Nikolai Podvoisky
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ilyich and the family name is Podvoisky.
Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky (Russian: Николай Ильич Подвойский; Ukrainian: Микола Ілліч Подвойський; February 16 [O.S. February 4], 1880 – July 28, 1948) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman and the first People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR.
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Nikolai Podvoisky | |
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Николай Подвойский | |
People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR | |
In office 8 November 1917 – 13 March 1918 | |
Preceded by | Position established (Aleksander Verkhovsky as minister of War and Navy) |
Succeeded by | Leon Trotsky |
People's Commissar of Military Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR | |
In office February 1919 – August 1919 | |
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Born | February 4 (16), 1880 Nezhinsky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate, Imperial Russia |
Died | July 28, 1948(1948-07-28) (aged 68) Soviet Union |
Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
Political party | RSDLP (1901–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1935) |
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He played a large role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and wrote many articles for the Soviet newspaper Krasnaya Gazeta. He also wrote a history of the Bolshevik Revolution, which describes progress of the Russian Revolution.