Vasily Matveyevich Serov

Vasily Matwejewitsch Serow ( Russian Василий Матвеевич Серов ; born December 29, 1878 in Chwalynsk , † September 4, 1918 in Chita ) was a Russian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the struggle for the establishment of Soviet power in Buryatia .

Life

Serov, son of a homeworker family, joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia (RSDLP) in 1902 . After graduating from the Kazan Teachers Institute (1899), Serov worked as a teacher in Atkarsk . From 1902 he was a guest student at St. Petersburg University, where he headed a social democratic student circle. Serov took part in the revolution of 1905-07 and was elected a member of the Second State Duma for the Saratov Governorate in 1907 . There he was a member of the Bolshevik section of the social democratic faction. Serov was a delegate at the 5th Party Congress of the RSDLP (1907) in London . At the end of 1907 he and other social democratic members of the Duma were sentenced to five years of forced labor and exiled to Eastern Siberia. There Serov continued his revolutionary activity. From March 1917 to August 1918 he was the chairman of the Verkhneudinsk Soviet . In August 1918 he was captured by the White Guards in Chita and tortured to death.

Honors

In 1959 a memorial was erected in Ulan-Ude in his honor. Numerous streets in Russia bear his name.

literature

Нина Васильевна Серова: Василий Серов. Революционер Прибайкалья . Бурятское книжное издательство, Улан-Удэ 1961.

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SURNAME	Serow, Wassili Matvejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Серов, Василий Матвеевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian revolutionary and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 29, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chwalynsk
DATE OF DEATH	September 4, 1918
Place of death	Chita