Okolovich Georgy Sergeevich

Years of life: 1901 - 1980
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June 16, 1901, Riga, Russian Empire - February 10, 1980, Darmstadt Germany) - representative of the first wave of emigration, one of the leaders of the People's Labor Union of Russian Solidarists. During the Civil War, as a teenager he joined the White Army, becoming a machine gunner on an armored train, and took part in battles. Emigrated from Russia in 1920. In the 1930s he joined the NTS. In August 1938, as part of the 3rd group (Okolovic and Kolkov), he crossed the Polish-Soviet border. The group spent 4 months in the USSR, studied the situation in Soviet cities, and returned abroad. Thanks to this success, Okolovich soon headed the closed work at NTS. During the Second World War he traveled to the USSR, where he conducted underground work. On September 13, 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and ended up in prison, from which he was released only in April 1945 at the request of General Vlasov. Repeatedly, Soviet intelligence prepared assassination attempts on Okolovich and members of his family. In 1954, state security captain Khokhlov told Okolovich that he was a Soviet agent who had arrived to kill Okolovich, but refused to do so. In 1955 in Paris, at an open meeting of the Posev magazine, he made a report on the kidnapping of the chairman of the Berlin Committee for Assistance to Fugitives from the Soviet Zone A.R. Trushnovich. Chairman of the executive bureau of the NTS (1961). In 1961, Okolovich discharged a bomb planted by the Soviet secret services at the construction site of the new Posev building. In 1962–1970 headed the publishing house NTS "Posev". Died in 1980 in Germany.

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Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Ситко Леонид Кузьмич
4. Memoirs of Sitko L.K. "Dubrovlag under Khrushchev", published in the journal "New World", No. 10, 1997 (attached file)