Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin
Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин
1883–1947
○ Arrested 1940, posthumously rehabilitated
Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card
On the night of 3 April 1917 at the Finland Station, representing the Vyborg district committee, he handed Lenin, just back from exile, party membership card No. 600.
A veteran of the 1905 Sormovo barricade fighting who studied at Lenin's Longjumeau party school in 1911, Chugurin was, alongside Kayurov and Pavlov, one of the Vyborg Bolshevik nucleus that drove the February 1917 street actions from the Women's Day strikes into armed insurrection. He personally handed Lenin party card No. 600 at the Finland Station upon his return from exile, served on the Vyborg district uprising headquarters during October, and later headed the political department of the 5th Army and held posts in the Cheka presidium. Arrested on fabricated charges in 1940, he emerged from the camps ill and worked as a tinsmith until his death; he was rehabilitated posthumously.
Career Timeline
- 1902Joined the RSDLP while working at the Sormovo plant, began underground revolutionary activity
- 1905.12Member of the 'pyatyorka' directing the Sormovo armed uprising; led barricade fighting
- 1911Studied at Lenin's Longjumeau party school; arrested upon return, exiled to Narym for 5 years
- 1916Member of the underground Vyborg district committee of RSDLP(b) in Petrograd
- 1917.02–10With Kayurov and Pavlov, drove the armed uprising in the February Revolution; member of the Vyborg uprising headquarters
- 1918–1919Head of political department, 5th Army; member and secretary of the Cheka presidium, head of Cheka Transport Department
- 1921–1937Deputy director of Krasnoe Sormovo, director of Northern Shipyard and Dvigatel Revolyutsii plant, among other industrial posts
- 1940Arrested on fabricated charges; released from camp in ill health, worked as a tinsmith