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Vasily Tyhryaev in 1919 was 34 years old. By the beginning of the civil war, he was already an experienced underground worker and was known among his comrades under the pseudonym "Old Man".
He joined the Bolshevik Party as a twenty-year-old boy; in 1905, he fought on the barricades of the Moscow uprising. After the suppression of the uprising, he escaped from arrest, made his way to the Kuban, then to Rostov, where he worked as a tailor.
In 1915, Tykhryaev mobilized into the army, sent to the front. After being wounded, while in a hospital in Moscow, he contacted the underground, conducted work in one of the reserve infantry regiments. And in 1917, again departing from the arrest, he returned to Rostov, where he continued to conduct agitation activities in the spare shelves.
Tykhryaev took an active part in the October events in Rostov, he was elected to the Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies.
He was among those who, after the invasion of Rostov by the interventionists and White Guards, recreated the Bolshevik underground with Yegor Murlychev. In the autumn of 1918 he was arrested, but, having bribed the investigator, the underground workers managed to release Tykhryayev. He switched to an illegal situation, and the apartment where he lived turned into an arsenal of weapons. Vasily Tykhryaev headed the fighting squad of the Rostov Bolsheviks.
In May 1919 there was a failure of the leadership of the underground organization in Rostov. One of those arrested by the White Guard counterintelligence, Vasily Abrosimov, lost heart and betrayed his comrades who remained at large. Ambush at the house grabbed Tyhryaeva.
Vasily Tykhryaev was silent during the torture, despising his whiteguard tormentors. It is known that he threw them: "You are doomed! And you know it better than me! ”
Vasily Tykhryaev was killed during interrogations. He lived 34 years and gave his life in the name of the victory of Soviet power.
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From the document of the White Guard counterintelligence:
“The Act of 1919, May 30 days. Rostov-on-Don.
We, the undersigned, the colonel of counterintelligence of the Great Don Donisov army, the captain of counterintelligence Ivlev, the head of the counterintelligence convoy, captain of the Chabiyev, testify that the Bolsheviks of the Communist Party, the main initiator of the Rostov-Nakhichevan combat squad of the Communist Party, V.V. Tykhryaev pounced on the chief of the convoy, Captain Chabiyev, who accompanied him for questioning, tried to disarm him, and then rushed to escape. As a result, while trying to escape with two shots from a revolver, he was killed outright. "
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On June 12, 2019, a hundred years after the heroic death of Vasily Tykhryaev, associates of the All-Union Bolshevik Communist Party (AUCP) in Rostov-on-Don commemorated the revolutionary hero.
Flowers were laid on a memorial tablet dedicated to the memory of the leader of the fighting squad.
The new generation of Bolsheviks vows to be worthy successors to the cause of the great ancestors.
