Yulian Vladislavovich Konopko ( 1888 - 1938 ) - a participant in the Civil War, twice the Red Banner ( 1923 , 1923 ).
Yulian Vladislavovich Konopko | |||
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Date of Birth | 1888 | ||
Place of Birth | Lodz | ||
Date of death | May 28, 1938 | ||
Place of death | Moscow | ||
Affiliation | Russian Empire , the USSR | ||
Years of service | 1909 - 1923 | ||
Battles / Wars | Russian civil war | ||
Awards and prizes |
Biography
Julian Konopko was born in 1888 in the city of Lodz (now Poland ) [1] into the family of the cooper and the laundress. He graduated from primary school. From an early age he worked, changed a large number of professions. During the years of the First Russian Revolution, he joined the revolutionary movement, participated in the unrest in the Dombrowski district of the Kingdom of Poland . Hiding from persecution by the Russian police, Konopko fled first to Austria , then to Germany . In 1909, while trying to cross the state border of the Russian Empire, he was detained by border guards. For unknown reasons, he was sent to serve in the 22nd sapper battalion, where he served in the military orchestra [2] .
In early 1914, Konopko was demobilized, but already in the same year, in connection with the outbreak of the First World War, he was again called up to serve in the tsarist army. During the break between the military service, he worked as a conductor of cars in international trains. He did not participate in the battles, served as a driver in the 1st spare automobile company of the garrison of the city of Petrograd . He took an active part in the events of October 1917 , the first of all the drivers of the garrison drove his armored car with machine guns to the guard of Smolny . At the same time, he joined the Red Guard and became the personal driver of the Central Executive Committee Chairman Yakov Sverdlov [3] .
When, in February 1918, the 1st Auto Combat Detachment was established by a resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Konopko was appointed its commander. Under his direct supervision, all operations of the detachment were carried out, including guarding the government of Lenin's relocation from Petrograd to Moscow , guarding the Moscow Kremlin , and suppressing the Left Aeser insurgency in Moscow . Konopko independently recruited personnel in his squad. Under his leadership, the detachment successfully acted on the fronts of the Civil War and in the defeat of the Basmachi formations in Central Asia [3] .
By order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic No. 56 in 1923, the commander of the 1st auto combat battle of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Julian Konopko, was awarded the first Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR [4] .
By the order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic No. 183 in 1923, the commander of the 1st auto combat battle group of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Julian Konopko, was again awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR [4] .
After the end of the Civil War, the Konopko detachment was removed from the subordination of the Central Executive Committee and reassigned to the Cheka. After the purge carried out in 1923, Konopko was transferred to a chore. Since 1929 - a personal pensioner of republican significance. He led the agricultural commune, then one of the construction sites of the White Sea-Baltic Canal , the automotive and tractor department of the Kargopollag Department [3] .
March 18, 1938 Konopko was arrested by the NKVD of the USSR on charges of espionage and terrorist activities in favor of Japan and the Harbin Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries. May 17, 1938 sentenced to death - shot . The sentence was carried out on May 28, 1938 and was buried at the Butovo range . He was posthumously rehabilitated in April 1971 [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Konopko Julian Vladislavovich . Memorial . The appeal date is January 7, 2014.
- Я Personal Guard Jacob Sverdlov . Top secret . The appeal date is January 7, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 3 V. Korostyshevsky. The girl from the Kremlin. Chapter 2. Avtoboevoy detachment.
- ↑ 1 2 Collection of persons awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Honorary Revolutionary Weapon.
Literature
- V. Korostyshevsky. The girl from the Kremlin. Chapter 2. Avtoboevoy detachment.
- "Collection of persons awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Honorary Revolutionary Weapon." Military Publishing, 1926.