Semen Hryhorovych Hryzlo was a Ukrainian military and civil activist, one of the organizers of the Free Cossacks military formations, and a participant in the uprising on the battleship Potemkin.
11 Facts About Semen Hryzlo
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Semen Hryzlo was born sometime in the late 1880s in the town of Katerynopil, Zvenigorod uyezd, in the Kiev Governorate, and worked as a scribe and teacher at a local rural school.
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Later Hryzlo was drafted into the Black Sea Fleet, where he served on the battleship Potemkin.
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Semen Hryzlo was an active participant in the cultural life of the village of Husakove in the Zvenigorod uyezd.
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Semen Hryzlo was one of the first who military organisers of the Free Cossacks, becoming the otaman of the Kaniboloto Kurin in March 1917.
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At the first Congress of the Free Cossacks of Zvenigorod uyezd in April 1917 Semen Hryzlo was elected the Kosh Otaman.
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Semen Hryzlo was one of the organizers the 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of the Free Cossacks that took place on 3 October 1917 in Chyhyryn where he was elected as a general osavul of Free Cossacks.
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In February 1918 the Semen Hryzlo's Cossacks were successful in defeating several units of the 8th Russian Army near the rail station of Bobrynsk.
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Semen Hryzlo later came under the command the Northern Front of the Ukrainian People's Army led by otaman Volodymyr Oskilko.
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Semen Hryzlo was an active participant of the Kholodny Yar Ukrainian partisan movement cooperating with Ivan Gonta.
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On 3 March 1921 near the village of Novoselytsya near Zvenyhorodka Semen Hryzlo was ambushed and then surrounded by several squads of the Red Army where he perished.