Georgy Sergeevich Okolovich ( June 16, 1901 , Riga , Russian Empire - February 10, 1980 , Darmstadt , Germany ) - a representative of the first wave of emigration, one of the leaders of the People's Labor Union of Russian Solidarists .
Biography
During the Civil War, as a teenager, he joined the White Army , becoming a machine gunner on an armored train , and took part in battles. He emigrated from Russia in 1920. In the 1930s he joined the NTS . In August 1938, as part of the 3rd group (Okolovich and Kolkov) crossed the Polish-Soviet border. The group spent 4 months in the USSR , having studied the situation in Soviet cities, they returned abroad. Thanks to this success, Okolovich soon became the head of closed work in the NTS. During the Great Patriotic War he traveled to the USSR, where he conducted underground work. He served in the city council of Smolensk. On September 13, 1944, the Gestapo was arrested, having ended up in prison, from where he only came out in April 1945 at the request of General Vlasov . He was trained to participate in the NATO operation Gladio . Repeatedly, Soviet intelligence prepared attempts to assassinate Okolovich and members of his family. In 1954, State Security Captain Khokhlov told Okolovich that he was a Soviet agent who arrived to kill Okolovich, but refused to do so. In 1955, in Paris, at an open meeting of the Posev magazine, he made a report on the abduction of the chairman of the Berlin Committee for Assistance to the Fugitives from the Soviet Zone A. Trushnovich . Chairman of the Executive Bureau of the NTS (1961). In 1961, Okolovich defused a bomb planted by Soviet special services at the site of the construction of the new Poseva building. In 1962-1970 headed the publishing house NTS "Posev". He died in 1980 in Germany.