- Georg Elfvengren
Colonel Georg (Yrjö) Elfvengren (1889 – 1927) was a Finnish officer of the
Russian Imperial Guard during theFirst World War and a noted commander of theFinnish Civil War andHeimosodat , who sympathized with the RussianWhite movement and fought against Finnish and Russian Red Guards on theKarelian Isthmus on both sides of theFinland -Russia border. From November 1919 to May 1920 he was the chairman of the governing council of theRepublic of North Ingria . He was shot by firing squad inMoscow in 1927.References
* [http://terijoki.spb.ru/history/templ.php?page=pykkenelf&lang=en Yrjö Elfvengren, the soldier of Russia and Finland] ( [http://terijoki.spb.ru/history/templ.php?page=pykkenelf&lang=ru Russian] ) ( [http://terijoki.spb.ru/history/templ.php?page=pykkenelf_fi&lang=en Finnish] )
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