Native name Oleksandr Osets'kii Allegiance Ukrainian | Name Oleksander Osetsky Rank General officer | |
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Born July 24, 1873
Kremenets, Volhynian Governorate (then in the Russian Empire) ( 1873-07-24 ) Died February 26, 1937, Paris, France Service/branch Ukrainian People's Republic | ||
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.