Lebedev, Evgeny Vladimirovich (party leader)

Born in the family of a small employee. In 1911 , at the age of 14, he began working as a clerk for the owner of a store in Nizhneudinsk . A year after the outbreak of World War I , in the fall of 1915, he was drafted into the army. He served in the 7th Infantry Division, spent more than 2 years at the front, in 1917 , after the February Revolution he joined political work among soldiers. He was elected chairman of the company, and then the regimental committee, at the same time a member of the division committee. According to the official biography, in October 1917 he was in Petrograd and participated in the capture of the Winter Palace .

Civil War

In February 1918 he returned to Verkhneudinsk and joined the RSDLP (b) there . In the summer of 1918, as part of a machine gun company, he participated in battles against Czechoslovakians and White Guards , with retreating units he marched from Slyudyanka to Blagoveshchensk . When Blagoveshchensk fell on September 18, 1918 , he first hid, and then got a job in the Baikal Union . There he headed an underground party cell and, on the instructions of the underground committee of the RCP (b), organized a secret printing house ^[1] , tracked down and repaired the old printing press, together with members of the party, got two pounds of type and headed the work of printing and distributing leaflets.

In mid- 1919, by order of an underground revolutionary committee, he was sent to the villages of Verkhneudinsky uyezd to organize an uprising against the formations of ataman Semenov and Japanese troops and introduced him to the Military Revolutionary Headquarters of Pribaikalye. Soon he becomes the leader of a partisan raid in the villages of the Menzo-Akshinsky district (his future wife Anna Nikitichna Khokhryakova also participated in the raid). On January 25, 1920, at the Bichur congress of the rebellious people, he was elected commander in chief of all partisan detachments of the Baikal region (according to Lebedev himself, there were about 4,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry ^[2] ). In this capacity, he led military operations against the garrison of Selenginsk and raids on the Petrovsky plant ^[3] . On February 27, 1920, his forces joined in the village of Kudara with the Transbaikal group of forces advancing from Irkutsk . He commanded partisan detachments during the capture of Verkhneudinsk on March 2, 1920 ^[2] . From the beginning of March 1920, he commanded the Trans-Baikal Brigade of the People's Revolutionary Army as part of the Trans-Baikal, Tarbagatai and Gasheysk Regiments, from March 19 to 22 he commanded the Trans-Baikal Group of Forces, then disbanded. On March 22, Lebedev commanded the Trans-Baikal Division of 1 and 2 rifle brigades ^[4] . During the unsuccessful Chita operation in April 1920, he commanded a reserve ^[5] .

In June 1921, by a decision of the Dalbyuro, the Central Committee of the RCP (B.) Was sent to Primorye, where he commanded the partisan detachments of the Prikhankaisky region, then was appointed head of the political department of the armed forces of Primorye ^[3] .

Soviet work

On the recommendation of the Dalbyuro of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (B), by a resolution of the Dalrevkom from November 17, 1922 he was appointed head of the police department of the Dalrevkom administration department and, at the same time, head of the workers 'and peasants' police department of the Far Eastern Region . His main task was to reorganize the people's militia of the Far Eastern Republic into the Workers 'and Peasants' militia. In March 1923 he was recalled from the police and sent to political work in Primorye as chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Nikolsk-Ussuri Uyezd.

In 1924, he worked in Chita as chairman of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection (RCT) . According to the FSB Directorate for the Khabarovsk Territory, by decision of the Trans-Baikal Provincial Committee of the RCP (B.) Of July 24, 1925, as an old active partisan, he was sent to study at a military academy ^[6] . However, in November of the same year he was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Trans-Baikal Provincial Council ^[7] , and on April 15, 1927 - chairman of the Chita District Executive Committee ^[3] . In 1929 - 1930, he served as executive secretary of the Sakhalin District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks ^[7] , and some time after the liquidation of the districts, in 1931 he was sent to Moscow to study at the All-Union Industrial Academy , and his wife to two-year Moscow courses of Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) ^[8] . After graduation, he served as chairman of the Amursky ^{[Note 1]} and Sakhalin Oblast Executive Committees, deputy chairman of the Far Eastern Regional Executive Committee ^[7] .

1937

In early June 1937 he was appointed acting chairman of the Far Eastern Regional Executive Committee after the former chairman G.M. Krutov was arrested on June 4 . However, he did not work in this post for three months, was arrested on the night of August 23-24, 1937 ^[9] , on April 8, 1938 he was sentenced to death and executed on the same day in Khabarovsk ^[6] (other information 9 April 1938 ^[10] ). On June 27, 1957, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentence was canceled and the case was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti ^[6] . In 1987, by decision of the Khabarovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, he and his wife were reinstated in the party (posthumous) ^[11] .

In 1920, he married Anna Nikitichna Khokhryakova (11/28/1900 - 05/27/1938), whom he had known since 1918. In 1937, she served as secretary of the party organization of the Far Eastern Railway ^[11] . Upon learning of her husband’s arrest in her absence, A.N. Khokhryakova-Lebedeva wrote a letter to the 1st Secretary of the Dalkraikom I.M. Vareikis , and in a letter dated August 26 wrote:

A.N. Khokhryakova-Lebedev was expelled from the party, arrested on September 27, 1937 ^[11] and shot on May 27, 1938 ^[10] . Their son Lev Evgenievich Lebedev (born December 28, 1926) was sent to an orphanage, from where his grandmother took him in November 1937 and took her away from Khabarovsk. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Dnipropetrovsk University, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, associate professor ^[12] . Brother E. V. Lebedev Nikolai Dmitrievich Lebedev in 1987 filed a petition with the Khabarovsk Territory of the CPSU to restore his brother posthumously ^[11] .

The street in the city of Ulan-Ude is named after E.V. Lebedev.

• Suturin A.S. Case of a regional scale / Khabarovsk. Khabarovsk Book Publishing House, 1991