Vasily Fedorovich Chabanovsky ( Ukrainian: Vasil Fedorovich Chabanivsky ; February 25, 1887 - August 19, 1963 ) - Ukrainian military leader. Coronet General .
| Vasily Fedorovich Chabanovsky | |
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| Date of Birth | February 25, 1887 |
| Place of Birth | Poltava province Russian Empire |
| Date of death | August 19, 1963 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Chicago ( USA ) |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire Ukrainian state  |
| Type of army | infantry |
| Rank | captain coronet general |
| Battles / wars | World War I , Civil War in Russia , Polish Wehrmacht Campaign (1939) |
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One of the initiators of the creation in 1943 of the Ukrainian Liberation Army , the military formation of Ukrainian volunteers as part of the Wehrmacht .
Biography
Originally from the Poltava province . In 1912 he graduated from the Tiflis Military School , in 1918 - two courses of the Military Academy of the General Staff. Member of the First World War. The last rank in the Russian army is the captain.
Since July 1918 he served in the General Staff of the Army of the Ukrainian State . On October 1 of the same year, he was a senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 6th Poltava Corps of the Army of the Ukrainian State . In December, he was appointed deputy chief of one of the departments of the headquarters of the Left Bank Front of the Directory of the Ukrainian People’s Republic .
January 25, 1919 - chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the Zaporizhzhya corps of the UPR army . In May of that year he was appointed ataman quartermaster of the Zaporizhzhya group of the UPR army. From June 7 to June 30, 1919 - and. about. Chief of Staff of the 6th Zaporizhzhya Division of the UNR Army, from August 1 to 25 - Chief of Staff of the Zaporizhzhya Army Group of the UNR.
In early December, he contracted typhoid . April 18, 1920 was appointed chief of the operational department of the General Staff of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic . Since May 4 of that year - the chief of staff of the commandant's office of the city of Vinnitsa .
Since June 25, he again served as the chief of the operational department of the General Staff. Since August 4 - at the disposal of the chief of staff of the army. On August 8, he was appointed chief of staff of the 4th Gray Brigade of the 2nd Volyn Division, and since September 15, he was appointed chief of staff of the 5th Kherson Rifle Division. October 5, 1920 he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel .
At the end of 1920, together with Ukrainian troops, was interned in Poland.
Since the end of September 1922 - head of the training department of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the UPR.
In 1928 he entered the service of an officer in the Polish Army . Since 1939 he served in the 81st Polish Infantry Regiment in the city of Grodno . The last rank in the Polish army is major.
Member of the German-Polish war : in September 1939, at the head of the battalion of the 2nd Grodno regiment, defended Lviv . On September 22, 1939, before the Soviet troops entered Lviv, with the permission of the Polish command, he left the city and reached Warsaw, where he was placed at the disposal of the UPR government in exile.
In 1943, he was among the initiators of the creation of the Ukrainian Liberation Army , a military formation of Ukrainian volunteers as part of the Wehrmacht .
In 1945 he emigrated to West Germany, in 1950 he moved to the USA , lived in Chicago , where he died in 1963.
In exile, he was awarded the title of General Coronet
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