Oleksa (Oleksiy) Dmytrovych Almazov (Almaziv, 6 January 1886 – 13 December 1936) was a military officer who served as General Khorunzhy in the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Having started his career in the Imperial Russian Army, after the revolution he became a major organizer of the Ukrainian artillery force, taking part in the Ukrainian War of Independence. Afterwards, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and then to Poland, eventually settling in Polish-ruled Volhynia. In 2018 Almazov's name was awarded to the 406th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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