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Jzef DowborMunicki was a Russian military officer and Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies. He was also the military commander of the Greater Poland Uprising.

DowborMunicki was born in Garbw in the Radom Governorate of Congress Poland, the part of Poland that was then a part of the Russian Empire. His family traced its roots to medieval Polish nobility of evangelical reformed denomination. His basic education, Dowbor received in the Nikolayevskiy Cadet Corps . In 1884 he joined the Russian military and graduated from the 2nd Konstantinovskoye Military School in 1888. After serving in the Fanagorisky Grenadiers regiment, he studied at the General Staff Academy and graduated in 1902. He served in Manchuria during the RussoJapanese War as a staff officer with the First Siberian Corps. On September 11, 1906, he was appointed a senior staff adjutant of the Irkutsk Military District and on March 2, 1908, a staff officer of the Xth Corps. On November 9, 1910 he became chief of staff of the 10th Infantry Division and on April 21, 1912 he was appointed to the same position with the 7th Infantry Division.

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