Oleksander Osetsky
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Native name | Олександр Осецький |
Born | Kremenets, Volhynian Governorate (then in the Russian Empire) | June 24, 1873
Died | February 26, 1937 Paris, France | (aged 63)
Allegiance | Ukrainian |
Service | Ukrainian National Republic |
Rank | Otaman |
Oleksander Viktorovych Osetsky (Ukrainian: Олександр Ві́кторович Осецький) (June 24, 1873 Kremenets, Volhynian Governorate, now Ternopil Oblast – February 26, 1937 Paris) was a Ukrainian military officer. He was a general in the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR).
From 1914 to 1918, during the First World War, he served in and commanded a regiment in the Imperial Russian Army and reached the rank of Brigadier General. When the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917, he joined the UNR Army. He served as a commander in the Poltava region, commander of a Railroad Guard Corps under the Hetman government, and commander of the Kholm Group on the Polish front in 1919, during the Polish-Ukrainian War. From December 1918 to January 1919 he was minister of defense of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and then the UNR Army otaman. In 1920, he headed a UNR military-diplomatic mission to Belgium. He emigrated to France and died in Paris in 1937.
References
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- Oleksander Osetsky at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Ihor Pidkova (editor), Roman Shust (editor), "Dovidnyk z istorii Ukrainy Archived 2009-04-10 at the Wayback Machine", 3 Volumes, "(t. 3) Archived 2020-01-30 at the Wayback Machine, Kyiv, 1993–1999, ISBN 5-7707-5190-8 (t. 1), ISBN 5-7707-8552-7 (t. 2), ISBN 966-504-237-8 (t. 3). Article: Олександр Осецький Archived 2007-02-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian)
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