Eduard Samuilovich Pantserzhanskiy ( - September 26, 1937) was a Russian military leader, Commander-in-Chief

Commander-in-Chief

A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...

 of the Soviet Naval Forces from December 1921 to December 1924.

Pantserzhanskiy was born in Liepāja

Liepaja

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, Latvia the son of a Polish nobleman and studied at the Riga Technical University

Riga Technical University

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

Baltic Fleet

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. He was an officer on the destroyer Grom and fought in the Battle of Moon Sound

Battle of Moon Sound

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. During the Civil war he fought on riverine flotillas on Lake Onega

Lake Onega

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 and the Volga - Caspian front.

between 1921 and 1924 he was commander of the Soviet Navy. From 1924 he joined the general staff holding various commands.

He was denounced in 1937 by Boris Feldman and arrested in June. He was tried, sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on 26 September 1937. He was posthumously rehabilitated

Rehabilitation (Soviet)

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 in 1956.