Career
Since 1907 he worked as an agronomist in the village of Shushenskoye, in the Minusinsk district in Siberia. With the advent of Admiral Alexander Kolchak"s forces in 1918, Kravchenko established a guerrilla army to combat Kolchak"s forces. In April 1919, following a peasant uprising in the Khemchik district, Kravchenko allied with Peter Efimovich Schetinkin"s forces.
Kravchenko"s forces defeated Kolchak"s in August and in September Schetinkin"s forces took Minusinsk.
By November Kravchenko"s forces were eight-thousand strong. In 1920 Kravchenko joined the Russian Communist Party and after the civil war worked in Narkomzeme, and served as Governor of Pyatigorsk in 1922.
He died a year later. His memoirs were published in 1962.
Streets were named after him in Krasnoyarsk, Abakan and Minusinsk.
