Ivan Prisyagin

Ivan Vonifatievich Prisyagin (1885 – 1918) was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik. He was a participant in the Russian Civil War, and was one of the leaders of the Altai branch of the RSDLP (b) in 1917-1918.[1]

Ivan Vonifatievich Prisyagin
Born1885
Tolstye Alders, Ryazan Province, Russian Empire
Died1918
Barnaul
Service/branchRed Guards (Russia)
Battles/wars

Biography

Prisyagin was born on 11 November 1885 in the village of Tolstye Alders of Ryazan Province (now the village of Alchi of the Uholovsky district of the Ryazan region) in the family of peasants Vonifaty Afanasevich and Ustinya Fyodorovna Prisyagin. He graduated from primary school; from 1902 he was a worker at a tannery in Moscow. He was engaged in self-education, and studied at a working Sunday school.

He was a member of the RSDLP since 1904. He was the editor of the illegal newspaper of the Moscow leatherworkers union Posadchik. He was arrested in 1907 and 1910; after the second arrest he emigrated to France.

In 1911, in the direction of organizing the RSDLP of the Butyrsky district of Moscow, he was a student of the Party School in Longjumeau (near Paris). He returned to Moscow, where he was in an illegal situation. In one of the police reports, he was rated as one of the most active representatives of the Moscow organization of the RSDLP. He was again arrested and sent to four years in the Narym Territory. In the summer of 1912 he fled to Barnaul, lived on fake documents under the name of Ivan Alekseevich Tyapkin, and was co-opted into an underground committee of the RSDLP (b). He was again arrested and sent for five years to the Kansky district of the Yenisei province.

After the February Revolution, he was granted amnesty and returned to Barnaul. He was elected head of the central bureau of trade unions of the city, a delegate to the VII Conference of the RSDLP (b). Upon his return from the conference, he initiated the demarcation of the city Social Democratic Party organization into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.

Since July 1917, he was the Chairman of the Barnaul Committee of the Bolsheviks, and since August 1917 - the vowel of the City Council. At the suggestion of Prisyagin, the city council for the first time in the history of the city decided to establish a “standard of remuneration” (minimum wage) for workers and employees. He was the chairman of the labor exchange organized by the city unions. In October 1917 he was elected a member of the Provincial Committee of the RSDLP (b). He often spoke at meetings and rallies, and was published in the Voice of Labor newspaper.

On 3 December, he was chairman of the meeting of the city organization of the Bolsheviks, at which the Soviets decided to take power in the city.

In January 1918, he was elected as a delegate to the III All-Russian Congress of Soviets and a delegate to the I All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions. In February of the Second Altai Provincial Conference of the Bolsheviks, he was elected chairman of the Provincial Committee of the RSDLP (b). From 21 May to 25 May participated in the I West Siberian Conference of the RCP (b). He was a member of the defense of Barnaul. Under pressure of superior enemy forces, the defenders of Soviet power retreated from Barnaul to Aleisk. In Aleisk, at the proposal of Prisyagin, P.F. Sukhov and former military commandant of Barnaul, D.G. Sulim, were put at the head of the combined detachment of Red Guards. The Soviet leaders of the province, Prisyagin, M.K. Tsaplin, and M.K. Kazakov, tried to get into Soviet Russia as a separate group, but were identified, arrested in June 1918, taken to Barnaul and killed under unclear circumstances on 28 September 1918.[2]

Memorials
  • A street in Barnaul and one of the railway commuter railroads are named after Prisyagin.
  • In the center of s. Alder there is a monument to Prisyagin.
  • In the center of Barnaul there is a monument to Prisyagin.

The burial of Prisyagin has not yet been discovered.

Sources
  • Энциклопедия Барнаула.
  • Исполнилось 130 лет советскому руководителю Алтая Ивану Присягину
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References
  1. Исполнилось 130 лет советскому руководителю Алтая Ивану Присягину
  2. Энциклопедия Барнаула. p. 242.
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