Grigory Kossak ( Ukrainian. Grigoriy Josipovich Kossak ; February 7, 1882 , Drogobych - March 3, 1939 , Moscow ) - Ukrainian military leader and Soviet military teacher, repressed in the USSR.
| Grigory Kossak | |
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| Nickname | Grits ( Ukrainian Grits ) |
| Date of Birth | February 7, 1882 |
| Place of Birth | Drohobych , Austria-Hungary |
| Date of death | March 3, 1939 (57 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Affiliation |  Austria-Hungary Unr the USSR |
| Type of army | infantry |
| Years of service | 1914-1931 |
| Rank |  major (chieftain) OSS Colonel UGA |
| Commanded | The 2nd lure of the USS Legion, 3rd Corps CAA |
| Battles / Wars | World War I Russian civil war Polish-Ukrainian war |
| Connections | Ivan Kossak (brother) |
| Retired | teacher of the school of senior sergeons ; later repressed and shot |
Life Story
A native of Drohobych in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a descendant of the Dnieper Cossacks who migrated to Western Ukraine - hence the name Kossak (i.e., Cossack). Brothers Ivan and Vasily .
A teacher by education, he taught at the school of the village of Yasenitsy. Mobilized in 1914 to the Austro-Hungarian army, to the OSS legion . August 3, 1914 appointed chieftain of the 2nd smoking room of the Legion. From January to March he was acting as regiment commandant, from August 22, 1915 to March 16, 1916 he commanded the 1st regiment.
From November 5 to November 9, 1918, Grigory Kossak commanded the Ukrainian troops in Lviv. In December 1918, he commanded the Southern group of Ukrainian troops in the days of the war with Poland. He also commanded the 3rd Corps and rear services. In the early 1920s he was in an internment camp in the Czechoslovak city of Liberec . He lived in emigration in Austria.
In 1924 he returned to the USSR, where he began teaching. He worked in Kharkov at the School of Red Foremen , in the structures of the Ukrainian Red Cossacks ( Vitaly Primakov’s Red-Cossack Corps ) as a teacher of the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian studies; there he headed the military departments at the chemical-technological and medical institutes.
In 1931, the NKVD was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activities. Sentenced to 6 years of labor camp, he served his sentence on the Solovetsky Islands and in the Small Irbit. After his release, he moved to Moscow, taught German at the Klara Zetkin garment factory.
In 1938, he was re-arrested on charges of espionage and counter-revolutionary activities. March 2, 1939 the Commission of the NKVD and the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR sentenced to death, the sentence was carried out the next day, March 3 . Buried in Tobolsk .
Rehabilitated posthumously in May 1989.
Links
- Kossak, Grigory Iosifovich on Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants
- Memory book. Victims of repression
- Underground organizations and OUN on the Dnieper (inaccessible link)