Fyodor Sergeyev Фёдор Серге́ев |
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Chairman of CVRK in Ukraine | |
In office September 18, 1918 – March 10, 1919 |
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Preceded by | Andrei Bubnov |
Succeeded by | Grigoriy Petrovskiy as head of CIKUk |
Chairman of the Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine | |
In office January 16, 1919 – January 28, 1919 |
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Preceded by | Yuri Pyatakov |
Succeeded by | Government dissolved, replaced by Council of People's Commissars |
Chairman of Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic | |
In office February 14, 1918 – February 17, 1919 |
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Chairman of the Kharkov Military Revolutionary Committee | |
In office September 24, 1917 – February 17, 1919 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev March 19, 1883 Glebovo, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | July 24, 1921 Tula, Russian SFSR |
(aged 38)
Nationality | Russian |
Political party | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1902-1921) |
Spouse(s) | Yelizaveta Lvovna Repelskaya |
Children | Artyom Sergeyev (adopted son of Stalin) |
Alma mater | Bauman Moscow State Technical University |
Occupation | Revolutionary, Politician, Communist agitator |
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (Russian: Фёдор Андре́евич Серге́ев, Ukrainian: Федір Андрійович Сергєєв; March 19, 1883– July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (това́рищ Артём), was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stalin. Sergeyev was an ideologist of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.
Sergeyev was born in the village of Glebovo, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire near the city of Fatezh to a family of a peasants. His father Andrey Arefyevich Sergeyev was a contractor to a construction porter, who in 1888 moved the family to Yekaterinoslav. In 1901 Fyodor finished studies at the Yekaterinoslav realschule. He went on to attend the Imperial Moscow Technical College. Sergeyev joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and became interested in revolutionary thinking, adopting the nickname 'Artyom', but was expelled after throwing a protest on the school campus.
From 1902 he was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, later remaining with the Bolshevik faction of the party. He was a prominent party agitator in Yekaterinoslav, Kursk, and the Ural mountains region. In 1905 Sergeyev participated in the armed uprising in Kharkiv. In 1906 for a short time he headed the Perm party committee. Sergeyev was a member of the 5th congress of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party after which he was arrested and sentenced to the Nikolayev detention companies, later substituted by an exile to Siberia.