Nikolai Podvoisky

Nikolai Podvoisky
Николай Подвойский
People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR
In office 8 November 1917 – 13 March 1918
Preceded by	Position established (Aleksander Verkhovsky as minister of War and Navy)
Succeeded by	Leon Trotsky
People's Commissar of Military Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR
In office February 1919 – August 1919
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Born	February 4 (16), 1880 Nezhinsky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate, Imperial Russia
Died	July 28, 1948(1948-07-28) (aged 68) Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Political party	RSDLP (1901–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1935)
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Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky (Russian: Николай Ильич Подвойский; Ukrainian: Микола Ілліч Подвойський; February 16 [O.S. February 4], 1880 – July 28, 1948) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman and the first People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR.

He played a large role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and wrote many articles for the Soviet newspaper Krasnaya Gazeta. He also wrote a history of the Bolshevik Revolution, which describes progress of the Russian Revolution.