Voronitsyn Ivan Petrovich

Genus. in 1885 in Narva in the family of an officer; grew up and lived in Zhitomir; from 1902 member of the RSDLP; for distributing illegal literature in 1903 he was exiled to Kholmogory; in June 1904 he escaped from exile and returned illegally to Russia through Berlin and Geneva; was among the organizers of the Sevastopol sailors' uprising in 1905, chairman of the council of naval deputies; sentenced to death, commuted to indefinite hard labor due to the defendant’s minority (up to 21 years old at the time of the crime), spent 12 years in the Shlisselburg fortress; from 1906 until the February Revolution he served imprisonment in prisons of Smolensk, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Shlisselburg Fortress, then returned to Zhitomir, was a member of the RSDLP(m); During the existence of the Ukrainian People's Republic, for some time he was the mayor of Zhitomir; in 1918, under the Germans, he was in prison for 9 months. In 1919–1920 he edited the newspaper Volynskaya Zarya. Arrested in 1921 in Zhitomir; in July 1921 he was imprisoned in Kharkov prison. In 1922 he lived in Kharkov; arrested 09/17/1922 (according to other sources - 10/29/1922); sentenced by the NKVD Commission on Administrative Expulsions on March 23, 1923 to 3 years (according to other sources - to 2 years) in the Arkhangelsk concentration camp; after a 6-day hunger strike, he was released on bail. To change the sentence, he was sentenced by the NKVD Commission on Administrative Expulsions to deportation to Perm for the same period; in 1923 he was in Cherdyn; in February 1924 - in Usolye; in February 1925 - in Parabel. From the 2nd half of the 1920s he was actively engaged in literary work. In the 2nd half of the 30s he lived in Perm; arrested 12/18/1937; sentenced on December 30, 1937 to VMN; executed on January 25, 1938. Rehabilitated in the 1922 case by the Prosecutor's Office of the Kharkov region on April 30, 1996