Ivan Fyodorovich Smirnov (underground nickname - Nikolai Lastochkin ; 1885-1919) - professional revolutionary, Bolshevik , trade union leader, Chairman of the Odessa underground regional committee of the Communist Party (B) U , intelligence commissioner, one of the leaders of the Foreign Collegium . Executed by the authorities of the South of Russia .
| Ivan Fedorovich Smirnov | |
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| Date of Birth | January 15, 1885 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow |
| Date of death | April 2, 1919 (34 years old) |
| Place of death | Odessa |
| Citizenship | Russian Republic , Ukrainian People's Republic |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | professional revolutionary and trade unionist |
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Biography
He joined the RSDLP in 1906. He was arrested, since 1914 he was exiled to Siberia . After the February Revolution he was able to return to European Russia . In August 1917 he was elected Chairman of the Central Council of Factory Committees of the city of Kiev . Then - a member of the executive committee of the Kiev Council . At the end of 1918 he was sent to the underground Bolshevik work in Odessa, where he became Chairman of the Odessa Regional Committee of the Bolsheviks and one of the leaders of the Foreign Collegium . At the beginning of 1919 he was elected to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. The Odessa counterintelligence branch of the FYUR managed to reach the trail of the Bolshevik underground in the city and defeat it.
Arrested by white counterintelligence on the evening of March 23:
- Arrests of the Bolsheviks.
Recently, the Odessa administration [ that is, the white counterintelligence] has vigilantly followed the Bolshevik underground. When the main threads were in the hands of the authorities, an order was given to capture the most ardent figures.
The first to be arrested was Bolshevik intelligence commissar Lastochkin, whom the police had long and stubbornly hunted.
The second was arrested by a Bolshevik leader, known under the nickname Count de Lafer . He appeared on the Odessa horizon relatively recently. The funds at the disposal of the arrested person were quite substantial. Count Lafer was detained after careful surveillance of him.
At this time, it is precisely established that the arrested [-] former secretary of the Petrograd "emergency" ...
- Our Word, April 2. [one]
He was shot by Denikin’s counterintelligence on the night of April 1 to 2, 1919, on a barge No. 4, which stood in the Odessa port , and the corpse was drowned.
In mid-April 1919, after the Red Army captured Odessa on April 6, 1919, the corpse of Lastochkin and other dead on a barge was picked up and identified. He was reburied in the Mariinsky Park in Kiev (the grave was not preserved).
Memory
- In Soviet times , Lanzheronovskaya Street in Odessa bore the name of Lastochkin. Until 2015, there was Smirnova-Lastochkina Street in Kiev .
- Lastochkin is the prototype of the main character of the 1932 play by Odessa Lev Slavin “ Intervention (play) ” by Bolshevik Michel Voronov ( Raven = Swallow ). Roles were performed by different actors. In the film adaptation of 1968 " Intervention " the role was played by Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky .
- Lastochkin is a character in the 1965 film Squadron Goes West directed by Miron Bilinsky and Nikolai Vingranovsky . The role was played by Adolf Shestakov .
See also
- Odessa evacuation (1919)
Notes
- ↑ Newspaper Our Word , Odessa, April 2, 1919.
Literature
- Kiev : Encyclopedic Reference / Ed. A.V. Kudritsky . - 2nd ed. - K .: The main edition of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1985. - S. 566.
- The revolution and civil war in Russia: 1917-1923. Encyclopedia in 4 volumes. - Moscow: Terra , 2008. - T. 4. - S. 105. - 560 p. - ( Big Encyclopedia ). - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-273-00564-8 .
- Smirnov Ivan (Lastochkin Nikolay) // Monument to the fighters of the proletarian revolution who died in 1917-1921. / Comp. L. Lezhava, G. Rusakov. - 3rd ed., Rev. and add. - M. -L .: State Publishing House , 1925. - S. 533 , 534 , 535 .