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Nikolai Avksentiev

1878–1943 · 20th century

Nikolai Avksentiev was a Russian Socialist Revolutionary politician who served as interior minister in the Provisional Government in 1917. In September 1918 he became chairman of the five-member Directory of the All-Russian Provisional Government formed at Ufa, which moved to Omsk. Officers overthrew it in November 1918 in favour of Admiral Kolchak, and Avksentiev was expelled abroad.

Nikolai Avksentiev
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