Education
Graduate Saratov Agric School.
Graduate Saratov Agric School.
1902 sentenced to two years imprisonment for rcvol activity. 1907-1914 agronomist. Village Shushcnskoye, Siberia.
1914-1917 served in Achinsk with Russian Army. 1918 organized partisan detachment in Achinsk to fight against General Kolchak’s army. April 1919 took command of partisan army formed in Yeniscy Province, which rose to a strength of 18,000 men and joined the Red Army in January 1920 after a series of victories in Tuva region.
1920-1922 worked for Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People’s Commissariat of Agric. 1922-1923 head, Pyatigorsk Province Land Department.