Sergey Geogriyevich Lazo was a Communist

Communism

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 leader in the October 1917 Revolution

Russian Revolution of 1917

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 in the Russian Far East

Russian Far East

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Lazo was born in the village of Piatra, Orhei

Piatra, Orhei

Piatra is a commune in Orhei district, Moldova. It is composed of two villages, Piatra and Jeloboc....

, now in Orhei district, Moldova

Moldova

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. He was of boyar origin. In 1917, he was a cadet at the Imperial Russian

Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...

 military academy when he joined the Bolshevik

Bolshevik

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 forces and was entrusted with several missions in Siberia

Siberia

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 during the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

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. In March–August 1918 he was a commander of the Zabaykalski (trans-Baikal

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an) Front, and fought against Ataman Grigory Semyonov

Grigory Semyonov

Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, or Semenov , was a Japanese-supported leader of the White movement in Transbaikal and beyond from December 1917 to November 1920, Lieutenant General and Ataman of Baikal Cossacks .-Biography:Semyonov was born in the Transbaikal region of eastern Siberia...

. Later he fought in Bolshevik partisan units in the Vladivostok

Vladivostok

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 area. On January 31, 1920 the Bolsheviks took power in Vladivostok, but on April 5, 1920 Lazo and other commanders were arrested by Japanese troops. Then, Lazo disappeared, along with Vsevolod Sibirtsev and Alexey Lutski. Reportedly they were shot shortly after, but the exact details of the execution have never been known yet. It is widely believed that the Japanese or Cossack

Cossack

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s of the White movement

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 burned them in the firebox of a steam engine

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 in Muravyevo-Amurskaya (currently Lazo) station.

A number of locations in the Russian Far East

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 now bear Lazo's name, the most prominent being Lazovsky District in Primorsky Krai

Primorsky Krai

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 and imeni Lazo District

Imeni Lazo District

Imeni Lazo District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the seventeen in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Pereyaslavka. District's population: Population of Pereyaslavka accounts for 19.9% of the district's population....

 in Khabarovsk Krai

Khabarovsk Krai

Khabarovsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia , located in the Russian Far East. It lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, but also occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the Pacific Ocean. The administrative center of the krai is the...

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Between 1944 and 1991 the Moldova

Moldova

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n city of Sîngerei

Sîngerei

Sîngerei is a city in Moldova and the seat of the administrative region Sîngerei District. One village is administered by the city, Vrăneşti.- History :...

 was named Lazovsk, after Lazo.

One of the streets in the center of Chişinău

Chisinau

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, the capital of the Republic of Moldova, is named after him.