Evdokiya Borisovna Kovalchuk, better known as Dusya Kovalchuk (1881-1919), is a participant in the Bolshevik underground in Novonikolaevsk (1918-1919).
| Evdokia Kovalchuk | |
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| Birth name | Avdotya Borisovna Repina |
| Aliases | Dusya |
| Date of Birth | 1881 |
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| Citizenship | |
| Occupation | revolutionary |
| Education | self-education |
| The consignment | RSDLP (since 1917 ) |
| Main ideas | Bolshevism |
| Father | Boris Andreevich Repin |
| Spouse | Fedor Kovalchuk |
Biography
She was born in a peasant family living in the Sergach district of the Nizhny Novgorod province. Later, she moved to Novonikolaevsk with her parents. Father, Boris Andreyevich Repin, worked as a carpenter.
At the age of 16, Evdokia Repin married Fyodor Kovalchuk, who was twice her age. According to some reports, the husband-hairdresser had his own salon on the station square. However, there is evidence that he worked as a steam locomotive engineer. The husband was a supporter of the monarchy and did not share the revolutionary views of his wife. [1] Four children were born in this marriage (two boys and two girls).
D. Kovalchuk was an emancipated woman for her time: she independently mastered reading and writing, wrote out political newspapers. She sewed well to order on an existing Singer sewing machine at home. Thanks to the husband of her younger sister, Alexandra joined the illegal political activity [2] . Since 1910, the family home has become a meeting place for underground workers.
In February 1917, Kovalchuk joined the RSDLP , and was later elected to the Novonikolayevsky Sovdep. Since December 1917, Soviet power was established in the city, which was overthrown on May 26, 1918 by the rebelled Czechoslovak corps , and the power of the Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia was established . At this time, Kovalchuk became one of the leaders of the underground group of the RCP (b) .
After the execution of the Bolshevik revolutionaries, she organized the funeral of comrades-in-arms - F. I. Gorban , A. I. Petukhov , F. P. Serebrennikov , D. M. Polkovnikov and F. S. Shmurygin , which resulted in a political demonstration. She collected money, rusks, clothes for those arrested and children shot, and repeatedly traveled to other cities to contact them. She participated in the preparation of the shoots of those arrested, and hid messengers from other cities in Siberia in her house.
In the days of the December (1918) and February (1919) uprisings in Omsk, she advocated the organization of uprisings in cities, as opposed to the point of view of a number of Bolshevik organizations in Siberia, who proposed that the center of the uprisings be transferred to the village periphery. Contributed to the transfer of cartridges and ammunition to the Altai red partisans.
In September 1919, she was arrested by counterintelligence with a group of members of the underground, according to some Czech [3] , and according to others, Polish [4] . Shot. The burial place is unknown.
Memory
- In 1924, Pokrovskaya Street in Novosibirsk was renamed Dusi Kovalchuk Street .
- In 1957, the poet Vasily Fedorov wrote a dedication poem, "Dusya Kovalchuk."
- In 1977, a marble bust of Dusi Kovalchuk was installed in the Square of the Heroes of the Revolution in Novosibirsk.
Notes
- ↑ Family history in archival documents. So she lived, suffered
- ↑ History of the Square of Heroes of the Revolution (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Heroes of the Revolution Square (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Who is Dusya Kovalchuk?