Oleksander Osetsky

Oleksander Osetsky

Oleksander Osetsky
Native name Олександр Осецький
Born (1873-07-24)July 24, 1873
Kremenets, Volhynian Governorate (then in the Russian Empire)
Died February 26, 1937(1937-02-26) (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.

Preceded by
Oleksander Hrekov
General Bulava
Deputy Chief Otaman

? - August 1919
Succeeded by
Mykola Yunakiv
Preceded by
D.Shchutsky
Minister of Defense
December 19181919
Succeeded by
General Hrekov

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