Nikolay Shchors
Soviet general
Died when: 24 years 85 days (290 months)Star Sign: Gemini
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Mykola Oleksandrovich Shchors (Ukrainian: ?????? ????????????? ????; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1895 – 30 August 1919) was a Ukrainian communist.He served as Red Army commander, member of the Russian Communist Party, renowned for his personal courage during the Russian Civil War and was sometimes called the Ukrainian Chapayev.
In 1918–1919 he fought against the newly established Ukrainian government of the Ukrainian People's Republic.Later he commanded the Bohunsky regiment, brigade, 1st Soviet Ukrainian division and 44th rifle division against the head of the Ukrainian People's Republic Symon Petliura and his Polish allies.
Shchors was slain in battle.
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