Sergey (Serghei, Sergei) Georgiyevich Lazo (, ro, Serghei Lazo; March 7, 1894 – April or May 1920) was a Russian nobleman, officer of the Imperial Russian Army, and

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

leader in the October 1917 Revolution in the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admin ...

. Lazo was born in the village of

Piatra, Orhei Piatra is a commune in Orhei District, Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, ...

, now in

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in a family of Moldovan boyars who were from the

nobility Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy. It is normally ranked immediately below royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. The character ...

. In 1917, he was a cadet at the

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military academy when he joined the

forces and was entrusted with several missions in

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during the

Russian Civil War {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Russian Civil War , partof = the Russian Revolution and the aftermath of World War I , image = , caption = Clockwise from top left: {{flatlist, *Soldiers ...

. In March–August 1918 he was a commander of the ''Zabaykalski'' (trans- Baikalan) Front, and fought against Ataman Grigory Semyonov. Later he fought in Bolshevik partisan units in the

Vladivostok Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто́к, a=Владивосток.ogg, p=vɫədʲɪvɐˈstok) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, c ...

and

Partizansk Partizansk (russian: Партиза́нск) is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on a spur of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, about east of Vladivostok, the administrative center of the krai. As of the 2010 census, the population is popu ...

areas, commanding the

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during the

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against American forces. On January 31, 1920 the Bolsheviks took power in Vladivostok, but on April 5, 1920 Lazo and other commanders were arrested by Japanese troops. Then, Lazo disappeared, along with Vsevolod Sibirtsev and Alexey Lutski. Reportedly they were shot shortly after, but the exact details of the execution have never been known yet. It is widely believed that the Japanese or Cossacks of the White movement burned them in the

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of a steam engine in Muravyevo-Amurskaya (currently Lazo) station, while some sources claim he was shot and buried. A number of locations in the

now bear Lazo's name, the most prominent being

Lazovsky District Lazovsky District (russian: Лазо́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #136-KZ district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai on the eastern s ...

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of t ...

and

imeni Lazo District Imeni Lazo District (russian: райо́н и́мени Лазо́) is an administrativeResolution #143-pr and municipalLaw #194 district (raion), one of the seventeen in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the south of the krai. The area o ...

in Khabarovsk Krai. Between 1944 and 1991 the

n city of Sîngerei was named Lazovsk, after Lazo. One of the streets in the center of Chişinău, the capital of the

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, is named after him.

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