Yuriy Tyutyunnyk

Yuriy Yosipovich Tyutyunnyk
Photo of Tyutyunnyk made after his arrest by the OGPU
Born	(1891-04-20)20 April 1891 Zvenyhorodka county, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	20 October 1930(1930-10-20) (aged 39) Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Russian Empire (1904–1917) Ukrainian People's Republic
Service/branch	Ukrainian People's Army
Years of service	1904–1921
Rank	Otaman Khorunzhy
Commands held	Kiev Division
Battles/wars	World War I Ukrainian–Soviet War

Yuriy (Yurko) Yosipovich Tyutyunnyk (Ukrainian: Юрій Тютюнник) (20 April 1891 in Budyshche, Pendivsky district, Zvenyhorodka county, Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (currently Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine) – 20 October 1930 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a general of the Ukrainian People's Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) during the Ukrainian–Soviet War.

Yuriy Tyutyunnyk was born on 20 April 1891 to a peasant family, former serfs Yosyp and Maryna, in the village of Budyshche, near Kiev. Remarkable is the fact that he was the grandson of Taras Shevchenko's sister Yaryna on the mother's side. His older cousins Levko and Ananiy Shevchenkos were one of the organizers of the Free Cossacks, later joining the UPSR. Only five out of nine children in his family reached adulthood. Tyutyunnyk finished primary education at the village school and later an agrarian school in Uman. He was married, and had two daughters.

Tyutyunnyk was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1913 and initially served in the 6th Siberian battalion in Vladivostok. With the outbreak of World War I, in 1914 he became a non-commissioned officer and was wounded during the Battle of Lodz, in Poland in October of that year. For his recovery Tyutyunnyk was transferred to a reserve regiment in Kremenchuk. Upon recovery he came back to the 6th battalion which at that time was fighting near the Lake Narach (today in Belarus).