Oleksander Osetsky

Oleksander Viktorovych Osetsky (Ukrainian: Олександр Вікторович Осецький; Russian: Александр Викторович Осецкий; 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).

Oleksander Osetsky
Oleksander Osetsky
Native name	Олександр Осецький
Born	(1873-06-24)24 June 1873 Kremenets, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine)
Died	26 February 1937(1937-02-26) (aged 63) Paris, France
Allegiance	Russian Empire Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian State
Service/branch	Infantry
Years of service	1892-1917 (Imperial Russian Army) 1917-1921 (Ukrainian People's Republic/Ukrainian State)
Rank	Major general (RIA) Otaman (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.

References

• 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)