Kazakov, Mikhail Kirillovich

Born in Ufa , in the family of a tradesman. He graduated from 4 classes of the city school, then land surveying courses. He worked as a private surveyor, from March 1908 - the topographer of the Tomsk land-management detachment, since May 1909 - in the land management of the Altai district.

In February 1916 he was drafted into the army, served in Tomsk as a clerk at the headquarters of the 5th Siberian Rifle Brigade. After February 1917 he returned to Barnaul , headed the soldier department in the city Council (September 1917), and in October was appointed deputy chairman of the city council. In December 1917, it became part of the Revolutionary Military Committee, which took power in the city and province .

Since January 1918, he was the chairman of the revolutionary court, and since February, he was the deputy chairman of the executive committee. From the beginning of the speech of the Czechoslovakians - deputy chairman of the provincial military revolutionary committee. He maintained contact with the Cherepanov front, met and escorted the Red Guard detachments. He led the evacuation of the Red forces from Barnaul, he himself left with the last train at Aleiskaya station. Hence, on June 19, 1918, a red detachment led by P.F. Sukhov advanced to Omsk.

According to one version, the red leadership of the Altai province, including Kazakov, secretly left the detachment to contact the Red Army command in order to report on the plight of the Altai Red Army soldiers. But in with. Lukovka (now Pankrushikhinsky district) Kazakov, together with I.V. Prisyagin , M.K. Tsaplin , and S.P. Kareyev and M.A. Fomin, were identified by the local Socialist - Revolutionary , arrested and taken to Barnaul prison.

September 26, 1918 a group of officers were released from prison and shot.

Kazakov named the street in Barnaul.

• Barnaul: Encyclopedia / Ed. V. A. Skubnevsky . - Barnaul: Publishing house Alt. state University , 2000. - ISBN 5-7904-0140-6 .