army, in 1929 Lieutenant General and in 1931 Colonel General of the UNR.
In March 1943 he was captured by the Germans near Kiev and released two weeks later. Dyachenko became chief of the "R" Defense Special Staff in the central and north-eastern regions of the Ukrainian SSR . At the beginning of January 1945 he became the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Ukrainian Liberation Forces in the Wehrmacht . On March 7, 1945 Dyachenko was appointed as a colonel commander of the newly created 2nd Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army (UNA). In April 1945 the Free Ukraine Brigade of the 2nd Division of the UNA operated in the association of the German Panzer Corps Hermann Göring in the Army Group Center . On May 5, 1945, his brigade in the Sudetenland was broken up by the Soviet troops; on May 9, he surrendered to the Americans with the remains of his troops that had broken out.
After the Second World War , he first lived in Munich and then emigrated to the United States. He died in Philadelphia and was buried in St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in South Bound Brook , New Jersey .
Web links
- Petro Djachenko on poltava.to (Ukrainian)
- Petro Djachenko -Ataman of the Black Cossacks (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Petro Djachenko on hrono.ru; accessed on June 18, 2016 (Russian)
- ^ Biography of Petro Djachenko in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on June 18, 2016 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dyachenko, Petro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Дяченко, Петро Гаврилович (Ukrainian); Dyachenko, Petro Hawrylowytsch (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian and Polish military leaders |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berezova Luka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1965 |
| Place of death | Philadelphia , United States |