1. Fyodor Sergeyev was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stalin.
14 Facts About Fyodor Sergeyev
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Fyodor Sergeyev Artyom was born in the village of Glebovo, Fatezhsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire, near the city of Fatezh to a family of peasants.
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Fyodor Sergeyev's father Andrey Arefyevich Sergeyev was a contractor to a construction porter, who in 1888 moved the family to Yekaterinoslav.
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Fyodor Sergeyev went on to attend the Imperial Moscow Technical College.
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Fyodor Sergeyev joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and became interested in revolutionary thinking, adopting the nickname 'Artyom'.
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Fyodor Sergeyev returned to Russia in 1903 and was a prominent party agitator in Yekaterinoslav, where he moved from factory to factory, finding work as a stoker.
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Fyodor Sergeyev was assigned by the Bolsheviks to run the organisation in Perm, where he was arrested again.
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In 1912, Fyodor Sergeyev became chief-editor of "Echo of Australia" and was better known as "Big Tom".
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Fyodor Sergeyev joined the Australian Socialist Party and was involved in trade-unionist opposition to the First World War.
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Fyodor Sergeyev's actions secured the nationalization of industrial centers concentrated in the eastern Ukraine.
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Fyodor Sergeyev became one of the organizers of Ukrainian Central Military-Revolutionary Committee in opposition to the Central Powers and Kaledin's Cossacks.
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Fyodor Sergeyev was therefore one of the first Bolsheviks to hold power in a predominantly Muslim part of the former Russian Empire.
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Fyodor Sergeyev died in 1921 during the test of the Aerowagon.
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Fyodor Sergeyev was buried in Mass Grave No 12 of the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Red Square, Moscow.