Biography of Vasily Serova

Serov Vasily Matveevich Serov V. Serov, Vasily Matveevich - a professional revolutionary, one of the prominent organizers of Soviet power in Buryatia, the first chairman of the Verkhneudinsk Council. Member of the RCP B C from the year. Biography Vasily Matveevich Serov is the chairman of the first body of Soviet power in the Baikalsky Verkhneudinsk Council of Workers, Soldiers' and Peasant Deputies.

Member of the Bolshevik Party since the year, deputy of the II State Duma, prisoner of the Nerchinsky prisons, organizer and head of political exiles in Transbaikalia. The birthplace of Vasily Matveevich is the city of Khvalynsk of the Saratov province. Having lost his father early, he was forced to work for 3 years to work as a writer of the judicial investigation.

Possessing exceptional abilities, he enters the Kazan Teacher Institute. The revolutionary activity after graduating from the institute for the political unreliability of Serov was expelled in a deaf outcome - Atkarsk. In the year it becomes a freedom of the Historical and Philology Faculty of St. Petersburg University. Actively included in the revolutionary movement.

In the year he was arrested by the police and sent to the Saratov province "under the supervision of the police." Here he continues to engage in the propaganda of Marxist teaching and substantial lectures. Having gained wide fame in the masses, he is elected as a deputy of the II State Duma from the Saratov province. Lenin gave a brilliant assessment of Serov’s performance in the Duma on the agrarian issue in Russia.

At the end of the year, together with members of the Social Democratic faction of the II State Duma, V. Serov, accused of state crime, was devoted to the court and sentenced to five years in hard labor. Having served the Nerchinsk hard labor in the mountain grante in May, he is sent to the village of Myosovsk, the Trans -Baikal Region.

In September, Serov moves to Verkhneudinsk. After the February Revolution, under the leadership of V. Serov in Verkhneudinsk, the Council of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies was organized. He is elected chairman of the council. The Verkhneudin Council had a revolutionary effect on the entire Baikal region. Despite the short period of activity, the Soviet state apparatus was created, parts of the Red Guard were formed, stone-angular mines, factories, factories, printing houses, and cabinet lands were nationalized.

Further activities of the Council were prevented by the incoming counter -revolution. In August, the city of Verkhneudinsk was occupied by the Semenovtsy and interventionists. Leading figures were evacuated to the city of Chita, but terror raged there. In early September, V. Serov was captured by security agents in Chita and brutally killed. The memory of the name of Serov named Streets in Ulan-Ude and in the city of Revolution Square in Ulan-Ude Monument V.

Literature: Astrakhantsev, P. Astrakhantsev, O. Serova, N. Khaptaev, P. Serova, O. Bartanov, A. The First Chairman of the Verkhneudin Council. Anikin, P. Life given to the revolution [Text]: on the annual from the birth of V. The State Scientific Library of Kuzbass.