Dmitry Shilov Biography Samoilovich
Dmitry Shilov Samoilovich (03 (15) .02.1893 – 20.11.1952), one of the leaders of the struggle for Soviet power in Siberia and the Far East. Member of the CPSU in March 1917. Born into a peasant family. In the revolutionary movement since 1910 in the Trans-Baikal. In 1915 he graduated from the Irkutsk Military School, with the rank of warrant officer is sent to the front. Following the February Revolution of 1917 chairman of the regimental, brigade committees and a member of the front of the Council of the Caucasian Front. From 1918 participant in the struggle for Soviet power in Chita, a member of Tsentrosibir, one of the organizers of the partisan movement. In 1920-22 commander of the Eastern Trans-Baikal, Amur Front, chairman of the Constituent Assembly, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Far Eastern Republic. In 1923 in Moscow in the apparatus of HK RCTs RSFSR, cultural institutions. Since 1938 pensioner. He was awarded the Red Banner. Lit.: Years and people [read], 1960.