Eduard Samuilovich Pantserzhanskiy (; – 26 September 1937) was a Russian military leader, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from December 1921 to December 1924.

Biography

Pantserzhanskiy was born in

Liepāja Liepāja (; liv, Līepõ; see #Names and toponymy, other names) is a state city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea. It is the largest-city in the Kurzeme Planning Region, Kurzeme Region and the third-largest city in the country after R ...

, Latvia the son of a Polish nobleman and studied at the

Riga Technical University Riga Technical University (RTU) ( lv, Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte) is the oldest technical university in the Baltic countries established on October 14, 1862. It is located in Riga, Latvia and was previously known as 'Riga Polytechnical Instit ...

. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1910 and joined the

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. Pantserzhanskiy was an officer on the destroyer ''Grom'' and fought in the

Battle of Moon Sound The Battle of Moon Sound was a naval battle fought between the forces of the German Empire, and the then Russian Republic (and three British submarines) in the Baltic Sea during Operation Albion from 16 October 1917 until 3 November 1917 duri ...

. During the Civil war he fought on riverine flotillas on

Lake Onega Lake Onega (; also known as Onego, rus, Оне́жское о́зеро, r=Onezhskoe ozero, p=ɐˈnʲɛʂskəɪ ˈozʲɪrə; fi, Ääninen, Äänisjärvi; vep, Änine, Änižjärv) is a lake in northwestern Russia, on the territory of the Repu ...

and the Volga-Caspian front. Between 1921 and 1924 Pantserzhanskiy was a commander of the Soviet Navy. From 1924 he joined the general staff holding various commands. Pantserzhanskiy was denounced in 1937 by

Boris Feldman Boris Mironovich Feldman (russian: Борис Миронович Фельдман) (1890 – June 12, 1937) was a Soviet military commander and politician. He was executed during the Great Purge and rehabilitated during the Khrushchev Thaw. ...

and arrested in June. He was tried, sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad on 26 September 1937 at the

Kommunarka shooting ground The Kommunarka firing range (russian: Расстрельный полигон «Коммунарка»), former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941. Executions may have been carried out th ...

. Pantserzhanskiy was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.

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1887 births 1937 deaths Military personnel from Liepāja People from Courland Governorate People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent Imperial Russian Navy officers Russian military personnel of World War I Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Soviet admirals Riga Technical University alumni Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Polish people executed by the Soviet Union Great Purge victims from Poland People executed by the Soviet Union by firing squad Soviet rehabilitations {{Russia-mil-bio-stub