GONE WITH THE WIND OF REVOLUTION…

...The winter was unusually harsh even for these places, in the first ten days of January 1923 the average temperature was forty-seven point nine degrees of frost, in the second - two degrees lower. At night, the mercury column dropped to the fifty-eight-degree mark.

In such frosts, the wrist watch stops, because the lubricant freezes in them, and with complete calm, under a clear starry sky, a person hears a mysterious quiet noise, similar to the splash of foliage or the rustle of grains being poured - the rustle of ice crystals, into which the moisture that comes out with breath instantly turns air.

The Yakuts call such a sound “the whisper of the stars” - poetically and at the same time with a feeling of closeness of other, inhuman spheres of life emerging in this cosmic cold ...”.
Leonid Yuzefovich. "Winter road. General A.N. Pepelyaev and the anarchist I. Ya. Strod in Yakutia in 1922-1923” (2015)

... They clench their fingers on a faithful rifle
A deadly whistle over the head of lead
Suddenly falls awkwardly on his back
A communist slain by the enemy's bullet.
Blood flows from the wound, but victory
He, dying, sees before him:
“Not a step back! Hit the enemy, chase!

Lead the squad, commander, to battle!
Let the dead with live bandits smash:
You take it upon yourself to build a fortress out of bodies,
May a dead heart and my body
Lethal bullets of the enemy will be delayed ... "
Platon Oyunsky “Covenants of the Eagle”

“… Bullets clanged on frozen bodies, tore off fingers, pieces of meat, hit in the head. From the impact of the bullet, the head was splitting, and a gray ossified brain was visible inside ... ".
Ivan Strod. “In the Yakut taiga” (1928)

Ivan Yakovlevich Strod (1894-1937) - Soviet military leader; participant of the First World War (full St. George Knight); participant of the Civil War in Siberia (one of several military men of the RSFSR - three times holder of the highest award of Soviet Russia, the Order of the Red Banner, and holder of the personal Red Banner Order of Yakutia). A well-known Soviet writer-memoirist. Victim of the repressions of 1937-1938.

Gavril Vasilievich Egorov (1879-1942). Born in the village of Tanda, Bayagantayskiy ulus (now Ust-Aldanskiy ulus) in a poor family. Member of the VKP(b). For the first time he got acquainted with revolutionary ideas at the Bodaibo gold-mining mines, here he studied labor perseverance and solidarity. For participation in the Lena revolutionary events of 1912, he was sentenced to 6 years of hard labor. In 1918 he joined the Red Army detachment of A.S. Rydzinsky, took part in the organization of Soviet power in the uluses. During the period of Kolchak, he was in underground work. After the fall of the power of the Kolchakovshina, he served in the garrison of Yakutsk. In 1922-1923 he took an active part in the defeat of counter-revolutionary uprisings.

G.V. Egorov - a participant in the defeat of the Pepelyaev army. He distinguished himself in the battle for the liberation of the Amginskiy Settlement (Sloboda), repulsing a machine gun from the enemies and supporting the detachment's offensive with fire. For this feat he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. After the end of the Civil war, he became an active fighter for the implementation of the cultural revolution. On his initiative, more than 20 school buildings were built in the republic. The name of Gavril Vasilievich Egorov was given to the state farm in the Ust-Aldan region, many schools of the republic, in the village Borogontsy a bronze bust of the hero was installed.

Through the bushes, over the rocky boulders
There is no way - and the twilight is blacker ...
Wild bonfires stand on end
Above the gathering of branches and stones.
Axes who did not know bushes
And streams that do not remember lips,
You are touched by the bitterness of the poison:
Stuffy cough, pipe roll call.
Where thunderstorms flew in thunder
Smoky convoys stretched out ...
Over the swamps where teals sleep
Not the sedge got up, but the bayonets ...
Clots of stearin under the candles
Groves and fields on a three-page layout ...
Circulars and compasses

The headquarters are overflowing to the edges ...
Scale accurate calculations
(Lesson learned by heart) ...
Companies stretched out at three versts,
And the flag moves ...
And move in circles
Platoon by platoon ...
Hidden behind the hillock
Batteries in bushes, in a meadow
Hurricane fired ...
And funnel by funnel followed
A mole digs - and must dig again ...
This is the front -
And, therefore, fidgets
There is nothing to lie on the boxes ...
This is the front -
And, therefore, to failure
We must hide, watch and wait ...
Eduard Bagritsky. “Front” (1923)

... At the very beginning of the campaign from Petropavlovsk, Strod's detachment came across Artemyev's ambush. A good knowledge of the numerous roads in the taiga by the local guide of the Strod detachment saved the Red Army from direct skirmishes with the enemy and with possible losses in manpower. They deceived the experienced Tungus hunters who were in Artemyev's detachment and continued on their way to the Amga by roundabout ways. Another tragedy on the road was averted thanks to the warning and advice of Nikolai Gavrilievich Ammosov, a member of the village council, who pointed out alas Sahyl Syhyy as a possible place of defense. Strong deciduous houses located in alas were useful for the construction of temporary fortifications using balbakhs (manure) and other improvised means.

