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 | 4 (16) February 1880 Nezhinsky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 28 July 1948 Soviet Union | (aged 68)
Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
Political party | RSDLP (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.