c. 1890s Katerynivka, Katerynoslav, Russian Empire
Died
(1921-07-22)22 July 1921 Taganrog, Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR
Allegiance
Makhnovshchina
Service
Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine
Years of service
1918-1921
Rank
Otaman
Commands held
Machine-gun Regiment
Battles/wars
Ukrainian War of Independence
Battle of Peregonovka
Northern Taurida Operation
Siege of Perekop
Foma Kozhyn (Ukrainian: Фома Кожин) was a Ukrainian revolutionary and the commander of the machine-gun regiment of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
FomaKozhyn (Ukrainian: Фома Кожин) was a Ukrainian revolutionary and the commander of the machine-gun regiment of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of...
almost every insurgent unit, with the exception of those commanded by FomaKozhyn and Fedir Shchus. The CPU, which by this time controlled the entire 3rd...
Karetnyk, his cavalry commander Oleksiy Marchenko and machine gun commander FomaKozhyn were then summoned to Strohanivka [uk] for a meeting with Frunze, who...
grandfather Pravda Sergei Strelnikov [ru] as White Guard Vladimir Andreev as FomaKozhyn Viktor Saraikin [ru] as Sukhoverkhy Alexander Kochubey as Pavlo Timoshenko...
would then dissolve. In the Mariupol district in the spring of 1920, FomaKozhyn's formations of 100 sabers with 30 tachankas and Maskalevsky's 500 cavalry...
crossed the Syvash, followed by a machine gun regiment commanded by FomaKozhyn, sustaining many casualties under the heavy fire. The insurgent assault...
Alexei Marchenko led the insurgent cavalry, covered from behind by FomaKozhyn's machine gun regiment, which suffered heavy casualties during the crossing...