Strod later wrote: “Without such shelters, we would have been killed in one day by the Whites who occupied the neighboring forest edges. In Saһyl Syһyy, the manure we needed were enough”. Thus, we can conclude that this act of a simple Yakut, who lived not far from Sahyl Syhyy, played an invaluable role in saving the detachment. In addition, he and the neighbors Karmanovs helped in providing the Strod’s people with meat, products and various household items and utensils. His close relative Ammosov D.P., the Yakut Susanin, led one company under the command of one of the lieutenant colonels far into the taiga, as a result of which this unit could not take part in the decisive attack of the whites.
In addition, in 1920 Nikolai Gavrilievich saved a wounded Red Army soldier by dragging him across the thin ice of the river Amga on a sled. Ammosov died in 1943.

Sofron Evgrafovich Kuturguin (1887-1956). In 1922 he was elected the first chairman of the Sulgachinsky National Council. During the war years, a fighter of the red units of Kotrus and Strod. In 1926 he was elected chairman of the Amga Executive Committee.
Sofron Evgrafovich is a legendary personality of his time. Born on March 28, 1887 in the village of I Bologur, Booturskiy ulus, in a poor family. Since childhood, he worked for the rich peple. He actively participated in the formation of Soviet power, agitated the poor to the collective farm, dispossessed the rich. At the age of 25 he became the chairman of the revolutionary committee in the village I Bologur and Ozhulun.

Then he worked on the creation of a revolutionary committee in the 1st Amginsky ulus. Working as chairman of the ulus revolutionary committee and chairman of the district council, he distributed land to the peasants. In 1920, the first chairman of the Sulgachinsky district, Sofron Kuturguin, together with I.P. Mikhailov (Kharachaan) and I.I. Konstantinov, created the Syrdyk commune. In the fall of 1921 a Civil war began. Amginsky ulus becomes the arena of tragic events. The village of Sulgachy turned out to be at the crossroads of both red and white roads. In 1921, in the village Sulgachi was a detachment of red fighters under the command of K. M. Kotrus. Many became fighters of the Kotrus detachment, including S. E. Kuturguin. After the war (1921 - 1922) the “Syrdyk” communards returned to their home and set about restoring the economy destroyed by the war.

In 1924, on the initiative of I.P. Mikhailov, I.I. Konstantinov and S.E. Kuturguin, the “Tennebil” artel was organized on the basis of the “Syrdyk” commune, created from 13 farms. The head of this artel was S. E. Kuturguin. But peacetime did not last long. In 1925, a gang of Artemyev and Bossoyko, consisting of 160 people, gathered strength in Ust-Maya. To defeat it, a detachment of 200 Red fighters left Yakutsk under the command of I. Ya. Strod. Members of the “Syrdyk” and “Tennebil” communes become fighters of the Strod detachment.

The government of the republic to prevent bloodshed and peace negotiations, created a commission of 7 people. The long and persistent negotiations ended on May 8 in the village Sulgachy by the conclusion of a truce. The participants in the bilateral negotiations established a memorial tethering post in the Kektieyi area as a sign of the truce. Since then, this river is called Tupsuu (truce). By this the Civil war in the village Sulgachy ended. The civilian population began to settle down again. Sofron Evgrafovich Kuturguin was a member of the Communist Party all his life and worked in the Party-Soviet and economic bodies. He made a significant contribution to the development of the Amga region, working in various management positions, including as the chairman of the regional council of the Amga region.

Turalysov Georgiy Mikhailovich – artist, scenographer. The founder of the Yakut theater and scenery painting. People's Artist of the YaASSR since 1946, Honored Worker of Arts of the RSFSR since 1957. Born in the II Meitsky estate of the Olekminsky region. In 1929 he graduated from VKHUTEMAS (Higher Artistic and Creative Workshops), later renamed VKHUTEIN (Higher Artistic and Technical Institute), theatrical and decorative department of the Faculty of Painting. In 1929-1930 - director and artist of the national troupe at the Yakutsk theater. In 1930-1964 - Chief Designer of the Yakutsk State Music and Drama Theater. In 1964-1970 - taught at the Yakutsk Art School.

Decorations and costumes on the stage of the Yakutsk Drama Theater:
“Red Shaman” P. Oyunsky, “Bolshevik Vasilшy” P. Oyunsky, “Love” A. Sofronov, “Breaking the Nets” by Amma Achchygya, “Brothers” by S. Efremov, “Red Shaman” by P. Oyunsky, “Ayaal”, “ Blacksmith Kyukyur”, “Saisary” Suorun Omolloon, “Manchaary” V. Protodyakonov, "Nyurgun Bootur Swift" by M. Zhirkov and G. Litinsky, “Man with a gun” by N. Pogodin, “At the bottom” by M. Gorky, “Mud of life” A. Sofronov, “The Cherry Garden” by A. Chekhov, “Evil Spirit” by N. Neustroev, “Dowry” by A. Ostrovsky, “Armored Train 14-69” by Vs. Ivanov, “Lookut and Nyurgusun” by T. Smetanin, “Minor” by D. Fonvizin, “Freeloader” by I. Turgenev, “Talents and admirers” by A. Ostrovsky, “On behalf of the Yakuts” by Sofr. Danilov, “Sygy Kyrynaastyr” by I. Izbekov - Uustaakh, “The Inspector General” by N. Gogol, “Cunning and Love” by J. B. Moliere, “Scapin's Tricks” by F. Schiller, “Othello” by V. Shakespeare, “Valley of Cranes” by I. Gogolev. In 1958 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.