Serge Andolenko

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Serge Andolenko (born June 26, 1907 in Volotschysk , Russian Empire , † August 27, 1973 in Miglos , Ariège department ) was a French general of Russian-Ukrainian origin.

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Andolenko came from a family of officers with a long tradition: his father was an officer in the imperial dragoons , his grandfather and great-grandfather served as officers in the tsarist guard.

When his father died in the civil war in 1919 , his mother fled with him into exile in France. Between 1924 and 1926 Andolenko attended the Saint-Cyr Military School with Prince Dimitri Amilakhvari (1906–1942) . He then came to the 1st Régiment Étranger of the Foreign Legion in Sidi bel Abbès ( Algeria ) with the rank of sous-lieutnenant . He was able to distinguish himself and received French citizenship in May 1928 .

Then Andolenko was used in Morocco and later on the Levant . Andolenko proved himself and after a few promotions he came to the staff of General Joseph de Montsabert (1887-1981). At the end of the Second World War he was posted to Marseille and stayed there until winter 1945/46.

When the Foreign Legion was restructured after the war, Andolenko was given command of the 5e Régiment Étranger in Algeria after another promotion . Between 1954 and 1959 Andolenko fought in the civil war (→ French doctrine ). On the occasion of a further promotion he was entrusted with administrative tasks in Paris in 1959/60.

Charles de Gaulle sent Andolenko to Vienna in 1961 as a military attaché . Andolenko returned to France in 1963 and gave up all his offices in the following years. He settled in Miglos and died there on August 27, 1973.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • La filiation of the battalion de Légion étrangère . Paris 1935.
  • Les drapeaux de la Grande Guerre . Paris 1945.
  • Recueil d'historiques d'infanterie française . Paris 1969 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1949 edition)
  • Recueil d'historiques de l'armé blindée et de la cavalerie . Paris 1968.
  • Aigles de Napoléon against drapeaux du Tsar . Paris 1969.
personal data
SURNAME Andolenko, Serge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general of Russian-Ukrainian origin
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Volochysk , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1973
Place of death Miglos , Ariège department