Vasily Gavrilov

Russian merchants in the ‘Union’ oil warehouse in London, 1914. Second in the top row on the left is V.I. Gavrilov, fifth in the bottom row – A. N. Balakshin. Token of a foreign excursion in 1914 of the Union of Siberian butter-making artels. Reconstruction based on the original token by V.I. Gavrilov from the collection of the Novosibirsk State Local Lore Museum.

Vasily Ivanovich Gavrilov ( — 1884, Novy Tartas, Tomsk region — 22 November 1919, Kainsk, Tomsk region) was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik, participant of revolutionary events and the Civil War, brother of the revolutionary Alexander Ivanovich Gavrilov, organiser and participant in the creation of the first Sovdeps of the Ust-Tarta volost and the village of Spasskoye.

He was also delegate and member of the first Kainsk district Congress of Soviets. In June 1918 he was arrested and imprisoned in Kainsk prison. On 22 November 1919 he was executed on Savkina Griva five kilometres from Kainsk.

Biography Vasily Gavrilov was born in 1884 in the village of Novotartasskaya Ust-Tartasskaya in Kainsky district, Tomsk region, now the village of Novy Tartas – the administrative centre of Novotartasskaya village council of Vengerovsky District, Novosibirsk region. He became the second (there were two brothers and four sisters) child in a large family of an old Petersburg metal worker Ivan Stepanovich Gavrilov (1858 — 2 (15) August 1901, Novy Tartass ) and Gavrilova (Tikhonova) Sekletinya Ivanovna (1865 — 2 October 1938).

Before the revolution, he managed a farm in the village of Spasskoye, Ust-Tartasskoye,|Kainsky uyezd,Tomsk region. As a commissioner of the Novo-Tartasskaya butter-making artel of the Union of Siberian Butter-Making Artels in a group of 26 people went on a tour to Denmark, England and Germany to protect the quality of Siberian butter from counterfeiting, which was sent to foreign markets.

In the Kainsky district prison he was tortured by the Kolchakov Kainsky counter-intelligence and investigative commission in front of his brother Alexander. In total there were more than five hundred prisoners. In prison Vasily Gavrilov took part in the Bolshevik underground organisation. Heavily ill, he was transferred to a secret dark solitary cell, shackled.

On 20 November 1919, due to the approach of the Red Army, evacuation of 300—350 prisoners of Kainsk district prison to Novo-Nikolayevskaya prison began. By order of Lieutenant-General V. О. Kappel, From 22 November 1919, political prisoners in batches of 54 to 90 people were shot by a punitive detachment in the Savkina Griva tract, east of the town of Kainsk, Kainsk uyezd, Tomsk region, now the tract is within the city limits of Kuibyshev, Kuibyshev district, Novosibirsk Oblast.

On 1–2 December 1919 Kainsk was liberated by armies of the Workers and Peasants Red Army. The bodies of all tortured and shot were taken to Barabinsk for burial by relatives.

Vasily, together with his brother Alexander Gavrilov, is buried in the centre of the village of Novotartasskaya, Ust-Tartasskaya, Kainsky uyezd, Tomsk region, now the village of Novy Tartas – the administrative centre of Novotartasskaya village council of Vengerovsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast.

Originally an obelisk was placed with a red star on top. In 1979, in connection with the construction of a new school, the monument was moved and rebuilt.

Memory The grave of the Gavrilov revolutionary brothers in Novy Tartas. Monument placed in 1979. The first obelisk to the partisans of the Civil War with a red star was placed in the garden of the 7-year old school in the village of Novy Tartas with the inscription: ‘Alexander Ivanovich Gavrilov Vasily Ivanovich Gavrilov Red partisans brutally tortured by the Kolchakovs in November 1919’.

The Executive Committee of the Vengerovsky District of the Novosibirsk Region of the Council of Workers' Deputies decided to name one of the streets after the «Gavrilov Brothers» in the birthplace of the Gavrilov brothers in the village of Novy Tartas. «The grave of revolutionary brothers Alexander and Vasily Ivanovich Gavrilov, executed by the Kolchakovs on 21–22 November 1919 in Kainsk prison» is the object of cultural heritage of regional significance No. 541410054430005., located at: Novy Tartas village, 81, Chkalova str. —

Family Wife – Gavrilova Anna Abramovna (5 November 1880-?). Two children were born – daughter Klavdia and son Vasily.