Volodymyr Oskilko
Volodymyr Pantelejmonowytsch Oskilko ( Ukrainian Володимир Пантелеймонович Оскілко * 16th July 1892 in Horodok , volhynian governorate , Russian Empire ; † 19th June 1926 in Horodok, Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian lieutenant general and coup leader .
Life
Wolodymyr Oskilko was born in the village of Horodok in what is now the Ukrainian Rajon Rivne, the son of a family of teachers. After graduating from high school and a teacher training college, he worked as a school teacher. During the First World War he was promoted to officer in the Imperial Russian Army . After the February Revolution of 1917 he became Commissioner of the Provisional Government in Tula . After he returned to Ukraine in late 1917, he became the commander of the Ukrainian regiment of St. George's Knights in Kiev and was involved in the defense of the city against the Bolsheviks . In the Ukrainian state , under Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyj, he was initially head of security at the strategically important Korosten railway junction , but in November 1918 he organized an uprising against the Hetmanate in Volhynia .
In December 1918 he became a colonel in the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic , and in January 1919 he became Lieutenant General and Commander of the Northern Group of Troops of the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic, with a total of nearly 40,000 soldiers on the Soviet-Polish front, and then became the commander of the Northwest Front .
On 29 April 1919 he undertook, with support from the Ukrainian party of the self-employed Socialists ( Українська партія соціалістів-самостійників ) and the Ukrainian People's Republican Party ( Українська народно-республіканська партія ) in Rivne an unsuccessful coup against the Board under the leadership of Symon Petliura , where he u. a. arrested the President of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic, Borys Martos .
After the coup failed, he emigrated to Poland , where he headed the Ukrainian community for some time in a camp for internees and prisoners of war in Dąbie (Ukrainian Домб'є ) near Kraków . In 1922 he returned to Rivne and published the biweekly newspaper Dswin ( Дзвін ) between 1924 and 1926 , the organ of the Ukrainian People's Party representing a pro-Polish line, and published in 1924 under the title “Між двома силами” Misch dwoma sylamy (in German between two worlds ) his memoirs.
In June 1926 he was murdered by strangers in the village of Horodok. According to one version, he was killed by Soviet agents of the GPU , and according to another version, he was killed by agents of the Ukrainian Military Organization ( Української Військової Організації "УВО"), who had not forgiven him for his cooperation with the Polish authorities.
Web links
- Entry on Oskilko, Volodymyr in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (English)
- Entry on Wolodymyr Oskilko in the Electronic Library on the History of Ukraine and World History (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry on Volodymyr Oskilko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on June 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Fight against two atamans Volodymyr Oskilko against Symon Petljura on day.kyiv.ua from February 4, 2006; accessed on June 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Oskilko, Volodymyr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oskilko, Volodymyr Pantelejmonowytsch (full name); Оскілко, Володимир Пантелеймонович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian lieutenant general and putschist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Horodok , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1926 |
| Place of death | Horodok, Ukrainian SSR |