Pavlusha Belenko (13 May 1896-17 October 1922) was a Red Army political commissar during the Russian Civil War.
Biography[]
Pavlusha Belenko was born on 13 May 1896 in Kremenchug, Russian Empire (present-day Kremenchuk, Ukraine) to a family of peasants, and he worked as a telegraph engineer for years. During World War I, he was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army, and he took part in the mutinies of 1917 during the Russian Revolution. Belenko would become a political commissar of an infantry regiment of the Red Army during the ensuing Russian Civil War, and he fought against the White Army and the Ukrainian National Republic. He was killed in action by the Whites in 1922 during an ambush of his regiment.