Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko was a Russian revolutionary, an anarcho-syndicalist politician, the head of the self-styled "Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders of Nargen" and in 1921, de facto leader of the Kronstadt Commune, and the leader of the revolutionary committee which led the Kronstadt rebellion of 1921.
14 Facts About Stepan Petrichenko
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Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko was born in 1892 in the village of Nikitenka in the Zhizdrinsky Uyezd of Kaluga Governorate to a family of peasants.
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Two years after his birth, his family moved to Alexandrovsk, where Stepan graduated from city school and joined the local ironworks as a metalworker.
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In 1913 Stepan Petrichenko was called up for military service with the Russian navy, where he was assigned to the Russian battleship Petropavlovsk, part of the Baltic Fleet.
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Three years later, Stepan Petrichenko led the Kronstadt uprising against the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia.
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Stepan Petrichenko remained in exile in Finland for almost 25 years, where his regard from fellow rebels remained high.
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Stepan Petrichenko blocked further emigration to Helsinki, instead sending Kronstadt "volunteers" to Soviet Karelia to organize an uprising.
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Stepan Petrichenko called on Kronstadters to not obey the order of General Wrangel, and refuse inclusion in the White Army.
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In 1922, Stepan Petrichenko went to Riga and visited the embassy of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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Stepan Petrichenko was eventually fired from the factory and moved to live in Helsinki.
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Stepan Petrichenko stayed in Finland for years, until he came into conflict with the Finnish government over his support of Soviet groups during the Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1940.
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On September 25,1944, on the basis of an armistice agreement between the USSR, Great Britain and Finland, Stepan Petrichenko was released, and on April 21,1945, he was again arrested and sent to the USSR, as part of a group of persons known as the "Prisoners of Leino", a list of political enemies and alleged military collaborators compiled by Soviet members of Allied Commission.
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The investigation into Stepan Petrichenko was transferred from the police to the NKVD where it was examined without the presence of the prosecution or the defense.
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Stepan Petrichenko died on June 2,1947, during his transfer from the Solikamsk labor camp to the Vladimir Central Prison.