Victor Kurnatovsky graduated from the Zurich University and was an engineer by trade. He began his revolutionary career with the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) party. Later, after his third exile, he came to know

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and his circle. Kurnatovsky became a representative of the Iskra-group in the

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. In 1900, the

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Committee of the

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was established upon his initiative. He was in charge of the May-Day demonstrations in

, but was arrested on 22 March 1901 and spent two years in prison after which he was deported to Yakut Region. On his escape from

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he participated in the armed resistance of the exiles against the authorities, for which he was sentenced to twelve years' hard labour. After being amnestied, in the

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he became the chairman of the Soviet of Workers', Soldiers' and Cossacks' Deputies in Chita, often referred to as the Chita Republic. After the events of the Chita Republic he was sentenced to death. He was carried in the train of General Rennenkampf and had to witness the execution of workers at every railway station. His sentence was later commuted to exile for life. In 1906 he managed to escape from Nerchinsk to Japan, and from Japan to Australia. In 1910 he arrived in Paris where he again met with

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and

. He died in 1912.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kurnatovsky, Viktor Year of birth missing 1912 deaths Russian engineers Narodnaya Volya