Back نيكولاى بودفويسكى ARZ Мікалай Ільіч Падвойскі BE Nikolai Podvoiski Catalan Nikolái Podvoiski Spanish Mikola Podvoiski EU نیکولای ایلیچ پودوویسکی FA Nikolai Podvoiski Finnish Նիկոլայ Պոդվոյսկի HY Nikolaj Il'ič Podvojskij Italian Николай Ильич Подвойский KK
Nikolai Podvoisky | |
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| Николай Подвойский | |
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| 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 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 (16) February 1880 Nezhinsky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 28 July 1948 (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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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.