Syla Mishchenko

Syla 'Moiseevich Mishchenko' was an Imperial Russian military officer and Soviet general from Ukraine. He played a key role during the 1918 Kiev [Arsenal January Uprising|January Uprising] in Kiev by supporting the Bolshevik uprising while being a commanding officer in the newly formed Sahaidachny Regiment.
Born in village of Yanivka of Radomyslsky Uyezd in a big family of a poor peasant, Mishchenko upon graduating of a local rural school enrolled into the Zabolotyne Teacher Seminary. With the start of the World [War I], in 1915 he finished a shortened course of the 1st Kiev Konstantinovskoye Infantry school and as a greenhorn officer was sent to frontlines.