Biography of Sergey Lazo

Born in the village of Pentars of the Chisinau province, now the village of Lazheevsky district. He studied at the 1st Chisinau gymnasium, then at the St. Petersburg Technological Institute; In the year he switched to the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow University. In June, he was mobilized into the army and sent to the Alekseevsky Military School in Moscow. In December, in the rank of ensign was appointed to the Siberian reserve infantry regiment in Krasnoyarsk; Here he became close to the political exile, conducted revolutionary work among soldiers.

After the February Revolution of the Year, he was elected a member of the regimental committee. In March, during the first Plenum of the Krasnoyarsk Council, Lazo brought his company to the disposal of the Council; He was elected chairman of the soldier section of the Council. In December, Lazo participated in the elimination of a counter -revolutionary rebellion in Irkutsk, then became the military commandant of Irkutsk.

Since the beginning of the year - a member of the Central Siberian Republic, since February - commander of the Trans -Baikal Front. Under the leadership of Lazo, the White Guard gangs of Semenov were defeated. In the spring of the year he was appointed commander of the partisan detachments of Primorye. Since December, the chief of the military revolutionary headquarters to prepare the uprising in Primorye.

On the night of January 31, the White Guard power in Primorye was overthrown. At the end of the year, Lazo and other members of the RVS were exported by Japanese interventionists to the Muravyevo-Amurskaya station now Lazo Station and, after torture, were burned in a steam furnace. Soviet historical encyclopedia. In 16 volumes. Sergei Georgievich Lazo belonged to the number of those completely prosperous young people of the highest class, who were irresistibly drawn to the reorganization of the world.

A native of the nobles of the Bessarabian province, he studied at the Chisinau gymnasium at the St. Petersburg Technological Institute and Moscow University, but devoted most of his time to student illegal circles. During the I World War, Lazo graduated in Moscow a military school and was promoted to officers, and in December G. here he became close to political exiles and, along with them, began to lead a defective propaganda among the soldiers.

In March, according to his political views, Lazo was then the Left Socialist -Revolutionary, the then revolutionary terminology, the “internationalist” meant a defeator and in this capacity headed the soldier’s section of the Krasnoyarsk Council of People's Commissars. However, he quickly got down with the Bolsheviks and prepared a coup with them.

He created the Red Guard detachment in Krasnoyarsk and in November Standing the “conquests of the revolution” in Siberia, Lazo brutally suppressed the resistance of the junkers in Omsk and the December G. He was the initiator of the destruction of the “monarchist group” in Tobolsk, that is, people who sympathized with the royal family, as well as the suppression of the anti -Soviet performance in Solikamsk.

Since February, Lazo commanded the Trans -Baikal Front, directed against the Cossacks, led by Esaul G. conducted repression against the Siberian, Irkutsk, Transbaikal and Amur Cossacks. In the fall of G., by the summer of G., these partisan detachments terrorized the local population, destroyed the railways, undermined and fired on trains, killed officers, civil servants, workers-residential workers and prospectors on mines.

Since December, Lazo is the chief of the military revolutionary headquarters to prepare the uprising in Primorye. In January, when the Red Army occupied Siberia, this uprising managed; In Vladivostok, a “pink” temporary government of the Primorsky Regional Zemstvo Council was formed, and Lazo became a member of the Revolutionary Military Council and a member of the Dalburo of the Central Committee of the RCP b.

On his initiative in March of the same year, on the bridge over the Khor near Khabarovsk river, the Red Partisans made reprisals against captured officers and soldiers of the Horse-Jeger regiment, during which unarmed people were stained with bayonets, chopped their heads, broke their heads with butt. In the spring, the Lazo of the gang of Yakovoi and Nina Lebedeva-Kiyashko directly subordinate to Nikolaevsk-on-Amur and in a few weeks of red terror were exterminated by thousands of inhabitants of this city, including almost the entire intelligentsia.

During these operations, the partisans also exterminated the Japanese garrison, guarding the Japanese mission. The Japanese could not forgive this: in April G., the name of this killer bears villages in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories and in Yakutia. Until recently, in Moldova there was a Lazo village, but now he was returned to the former name of the son -in -law.

The black book of names that is not a place on the map of Russia. Works: diaries and letters, Vladivostok, literature: Sergey Lazo. Memories and docks. Lazo, Irkutsk,; Gubelman M.