Nikolay Shchors
Military Person
1895 – 1919
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Who was Nikolay Shchors?
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Shchors was a Red Army commander, member of the Russian Communist Party, renowned for his personal courage during the Russian Civil War and sometimes being called the Ukrainian Chapayev. In 1918–1919 he fought against the new established Ukrainian government in Kyiv. Later he commanded the Bohunsky regiment, brigade, 1st Soviet Ukrainian division and 44th rifle division against Symon Petlura and his Polish allies. Shchors perished in a battle, while some sources claim that he was shot out of jealousy.
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