Timofiej Miedkow

Тимофей Антонович Медков (born May 3, 1900 in Mowowatskij chapel in the Dniester district, died in 1991 in Paris) - Polish military Cossack soldiers during the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1920, emigrant combatant emigrant and socio-cultural.

Graduated from Bogdachar Gymnasium. He participated in the civil war in Russia. In the spring of 1918, he participated in the Cossack anti-Bolshevik insurrection in the district of Wuppertal. Then he served in the 11th Cossack Regiment of the Polish Army. He was injured three times. He came to the rank of patron. In the beginning of 1920, after the defeat of the White forces under Novorossiysk, he was captured, then mobilized to the Bolshevik forces. During the fights on the Western Front, he and the other Cossacks of the brigade drove to the Poles. Then he fought on their side in Cossack troops. Until 1926 he lived in Poland. Then he left for France, where he was active in the Volunteer Movement. At the end of the 1940s he participated in the congress of the National Veterans' Union, as well as the congress of Ukrainian Officers - Veterans. Since 1949 he has served as secretary of the leadership of the Cossack Association - Veterans. In 1951, he became the secretary of the editorial office of Kazak. In the 1950s he worked in the financial committee of the Cossack National Fund. In 1958, he was elected a regional aide at the Cossack congress. At the turn of the 50s and 60s he co-organized the Cossack Days of the National Press. He has lectured on Cossack topics. Bibliography

Lew A. Mnuchin, Marie Avril, Russian Abroad in France, 1919-2000, 2008

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