Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Владимир Антонов-Овсеенко
	Antonov-Ovseenko in 1919
People's Secretary of Military Affairs
	In office; 7 March 1918 – 18 April 1918
Preceded by	Yuriy Kotsiubynsky
Succeeded by	Post dissolved; Fyodor Sergeyev (All-Ukrainian Central MilRevKom)
Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR
	In office; 25 May 1934 – 25 September 1936
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by	Andrey Vyshinsky
Succeeded by	Nikolay Rychkov
People's Commissar for Justice of the Russian SFSR
	In office; 16 September 1937 – 17 October 1937
Preceded by	Ivan Bulat
Succeeded by	Yakov Dmitriev
Personal details
Born	Vladimir Alexandrovich Ovseenko; 9 March 1883; Chernigov, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	10 February 1938 (aged 54); Butyrka Prison, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	RSDLP (1902–1903) ; RSDLP (Mensheviks) (1903–1917) ; Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1927), (1928–1938)
Alma mater	Vladimir Military Institute, Nikolaevsk Combat Engineer Institute
Military service
Allegiance	Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (1917–1918); Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (1918–1919); Russian Soviet Republic (1919–1921)
Branch/service	Red Guards (1917–1918); Red Army (1918–1922)
Years of service	1917–1922
Rank	Commander-in-chief
Commands	Ukrainian Revolutionary Forces (1917–1918); Ukrainian Front (1918–1919)
Battles/wars	Russian Revolution July Days; October Revolution; Russian Civil War Ukrainian–Soviet War Aleksandrovsk Bolshevik Uprising; Soviet invasion of Ukraine; Battle of Kiev; ; Tambov Rebellion;

Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko (Russian: Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко; Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Антонов-Овсєєнко; 9 March 1883 – 10 February 1938), real surname Ovseenko, party aliases 'Bayonet' (Штык) and 'Nikita' (Никита), literary pseudonym A. Galsky (А. Гальский), was a prominent Bolshevik leader, Soviet statesman, military commander, and diplomat.