Background
Pavlunovskii, Ivan was born on August 16, 1888 in Rzhava near Kursk.
Pavlunovskii, Ivan was born on August 16, 1888 in Rzhava near Kursk.
Joined the Bolshevik Party in 1905. After the 1905 Revolution, exiled to Vologda, 1907. Involved in revolutionary activity in Petersburg 1911-1914.
Military service during World War I (sublieutenant) in Petrograd and Tsarskoe Selo. Bolshevik agitator during the February Revolution 1917. Member of the Petrograd Soviet.
Joined the Cheka in October 1917. Worked as a Cheka official in Moscow, 1917-1918 and during the Civil War at the Eastern front (Kazan’, Ufa). Assigned by the Cheka in Siberia as a special representative and chairman of the revolutionary tribunal at the trial of Admiral Kolchak and his officers and civil servants in Omsk, May 1920.
Quelled the uprising in Western Siberia in 1921. Masterminded the kidnapping of Baron Ungern Sternberg in August 1921. Head of the commission for the requisition of food in Siberia in 1922.
Operated in Siberia until 1926. Moved to Transcaucasia, 1926-1928. Close to Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1st deputy to Ordzhonikidze at the Ministry of Heavy Industry).
Responsible for armaments. Non-voting member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1934. Arrested in 1937. Exact circumstances of death unknown.
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