Nikolai Podvoisky
Nikolai Podvoisky | |
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| Николай Подвойский | |
| People's Commissar of Military Affairs of the Russian SFSR | |
| In office 8 November 1917 – 13 March 1918 | |
| Preceded by | Position established (Aleksander Verkhovsky as Minister of War Dmitry Verderevsky as Minister of the 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 |
| Died | 28 July 1948 (aged 68) |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
| 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.