Background
KRAPIVYANSKIY, Nikolay was born on December 5, 1889 in village Volod’kova-Devitsa, Chernigov Province. Son of a peasant.
KRAPIVYANSKIY, Nikolay was born on December 5, 1889 in village Volod’kova-Devitsa, Chernigov Province. Son of a peasant.
1913 graduate Chuguyev Military College.
1908 drafted into Russian Army as private. Promoted to junior nco. 1913-1914 junior officer, infantry regiment
1914-1917 commanded company, then battalion in Russian Army on Southwestern Front. 1917-1918 elected commander, 12th Army Corps. From 1918 in Red Army.
August 1918 directed revolt against Austro-German troops in parts of Chernigov and Kiev Provinces. 1918-1921 chief of staff, 2nd Soviet Ukraine Army. Organized revolts against Austro-German troops in Ukraine.
Commander, 1st Ukraine Insurgent Soviet Division. Inspector of troops for Soviet Ukraine. Chairman, Nczhin Uyezd Committee, Communist Party Ukraine.
Chairman, Extraordinary Military Staff to Combat Anti-Soviet Revolts in Chernigov Province. Commander, Nczhin Military district, 60th Infantry Division. Rear commander, 12th Army and commander, 47th Division.
1919-1923 ruthlessly suppressed anti-Soviet revolts in the Ukraine. 1921-1923 head, Department for Suppressing Anti-Soviet Revolts, Ukraine Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation. Acting commander, Ukraine and Crimean Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation Forces.
1923-1924 inspector of training, Red Army Staff. From 1924 admin work at River Emba oilfields. Collegium member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Sovkhozes.
1933-1936 engaged in secret work, preparing partisan movement for the event of war. 1936-1938 inspector, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. Senior People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs official at the Volga Construction Project in Rybinsk.
31 May 1938 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. Until 1940 in solitary confinement. Then in concentration camp, working on construction of Kotlas-Vorkuta Railroad.
1944 released and worked as forester, then watchman at a food warehouse in Tula Oblast. April 1948 hospitalized in Moscow. September 1948, though paralysed, exiled to Nezhin by admin order.
Communist Party member from 1917.