Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko | |
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Владимир Антонов-Овсеенко | |
People's Secretary of Military Affairs | |
In office 7 March 1918 – 18 April 1918 | |
Preceded by | Yuriy Kotsiubynsky |
Succeeded by | Post dissolved Fyodor Sergeyev (All-Ukrainian Central MilRevKom) |
Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR | |
In office 25 May 1934 – 25 September 1936 | |
Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
Preceded by | Andrey Vyshinsky |
Succeeded by | Nikolay Rychkov |
People's Commissar for Justice of the Russian SFSR | |
In office 16 September 1937 – 17 October 1937 | |
Preceded by | Ivan Bulat |
Succeeded by | Yakov Dmitriev |
Personal details | |
Born | Vladimir Alexandrovich Ovseenko 9 March 1883 Chernigov, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 10 February 1938 Butyrka Prison, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 54)
Political party | RSDLP (1902–1903) RSDLP (Mensheviks) (1903–1917) Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1927), (1928–1938) |
Alma mater | Vladimir 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 service | 1917–1922 |
Rank | Commander-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.