Oleksander Osetsky

Oleksander Osetsky
Oleksander Osetsky
Native name	Олександр Осецький
Born	July 24, 1873 Kremenets, Volhynian Governorate (then in the Russian Empire)
Died	February 26, 1937 (aged 63) Paris, France
Allegiance	Ukrainian
Service/branch	Ukrainian National Republic
Rank	Otaman

Oleksander Osetsky (Ukrainian: Олександр Осецький) (July 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

• Oleksander Osetsky at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• Ihor Pidkova (editor), Roman Shust (editor), "Dovidnyk z istorii Ukrainy", 3 Volumes, "(t. 3), Kiev, 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 (Ukrainian)