Siberian partisan commander who led the Yenisei partisan army with Shchetinkin and took Minusinsk in 1919
An agronomist from a peasant family in Voronezh Province, he was punished for agitating among peasants in the 1905 revolution, moved to Siberia and worked at Shushenskoye, and in 1917 became a deputy of the Achinsk soviet. In summer 1918 he raised a partisan detachment against the Whites in Yenisei Province, in December was elected chief commander of the partisans around Krasnoyarsk, and from April 1919 led the partisan army formed with Shchetinkin's detachment. That army took Minusinsk on 13 September, and in January 1920 it became the 5th Army's Yenisei Rifle Division under his command. He joined the Bolshevik party in spring 1920 and fought Wrangel in the Crimea and the North Caucasus; after the war he ran land administration in Pyatigorsk and died of tuberculosis in 1923.
Activities and affiliations
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1914–1917
Russian Empire state institutions
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1918–1921
Soviet Union state institutionsMain
Military command -
1920–1923
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1905Graduated from the Mariinsky agricultural school
- 1907–1914Agronomist in Siberia (Shushenskoye)
- 1914–1917Company commander in a reserve regiment at Krasnoyarsk
- 1917Deputy of the Achinsk soviet; head of the Achinsk town militia
- 1918Raised a partisan detachment in Yenisei Province; chief commander of the partisans around Krasnoyarsk
- 1919Commander of the partisan army joined with Shchetinkin’s; took Minusinsk
- 1920Commander of the 5th Army’s Yenisei Rifle Division
- 1920Joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- 1920–1921Fought Wrangel in the Crimea and the North Caucasus
- 1922–1923Head of the provincial land department in Pyatigorsk