Eduard Pantserzhanskiy
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Born | Liepāja, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire | October 12, 1887
Died | September 26, 1937 Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union | (aged 49)
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Service/ | Imperial Russian Navy, Soviet Navy |
Years of service | 1910–1937 |
Rank | Vice Admiral |
Commands held | Soviet Navy |
Battles/wars | World War I, Russian Civil War |
Eduard Samuilovich Pantserzhanskiy (Russian: Эдуард Самуилович Панцержанский; October 12 [O.S. September 30] 1887 – September 26, 1937) was a Russian military leader, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from December 1921 to December 1924.[1]
Biography[]
Pantserzhanskiy was born in Liepāja, Latvia the son of a Polish nobleman and studied at the Riga Technical University. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1910 and joined the Baltic Fleet. Pantserzhanskiy was an officer on the destroyer Grom and fought in the Battle of Moon Sound. During the Civil war he fought on riverine flotillas on Lake Onega and the Volga-Caspian front.
Between 1921 and 1924 Pantserzhanskiy was a commander of the Soviet Navy. From 1924 he joined the general staff holding various commands.
Pantserzhanskiy was denounced in 1937 by Boris Feldman and arrested in June. He was tried, sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad on 26 September 1937 at the Kommunarka shooting ground. Pantserzhanskiy was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.[2]
Notes[]
- ^ A team of authors, editor-in-chief S. S. Khromov. Civil war and military intervention in the USSR. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1983 .-- 422 p.
- ^ Lazarev S.E. The fate of E.S.Pantserzhansky in the context of the tragic events of the 1930s // Scientific life of the Caucasus. Publishing house of the North Caucasus Scientific Center of Higher School of the Southern Federal University. 2011. No. 2. S. 125–129.
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