Filipp Goloshchyokin

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Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin, born Shaya Itsikovich Goloshchyokin (March 9 [O.S. February 26] 1876 – October 28, 1941), was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, and apparatchik-party functionary. A member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1903 and a founding member of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), he was a participant in the Revolution of 1905 and the October Revolution. During the Russian Civil War he was a major figure in the establishment of Soviet power in the Urals and Siberia, acting as the People's Commissar for Military Affairs for the Ural Region, and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Ural Regional Council of Workers', Peasants', and Soldiers' Deputies, more commonly known as the Ural Soviet, as well as a member of the Perm Central Executive Committee. He was one of the primary perpetrators in the murder of the Romanov family. Following the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922, in his capacity as a senior figure in...

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