Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Владимир Антонов-Овсеенко
Antonov-Ovseenko in 1919
People's Secretary of Military Affairs
In office
7 March 1918 – 18 April 1918
Preceded byYuriy Kotsiubynsky
Succeeded byPost dissolved
Fyodor Sergeyev (All-Ukrainian Central MilRevKom)
Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR
In office
25 May 1934 – 25 September 1936
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Preceded byAndrey Vyshinsky
Succeeded byNikolay Rychkov
People's Commissar for Justice of the Russian SFSR
In office
16 September 1937 – 17 October 1937
Preceded byIvan Bulat
Succeeded byYakov Dmitriev
Personal details
Born
Vladimir Alexandrovich Ovseenko

(1883-03-09)9 March 1883
Chernigov, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died10 February 1938(1938-02-10) (aged 54)
Butyrka Prison, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyRSDLP (1902–1903)
RSDLP (Mensheviks) (1903–1917)
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1927), (1928–1938)
Alma materVladimir Military Institute, Nikolaevsk Combat Engineer Institute
Military service
Allegiance Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (1917–1918)
Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (1918–1919)
Russian Soviet Republic (1919–1921)
Branch/service Red Guards (1917–1918)
Red Army (1918–1922)
Years of service1917–1922
RankCommander-in-chief
Commands Ukrainian Revolutionary Forces (1917–1918)
Ukrainian Front (1918–1919)
Battles/wars

Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko (Russian: Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко; Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Антонов-Овсієнко; 9 March 1883 – 10 February 1938), real surname Ovseenko, party aliases 'Bayonet' (Штык) and 'Nikita' (Никита), literary pseudonym A. Galsky (А. Гальский), was a prominent Bolshevik leader, Soviet statesman, military commander, and diplomat.


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