Background
SAPUNOV, Yevgeniy was born on February 6, 1887 in village Bulantsevo, Kaluga Province. Son of a gardener.
SAPUNOV, Yevgeniy was born on February 6, 1887 in village Bulantsevo, Kaluga Province. Son of a gardener.
Followed his father’s example in conducting revol propaganda among peasants. From 1906 worked for local Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party organisation. November 1908 arrested.
1914 drafted into Russian Army, where he conducted Bolshevik propaganda among the troops. After 1917 February Revol elected member, regt comt;June 1917 arrested and interned in Dvinsk Military Prison, where he was elected to the prison Party Committee. Early September, together with other imprisoned “Dvinsk soldiers” of the Northern Front, transferred to Moscow’s Butyrka Prison.
At the instigation of the Bolsheviks, he and the other “Dvinsk soldiers” were shortly released and recruited to help prepare the October uprising. 9 November 1917, upon orders from the Moscow Military Revol Committee, a squad of “Dvinsk soldiers” left Zamoskvorech’ye and headed for the Moscow Soviet building. On Red Square they were involved in a battle with officer cadets, in the course of which Sapunov was mortally wounded.
Communist Party member from 1917.