Voytsekhovsky, Sergey

Sergey Voytsekhovsky (1883–1951) was a Russian and Czechoslovak military leader. Born in Vitebsk in a family of Polish-Lithuanian gentry, he fought in the First World War and was one of the leaders of the White movement in Siberia, Major General of the Russian Service and Army General of Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Artillery School in Constantinople (1904), Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff (1912) and the aviation school of the Imperial Moscow Society of Aeronautics (1913). At the beginning of World War I, he was a senior adjutant at the headquarters of the 69th Infantry Division at the Southwestern Front. He served as chief of staff of the division (1914–1915) and chief of staff of the 126th Infantry Division at the Romanian Front (1917), later he received the post of chief headquarters of the 1st Czechoslovak Division, a part of the Russian army, and participated in hostilities in the Carpathians and the Dnieper basin.

He led the Czechoslovak legionnaires in Chelyabinsk region and was a member of the Military Collegiums of the interim executive committee of the Czechoslovak troops in Russia, the body that commanded the Czechoslovak armed forces opposing the Bolsheviks. In the period of growing contradictions between the command of the Czechoslovak troops and the supreme ruler Alexander Kolchak he supported the latter. In 1919, he returned to the Russian service (Kolchak’s troops) with the rank of major general and led the 2nd Ufa Corps, at the head of which he participated in the spring offensive of whites (1919) and in the battles near Ufa, Zlatoust and Chelyabinsk.

Honors:
Order of St. Anne of the 4th degree with the inscription "For courage" (1915);
Order of St. Anne 3rd degree with Swords and Bow (1915);
Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree with Swords (1915);
Order of St. Anne 2 nd degree with Swords (1915);
Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with Swords and Bow (1916);
Swords and Bow to the Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1916).