Syla Mishchenko
Syla Moiseevich Mishchenko (Russian: Сила Моисеевич Мищенко; 1897 — 1941) was an Imperial Russian military officer and Soviet general from Ukraine. He played a key role during the 1918 January Uprising in Kiev by supporting the Bolshevik uprising while being a commanding officer in the newly formed Sahaidachny Regiment.
Born in village of Yanivka of Radomyslsky Uyezd (today Ivanivka, Malyn Raion) in a big family of a poor peasant, Mishchenko upon graduating of a local rural school enrolled into the Zabolotyne Teacher Seminary. With the start of the World War I, in 1915 he finished a shortened course of the 1st Kiev Konstantinovskoye Infantry school and as a greenhorn officer was sent to frontlines.
External links
[edit]- Profile of Mishchenko
- NKVD special object "Kommunarka". Temple of St New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
Categories:
- 1897 births
- 1941 deaths
- People from Zhytomyr Oblast
- People from Radomyslsky Uyezd
- Bolsheviks
- Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Ukrainian people of World War I
- Soviet people of the Ukrainian–Soviet War
- Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 4th class
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
- Inmates of Butyrka prison