Ischenko, Jacob

Yakov was born at the end of the nineteenth century in a family of landless peasants in the village of Maly Tokmak, Aleksandrovsky uyezd, Yekaterinoslav province. Yakov’s father, who worked as a laborer for various landowners, his son also went along the path of his father and also labored with various landowners.

In 1917 he joined the party of the UPRS, a member of which he stayed until 1918. In 1918 he joined the party of anarchist communists.

In the autumn of 1918, in the native village, he founded the Malotokmatsk rebel detachment, which included 400 fighters, at the head of this detachment Jacob fought against the hetman’s government and German troops.

In early January 1919 joined the RPAU movement. Jacob was a delegate to the front rebel congress which took place on January 4, 1919, at this meeting he was elected assistant commander of the 4th rebel regiment. In March 1919, the headquarters of the brigade N.I. Makhno sent Jacob to Maly Tokmak to organize new volunteer units. In the autumn of winter 1919, the combat commander of the 26th Tauride Regiment of the RPAU.

In the summer of 1920, he commanded a partisan detachment in the rear of the whites in the Crimea.

In the summer of 1920 he was misinformed by the Wrangel command about the allegedly concluded alliance between the white " Russian Army " and Makhno, after which he moved to P.N. Wrangel and began to organize the "rebel Makhnovist brigade" (700-1000 bayonets). ^[1] By mid-October 1920, the brigade was in the rear of the Whites in Lesser Tokmak. Having established contact with the RPAU Council of Revolutionary Rebels and received information about the real attitude of the rebel towards the whites, he began preparing an anti-Wrangel speech.

On October 24, 1920, Ishchenko’s brigade revolted, defeated the nearest white rear, occupied Pologi , where on October 25, 1920 it merged with the RPAU. ^{[2] [3]} Since the fall of 1920 - head of the formation department of the RPAU headquarters. He participated in the partisan struggle against Soviet power.

In 1921 he was captured by the Reds, shot by the sentence of the All-Ukrainian Cheka ^{[4] [5]}

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• Nestor Makhno. Peasant movement in Ukraine. 1918-1921: Documents and Materials / Series: Peasant Revolution in Russia. 1902-1922: Documents and materials / Ed. V. Danilova and T. Shanina. - M.: “Russian Political Encyclopedia” (ROSSPEN), 2006. - 1000 p.
• http://www.makhno.ru/makhno/