commands death_place death_date birth_place allegiance battles rank image article_title name
revolutionary insurrectionary army of ukraine melitopol , yekaterinoslav governorate , ukrainian people 's republic 26 november 1920 huliaipole , yekaterinoslav governorate , russian empire rpau flag.svg revolutionary insurrectionary army of ukraine russian civil war commander -lrb- Атаман -rrb- karetnik semen.jpg simon karetnik
 simon karetnik
simon karetnik

simon karetnik -lrb- ; died november 26 , 1920 -rrb- was one of the poorest peasants of huliaipole and was an anarchist since 1907 .
he was commander of the revolutionary insurrectionary army of ukraine , and often replaced nestor makhno as supreme commander of the `` black army '' in 1920 .
he led troops who defeated the white army of general pyotr wrangel in the crimea on november 13 and 14 , 1920 and moved upon simferopol .
on november 26 , 1920 , he was trapped by bolshevik troops of mikhail frunze in melitopol and executed .
