Jakov Ivanovich Podgorny, Russian Яков Иванович Подгорный (born 1877, died 1945 in Moscow) - Russian military (captain of 1st rank), emigre activist, publicist.

Since 1900 he served in the Russian army. In 1904 he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. In 1907 he completed an officer's submarine training course in Liepaja, then served in the Siberian Flotilla. He was a junior officer on the submarine "Kiefal". In 1908 he graduated from an officer's degree course in Kronstadt. In 1910 he was promoted to lieutenant. He took command of the submarine "Crocodile". He participated in the First World War. From 1915 he commanded the submarine "Giepard". From July 1916 he served in the submarine division of the Main Board of Ship Technology. In 1917 he became captain of 2nd rank. In early 1918 he joined the newly formed White Army. Served in the command post of the port of war in Novorossiysk. In 1919 he went to the Army of Poland. He received the rank of captain of rank 1. He commanded an armored train. He then co-organized the Don Flotilla. He served as an inspector in the Heavy Artillery Management Board. He later headed the board. During the evacuation of the White troops from the Crimea to Gallipoli in November 1920 he commanded the transporter "Dałand". From December this year he stayed in Bizerta. In 1921 he arrived in Marseille. He eventually settled in Czechoslovakia. In Plzeň organized a local Gallipoy Association and the Fleet Officers Association. In 1928 he founded the magazine "Zarubieżnyj morskoj sbornik". Until 1931 he edited it. In the second half of the 1930s he presided over the Czechoslovak 6th Division of the Russian General Association (ROWS). He wrote articles for the magazine "Armija i Fłot". After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the German army in early 1939, he co-organized a branch of the Union of Russian Military Unions in the Protectorate of the Czech Republic and Moravia. After the occupation of Prague by the Red Army in early May 1945, he was arrested by SMIERS and was taken to Moscow, where he soon died in one of the prisons. Bibliography

Borys A. Caregorodcew, Second Chance of Admiral Bakhirev, 2013

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