The Ziminsky Uprising is an armed uprising of the peasants of Barnaul County against the Kolchak government in August 1919. It laid the foundation for the mass partisan movement in Altai .
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| Main Conflict: Civil War in Russia | |||
| date | August 1919 | ||
| A place | Barnaul and surroundings | ||
| Total | partial defeat of the rebels, the beginning of a broad partisan movement in Altai | ||
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Rebellion
The Ziminsky uprising was prepared and led by an underground organization led by the Petrograd metalworker G. S. Ivkin . In December 1918 - January 1919, the underground established contact with the Barnaul Bolsheviks and formed a small armed detachment under the command of P.K. Chauzov. In June 1919 an executive committee was elected to lead the uprising. In July, a large group of deserters from the Kolchak army arrived in Zimino, who joined the underground. The performance was scheduled for August 7th. But on August 1, a punitive detachment of ensign Abramov arrived in Zimino . Having driven the villagers to the square, he demanded that deserters and those who evaded mobilization be handed over. Having been refused, Abramov ordered their relatives to be flogged. On August 2, a detachment of red partisans of 30 men rode up to Zimino with 9 rifles led by Brusentsov Kondraty Nikiforovich, Chauzov Pavel, Zhogov V.K. On the same day, at the meeting of the underground, the General Headquarters of the Altai District was elected, he concentrated in his hands all military and civil power in the rebel territory. F. I. Arkhipov became the chief and commissioner of the General Staff, K. N. Brusentsev was elected commander in chief.
In a short time, the Ziminsky uprising covered an area of 40 thousand square versts, on which about a hundred villages and villages were located. For better management, the General Staff divided it into 7 districts, each headed by its own committee and headquarters. It was ordered to mobilize 10 ages. In the event of the death of the General Headquarters, its branch was declared the headquarters of the 7th district (in the village of Borovsky), headed by R.P. Zakharov. Later, another reserve headquarters was appointed - in the village of. Pavlovsky. On August 13, at the congress of representatives of the liberated villages, it was decided to send envoys to Moscow with a report on the struggle of the Altai partisans. 2 members of the Zimin Bolshevik organization - Tatarinov and Yudin - managed to get to Moscow, met with Lenin .
The uprising seriously alarmed the Kolchak government . Barnaul County was declared under siege. Large military forces moved here with machine guns and artillery. The rebellious villages indulged in fire and plunder, the crops were destroyed. August 23 Zimino fell. Government troops burned 110 houses here. The rebels moved north in the village. Borovskoye (now Aleysky district), where the partisan detachment of R.P. Zakharov was operating. On the way, individual detachments were reduced to the 1st Aleysky regiment, and P. D. Tibekin was elected commander of it. On August 26, the Aleys joined with the partisans of Zakharov, who was appointed commander of the combined group. After battles with government troops near the village. On August 28, Urlapovo and Zerkaly, this group teamed up with Mamontov’s detachment (in the region of the village of Melnikov).
In art
The uprising is dedicated to the sketch "Ziminsky Uprising" by Novosibirsk artist P. G. Yakubovsky [1] .
Sources
- Encyclopedia of the Altai Territory: In 2 volumes. Volume 2. - Barnaul: Picket, 1997 .-- 488 p.
- N. KONKORIN p. Uch.-Marina (Altai Pravda, No. 284, December 14, 1939
- Partisan movement in Western Siberia in 1918-1919, Novosibirsk, 1936, p. 52
- "Herald of Zmeinogorsk", No. 62, November 23, 1919
- Butorin A.M. Ziminsky uprising: historical outline. - Barnaul: Altai Bookstore. Publishing House, 1960 - 42 p.