Background
Kotsiubinskii, Iurii was born on December 7, 1896 in Vinnitsa. Son of a wellknown Ukrainian writer.
Kotsiubinskii, Iurii was born on December 7, 1896 in Vinnitsa. Son of a wellknown Ukrainian writer.
Joined the Communist Party in 1913. During World War I, in the army, revolutionary activist, participated in the taking of the Winter Palace in Oct 1917. Commanded detachments sent to defend Petrograd against Krasnov, 1918.
Supreme commander of Soviet troops in the Ukraine during the Civil War, toppled the Ukrainian Central Rada at Kiev. From 1925, on Soviet diplomatic work abroad (Austria, Poland).