Murom uprising

After the October Revolution in Murom, among the local bourgeoisie and intelligentsia, mainly former officers, there was a growing discontent with the transfer of power in Russia to the hands of the Bolshevik government. These strata of society advocated the overthrow of the power of the Bolsheviks in the country, and, in particular, in Murom. They called for the overthrow of Soviet power, the restoration of the power of the Constituent Assembly and the reprisals against the Red Army, communists and Soviet workers, and they were preparing for an armed uprising. So, in February 1918, during a search in the apartment of the future leader of the uprising N. P. Sakharov, 6 drafts , 2 rapiers , 5 bayonets , 8 hatchets , 5 holsters , 40 pairs of officer epaulets of different ranks were found.

In the spring of 1918, Soviet authorities established that meetings of former officers and the bourgeoisie were held at the Murom public club. In June 1918, local Soviet authorities began to receive information that a White Guard organization existed in Murom and its performance was being prepared. The performance of the whites in Murom was originally planned for June 6–7 , but did not take place on this day in connection with the measures taken.

The armed uprising, which ended with the seizure of power by the White Guards for some time, occurred on the night of July 8–9, 1918. The leaders of the speech were Colonel N. P. Sakharov and military doctor D. S. Grigoriev ^[1] .

On July 3, the Oksky Boulevard of Murom became a gathering point for the White Guard forces, hence the performance of the White Guards on July 8. Late in the evening, at 22-23 hours, the White Guards unexpectedly attacked the guard company and took it by surprise. As a result, 3 Red Army soldiers were wounded, one mortally, and the rebels seized weapons. At the same time, the military commissariat, the Supreme Military Council and the local Council were captured, and by night the city of Murom was captured by the White Guards.

On July 9, the appeals of the Union for the Defense of the Homeland and Freedom were posted around the city calling for the overthrow of Soviet power, as well as the order of Nikolai Sakharov, the head of the Eastern detachment of the Northern Volunteer Army, on the appearance for registration of officers at the headquarters of the White Guard . The headquarters sent armed detachments: the first, under the command of Officer Golberg, to the Selivanovo station; the second, led by officer Pestryakov, went to the Klimovo station (both detachments were supposed to ruin the railroad tracks), the third detachment went to the Navashino station to fight the workers who were in defense of the Soviet regime.

Apart from the bourgeoisie, the clergy and the intelligentsia, no one sided with the White Guards. The broad masses of the population reacted sharply to the speech of the White Guards. Local communist forces, workers of railway workshops and factories (Navashino, Vyksa, Kovrov) and other surrounding villages managed to organize protection.

By the morning of July 10, the performance of the White Guard was liquidated by local forces; the White Guards fled the city, having managed to take with them about 700,000 rubles from the local Council , the district military commissariat and some other institutions. The power of the Bolsheviks in Murom was restored.

On the evening of July 10, a detachment of Red Army soldiers and workers under the command of Erlykin caught up with the whites at the Domiki station, defeated them and drove them further.

On the night of July 11, the remnants of the White Guards were again overtaken by a red detachment at Novo-Dmitrievsky, beaten to pieces and fled past Vyksa to Ardatov.

Later during interrogation, the organizer of the Union for the Defense of the Homeland and Freedom B.V. Savinkov spoke of the Murom uprising as follows: “I knew about the Murom uprising that Grigoryev, who was killed during the uprising against Kolchak, reported to me. Grigoriev took Murom, he had very little strength, something like 40 or 50, lasted there one day and left towards Kazan. "

After 2 weeks, at night, in Murom, in the basement of the house of merchants Shvedov-Karatygin (there was the Murom Revolutionary Council) A. I. Erlykin and A. Kirillov ^[2] were shot 12 captured White Guards. among whom were A.A. Lehman and B.A. Methodin. [one]

• A. S. Kruchinin. Murom anti-Soviet uprising (1918) sources and background // Uvarov readings-V: Materials of a scientific conference dedicated to the 1140th anniversary of the city of Murom. Murom, 2003. pp. 283-286
• Red Book of the Cheka (in 2 volumes). / under the scientific. ed. A. S. Velidova. Book 1. 2nd ed. M., Politizdat, 1989.

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