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Ivan Sorokin

1884–1918 · 20th century

Ivan Sorokin was a Kuban Cossack officer and Red commander in the Russian Civil War. In 1918 he commanded the Red Army of the North Caucasus against Denikin's Volunteer Army. In October 1918 he had leaders of the North Caucasian Soviet Republic arrested and shot in Pyatigorsk and was declared an outlaw; captured at Stavropol, he was killed in prison on 1 November 1918.

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