Nikolay Shchors

Mykola Oleksandrovich 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 19181919 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 was slain in battle.

Nikolay Shchors was born in the Snovsk village of Gorodnya uyezd into a family of kulaks. His father Aleksandr Nikolayevich, a locomotive engineer, according to the official Soviet historiography, arrived from a town of Stovptsi in search of better life to Snovsk where he was able to build his own house . Nikolay Shchors was the oldest child amongst his other siblings Konstantin , Akulina , Yekaterina , Olga . In 1905 Nikolai enrolled into a parish church school. In 1906 giving a birth to another child Nikolais mother, Aleksandra Mikhailovna Tabelchuk, died due to loss of blood. About six months after the death of his wife, Nikolais father remarried, this time to Maria Konstantinovna Podbelo. Aleksandr and Maria had five more children Grigori, Zinaida, Boris, Raisa, and Lidia. In 1909 Nikolai Shchors graduated from his church school.

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