Ivan Naumovich Dubovoy

Soviet military officer Ivan Naumovich Dubovoy (Russian: Ива́н Нау́мович Дубово́й; Ukrainian: Іва́н Нау́мович Дубови́й; September 24, 1896 – July 29, 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet army commander. He fought for the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the subsequent Civil War. With fellow Ukrainian Ivan Fedko he secured his hometown for the Red Army. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner. During the Great Purge, he was arrested on August 21, 1937. On July 28, 1938, he was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union and executed the following day. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was rehabilitated in 1956. Early years Ivan Dubovoy was born in Chmyrivka in the Chyhyryn district of the Kyiv province (now Cherkasy region, Chihyryn district) into a peasant family. The natives of that region, including his father Naum Ipatiyovych, who worked at the mines of Yuzivka, filled the ranks of the proletariat of Donbas and Kryvorizhye. The First World War During the First World War he served in the Tsarist army in the 30th Siberian Rifle Regiment from Novem