Background
FABRITSIUS, Yan was born on June 26, 1877. Son of a farm-hand.
FABRITSIUS, Yan was born on June 26, 1877. Son of a farm-hand.
1894 graduate Riga Alexandrine High School. 1924 graduate Higher Academy Courses for Red Army Commanders.
1895-1898 farm-hand; 1898-1899 private, NCO, then ensign, Lith Bodyguard Regiment 1900-1903 factory-worker in Riga, Vindava and Mitava. 1914-1915 on Sakhalin as office worker, Alcksandrovsk Forestry Board.
1915-1918 private, NCO, company commander, battalion commander in Russian Army. From February 1918 in the Red Army. 1918-1919 military comissar, Gdovsk Rayon, Petrograd Province.
Then military comissar, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Petrograd Division and military comissar, 10th Division. 1919-1920 commander, composite detachment. 1st brigade, 13th Infantry Division.
3rd and 48th Brigades, 16th Infantry Division. 1921-1923 commandant and comissar, 43rd Combined Courses for Red Army Commanders. 1923 commander, 2nd Belorussian Division.
1924-1927 commander, 17th Infantry Corps. 1927 demoted, than commander, 4th Infantry Corps. 1928-1929 assistant commander, Red Banner Separate Caucasian Army.
1891, while still at school, participated in political riots in Vindava. From 1901, after having been arrested for illegal anti-government propaganda, under secret police surveillance. 1903 again arrested for participating in May Day demonstration and for resisting authorities.
February 1904, after eight months in prison, sentenced to four years at hard labor, followed by exile for life. 1915 volunteered for active duty with Russian Army on Northwestern Front. 1917 elected chairman, regt commission for elections to Constituent Assembly.
Conducted Bolshevik propaganda work in 12th Army. 1918 member, Military Section, Central Executive Committee of 3rd convocation. 1918-1920 Civil War sendee on Leningrad, Southern and Polish Fronts.
1921, as commander of 501st Rogozhsk Regt, helped crush Kronstadt Mutiny. Delegation at 11- 15th All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congresses. From 1927 member, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Centr Control Commission.
Candidate, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee of 5th convocation.
Religion is bad because it divides people, and is a cause of conflict and war.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Communist Party member from 1903.