Oleksander Osetsky
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Oleksander Viktorovych Osetsky (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; 24 June 1873 – 16 February 1937) was a Russian and Ukrainian military officer. A general in the Imperial Russian Army, after the Russian Revolution he joined 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 major 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.
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- Oleksander Osetsky at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Ihor Pidkova (editor), Roman Shust (editor), "Dovidnyk z istorii Ukrainy Template:Webarchive", 3 Volumes, "(t. 3) Template:Webarchive, Kyiv, 1993–1999, Template:ISBN (t. 1), Template:ISBN (t. 2), Template:ISBN (t. 3). Article: Олександр Осецький Template:Webarchive Template:In lang
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- 1872 births
- 1937 deaths
- People from Kremenets
- Military personnel from Ternopil Oblast
- People from Kremenetsky Uyezd
- Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire
- Ministers of defense of Ukraine
- Government ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic
- Imperial Russian Army generals
- Ukrainian People's Army generals
- Ukrainian people of World War I
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 4th class
- Imperial Nikolayev Military Academy alumni