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Nikolai Podvoisky

Nikolai Podvoisky
Николай Подвойский
People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR
In office
8 November 1917 – 13 March 1918
Preceded byPosition established (Aleksander Verkhovsky as minister of War and Navy)
Succeeded byLeon Trotsky
People's Commissar of Military Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR
In office
February 1919 – August 1919
Personal details
Born4 (16) February 1880
Nezhinsky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died28 July 1948(1948-07-28) (aged 68)
Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Political partyRSDLP (1901–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1935)
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Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky (Russian: Николай Ильич Подвойский; Ukrainian: Микола Ілліч Подвойський; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1880 – 28 July 1948) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman and the first People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR.

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.


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